most citedBTGenBot: Behavior Tree Generation for Robotic Tasks with Lightweight LLMs

32 citations · 32 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.RO2026

Is Success All You Need? Investigating the Impact of Input Perturbations on VLA Behaviour in Tabletop Manipulation Tasks

Sophie Higham, Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Matteo Matteucci +1

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved high task success rates on robot manipulation task benchmarks. More recently, there has been an emphasis on evaluating the robustn…

cs.RO2026

Decoupled Early Exits for Task-Dependent Compute Allocation in Flow-Matching VLAs

Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Rimvydas Rubavicius, Gianluca Bardaro +3

Flow-matching Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a potential solution for generalist robot control, designed by combining a pretrained Vision-Language Model (VLM)…

cs.RO2026

Multimodal Behavior Tree Generation: A Small Vision-Language Model for Robot Task Planning

Cristiano Battistini, Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Gianluca Bardaro +1

Large language models have been widely used for robotic task planning, often taking advantage of representations such as Behavior Trees (BTs). Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have ex…

cs.CV2026

Act, Think or Abstain: Complexity-Aware Adaptive Inference for Vision-Language-Action Models

Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Gianluca Bardaro, Matteo Matteucci

Current research on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly focuses on enhancing generalization through reasoning techniques. While effective, these improvements increase…

cs.RO2026

BTGenBot-2: Efficient Behavior Tree Generation with Small Language Models

Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Gianluca Bardaro, Matteo Matteucci

Recent advances in robot learning increasingly rely on LLM-based task planning, leveraging their ability to bridge natural language with executable actions. While prior works showc…

cs.CV2026

Improving Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Models by Restoring Corrupted Visual Inputs

Daniel Yezid Guarnizo Orjuela, Leonardo Scappatura, Veronica Di Gennaro +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a dominant paradigm for generalist robotic manipulation, unifying perception and control within a single end-to-end architecture…

cs.RO2024★ 32 cited

BTGenBot: Behavior Tree Generation for Robotic Tasks with Lightweight LLMs

Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Gianluca Bardaro, Matteo Matteucci

This paper presents a novel approach to generating behavior trees for robots using lightweight large language models (LLMs) with a maximum of 7 billion parameters. The study demons…