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  1. ForgetMimic: Motion Unlearning for Reinforcement Learning Humanoid Control

    Sep 23, 2026Xukun Luan, Zhongxiang Lei, Chen Gong +3Motion Imitation

  2. OmniMimic: Dynamics-completed Motion Augmentation for Multi-style Omnidirectional Quadruped Locomotion

    Sep 17, 2026Sheng Wu, Guoqiang Zhao, Zhe Yang +7Motion ImitationMotion Generation

  3. UniExo: Unified Multi-Skill Policies for Musculoskeletal Locomotion and Co-Adaptive Exoskeleton Control

    Sep 17, 2026Yifei Yuan, Jakob Wolf, Ghaith Androwis +1ExoskeletonUnison

  4. PointZero: 3D Point Track Completion for Learning Transferable 3D Dynamics

    Sep 16, 2026Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Kaifeng Zhang, Adam Hung +53D Single Object TrackingRobotic Datasets

  5. ULOHA: An Underwater Bimanual Robot System for Robot Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Masato Kobayashi, Takeru TsunooriUnderwater RobotsBimanual Manipulation

  6. Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Sep 16, 2026Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Dorsa Sadigh +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsReinforcement Fine-Tuning

  7. Energy-Regularized Imitation Learning for Force- and Work-Aware Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Toshiki Otani, Hiromu Taketsugu, Norimichi UkitaRobotic Manipulation PoliciesGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  8. Fetch My Beer: Synthetic-to-real Hierarchical Policy for Smooth Pick-and-place

    Sep 16, 2026Yingyue Li, Chenyangguang Zhang, Ruida Zhang +3Real-World Manipulation TasksImitation Learning

  9. Missing Bridges: Composition-Aware Active Imitation Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Maxwell J. Jacobson, Ahmed H Qureshi, Yexiang XueImitation LearningBridge

  10. Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving in CARLA

    Sep 15, 2026Jordy KietoAutonomous Driving SimulationAutonomous Driving

  11. Vision-Language Grounded Task-Context-Aware Imitation Learning for Robotic Disassembly

    Sep 15, 2026Jeon Ho Kang, Igal Tamarkin, Ethan Niu +2Generalizable Robotic ManipulationsImitation Learning

  12. Coupled Calibration and Learning: Mitigating Teacher Bias in LLM Distillation without Target-Domain Reward Feedback

    Sep 15, 2026Haichen Hu, Yuheng Zhang, David Simchi-LeviTeacherMulticalibration and Calibration

  13. Beyond Token-Local Imitation: Reward-Compatible Temporal Credit Assignment for On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 15, 2026Shiqi Liu, Zeyu He, Letian Tao +9On-Policy DistillationCredit Assignment

  14. IL-ACT: Imitation Learning with Adaptive Cartesian Tracking Control for a 30-ton Excavator

    Sep 15, 2026Mehdi Heydari Shahna, Seihun Kim, Soyi Jung +3Hydraulic ExcavatorsAdaptive Controller

  15. Touch2Trace: Tactile-Driven Imitation Learning for Dexterous Cable Tracing

    Sep 14, 2026Matteo Grimaldi, David Klee, Ziling Chen +5FingerImitation Learning

  16. Continuous Manifold-Decomposed Impedance Retargeting for Contact-Rich Imitation Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Jiahao Liu, Kento Kawaharazuka, Tasuku Makabe +1Impedance ControlImitation Learning

  17. Flow-Matched Motion Priors: Online Optimal-Transport Rewards for Imitation Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Yilin Zou, Chenghua Liu, Chenglong Wu +1Adversarial Motion PriorsFlow-Based Policy

  18. Improving Imitation Learning Efficiency for Manipulation through Geometric Prior Pretraining

    Sep 14, 2026Shogo Iwakata, Tomohiro Motoda, Ryosuke Yamada +8Imitation LearningRobotic Datasets

  19. Online Material Estimation for Conditioned Diffusion Policy in Shaping Deformable Linear Objects

    Sep 14, 2026Ryunosuke Yamada, Tomohiro Motoda, Yukiyasu Domae +1Deformable ObjectsDiffusion Policies

  20. A Robot Among People:From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups

    Sep 14, 2026Victor Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange +1Social DynamicsRobot Systems

  21. Certified Safety Curation: Distribution-Free Guarantees for Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Adam Haroon, Cody FlemingOffline Reinforcement LearningSafety Constraints

  22. How to Better Train VLAs: Lessons Learned From the REAL-I Challenge at ICRA 2026

    Sep 12, 2026Jiaming Wang, Jizhuo Chen, Diwen Liu +11Imitation LearningIntelligence

