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12 papers

cs.RO2026

LEACL: LLM-Enhanced Automatic Curriculum Learning for Reinforcement Learning in Long-Horizon Manipulation Tasks

Faraz Heravi, James Ouyang, Zifan Xu +3

Long-horizon manipulation tasks pose significant challenges for reinforcement learning due to sparse reward signals and long horizons. Automatic curriculum learning (ACL) has been…

cs.RO2026

ExpertGen: Scalable Sim-to-Real Expert Policy Learning from Imperfect Behavior Priors

Zifan Xu, Ran Gong, Maria Vittoria Minniti +10

Learning generalizable and robust behavior cloning policies requires large volumes of high-quality robotics data. While human demonstrations (e.g., through teleoperation) serve as…

cs.RO2026

Learning Agile Striker Skills for Humanoid Soccer Robots from Noisy Sensory Input

Zifan Xu, Myoungkyu Seo, Dongmyeong Lee +8

Learning fast and robust ball-kicking skills is a critical capability for humanoid soccer robots, yet it remains a challenging problem due to the need for rapid leg swings, postura…

cs.RO2026

VOFA: Visual Object Goal Pushing with Force-Adaptive Control for Humanoids

Zichao Hu, Zifan Xu, Dongsik Chang +6

The ability to push large objects in a goal-directed manner using onboard egocentric perception is an essential skill for humanoid robots to perform complex tasks such as material…

cs.AI2026

BEAGLE: Behavior-Enforced Agent for Grounded Learner Emulation

Hanchen David Wang, Clayton Cohn, Zifan Xu +3

Simulating student learning behaviors in open-ended problem-solving environments holds potential for education research, from training adaptive tutoring systems to stress-testing p…

cs.CV2026

Entropy-Guided k-Guard Sampling for Long-Horizon Autoregressive Video Generation

Yizhao Han, Tianxing Shi, Zhao Wang +6

Autoregressive (AR) architectures have achieved significant successes in LLMs, inspiring explorations for video generation. In LLMs, top-p/top-k sampling strategies work exceptiona…