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  1. RayViT: Ray-Conditioned Visual Representations for Viewpoint-Robust Imitation Learning

    Jul 31, 2026Qian Wang, Longrui Chen, Peiran Sun +8Robotic PerceptionFeed-Forward Visual Geometry Estimation

  2. When Does On-Policy Interaction Help? Representational Tradeoffs in Value-Based Imitation Learning

    Jul 31, 2026Luca Viano, Antoine Moulin, Audrey Huang +3Imitation LearningOn-Policy

  3. STAGE: STyle-controllable Action GEneration for personalized autonomous driving

    Jul 31, 2026Zihao Liu, Xing Liu, Yizhai Zhang +1Autonomous DrivingDriving

  4. BWM: A Low-Cost High-Fidelity World Simulator for Robot Learning

    Jul 31, 2026BWM TeamEfficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  5. Mirror Learning

    Jul 30, 2026Yunpeng Liu, Matthew Niedoba, Oluwanifemi A. Adekanye +4Imitation LearningBehavior Cloning

  6. ACE-Data-0: Human-Centric Ambient Capture as Embodied Data Engine

    Jul 30, 2026Yukang Cao, Haozhe Xie, Beichen Wen +13IntelligencePerception-Action Loop

  7. Creative Transformation in Literary Texts: Modelling Change Across Representational Levels

    Jul 30, 2026Ioana-Roxana Boriceanu, Liviu P. DinuCreativityRepresentational Adaptation

  8. LM-GRASP: Instance-Specific Language Models for Combinatorial Construction via Online Imitation Learning

    Jul 30, 2026Mohand Mezmaz, Grégoire DanoyMetaheuristicsLlm-Based Optimization Modeling

  9. Cross-Embodiment Transfer via Behavior-Aligned Representations

    Jul 30, 2026Ajay Sridhar, Jensen Gao, Jonathan Yang +3Cross-Embodiment TransferImitation Learning

  10. Failure Detection for Surgical Robot Imitation Policies via Flow-Matching World Modeling

    Jul 29, 2026Zhefeng Huang, Yilin Cai, Ankit Patel +3Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive SurgeryImitation Learning

  11. RL2^2-VLA: Adaptive RL Latent Compositional Steering with Test-Time Scaling for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jul 29, 2026Derek Ming Siang Tan, Shailesh Shailesh, Srikrishna Iyer +4Vision-Language-Action ModelsInference-Time Control

  12. S2A2: Audio-Visual Imitation Learning for Manipulation Tasks Using Acoustic Spatial Information

    Jul 28, 2026Kaneyoshi Hiratsuka, Benjamin Yen, Ryosuke KojimaReal-World Manipulation TasksImitation Learning

  13. Tri-Manual Visuomotor Imitation Learning of Robot Policies

    Jul 28, 2026James Zhao, Mingyuan Ba, Weiming ZhiMotion ImitationTeleoperation

  14. Decompose and Reorganize: Planning with Primitives and Visuomotor Policies Learned from Demonstrations

    Jul 28, 2026Yizhou Chen, Hang Xu, Dongjie Yu +7Visuomotor PolicyImitation Learning

  15. From Proprietary to Open-Source: Bridging the Distribution Gap via Multi-Agent Protocol Distillation in Agentic Search

    Jul 27, 2026Junlin Liu, Jiangwang Chen, Zixin Song +7Knowledge DistillationAgentic Reinforcement-Learning Framework

  16. Learning Reusable Hybrid Motion Priors for Humanoid Locomotion from Motion Imitation

    Jul 27, 2026Valerio Belli, Valerio Modugno, Enrico Mingo Hoffman +1Perceptive Locomotion PoliciesMotion Imitation

  17. PRISM: Polynomial Representations for Interaction-Structured Motor Control

    Jul 26, 2026Seung Hyun Lee, Stella X. YuImitation LearningPrism

  18. The Curse of Precision: A Data Scaling Law for High-Precision Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 25, 2026Cuijie Xu, Yuanfan Xu, Min Xue +5Generalizable Robotic ManipulationsPrecision

  19. Robot Learning to Communicate through Projected Visual Abstractions

    Jul 24, 2026Danyang Yan, Boyuan Wang, Jiaxun Liu +1Robot SystemsMotion Imitation

  20. LeAct: Learning to Reason from Expert Actions

    Jul 23, 2026Ziran Yang, Chengshuai Shi, Raj Ghugare +3Optimal ActionsImitation

  21. GuidedAttention: Interpretable and Correctable Visual Attention for OOD-Robust Robot Manipulation via Imitation Learning

