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Jiawei Liu, Xun Gong, Fen Fang, Muli Yang, Bohao Qu, Yunfeng Hu, Hong Chen, Xulei Yang, Qing Guo

Most Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) research overlooks the maneuvering needs of passengers in autonomous driving (AD). Natural language offers an intuitive interface, yet translating passenger open-ended instructions into control signals--without sacrificing interpretability and traceability--remains a challenge. This study proposes an instruction-realization framework that leverages a large language model (LLM) to interpret instructions, generates executable scripts that schedule multiple model predictive control (MPC)-based motion planners based on real-time feedback, and converts planned trajectories into control signals. This scheduling-centric design decouples semantic reasoning from vehicle control at different timescales, establishing a transparent, traceable decision-making chain from high-level instructions to low-level actions. Due to the absence of high-fidelity evaluation tools, this study introduces a benchmark for open-ended instruction realization in a closed-loop setting. Comprehensive experiments reveal that the framework significantly improves task-completion rates over instruction-realization baselines, reduces LLM query costs, achieves safety and compliance on par with specialized AD approaches, and exhibits considerable tolerance to LLM inference latency. For more qualitative illustrations and a clearer understanding, please refer to Supplementary Material.

Shijie Zhou, Bin Zhu, Jiarui Yang, Xiangyu Zhao, Jingjing Chen, Yu-Gang Jiang

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have enabled robots to execute increasingly complex tasks. However, VLA models trained through imitation learning struggle to operate reliably in dynamic environments and often fail under Out-of-Distribution (OOD) conditions. To address this issue, we propose Robot-Conditioned Normalizing Flow(RC-NF), a real-time monitoring model for robotic anomaly detection and intervention that ensures the robot's state and the object's motion trajectory align with the task. RC-NF decouples the processing of task-aware robot and object states within the normalizing flow. It requires only positive samples for unsupervised training and calculates accurate robotic anomaly scores during inference through the probability density function. We further present LIBERO-Anomaly-10, a benchmark comprising three categories of robotic anomalies for simulation evaluation. RC-NF achieves state-of-the-art performance across all anomaly types compared to previous methods in monitoring robotic tasks. Real-world experiments demonstrate that RC-NF operates as a plug-and-play module for VLA models (e.g., Pi0) , providing a real-time OOD signal that enables state-level rollback or task-level replanning when necessary, with a response latency under 100 ms. These results have demonstrated that our RC-NF noticeably enhances the robustness and adaptability of VLA-based robotic systems in dynamic environments.

Yang Xiao, Weiming Liu, Jun Dan, Tengyue Xu, Fan Wang, Hua Yu, Junhao Dong, Jiao Liu, Shunjie Dong, Lianyong Qi

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable progress by leveraging both limited labeled data and abundant unlabeled data. However, unlabeled datasets often contain out-of-distribution (OOD) samples from unknown classes, which can lead to performance degradation in open-set SSL scenarios. Current OOD detection methods are constrained by the absence of labeled OOD samples. Although optimal transport (OT) has proven to be effective to provide pseudo OOD scores for supervised learning, it still faces two main challenges, i.e., the unavoidable problem of finding the optimal transport plan and the unreliable OOD score caused by dense solutions. To overcome thess limitations, we propose a novel open-set OOD detection model named **DREW**, which leverages **D**ynamic **REW**eighting approach for OT-based OOD detection. Specifically, we start by formulating OOD detection as a semi-unbalanced optimal transport (SemiUOT) problem. The proposed DREW model can dynamically transform SemiUOT into the classical OT formula and then directly obtain the pseudo OOD score from the new source distribution weights. Contrary to existing OT-based methods, DREW provides theoretically grounded and more accurate pseudo OOD scores, while avoiding the direct computation of the transport plan. Empirical results demonstrate the superiority of DREW in terms of both accuracy and efficiency. Extensive analytical experiments are conducted to elucidate the properties of each component.

