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#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

PathBridger: Subgoal Bridges for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

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.

Soohyun Choi, Seonvin Cho, Songnam Hong · 0 citations
#robotics Jul 2026

ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning

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. · 0 citations

PhysCoRe: Physics-Corrected Residual World Models for Material-Aware Deformable Dynamics

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.

Haocheng Yin, Shuohan Tao, Yongsheng Chen et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Jul 2026

Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents

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.

Guan-Xiong Chen, Qian-Jun Xia, Jia-Wei Peng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Jul 2026

Teaching Tiny VLA Models Where to Look and How to Move

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
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

hint$^2$: Hierarchical World Models for Inference-Time Temporal Logic Guidance

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
#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

WAM-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for World Action Models

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
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

GlanceWAM: Sparse Test-Time Imagination for World-Action Models

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
#robotics Jul 2026

World Action Planner: Generalizable Decision-Making with Action-Conditioned World Models

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.

Xiangcheng Zhang, Yilun Du · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

LM-X: Explainable Vision--Language--Action Modeling via Progress, Event, and Uncertainty Prediction

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
#robotics Preprint Jul 2026

FleetScape: A Mixed Reality Sandtable for Spatial Supervision and Control of Scalable Drone Fleets

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

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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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