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20242026
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13 papers

cs.RO2026

IVRA: Improving Visual-Token Relations for Robot Action Policy with Training-Free Hint-Based Guidance

Jongwoo Park, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Jinhyeok Jang +3

Many Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models flatten image patches into a 1D token sequence, weakening the 2D spatial cues needed for precise manipulation. We introduce IVRA, a lightwe…

cs.RO2026

LACE: Latent Visual Representation for Cross-Embodiment Learning

Yoo Sung Jang, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Cristina Mata +3

Cross-embodiment learning from human demonstrations is hindered by the visual gap between human and robot embodiments. While self-supervised learning (SSL) backbones encode rich in…

cs.RO2026

Pixel Motion Diffusion is What We Need for Robot Control

E-Ro Nguyen, Yichi Zhang, Kanchana Ranasinghe +2

We present DAWN (Diffusion is All We Need for robot control), a unified diffusion-based framework for language-conditioned robotic manipulation that bridges high-level motion inten…

cs.CV2026

Too Many Frames, Not All Useful: Efficient Strategies for Long-Form Video QA

Jongwoo Park, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Kumara Kahatapitiya +3

Long-form videos that span across wide temporal intervals are highly information redundant and contain multiple distinct events or entities that are often loosely related. Therefor…

cs.CV2026

Future Optical Flow Prediction Improves Robot Control & Video Generation

Kanchana Ranasinghe, Honglu Zhou, Yu Fang +7

Future motion representations, such as optical flow, offer immense value for control and generative tasks. However, forecasting generalizable spatially dense motion representations…

cs.RO2025

Robotic VLA Benefits from Joint Learning with Motion Image Diffusion

Yu Fang, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Le Xue +10

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved remarkable progress in robotic manipulation by mapping multimodal observations and instructions directly to actions. However, they…