Chuan Mao, Haoqi Yuan, Ziye Huang, Chaoyi Xu, Kai Ma, Zongqing Lu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved great success in dexterous grasping, significantly improving grasp performance and generalization from simulation to the real world. However, fine-grained functional grasping, which is essential for downstream manipulation tasks, remains underexplored and faces several challenges: the complexity of specifying goals and reward functions for functional grasps across diverse objects, the difficulty of multi-task RL exploration, and the challenge of sim-to-real transfer. In this work, we propose DemoFunGrasp for universal dexterous functional grasping. We factorize functional grasping conditions into two complementary components -- grasping style and affordance -- and integrate them into an RL framework that can learn to grasp any object with any functional grasping condition. To address the multi-task optimization challenge, we leverage a single grasping demonstration and reformulate the RL problem as one-step demonstration editing, substantially enhancing sample efficiency and performance.Experimental results in both simulation and the real world show that DemoFunGrasp generalizes to unseen combinations of objects, affordances, and grasping styles, outperforming baselines in both success rate and functional grasping accuracy. In addition to strong sim-to-real capability, by incorporating a vision-language model (VLM) for planning, our system achieves autonomous instruction-following grasp execution.

Sirui Xu, Samuel Schulter, Morteza Ziyadi, Xialin He, Xiaohan Fei, Yu-Xiong Wang, Liang-Yan Gui

Humans rarely plan whole-body interactions with objects at the level of explicit whole-body movements. High-level intentions, such as affordance, define the goal, while coordinated balance, contact, and manipulation can emerge naturally from underlying physical and motor priors. Scaling such priors is key to enabling humanoids to compose and generalize loco-manipulation skills across diverse contexts while maintaining physically coherent whole-body coordination. To this end, we introduce InterPrior, a scalable framework that learns a unified generative controller through large-scale imitation pretraining and post-training by reinforcement learning. InterPrior first distills a full-reference imitation expert into a versatile, goal-conditioned variational policy that reconstructs motion from multimodal observations and high-level intent. While the distilled policy reconstructs training behaviors, it does not generalize reliably due to the vast configuration space of large-scale human-object interactions. To address this, we apply data augmentation with physical perturbations, and then perform reinforcement learning finetuning to improve competence on unseen goals and initializations. Together, these steps consolidate the reconstructed latent skills into a valid manifold, yielding a motion prior that generalizes beyond the training data, e.g., it can incorporate new behaviors such as interactions with unseen objects. We further demonstrate its effectiveness for user-interactive control and its potential for real robot deployment.

Xingru Huang, Shuanghua Ye, Zhao Huang, Wenwen Tang, Huiyu Zhou, Zhiwen Zheng, Jin Liu, Xiaoshuai Zhang

Precise 3D medical image segmentation is a clinical cornerstone for diagnosis, therapy planning, and longitudinal monitoring. However, routine acquisition with anisotropic voxel spacing and heterogeneous reconstruction induces downsampling aliasing and cross-scale misalignment that blur boundaries, fragment topology, and undermine reliability. Existing U-shaped CNN or Transformer designs neither control alias injection at decimation nor explicitly align high-resolution evidence before decoder fusion, leading to unstable interfaces under device and protocol variability. We introduce the Coset-fibRated micrO-local co-attention Network (CROWn), a general segmentation framework that couples sampling theory with representation learning to jointly suppress aliasing and calibrate cross-scale fusion. CROWn comprises two complementary components. The Microlocal Polyphase Co-Attentive Decimator (\muPCAD) performs axis-aware polyphase analysis with pooled-subband co-attention and explicit anti-alias low-pass, routing boundary-relevant high-frequency evidence while attenuating spurious phase components during downsampling. The Octaphase Coset Fibration (OCF) anti-aliases high-resolution skips, restructures them via 3D space-to-depth into cosets, and applies phase attention with edge-gated modulation to deliver compact, phase-aligned, boundary-aware features to the decoder. Extensive evaluations across 15 publicly available datasets spanning CT, MRI, and OCT demonstrate CROWn's state-of-the-art performance against 17 recent leading methods, improves overlap and topological consistency, consistently reduces boundary errors, while maintaining controlled training and inference cost. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/IMOP-lab/CROWn.

