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cs.RO2026

Representation-Aligned Tactile Grounding for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

Ruilin Chen, Jingkai Jia, Tong Yang +8

The paper proposes a lightweight latent tactile predictor that aligns intermediate action representations with future tactile outcomes, improving contact-rich robotic manipulation…

cs.RO2026

EDAR: Learning Environment-Dependent Action Representations for Robotic Manipulation

Yuecheng Xu, Tong Yang, Jingkai Jia +3

The paper introduces EDAR, a method that learns action representations for robotic manipulation by linking control commands with the visual effects they cause in a given environmen…

cs.LG2026

Achieving Logarithmic Regret in KL-Regularized Zero-Sum Markov Games

Anupam Nayak, Tong Yang, Osman Yagan +2

Reverse Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence-based regularization with respect to a fixed reference policy is widely used in modern reinforcement learning to preserve the desired trait…

cs.RO2026

SanD-Planner: Sample-Efficient Diffusion Planner in B-Spline Space for Robust Local Navigation

Jincheng Wang, Lingfan Bao, Tong Yang +3

The challenge of generating reliable local plans has long hindered practical applications in highly cluttered and dynamic environments. Key fundamental bottlenecks include acquirin…

cs.LG2025

Multi-head Transformers Provably Learn Symbolic Multi-step Reasoning via Gradient Descent

Tong Yang, Yu Huang, Yingbin Liang +1

Transformers have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in multi-step reasoning tasks. However, understandings of the underlying mechanisms by which they acquire these abilities thr…

cs.RO2025

Fast Visuomotor Policy for Robotic Manipulation

Jingkai Jia, Tong Yang, Xueyao Chen +2

We present a fast and effective policy framework for robotic manipulation, named Energy Policy, designed for high-frequency robotic tasks and resource-constrained systems. Unlike e…