  23. SEED-UMI: Sharing the Exoskeleton between human and robot for onE-to-one Dexterous demonstration

    Sep 11, 2026Tengbo Yu, Jiahao Wu, Daohan Li +4ExoskeletonWrist

  24. Rapid Learning of Dexterous In-Hand Pen Writing through Real-Time Jacobian Estimation

    Sep 11, 2026Kai Stewart, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Robert K. KatzschmannDexterous Robot HandsGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  25. ObstaDiff: Generalizable Diffusion Policy Learning via Obstacle-aware Representations

    Sep 10, 2026Jiawen Wang, Kevin Yao, Khalid JawedObstacle AvoidanceDiffusion Policies

  26. Beyond Surface Imitation: Contrastive Modeling for Reasoning Path Alignment in Multimodal In-Context Learning

    Sep 9, 2026Mingbo Yang, Wenqiang Wang, Zhaolu Kang +4In-Context LearningContrastive Learning

  27. JEPA Policy: Diffusion-Free Imitation Learning via Paired Action and Future Representation Prediction

    Sep 9, 2026Jie Xu, Kangjin Yu, Ziyi Jin +5Imitation LearningBehavior Cloning

  28. Co-Evolving Harnesses and Models: On-Policy Correction Helps Weaker Models Catch Up Where Imitation Fails

    Sep 8, 2026Zhou Yu, Bin Bi, Shiva Kumar Pentyala +8Agent HarnessIterative Co-Training

  29. DISEIL: Demonstration Distillation for Sample-Efficient Imitation Learning

    Sep 8, 2026Suyog Khanal, Arun Kumar A, Santu RanaImitation LearningRobot Systems

  30. ICI-VLA: In-Context Imitation with Spatiotemporally Aligned Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 7, 2026Songhua Yang, Ziyu Liu, Xuetao Li +3Imitation LearningMultimodal Fusion

  31. Revisiting Topological Graphs for Macro Action based Closed-loop Reinforcement Learning of Vision Language Navigation in Continuous Environment

    Sep 3, 2026Shuhao Ye, Sitong Mao, Yuxiang Cui +7Vision-Language NavigationDeep Reinforcement Learning

  32. Does Imitation Learning Preserve Temporal Robustness in Dexterous Manipulation? An Expert-Learner Comparison Across Task Execution Speeds

    Sep 1, 2026Clinton Enwerem, John S. Baras, Calin BeltaImitation LearningRobotic Manipulation Policies

  33. Towards Generalizable Visually Grounded Exploration of Household Devices

    Sep 1, 2026Linhao Zheng, Zeming Liu, Wangke Chen +4Embodied AgentsExplicit Visual Grounding

  34. CanonNav: Disentangling Navigation Behavior from Camera Geometry in Cross-Platform Visual Navigation

    Aug 31, 2026Dong-Wook Kim, Ji-Hoon Hwang, E-In Son +2NavigationImitation Learning

  35. Aligning Multi-Trajectory Supervision with Policy Optimization for VLA Driving

    Aug 31, 2026Tian Zhang, Zhuo Huang, Hongrui Ye +3Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionGroup Relative Policy Optimization

  36. Self-Aware Active Learning Enables Continual Improvement in Autonomous Driving

    Aug 30, 2026Dong Hu, Chao Huang, Carman K. M. Lee +1Autonomous DrivingAdaptive Learning

  37. Neural-Primitive: An Efficient End-to-end Local Planner with Primitive-based Imitation Learning for Autonomous Flight

    Aug 21, 2026Zhitao Liu, Guangtong Xu, Zihan Wang +3Imitation Learning

  38. ORPA: Online Residual Policy Adaptation for Robot Manipulation Control with Human Feedback

    Aug 18, 2026Muhammad A. Muttaqien, Tomohiro Motoda, Ryo Hanai +1Robotic Manipulation PoliciesImitation Learning

  39. I-SDPO: Instance-Level Adaptive Self-Distillation Policy Optimization

    Aug 13, 2026Yubo Zhang, Xinhong Ma, Zezhong Tan +1Unsupervised On-Policy Self-DistillationGroup Relative Policy Optimization

  40. Enabling Scalable Kinesthetic Teaching via Observer-based Hand-guiding with Active Support

    Aug 11, 2026Anna Tuma, Giuseppe Monetti, Jochen J. Steil +1Dexterous Robot HandsGround Reaction Forces