Guangfeng Jiang, Yueru Luo, Jun Liu, Yi Huang, Yiyao Zhu, Zhan Qu, Dave Zhenyu Chen, Bingbing Liu, Xu Yan

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in world models, which primarily aim to capture the spatiotemporal correlations between an agent's actions and the evolving environment. However, existing approaches often suffer from tight runtime coupling or depend on offline reward signals, resulting in substantial inference overhead or hindering end-to-end optimization. To overcome these limitations, we introduce WPT, a World-to-Policy Transfer training paradigm that enables online distillation under the guidance of an end-to-end world model. Specifically, we develop a trainable reward model that infuses world knowledge into a teacher policy by aligning candidate trajectories with the future dynamics predicted by the world model. Subsequently, we propose policy distillation and world reward distillation to transfer the teacher's reasoning ability into a lightweight student policy, enhancing planning performance while preserving real-time deployability. Extensive experiments on both open-loop and closed-loop benchmarks show that WPT achieves state-of-the-art performance with a simple policy architecture: it attains a 0.11 collision rate (open-loop) and achieves a 79.23 driving score (closed-loop), surpassing both world-model-based and imitation-learning methods in accuracy and safety. Moreover, the student sustains up to 4.9xfaster inference, while retaining most of the gains.

Vineet Bhat, Sungsu Kim, Valts Blukis, Greg Heinrich, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Ramesh Karri, Stan Birchfield, Farshad Khorrami, Jonathan Tremblay

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance on spatial reasoning benchmarks, yet these evaluations mask critical weaknesses in understanding object interactions. Current benchmarks test high-level relationships ("left of," "behind", etc.) but ignore fine-grained spatial understanding needed for real-world applications: precise 3D localization, physical compatibility between objects, object affordances and multi-step spatial planning. In this work, we present BOP-ASK, a novel large-scale dataset for object-interaction reasoning for both training and benchmarking. Our data generation pipeline leverages 6D object poses from the Benchmark for Object Pose Estimation (BOP) datasets from which we derive fine-grained annotations such as grasp poses, referred object poses, path planning trajectories, relative spatial and depth relationships, and object-to-object relationships. BOP-ASK comprises over 150k images and 33M question-answer pairs spanning six tasks (four novel), providing a rich resource for training and evaluating VLMs. We evaluate proprietary and open-sourced VLMs, and conduct human evaluations on BOP-ASK-core, a contributed test benchmark. We also release BOP-ASK-lab, an out-of-distribution benchmark with images not sourced from BOP, enabling testing of generalization. Our experiments demonstrate that models trained on BOP-ASK outperform baselines and exhibit emergent capabilities such as precise object and grasp pose estimation, trajectory planning, and fine-grained object-centric spatial reasoning in cluttered environments. Project website: https://bop-ask.github.io/

Cainan Davidson, Deva Ramanan, Neehar Peri

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) collect and pseudo-label terabytes of multi-modal data localized to HD maps during normal fleet testing. However, identifying interesting and safety-critical scenarios from uncurated driving logs remains a significant challenge. Traditional scenario mining techniques are error-prone and prohibitively time-consuming, often relying on hand-crafted structured queries. In this work, we revisit spatio-temporal scenario mining through the lens of recent vision-language models (VLMs) to detect whether a described scenario occurs in a driving log and, if so, precisely localize it in both time and space. To address this problem, we introduce RefAV, a large-scale dataset of 10,000 diverse natural language queries that describe complex multi-agent interactions relevant to motion planning derived from 1000 driving logs in the Argoverse 2 Sensor dataset. We evaluate several referential multi-object trackers and present an empirical analysis of our baselines. Notably, we find that naively repurposing off-the-shelf VLMs yields poor performance, suggesting that scenario mining presents unique challenges. Lastly, we discuss our recently held competition and share insights from the community. Our code and dataset are available on GitHub and Argoverse.

Yang Fu, Yuliang Zou, Hao Xiang, Xin Huang, Yijing Bai, Chen Song, Weijing Shi, Govind Thattai, Dragomir Anguelov, Mingxing Tan 等

In autonomous driving, mapping is critical for motion planning but remains an under-utilized resource for perception tasks like 3D object detection. Maps can provide robust structural priors of the static environment, suited to resolving ambiguities and correcting for sensor data sparsity or noise -- issues especially prevalent for distant objects or during adverse weather conditions. However, conventional High-Definition (HD) maps are resource-intensive to obtain and maintain, which presents a challenge for achieving efficient, large-scale deployment. In this paper, we propose a scalable solution to systemically leverage mapping to improve 3D detection by overcoming two primary challenges. First, we introduce a pipeline to automatically build dense mapping priors from aggregated sensor data, eliminating the need for human labeling. Second, we design a novel Mapping Prior Augmented 3D detection (MPA3D) framework to effectively integrate the mapping priors with the distinct modalities of sensor data. Our extensive experiments on the Waymo Open Dataset demonstrate that our approach achieves new state-of-the-art results, and proving the effectiveness of using scalable, reconstructed scene priors to enhance 3D detection.

