6 papers
Foresight: Failure Detection for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation with Action-Conditioned World Model Latents
Haoran Zhang, Yifu Lu, Boyang Wang +5
Long-horizon tasks are common in real-world robotic deployments, yet failure detection for such tasks remains underexplored. Detecting failures in long-horizon robotic tasks is par…
AI-Assisted Peer Review at Scale: The AAAI-26 AI Review Pilot
Joydeep Biswas, Sheila Schoepp, Gautham Vasan +10
Scientific peer review faces mounting strain as submission volumes surge, making it increasingly difficult to sustain review quality, consistency, and timeliness. Recent advances i…
Stein-based Optimization of Sampling Distributions in Model Predictive Path Integral Control
Jace Aldrich, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
This paper introduces a method for Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control that optimizes sample generation towards an optimal trajectory through Stein Variational Gradient D…
OVAL-Grasp: Open-Vocabulary Affordance Localization for Task Oriented Grasping
Edmond Tong, Advaith Balaji, Anthony Opipari +3
To manipulate objects in novel, unstructured environments, robots need task-oriented grasps that target object parts based on the given task. Geometry-based methods often struggle…
Explicit Memory through Online 3D Gaussian Splatting Improves Class-Agnostic Video Segmentation
Anthony Opipari, Aravindhan K Krishnan, Shreekant Gayaka +4
Remembering where object segments were predicted in the past is useful for improving the accuracy and consistency of class-agnostic video segmentation algorithms. Existing video se…
SPLATART: Articulated Gaussian Splatting with Estimated Object Structure
Stanley Lewis, Vishal Chandra, Tom Gao +1
Representing articulated objects remains a difficult problem within the field of robotics. Objects such as pliers, clamps, or cabinets require representations that capture not only…