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Multimodal large language models have become the dominant paradigm for visual understanding, but incur substantial costs by encoding inputs into dense, fixed-size patch tokens. However, visual information is unevenly distributed: some regions require fine-grained detail, while others admit compact representations. Down …
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Algorithmic mathematical reasoning requires reliable decomposition, computation, and aggregation. Final-answer rewards provide limited guidance on intermediate errors, while successful execution does not guarantee mathematical correctness. This work proposes Function-Structured Graph Reinforcement Learning (FSG-RL), co …
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In this paper, we present a Goal-Aware Uncertainty-Guided Exploration (GAUGE) framework for planner-conditioned active calibration of opaque quadruped velocity interfaces. Commercial quadrupeds commonly expose planar-velocity commands, but the underlying locomotion controller remains inaccessible and can produce system …
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Moving obstacles can block a previously clear route while a quadruped robot executes a motion command. We investigate whether predicting changing clearance improves navigation when motion selection accounts for the robot footprint and the time needed to react and brake. We present FutureRay, which predicts ranges acros …
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Natural audio-visual interaction is emerging as an important interface for AI assistants, allowing users to communicate through speech and vision rather than carefully composed text prompts. However, existing benchmarks of interactive capabilities still focus primarily on response quality, leaving a more fundamental qu …
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We introduce Map2Route, a human-curated benchmark for compositional language-grounded route planning over pre-built semantic maps. Map2Route contains 1,000 episodes across 40 scenes, where instructions use relational, comparative, and nested descriptions to identify route-relevant objects and regions, while specifying …