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cs.RO2026

Steering Robustness into World Action Models via Mechanistic Interpretability and Optimal Control

Jihoon Hong, Julian Skifstad, Qiyue Dai +2

The paper investigates how to improve the robustness of World Action Models (WAMs) by analyzing their internal activations with mechanistic interpretability and applying a model‑ba…

cs.LG2026

Activation Steering of Video Generation Models via Reduced-Order Linear Optimal Control

Jihoon Hong, Alice Chan, Qiyue Dai +2

Text-to-video (T2V) models trained on large-scale web data can generate undesired content, motivating interventions that reduce harmful outputs without sacrificing visual quality.…

cs.CV2026

ATLAS: A Large-Scale Evaluation Benchmark for Adversarial LiDAR Perception

Mellon M. Zhang, Siddhant Panse, Zimo Fan +3

Autonomous driving perception is typically evaluated on clean benchmark data, yet real-world deployment requires robustness to rare, structured, and potentially adversarial sensor…

cs.LG2026

Local Linearity of LLMs Enables Activation Steering via Model-Based Linear Optimal Control

Julian Skifstad, Xinyue Annie Yang, Glen Chou

Inference-time LLM alignment methods, particularly activation steering, offer an alternative to fine-tuning by directly modifying activations during generation. Existing methods, h…

cs.CV2025

Towards Streaming LiDAR Object Detection with Point Clouds as Egocentric Sequences

Mellon M. Zhang, Glen Chou, Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Accurate and low-latency 3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving, where safety hinges on both rapid response and reliable perception. While rotating LiDAR sensors a…

cs.CV2025

MAPS: Preserving Vision-Language Representations via Module-Wise Proximity Scheduling for Better Vision-Language-Action Generalization

Chengyue Huang, Mellon M. Zhang, Robert Azarcon +2

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models inherit strong priors from pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), but naive fine-tuning often disrupts these representations and harms genera…