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8 papers

cs.AI2026

Faster-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Deep Action Modules?

Liheng Ma, Rui Heng Yang, Zhanguang Zhang +4

World Action Models (WAMs) couple robot action prediction with video world models. Existing WAMs with shared-backbone and Mixture-of-Transformers designs generally tie the depth of…

cs.RO2026

Do World Action Models Generalize Better than VLAs? A Robustness Study

Zhanguang Zhang, Zhiyuan Li, Behnam Rahmati +11

Robot action planning in the real world is challenging as it requires not only understanding the current state of the environment but also predicting how it will evolve in response…

cs.RO2025

Improving Robotic Manipulation Robustness via NICE Scene Surgery

Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz, Adam Sigal +3

Learning robust visuomotor policies for robotic manipulation remains a challenge in real-world settings, where visual distractors can significantly degrade performance and safety.…

cs.RO2025

CAPE: Context-Aware Diffusion Policy Via Proximal Mode Expansion for Collision Avoidance

Rui Heng Yang, Xuan Zhao, Leo Maxime Brunswic +5

In robotics, diffusion models can capture multi-modal trajectories from demonstrations, making them a transformative approach in imitation learning. However, achieving optimal perf…

cs.RO2025

Two-Steps Diffusion Policy for Robotic Manipulation via Genetic Denoising

Mateo Clemente, Leo Brunswic, Rui Heng Yang +5

Diffusion models, such as diffusion policy, have achieved state-of-the-art results in robotic manipulation by imitating expert demonstrations. While diffusion models were originall…

cs.RO2025

RA-DP: Rapid Adaptive Diffusion Policy for Training-Free High-frequency Robotics Replanning

Xi Ye, Rui Heng Yang, Jun Jin +2

Diffusion models exhibit impressive scalability in robotic task learning, yet they struggle to adapt to novel, highly dynamic environments. This limitation primarily stems from the…