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Rapid adaptation to a new environment requires a robot to acquire useful knowledge about local objects, states, and interactions from limited experience. Systems that combine a reasoning agent with a frozen vision-language-action model (VLA) can adapt through execution feedback and memory, making the choice of experien …
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Query-agnostic streaming video understanding requires vision-language models to continuously compress an indefinitely growing visual stream into a bounded memory before future queries are known. The performance depends critically on the memory mechanism--what observations to preserve, how to represent and consolidate t …
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The proliferation of smart devices exposes children to online risks like grooming and financial scams that are deeply embedded within legitimate applications. Current approaches rely on automated prevention and detection, a paradigm that is fundamentally limited by its inherent fallibility. Whether rule-based or AI-dri …