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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

A Mathematical Theory of Pragmatic Information

We propose a mathematical theory of pragmatic information that connects communication, control, and decision-making. Its central notion is the isoteleia mapping, which formalizes equifinality: distinct semantic paths that lead to the same optimal action are treated as pragmatically equivalent. This mapping yields a thr...

Kai Niu, Ping Zhang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ReactHuman: A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Human-Like Reactive Decision-Making in Embodied Multimodal LLMs

Reacting to sudden physical hazards is both a meaningful test of embodied intelligence and a hard requirement for deploying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) as the decision core of household robots, and ReactHuman is the first physics-grounded benchmark for human-like reactive decision-making.

Yi-Zhan Li, Jian-Xing You, Meng-Yang Xiong et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Sep 2026

CARLAverse: A Highly Modular, Distributed, and Multimodal Framework for Human-in-the-Loop Simulation

The development of autonomous driving demands comprehensive testing in mixed-traffic scenarios involving vulnerable road users (VRUs), where purely artificial agents often fail to capture authentic human social negotiations. While human-in-the-loop (HITL) simulators enable safe investigation of these interactions, exis...

Patrick Rebling, Philipp Nenninger, Reiner Kriesten · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Self-Evolving Embodied Agents via Skill-Harness Evolution

This work proposes SHAPER, a self-evolving framework for train-free embodied adaptation that keeps model parameters frozen and improves the non-parametric agent system by evolving reusable skills and a context-code harness through target-environment rollouts.

Pei-Dong Wang, Zhiming Ma, Ying Chang et al. · 7 citations · ⚡1

Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation

This work introduces Wiggle and Go!, a two-stage framework for zero-shot rope manipulation: a brief, safe wiggle action is observed to predict descriptive rope parameters, which then conditions a trajectory optimizer for zero-shot goal-conditioned execution.

Arthur Jakobsson, Abhinav Mahajan, Karthik Pullalarevu et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Organizational Principles Enable Collective Intelligence in Embodied AI

Collective intelligence depends not only on the capabilities of individual members, but also on how those members are organized. Yet artificial multi-agent systems are typically assembled using fixed organizational structures, even when the physical tasks they perform impose fundamentally different coordination require...

Zheng-Ran Ji, Jonathan Hyun, Bo-Yuan Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Reflex-Informed Neuromuscular Reinforcement Learning for Muscle-Driven Locomotion

Muscle-driven locomotion provides a physically grounded approach to generating realistic human movement. However, achieving both physiological plausibility and adaptability to changes in musculoskeletal capacity and external disturbances remains a fundamental challenge. To address this limitation, we propose a Reflex-I...

Jian Zhou, Xingyu Zhang, Rui Ma et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

ObstaDiff: Generalizable Diffusion Policy Learning via Obstacle-aware Representations

Imitation learning has achieved impressive results in robotic manipulation, yet most existing approaches assume clean backgrounds and lack explicit mechanisms for obstacle-aware motion generation. Extending such policies to cluttered, real-world scenes with unstructured obstacles remains a key generalization challenge....

Jiawen Wang, Kevin Yao, Khalid Jawed · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

HuRo: Robotizing Human Videos for Scalable VLA Pretraining

Human video datasets offer an abundant and diverse source of interaction data that can complement expensive real-robot data. To bridge the human-to-robot embodiment gap, existing approaches either robotize videos in task-matched settings or address observation and action alignment separately. In this work, we systemati...

Jinho Jeong, Se June Joo, Jaehyun Kang et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Topological Necessities: Mechanism-Invariant Strategic Subgoals for Cross-Embodiment Goal-Conditioned Control

This work studies a route-conditioned order of unavoidable stages that every successful executor must traverse, recoverable from offline trajectories and belonging to none of them: a route-conditioned order of unavoidable stages that every successful executor must traverse.

Hao Shi, Xi Li · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

RynnValue: Scaling Robotic Value Foundation Models with Temporal Distance

General-purpose reward models are increasingly the bottleneck for scaling robot learning, yet the recipe for learning value-related capabilities from large-scale heterogeneous corpora remains underexplored. Existing approaches tie supervision to task-internal anchors such as preferences or normalized progress, none of...

Dongchi Huang, Hong-Yin Zhang, Bo-Han Hou et al. · 7 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23, 2026

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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