    Jul 23, 2026Masaki Murooka, Ryoichi Nakajo, Keisuke Shirai +4Visuomotor PolicyMotion Imitation

  22. When Reasoning Narrows the Move: Diversity Collapse in LLM Game Play

    Jul 21, 2026Junyi Sha, Renfei Tan, David Simchi-LeviLarge Language Model Decision-MakingSupervised Fine-Tuning

  23. Imitation of Arm Gestures by the Semi-Humanoid Robot NICO

    Jul 20, 2026Anastasiya Ihnatovich, Igor FarkašHumanoid RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

  24. Generalize and Guide: Decomposing Rewards for Few-Shot Inverse Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 20, 2026Ziyi Liu, Grace ZhangImitation LearningRobot Systems

  25. Scalable Causal Imitation Learning

    Jul 18, 2026Eylam Tagor, Mingxuan Li, Elias BareinboimImitation LearningCausal Reasoning

  26. Dynamics-Aware Meta-Imitation for Generalization to Unseen Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 17, 2026Zhenduo Shang, Xiyao Liu, Bohan Li +4Imitation LearningGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  27. DRIFT: Drift and Aggregation for Motion Planning

    Jul 16, 2026Yining Xing, Zhiyuan Liu, Zehong Ke +2Diffusion PlanningTrajectory Prediction

  28. Augmentations for Robust and Efficient Imitation Learning in Streamed Video Games

    Jul 15, 2026Somjit Nath, Abdelhak Lemkhenter, Pallavi Choudhury +4Imitation LearningSynthetic Data Augmentation

  29. Semantic Audio-driven Understanding for Dynamic Humanoid Whole Body Control

    Jul 15, 2026J. M. A. Marcelo, M. Brienza, E. Bugli +4Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlHuman Motion

  30. Distributionally Robust and Safe Imitation Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Ahmed Aboudonia, Naira HovakimyanImitation LearningAdaptive Controller

  31. GaitSpan: Growing Humanoid Locomotion from Walking to Running

    Jul 13, 2026Kwan-Yee Lin, Zilin Wang, Janelle J. Liu +1Perceptive Locomotion PoliciesLocomotion Stability

  32. Towards Human-level Dexterous Teleoperation

    Jul 13, 2026Puhao Li, Zeyuan Chen, Yingying Wu +9TeleoperationImitation Learning

  33. Pix2Act: Image-Space Manipulation Policies with Equivariant Augmentation

    Jul 13, 2026Haojie Huang, Linfeng Zhao, Haotian Liu +9Real-World Manipulation TasksImitation Learning

  34. SegDiff: Segmented Trajectory Diffusion for Consistent and Adaptive Robot Manipulation

    Jul 13, 2026Haidong Cao, Wenjun Cao, Quanhao Li +5Visuomotor PolicyImitation Learning

  35. Agentic-DPO: From Imitation to Agentic Policy Optimization on Expert Trajectories

    Jul 12, 2026Yixiong Chen, Alan YuilleAgentic Reinforcement-Learning FrameworkAgentic Tool Use

  36. Large Language Model Enhanced Differentiable Trajectory Planning for IoT-Enabled Autonomous Driving

    Jul 11, 2026Shihao Zhang, Jing Yang, Ziyu Song +7Autonomous DrivingTrajectory Prediction

  37. Source-Lifted Flow Matching for Intervenable Multimodal Imitation

    Jul 11, 2026He Zhang, Ying Sun, Pengteng Li +6Conditional Flow MatchingFlow-Based Policy

  38. More Structure, Not More Capacity: Object-Centric Representations for Visuomotor Imitation Learning

    Jul 10, 2026Yi Li, Alexandre Chapin, Liming Chen +2Object-Centric LearningRobotic Manipulation Policies

  39. Implicit-Behavior Coordination from Unlabeled Sub-Task Demonstrations for Rearrangement Tasks

    Jul 10, 2026Ahmed Shokry, Usama Ahmed Siddiquie, Sicong Pan +1Human-To-Robot TransferImitation Learning

  40. SafeExplorer: An Unbiased Policy Gradient for Reinforcement Learning with Recovery Interventions

    Jul 9, 2026Elham Daneshmand, Majid Khadiv, Glen Berseth +1Proximal Policy OptimizationImitation Learning

