Visual mathematical reasoning can fail before reasoning begins: when a vision-language model (VLM) misreads a diagram, subsequent reasoning proceeds from false premises. This perceptual bottleneck is…
Language models' abilities to interpret tasks and generate programs offer a promising basis for 3D spatial reasoning. Yet following spatial instructions in 3D scenes requires programs to construct…
Existing world models typically perceive a scene through current visual frame or a narrow history window. However, these observations may not reveal the physics properties that determine transition…
The success of convolutional neural networks is often attributed to locality and weight sharing. However, how these two properties separately shape learning, and how their effects depend on the…
Force-sensitive manipulation requires contact and load information that is not provided explicitly by visual observations. We present CW-WAM, a world action model that jointly predicts video, motion,…
Sequential decision-making under partial observability is difficult because agents must explore to infer hidden, task-relevant information before acting effectively. Learning such…
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in robotic manipulation, but imitation learning (IL) alone often struggles to master complex long-horizon skills. Reinforcement learning (RL)…
Humanoid fall recovery requires selecting a motion that suits both the surrounding scene and the task. The same fallen pose can admit several ways to stand, with different routes, support…
Recent advances in frontier AI models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual understanding, reasoning, planning, and tool use, raising the possibility of using general-purpose AI models…
Humanoid loco-manipulation requires an effective interface between high-level task policies and whole-body control. Existing interfaces typically rely on a single action representation for both task…
Enterprise agents act on documents. Before an agent can follow a policy, answer a compliance question or file a ticket, some ingestion layer must turn a Word file or PDF into tokens - and that layer…
Long-term memory for multimodal agents remains challenging, as it must preserve fine-grained visual evidence while tracking entity evolution across sessions. Existing abstraction-based memories…
Transformer-based models achieve strong performance on blind compressed image restoration (CIR) under unknown compression settings, but their densely stacked projection operators make deployment…
Thermal cameras can watch over older people living alone without capturing faces, and multimodal large language models (LLMs) can judge a short video without task-specific training. We evaluate a…
Code-switching is a natural linguistic phenomenon, yet its impact on high-level reasoning tasks remains largely unexplored in under-resourced languages like Romanian. Natural language processing…
Learning across medical imaging modalities requires making use of images without paired text and accommodating new domains while retaining existing representations. We propose a medical…
Geometric structure is essential for robotic manipulation and understanding the 3D world. Most VLA models rely on 2D representations of current observations, while geometry-aware approaches often…
How do diffusion transformers (DiTs) represent image content and learn rules for reusing it to generalize? We develop an aggregator--predictor view of DiTs as input-adaptive local denoisers, in which…
Autonomous mobile robots operating in dense crowds and cluttered sites require $360^\circ$ perception to react to surrounding hazards. While panoramic LiDAR offers full-surround coverage, learning…
Movement primitives commonly represent robot mo- tions through basis functions indexed by time or phase. Inspired by spacetime representations employed in physics, we propose a spline-based…
Vision-language perception has achieved impressive progress in aligning natural language with visual observations, yet grounding high-level semantics into part-level physical interaction remains…
With the advent of foundation models, robots are increasingly capable of understanding and executing explicitly specified human tasks. Extending these capabilities to open-ended tasks, however,…