The proposed PathBridger is a hierarchical offline GCRL method that explicitly connects subgoal selection to short-horizon execution, and constructs a state-space bridge toward the selected intermediate endpoint and decodes it into a short executable action chunk using an inverse dynamics model.
While standard end-to-end baselines struggle to complete these logically demanding tasks, ACE achieves a 50% success rate in equation formation and a 70% success rate in constraint retrieval, demonstrating that explicit workflow reasoning and mask-mediated control offer a robust, practical route toward adaptable roboti...
Iok Tong Lei, Qianzhi Li, Ying Jie Yap et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
Experiments on real deformable-object manipulation sequences show that PhysCoRe outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in prediction accuracy, and that its predicted confidence forms a reliable distribution across the object's geometry, providing a natural signal for future confidence-guided exploration.
Agentic Real2Sim is introduced, a framework for generalized physical world modeling with vision-language agents, converting a real-world recording of object-robot interaction into a simulatable episodic twin which preserves observations, geometries, robot interactions, and object states.
XS-VLA is introduced, a lightweight framework that teaches tiny VLA policies "where to look" and "how to move" without increasing deployment-time model cost and shows that explicit spatial grounding and latent action-structure learning can make tiny VLA models effective for robotic manipulation.
Iok Tong Lei, Ying Jie Yap, Wei Huang et al.· 0 citations
This paper introduces hint, a method for guiding short-horizon policies toward satisfying complex LTL specifications at inference time using hierarchical world models, and shows that hint$^2$ can handle complex instructions on a real UR5e manipulator.
Moritz Zoellner, Anastasios Manganaris, A. H. Qureshi et al.· 1 citation
WAM-OPD, a deployment-consistent post-training recipe for a video-first WAM, is introduced and it is suggested that dense teacher supervision on student-induced histories is a promising post-training interface for video-first WAMs.
Liu Yang, Zhuang Jiang, Chenchao Sheng et al.· 2 citations
GlanceWAM is introduced, which decouples imagination from control within a single video DiT: an asynchronous proposer glances ahead on a slow clock to imagine a single lookahead frame seconds into the future in the background, while an action head decodes action chunks at control rate purely in latent space without blo...
Lin-Han Wang, Zi-Jian An, Mingyuan Zhang et al.· 2 citations
The proposed hierarchical long-horizon VLA architecture with an explicit language-memory module improves the success rate and robustness of VLA models on complex long-horizon tasks while providing an interpretable semantic account of the decision process.
This work proposes World Action Planner, a robot planning system that leverages the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and the physical grounding of a multi-task pose-image conditioned world model, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art end-to-end policy models such as VLAs and WAMs.
LM-X is introduced, which organizes prediction across task, event, and motor scales without claiming anatomical correspondence and shows that explicit multi-timescale predictive state can strengthen control while exposing interpretable internal estimates.
Jin Lou, Zhi Jing, Xu-Peng Wang et al.· 0 citations
This work presents FleetScape, a Mixed Reality (MR) sandtable system that externalizes layered real-time mission, safety, and environmental data while enabling fluid transitions between manual intervention and autonomous supervision and shows that FleetScape supports situational awareness through layered spatial repres...
Peisen Xu, Jérémie Garcia, Peter Cleveland et al.· 0 citations
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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