12 papers
If, Then, Otherwise: Diagnosing Conditional Branching in Vision-Language Navigation
Seoyoung Lee, Neel P. Bhatt, Pranay Samineni +8
Vision-language navigation agents are often evaluated on their ability to follow route-like instructions toward a fixed goal. Yet, real navigation instructions often depend on obse…
Co-GLANCE: Uncertainty-Aware Active Perception for Heterogeneous Robot Teaming
Michal P. Podolinsky, Neel P. Bhatt, Pranay Samineni +3
Perceptual uncertainty is a central challenge for heterogeneous robot teams operating in unstructured outdoor environments, where no single viewpoint affords reliable scene underst…
What Objects Enable, Not What They Are: Functional Latent Spaces for Affordance Reasoning
Rohan Siva, Neel P. Bhatt, Yunhao Yang +6
Existing robot planning systems rely on appearance-based reasoning, where visual observations are encoded into latent spaces organized around object appearances (e.g., recognizing…
VASO: Formally Verifiable Self-Evolving Skills for Physical AI Agents
Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Kevin Wang +3
Reusable robot skills are becoming the basic units through which embodied agents turn open-ended instructions into long-horizon physical behavior. We argue that, while foundation m…
Physically Viable World Models: A Case for Query-Conditioned Embodied AI
Adam J. Thorpe, Stepan Tretiakov, Cheng-Hsi Hsiao +6
World models for embodied AI must be physically viable: constructed to answer intervention queries by representing the physical structure governing action outcomes, rather than mer…
Foundation Models for Logistics: Toward Certifiable, Conversational Planning Interfaces
Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Christian Ellis +4
Logistics operators, from battlefield coordinators re-routing airlifts ahead of a storm to warehouse managers juggling late trucks, need to make mission-critical decisions. Prevail…