3 papers
cs.RO2026
KnowDemo: Knowledge-Guided Robot Demonstration Generation from Human Videos
Zhiyuan Gao, Yanxiang Zhan, Mohammad Khoshnazar +2
Learning robot manipulation policies typically requires substantial demonstration data, which are costly to collect on real robots. Recent methods generate robot demonstrations fro…
cs.RO2026
FOCAL-VLA: Subtask-Guided Geometry Distillation and Implicit World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models
Zhiyuan Gao, Di Wen, Yanxiang Zhan +4
Vision-language-action (VLA) models built on pretrained vision-language models have demonstrated strong performance across diverse robotic manipulation tasks. However, VLA models t…
cs.AI2026
TrustRoboReward: Preference-Ordered Isotonic Score Editing for Multi-Paradigm Robot Reward Models
Yidong Wang, Yan Zhan, Ziteng Feng +16
Reward models are a bottleneck for reinforcement learning in embodied AI. Long-horizon robotic manipulation requires scalable vision feedback beyond handcrafted rewards or task-spe…