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#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Communication Reduction via Semantic-Based Encoding in DMPC Using LSTMs

This work employs encoder-decoder networks built around long-short term memory (LSTM) cells in a distributed optimization algorithm that allows unprecedented reconstruction accuracy or the usage of different prediction-horizon lengths without the necessity to retrain.

Torben Schiz, P. H. Nardelli, Henrik Ebel · 0 citations

Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning

Vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action models typically absorb unfamiliar manipulation tasks through additional robot data collection and policy optimization. This recurring retraining burden slows the acquisition of new behavior. We present Teach-and-Grow Learning (TGL), a training-free architecture that turns...

Chang Nie, Zhe Liu, He-Sheng Wang · 2 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Lambda-Hold Control: Human-Like Movement Emerges from a Minimal Task Reward in Predictive Musculoskeletal Simulation

The massive overactuation in the human musculoskeletal system makes it challenging to train musculoskeletal models to generate human-like motion via reinforcement learning, primarily because exploration in the resulting high-dimensional and redundant action space is extremely inefficient. To address this problem, we pr...

Jun Hyuk Lee, Chihyeong Lee, Jooeun Ahn · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Repetition as Reinforcement: Enhancing Sample Efficiency via Instant Episode Repetition in Reinforcement Learning

Instant Episode Repetition (IER) is introduced, a simple and novel mechanism that improves sample efficiency by immediately repeating action sequences from successful episodes during environment interaction by directly influences the data collection process.

Hoda Yamani, Yuning Xing, Koen van Rijnsoever et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Aug 2026

Breaking Planner Integrity Boundary: Enviroment State-Text Injection Attack on LLM-Driven Embodied Agents

Large language model (LLM)-driven embodied agents rely on environment states to interpret scenes, generate high-level plans, and drive physical execution, making planner-visible state representations a critical security boundary. Existing attacks primarily manipulate user instructions, prompt contexts, model behavior,...

Jiawei Liu, Jiacheng Guo, Tian Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Neurosymbolic Embodied Agents

A neurosymbolic agent that factors long-horizon household tasks into task-directed visual exploration and constrained symbolic planning and evaluates executable continuations using a domain-independent planning heuristic is presented.

Mohammad Albinhassan, Yuming Feng, Alessandra Russo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

BrainWAM: Action-Space Coordination of Semantic Priors and Predictive Dynamics for Autonomous Driving

This work proposes BrainWAM, a structured action-space coordination framework that converts semantic reasoning and predictive world modeling into two specialized action-oriented pathways, and aligns them at the level of compact action representations, and introduces an asynchronous rectified-flow inference strategy wit...

Bing Zhan, Shu-Yao Shang, Shuo Lu et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Complete, Scalable, and Robust Prioritized Planning for Multi-Robot Ordered Storage and Retrieval at Maximum Capacity

This work considers rectangular 2D grids, where uniform-sized loads are first stored, up to full capacity, and subsequently retrieved according to prescribed arrival and departure sequences, and develops an online prioritized multi-agent path planning algorithm for this problem.

William Zhang, Tzvika Geft, Jingjin Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jul 2026

Mask2Real-WM: Segmentation Masks as a Sim-to-Real Bridge for Controllable Dexterous World Models

Mask2Real-WM is presented, a two-stage action-conditioned world model for dexterous manipulation that decouples pixel prediction into a dynamics model and a rendering model that shows that mask conditioning and simulation pretraining are both required for per-DoF action controllability across all 23 degrees of freedom.

Riccardo Feingold, Davide Liconti, Chenyu Yang et al. · 1 citation

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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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