  41. SkillPlug: Unsupervised Skill Mining for Few-Shot Adaptation in Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 9, 2026Zi-han Ding, Ziwei WangHuman-To-Robot TransferMotion Imitation

  42. AnyDexRT: Calibration-Free Dexterous Hand Retargeting with Few-Shot Human Guidance

    Jul 9, 2026Chenxi Wang, Ying Feng, Hongjie Fang +4Motion RetargetingDexterous Robot Hands

  43. Compete Then Collaborate: Frontier AI Teachers Build a Verifiable Curriculum to Improve a Coding Student Beyond Imitation

    Jul 9, 2026Miseong Shawn KimCurriculumMulti-Teacher Distillation

  44. Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 9, 2026Ruining Yang, Muxing Wang, Yixiao Chen +8Autonomous DrivingLLM Post-Training Methods

  45. Feedback Manipulation Regularization: Enabling Offline Agent Alignment for Imitation Learning

    Jul 8, 2026Benjamin Poole, Minwoo LeeImitation LearningOffline Reinforcement Learning

  46. Shift & Drift: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Generalizable and Robust Autonomous Driving Motion Planning

    Jul 8, 2026Alessandro Canevaro, Hang Yu, Julian Schmidt +5Autonomous Driving SimulationDistribution Shifts

  47. PriGo: Test-Time Primitive Guidance to Diffusion and Flow Policies for Adaptive Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 8, 2026Zezeng Li, Enda Xiang, Thuy Tran +3Imitation LearningGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  48. SPECTRA: Context-Conditioned Spectral Movement Primitives for Robot Skill Generalization

    Jul 8, 2026Boxuan Zhang, Sheng Liu, Chenlin Ming +1Motion ImitationImitation Learning

  49. EvoCUA-1.5: Online Reinforcement Learning for Multi-turn Computer-Use Agents

    Jul 7, 2026Mianqiu Huang, Taofeng Xue, Chong Peng +12Self-Evolving AgentsTrajectory-Level Credit

  50. SIEVE: Structure-Aware Data Selection for Imitation Learning with VLA Models

    Jul 7, 2026Changti Wu, Bin Yu, Zhaolong Shen +6Imitation LearningVision-Language-Action Models

  51. LAMP: Latent Motion Prior-Guided Real-World Learning for Dexterous Hand Manipulation

    Jul 7, 2026Xinye Yang, Zhiyuan Ma, Hongze Yu +5Robotic Manipulation PoliciesImitation Learning

  52. Image2Sim: Scaling Embodied Navigation via Generative Neural Simulator

    Jul 7, 2026Zihan Wang, Seungjun Lee, Yinghao Xu +1Zero-Shot Sim-To-Real TransferEmbodied Navigation

  53. SILO: Simulation-in-the-Loop Sim-to-Real Transfer for Multi-Stage Cable Routing

    Jul 6, 2026Stone Tao, Jie Xu, Hesam Rabeti +3Zero-Shot Sim-To-Real TransferSim-To-Real Gap

  54. Simple-to-Complex Structured Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Learning

    Jul 6, 2026Xinchuan Qiu, Yi YuVision-Language-Action ModelsImitation Learning

  55. WSA1_1: a 3D-Centric World-Spatial-Action Model for Generalizable Robot Control

    Jul 4, 2026Jiahao Jiang, Jianing Zhang, Zhenhan Yin +8Efficient World-Action ModelScalable Robot Learning

  56. CLEAR: Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning at Scale for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 3, 2026Yunxiao Shi, Hong Cai, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh +1Autonomous DrivingVision-Language-Action Models

  57. Controllable Sim Agents with Behavior Latents

    Jul 2, 2026Juanwu Lu, Junyu Zhu, Ziran WangNeural ControlMicroscopic Traffic Simulations

  58. WorldSample: Closed-loop Real-robot RL with World Modelling

    Jul 2, 2026Yuquan Xue, Le Xu, Zeyi Liu +5Scalable Robot LearningImitation Learning

  59. ComplexMimic: Human-Scene Interaction Imitation in Complex 3D Environments

    Jul 2, 2026Lu Pan, Hongwei ZhaoMotion ImitationImitation Learning

  60. One Demonstration Is Enough for Real-World Robotic Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 2, 2026Yuwan Liu, Hongze Yu, Song Liu +5Scalable Robot LearningRobot Policies