3 papers
cs.RO2026
Beyond Single-Axis Testing: Paired Evaluation of Compound Robustness in Vision-Language-Action Policies
Hiroki Sawada, Shunichi Kasahara
Vision-language-action policies are typically evaluated one perturbation at a time, providing a useful diagnosis of their sensitivity to individual distribution shifts. Real-world…
cs.RO2026
PredVLA: Predictive Sensorimotor Modeling for Sub-Million-Parameter Robot Manipulation
Hiroki Sawada, Shunichi Kasahara
Large pretrained vision-language-action models achieve strong robot-manipulation performance, while compact alternatives have largely pursued efficiency by compressing the prevaili…
cs.HC2026
Does Listening Matter? Backchanneling and Nodding in AI Clone
Koji Inoue, Kazushi Kato, Tatsuya Kawahara +1
AI clones that imitate a specific person typically reproduce what the person says and how they sound, but not how they listen. We investigate whether adding multimodal listening be…