Long-horizon robotic operation requires memory that scales with essential information rather than execution time. We present a parameter-space memory framework where each episode is stored as a…
Accurate ground plane normal estimation is essential for odometry in spherical mobile mapping systems (SMMS), which face challenges from rapid rotations and limited ground coverage. We propose two…
Object-goal navigation (ObjectNav) requires an embodied agent to find an instance of a specified category in an unseen environment and stop near it. The agent typically relies on an object detector…
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies increasingly reason before acting, but existing reasoning models compress this intermediate decision into a single representation. When several plans are valid,…
This paper studies the problem of aggregation in multiclass classification, generalizing existing results for binary classification. Given a finite dictionary of score functions F={f_1,...,f_M} and a…
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies are commonly deployed with asynchronous inference in real-world settings, where the next action chunk is generated while the robot is still executing the…
Tactile representation learning for dexterous manipulation often requires substantial robot-side data collection, limiting its scalability across different hands and sensors. We explore whether…
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) face significant challenges in roundabout navigation due to dense traffic interactions and unpredictable agent behaviors, necessitating high levels of…
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generate robot actions from visual observations and language instructions, but effective manipulation also requires anticipating how the environment will change.…
Real-world audio typically contains concurrent sound events, yet standard self-supervised methods treat each clip as an isolated training unit without explicitly modeling mixture--constituent…
Looped transformers reuse a shared block of layers to increase computational depth without increasing the number of trainable parameters. They are trained with backpropagation through time (BPTT).
Agents that run for a long time have a memory problem, and it is not the one most systems optimize for. Storing every trace and retrieving the nearest neighbors works early and quietly stops working…
Weight perturbation (WP) estimates learning directions from random parameter perturbations and a scalar change in loss, without backpropagating derivatives. We examine how batch size, training…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have increasingly incorporated rich neuronal dynamics to enhance temporal processing. However, richer dynamics do not necessarily enable neurons to adapt how…
EliteTable is a self-improving program-search algorithm guided by large language models (LLMs) that uses a fixed-capacity table of high-scoring solutions to guide new proposals, edits of existing…
When multiple agents share a cost budget, a common Lagrange multiplier can enforce the aggregate constraint but does not determine how its penalty should be allocated across agents. Uniform penalties…
Intrinsic explainability remains a challenging problem, particularly in contexts where multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) require dynamic re-training within an optimization environment. This paper…
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved strong performance in language-conditioned manipulation, yet success under nominal evaluation does not necessarily translate into robust closed-loop…