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most citedPhysBench: Benchmarking and Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Physical World Understanding

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30 papers

cs.RO2026

T2-z: Test-Time Optimization of Environment Latents for Robotic World Models

Chenyuan Zhou, Yining Hong, Huang Huang +9

Predicting how the world responds to an action requires more than what can be seen: robots must account for environmental factors that are neither directly observable nor explicitl…

cs.RO2026

MobileVISTA: Generative Data Augmentation for Pose Generalization in Mobile Manipulation

Suzannah Wistreich, Stephen Tian, Isabella Huang +4

Mobile manipulators such as humanoid robots are increasingly deployed in dynamic, unstructured environments to perform dexterous manipulation tasks. However, end-to-end manipulatio…

cs.RO2026

BIND: Binding 3D Robot Actions to 2D Image Features

Cameron Smith, Arsh Tangri, Vitor Guizilini +3

We introduce BIND, a new action representation for visuomotor robot policies that binds 3D robot actions to their corresponding 2D image features, yielding strong data efficiency g…

cs.RO2026

PhysWAM: Physically Consistent World Action Model for Autonomous Driving

Dhruv Parikh, Fengcheng Yu, Quankai Gao +11

World-action models (WAMs) jointly predict how a scene will evolve and how an agent should act, however joint generation alone does not necessarily impose a shared geometric constr…

cs.RO2026

Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imagination

Yinghua Zhou, Junjie Ye, Yiqi Zhao +8

World Action Models (WAMs) couple action generation with future visual prediction for robotic manipulation. However, completing the joint video-action denoising process at each rep…

cs.CV2026

DriveReferee: Geometric Safety Verdicts Need Not Be Learned for Driving World-Action Models

Fengcheng Yu, Dhruv Parikh, Junjie Ye +5

Generative world-action models (WAMs) jointly generate future video and vehicle actions, while their action branches remain primarily optimized by expert imitation. Yet imitation p…

cs.RO2026

Duet: Dual-Robot Understanding via Efficient Teaching

Yiqi Zhao, Ruohai Ge, Celina Shiyu Wang +10

Dual-robot collaboration enables tasks that exceed the reach and payload of a single robot, such as collaboratively transporting objects across environments and executing coordinat…

cs.RO2026

RoboDream: Compositional World Models for Scalable Robot Data Synthesis

Junjie Ye, Rong Xue, Basile Van Hoorick +6

Scaling robot learning requires large-scale, diverse demonstrations, yet real-world data collection via teleoperation remains prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. While vide…

cs.RO2026

Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models

Yanru Wu, Weiduo Yuan, Ang Qi +4

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown strong potential for improving robotic manipulation policies, yet its practical use remains bottlenecked by the difficulty of specifying rewar…

cs.RO2026

DreamPlan: Efficient Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Planners via Video World Models

Emily Yue-Ting Jia, Weiduo Yuan, Tianheng Shi +3

Robotic manipulation requires sophisticated commonsense reasoning, a capability naturally possessed by large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs). While VLMs show promise as zero-sh…

cs.LG2026

FuzzingRL: Reinforcement Fuzz-Testing for Revealing VLM Failures

Jiajun Xu, Jiageng Mao, Ang Qi +5

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are prone to errors, and identifying where these errors occur is critical for ensuring the reliability and safety of AI systems. In this paper, we pro…

cs.CV2026

AnyView: Synthesizing Any Novel View in Dynamic Scenes

Basile Van Hoorick, Dian Chen, Shun Iwase +7

Modern generative video models excel at producing convincing, high-quality outputs, but struggle to maintain multi-view and spatiotemporal consistency in highly dynamic real-world…

cs.RO2025

AnchorDream: Repurposing Video Diffusion for Embodiment-Aware Robot Data Synthesis

Junjie Ye, Rong Xue, Basile Van Hoorick +4

The collection of large-scale and diverse robot demonstrations remains a major bottleneck for imitation learning, as real-world data acquisition is costly and simulators offer limi…

cs.CV2025

NeuralRemaster: Phase-Preserving Diffusion for Structure-Aligned Generation

Yu Zeng, Charles Ochoa, Mingyuan Zhou +3

Standard diffusion corrupts data using Gaussian noise whose Fourier coefficients have random magnitudes and random phases. While effective for unconditional or text-to-image genera…

cs.RO2025

Robot Learning from a Physical World Model

Jiageng Mao, Sicheng He, Hao-Ning Wu +9

We introduce PhysWorld, a framework that enables robot learning from video generation through physical world modeling. Recent video generation models can synthesize photorealistic…

cs.RO2025

Robot Learning from Any Images

Siheng Zhao, Jiageng Mao, Wei Chow +11

We introduce RoLA, a framework that transforms any in-the-wild image into an interactive, physics-enabled robotic environment. Unlike previous methods, RoLA operates directly on a…

cs.RO2025

Do You Know Where Your Camera Is? View-Invariant Policy Learning with Camera Conditioning

Tianchong Jiang, Jingtian Ji, Xiangshan Tan +4

We study view-invariant imitation learning by explicitly conditioning policies on camera extrinsics. Using Plucker embeddings of per-pixel rays, we show that conditioning on extrin…

cs.RO2025

Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation

Zhenyu Zhao, Hongyi Jing, Xiawei Liu +7

From loco-motion to dextrous manipulation, humanoid robots have made remarkable strides in demonstrating complex full-body capabilities. However, the majority of current robot lear…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

A Careful Examination of Large Behavior Models for Multitask Dexterous Manipulation

TRI LBM Team, Jose Barreiros, Andrew Beaulieu +79

Robot manipulation has seen tremendous progress in recent years, with imitation learning policies enabling successful performance of dexterous and hard-to-model tasks. Concurrently…

cs.CV2025

SplArt: Articulation Estimation and Part-Level Reconstruction with 3D Gaussian Splatting

Shengjie Lin, Jiading Fang, Muhammad Zubair Irshad +4

Reconstructing articulated objects prevalent in daily environments is crucial for applications in augmented/virtual reality and robotics. However, existing methods face scalability…

cs.CV2025

FastMap: Revisiting Structure from Motion through First-Order Optimization

Jiahao Li, Haochen Wang, Muhammad Zubair Irshad +4

We propose FastMap, a new global structure from motion method focused on speed and simplicity. Previous methods like COLMAP and GLOMAP are able to estimate high-precision camera po…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

PhysBench: Benchmarking and Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Physical World Understanding

Wei Chow, Jiageng Mao, Boyi Li +3

Understanding the physical world is a fundamental challenge in embodied AI, critical for enabling agents to perform complex tasks and operate safely in real-world environments. Whi…

cs.RO2024

Learning from Massive Human Videos for Universal Humanoid Pose Control

Jiageng Mao, Siheng Zhao, Siqi Song +7

Scalable learning of humanoid robots is crucial for their deployment in real-world applications. While traditional approaches primarily rely on reinforcement learning or teleoperat…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Equivariant Ray Embeddings for Implicit Multi-View Depth Estimation

Yinshuang Xu, Dian Chen, Katherine Liu +4

Incorporating inductive bias by embedding geometric entities (such as rays) as input has proven successful in multi-view learning. However, the methods adopting this technique typi…