  41. Intent Speaks Louder: Controllable User Simulation Beyond Response Imitation

    Aug 10, 2026Bo Wang, Ruixing Zhang, Yunqi Liu +4User SimulationImitation

  42. Skills in Weights, Memory in Code: Hybrid Learning for Memory-Dependent Robot Manipulation

    Aug 10, 2026Yunhao Zhao, Zhenyang Ni, Haoyang Chen +2Pretrained Vision-Language-ActionGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  43. Imaginative Generative AI: Crossing the Entropy Wall into Worlds Beyond Imitation

    Aug 10, 2026Farzan Farnia, Hossein Goli, Amin GohariImaginationImitation

  44. SAFE-CHEM: Uncertainty-Aware Policy Switching for Robust Robotic Chemistry

    Aug 10, 2026Laura Jones, Shazil Shahzad, Ayesha Sana +1Safety ConstraintsImitation Learning

  45. SpeedTuning: Speeding Up Policy Execution with Lightweight Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 10, 2026David D. Yuan, Tony Z. Zhao, Kaylee Burns +1Robotic Manipulation PoliciesGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  46. AutoIntervene: Calibrated Intervention for Action-Chunking Imitation Learning Policies

    Aug 7, 2026Jinhe Tang, Weiming ZhiVisuomotor PolicyAction Chunks

  47. ωω-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Aug 6, 2026Zhe Li, Zhenzhe Zhang, Yangyang Wei +8Humanoid Loco-ManipulationEfficient World-Action Model

  48. VIDP: Variable Impedance Diffusion Policy for Compliant Robot Manipulation from Diverse Demonstrations

    Aug 6, 2026Hisham Khalil, Neil Fernandes, Thomas M. Kwok +2Impedance ControlGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  49. The Next Screenshot Knows: Gated Hindsight Distillation for Mobile GUI Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Weiwei Li, Junzhuo Liu, Tong Chu +2Graphical User Interface AgentsHindsight

  50. Turing's First Imitation Game: Design Concepts and a Human-Approximates-Machine Reading

    Aug 6, 2026Sharon Temtsin, Christoph BartneckCounter Turing TestImitation

  51. PRIMAL3: Pathfinding via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning - Leveraging LaCAM3

    Aug 5, 2026Chengyang He, Tanishq Duhan, Gadiel Sznaier Camps +6Multi-Agent Path FindingMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  52. Bimanual Manipulation Within an 8 GB Budget: Zero-Copy Sensing and Quantized ACT on an Entry-Level Jetson

    Aug 4, 2026Ekansh Singh, Eva Samuel, Alessandra Reneau +2Nvidia Jetson Orin NanoBimanual Manipulation

  53. Tired Actor: Fatigue-Informed Character Control

    Aug 4, 2026Shengyuan Zhang, Xinpeng Liu, Muchun Niu +5CharacterizationMotion Imitation

  54. GROW: Group-Relative Advantage-Weighted On-Policy Reinforcement Learning of Autoregressive-Diffusion Text-to-Speech model

    Aug 4, 2026Guanrou Yang, Tian Tan, Qian Chen +8Zero-Shot Text-To-SpeechGrowth

  55. Shooting for Contact: Contact-Implicit Multiple Shooting for Dynamic Motion Retargeting

    Aug 4, 2026Sergio A. Esteban, Jason H. K. Siu, Derrick Mach +4Motion RetargetingMotion Imitation

  56. A Hierarchical Approach to Imitation Learning for Manipulation Tasks Requiring Time Varying Forces

    Aug 4, 2026Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2Diffusion PoliciesRobust Manipulation

  57. ValueFormer: A Causal Transformer Value Function with Stage-Aware Labels for Semi-Autonomous Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Aug 3, 2026Inkyu Sa, Konstantin Stulov, Rajat BhageriaVision-Language-Action ModelsCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  58. TWINS: A Tactile Wearable Isomorphic Arm Networked System for Contact-Rich Manipulation Learning

    Aug 3, 2026Takahide Kitamura, Masaki Murooka, Natsuki Yamanobe +1Tactile PerceptionContact-Rich Manipulation

  59. AffordTrajDP: Dynamic Affordance-Guided Visuomotor Policy Learning for Robotic Manipulation

    Aug 3, 2026Gaoyuan Wu, Ziyu Shan, Haoyang Du +2Visuomotor PolicyImitation Learning

  60. DynamicManip: Enabling Dynamic Manipulation from a Single Static Demonstration

    Aug 2, 2026Haoran Liao, Pengyue Wang, Shuoyu Chen +10Robotic Manipulation PoliciesImitation Learning