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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Detecting an Effect Is Not Learning to Act on It: A Reward-SNR Floor for LLM Acquisition Agents

Ying Yuan

Many pipelines can pay a per-example cost to acquire an auxiliary, model-derived observation -- an LLM's structured reasoning, a slow oracle, an expensive measurement -- and then m…

cs.RO2026

From Grasps to Dexterity: Large-Scale Grasp Pretraining for Dexterous Manipulation

Ying Yuan, Xinyu Liu, Sriram Krishna +1

Large-scale dexterous grasp datasets encode rich priors over hand-object interaction, but their use has largely been confined to grasp generation and pick-and-place manipulation. W…

cs.RO2026

Learn from What We HAVE: History-Aware VErifier that Reasons about Past Interactions Online

Yishu Li, Xinyi Mao, Ying Yuan +3

We introduce a novel History-Aware VErifier (HAVE) to disambiguate uncertain scenarios online by leveraging past interactions. Robots frequently encounter visually ambiguous object…

cs.RO2026

GHOST: Hierarchical Sub-Goal Policies for Generalizing Robot Manipulation

Sriram Krishna, Ben Eisner, Haotian Zhan +5

We present GHOST, a framework for learning visuomotor manipulation policies that generalize beyond the training distribution. GHOST factorizes control into (i) a high-level policy…

cs.RO2025

Generalizable Humanoid Manipulation with 3D Diffusion Policies

Yanjie Ze, Zixuan Chen, Wenhao Wang +5

Humanoid robots capable of autonomous operation in diverse environments have long been a goal for roboticists. However, autonomous manipulation by humanoid robots has largely been…