Min Shi, Xiaohui Zeng, Jiannan Huang, Yin Cui, Francesco Ferroni, Jialuo Li, Zhaoshuo Li, Yogesh Balaji, Haoxiang Wang, Tsung-Yi Lin 等

Interleaved multimodal generation enables capabilities beyond unimodal generation models, such as step-by-step instructional guides, visual planning, and generating visual drafts for reasoning. However, the quality of existing interleaved generation models under general instructions remains limited by insufficient training data and base model capacity. We present DuoGen, an interleaved generation framework that systematically addresses data curation, architecture design, and evaluation. On the data side, we build a large-scale, high-quality instruction-tuning dataset by combining multimodal conversations rewritten from curated raw websites, and diverse synthetic examples covering everyday scenarios. Architecturally, DuoGen leverages the strong visual understanding of a pretrained multimodal LLM and the visual generation capabilities of a diffusion transformer (DiT) pretrained on video generation, avoiding costly unimodal pretraining and enabling flexible base model selection. A two-stage decoupled strategy first instruction-tunes the MLLM, then aligns DiT with it using curated interleaved image-text sequences. Across public and newly proposed benchmarks, DuoGen outperforms prior open-source models in text quality, image fidelity, and image-context alignment, and also achieves state-of-the-art performance on text-to-image and image editing among unified generation models. Data and code are released at https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/duogen/

Xuehui Wang, Zhenyu Wu, JingJing Xie, Zichen Ding, Bowen Yang, Zehao Li, Zhaoyang Liu, Qingyun Li, Xuan Dong, Zhe Chen 等

We introduce MMBench-GUI, a hierarchical benchmark for evaluating GUI automation agents across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and Web. The benchmark spans four levels: Content Understanding, Element Grounding, Task Automation, and Task Collaboration, covering essential skills for GUI agents. To assess both effectiveness and efficiency, we further propose the Efficiency-Quality-Aware (EQA) metric, which measures task success alongside action redundancy. Extensive evaluations reveal that precise visual grounding is the critical determinant of performance, underscoring the advantages of modular designs with specialized grounding modules. Moreover, all agents suffer from substantial inefficiencies, frequently completing tasks with excessive steps despite eventual success. Performance also degrades on complex or cross-application tasks, exposing weaknesses in memory, planning, and adaptive reasoning. By providing broad coverage, standardized protocols, and novel metrics, MMBench-GUI establishes the first comprehensive foundation for advancing GUI agent research.

Muhammed Burak Kizil, Enes Sanli, Niloy J. Mitra, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem, Duygu Ceylan

Video generation has achieved remarkable progress in visual fidelity and controllability, enabling conditioning on text, layout, or motion. Among these, motion control -- specifying object dynamics and camera trajectories -- is essential for composing complex, cinematic scenes, yet existing interfaces remain limited. We introduce LAMP, that leverages large language models (LLMs) as motion planners to translate natural language descriptions into explicit 3D trajectories for dynamic objects and (relatively defined) cameras. LAMP defines a motion domain-specific language (DSL), inspired by cinematography conventions. By harnessing program synthesis capabilities of LLMs, LAMP generates structured motion programs from natural language, which are deterministically mapped to 3D trajectories. We construct a large-scale procedural dataset pairing natural text descriptions with corresponding motion programs and 3D trajectories. Experiments demonstrate LAMP's improved performance in motion controllability and alignment with user intent compared to state-of-the-art alternatives, establishing the first framework for generating both object and camera motions directly from natural language specifications. Video and code are available at the project page at https://cyberiada.github.io/LAMP/ .

Jooyeol Yun, Jaegul Choo

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are central to modern web design, and the demand to animate them continues to grow as web environments become increasingly dynamic.Yet automating the animation of vector graphics remains challenging for vision-language models (VLMs) despite recent progress in code generation and motion planning.VLMs routinely mis-handle SVGs, since visually coherent parts are often fragmented into low-level shapes that offer little guidance of which elements should move together. In this paper, we introduce a framework that recovers the semantic structure required for reliable SVG animation and reveals the missing layer that current VLM systems overlook. This is achieved through a statistical aggregation of multiple weak part predictions, allowing the system to stably infer semantics from noisy predictions.By reorganizing SVGs into semantic groups, our approach enables VLMs to produce animations with far greater coherence. Our experiments demonstrate substantial gains over existing approaches, suggesting that semantic recovery is the key step that unlocks robust SVG animation and supports more interpretable interactions between VLMs and vector graphics.

