Evaluating and post-training robot policies through physical interaction is costly and difficult to scale, motivating action-conditioned world models as interactive simulators. However, visually…
Simulation is a powerful tool for robotics, but building diverse, simulation-ready scenes at scale remains difficult. Reconstructing scenes from single images is a promising alternative, but visual…
Discrete diffusion models iteratively denoise a noisy sequence of categorical data such as text, enabling any-order generation with self-correction and in-filling capabilities. This makes them…
Collaborative perception enables agents to retrieve the scene semantics and geometry beyond the field of view of any individual agent. This broader scene understanding enhances transportation safety…
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…
General-purpose multimodal models have shown promise as direct robot action policies, yet whether they grasp the physics underlying real-world interactions and can apply that understanding to guide…
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,…
Cascade world-action models (WAMs) use predicted visual futures to condition robot actions, but inherit costly iterative inference from diffusion-pretrained experts. We ask what a single-step…
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved strong performance on standard robotic manipulation benchmarks. However, their reliability can degrade substantially when task conditions deviate…
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…
History-dependent robotic manipulation requires task context and interaction history, as the current observation alone is insufficient to determine the next action. Hierarchical frameworks use task…
Imitation learning increasingly relies on novice operators, whose demonstrations fall short of experts' in number and inter-trial consistency. Operators act on what they are shown, yet how the…
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.…
Neural Posterior Estimation (NPE) fits an amortized conditional density estimator to a simulated training set of complete-data realizations. NPE's training objective, log-likelihood, favors posterior…
Facing imbalanced binary classification, we aim at maximizing the recall while limiting the proportion of false detections in the minority class. For doing that, the present work studies the effect…
Distribution regression seeks to learn mappings from probability distributions to response variables and has emerged as a unifying framework for kernel methods, multi-instance learning, and…
Cox processes provide a principled Bayesian nonparametric framework for modeling event-based data through an underlying intensity function. However, existing inference methods for estimating the…
We study nonconvex--strongly-convex bilevel optimization with finite-sum objectives and fully first-order oracles. We propose Sampled Implicit Corrections for Bilevel Optimization (SICBO), which…
Generating time-to-event data is increasingly important in survival analysis, but it remains statistically challenging because event times are often censored and thus prevent flexible generative…
Understanding how stochastic gradient descent learns internal representations in wide neural networks trained on rich target functions is a central problem in machine learning. We study this question…
Learning causal structure from data requires assumptions about mechanisms, noises, observation schemes, and interventions. Historically, causal discovery has relied primarily on conditional…
Conformal test martingales (CTMs) are e-processes for sequentially testing exchangeability via p-values produced by a conformity function $A$. However, any distribution shift that preserves the…
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