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10 papers

cs.RO2026

Human Cognition in Machines: A Unified Perspective of World Models

Timothy Rupprecht, Pu Zhao, Amir Taherin +20

This report of world models distinguishes prior works by the cognitive functions they innovate. Many works claim an almost human-like cognitive capability in their world models. To…

cs.RO2026

When Should a Robot Think? Resource-Aware Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Embodied Robotic Decision-Making

Jun Liu, Pu Zhao, Zhenglun Kong +12

Embodied robotic systems increasingly rely on large language model (LLM)-based agents to support high-level reasoning, planning, and decision-making during interactions with the en…

cs.LG2026

Structured Agent Distillation for Large Language Model

Jun Liu, Zhenglun Kong, Peiyan Dong +10

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong capabilities as decision-making agents by interleaving reasoning and actions, as seen in ReAct-style frameworks. Yet, their practical de…

cs.CV2026

PhyWorld: Physics-Faithful World Model for Video Generation

Pu Zhao, Juyi Lin, Timothy Rupprecht +10

World simulators can provide safe and scalable environments for training Physical AI systems before real-world deployment. Large video generation models are emerging as a promising…

cs.CY2026

A Framework for Human-AI Q-Matrix Refinement: A NeuralCDM Evaluation

Ying Zhang, Ningxi Cheng, Yizhu Gao +5

Q-matrices are a cornerstone of theory-driven assessment and learning analytics, making item demands and students' underlying knowledge components and misconceptions explicit and a…

cs.LG2025

Harmony in Divergence: Towards Fast, Accurate, and Memory-efficient Zeroth-order LLM Fine-tuning

Qitao Tan, Jun Liu, Zheng Zhan +6

Large language models (LLMs) excel across various tasks, but standard first-order (FO) fine-tuning demands considerable memory, significantly limiting real-world deployment. Recent…