Zhiyu Zheng, Shaoyu Chen, Haoran Yin, Xinbang Zhang, Jialv Zou, Xinggang Wang, Qian Zhang, Lefei Zhang

End-to-end autonomous driving (E2EAD) systems, which learn to predict future trajectories directly from sensor data, are fundamentally challenged by the inherent spatio-temporal imbalance of trajectory data. This imbalance creates a significant optimization burden, causing models to learn spurious correlations instead of robust driving logic, while also prioritizing uncertain, distant predictions, thereby compromising immediate safety. To address these issues, we propose ResAD, a novel Normalized Residual Trajectory Modeling framework. Instead of predicting the future trajectory directly, our approach reframes the learning task by predicting the residual from a deterministic inertial reference. This inertial reference serves as a stable physical prior, encouraging the model to focus on necessary, context-driven deviations (e.g., traffic rules and obstacles) rather than simple pattern matching. To mitigate the optimization imbalance caused by uncertain, long-term horizons, ResAD further incorporates Point-wise Normalization of the predicted residual. This re-weights the objective to prevent large errors at distant, uncertain waypoints from dominating the learning signal. On the NAVSIM v1 and v2 benchmarks, ResAD achieves state-of-the-art results of 88.8 PDMS and 85.5 EPDMS with only two denoising steps, showing that it simplifies learning and improves planning performance.

Runyu Jiao, Matteo Bortolon, Francesco Giuliari, Alice Fasoli, Sergio Povoli, Guofeng Mei, Yiming Wang, Fabio Poiesi

Successful robotic grasping in cluttered environments not only requires a model to visually ground a target object but also to reason about obstructions that must be cleared beforehand. While current vision-language embodied reasoning models show emergent spatial understanding, they remain limited in terms of obstruction reasoning and accessibility planning. To bridge this gap, we present UNOGrasp, a learning-based vision-language model capable of performing visually-grounded obstruction reasoning to infer the sequence of actions needed to unobstruct the path and grasp the target object. We devise a novel multi-step reasoning process based on obstruction paths originated by the target object. We anchor each reasoning step with obstruction-aware visual cues to incentivize reasoning capability. UNOGrasp combines supervised and reinforcement finetuning through verifiable reasoning rewards. Moreover, we construct UNOBench, a large-scale dataset for both training and benchmarking, based on MetaGraspNetV2, with over 100k obstruction paths annotated by humans with obstruction ratios, contact points, and natural-language instructions. Extensive experiments and real-robot evaluations show that UNOGrasp significantly improves obstruction reasoning and grasp success across both synthetic and real-world environments, outperforming generalist and proprietary alternatives.

Zehao Wang, Huaide Jiang, Shuaiwu Dong, Yuping Wang, Hang Qiu, Jiachen Li

Human driving behavior is inherently personal, which is shaped by long-term habits and influenced by short-term intentions. Individuals differ in how they accelerate, brake, merge, yield, and overtake across diverse situations. However, existing end-to-end autonomous driving systems either optimize for generic objectives or rely on fixed driving modes, lacking the ability to adapt to individual preferences or interpret natural language intent. To address this gap, we propose Drive My Way (DMW), a personalized Vision-Language-Action (VLA) driving framework that aligns with users' long-term driving habits and adapts to real-time user instructions. DMW learns a user embedding from our personalized driving dataset collected across multiple real drivers and conditions the policy on this embedding during planning, while natural language instructions provide additional short-term guidance. Closed-loop evaluation on the Bench2Drive benchmark demonstrates that DMW improves style instruction adaptation, and user studies show that its generated behaviors are recognizable as each driver's own style, highlighting personalization as a key capability for human-centered autonomous driving.

Sandro Papais, Lezhou Feng, Charles Cossette, Lingting Ge

Vision Transformers (ViTs) enable strong multi-view 3D detection but are limited by high inference latency from dense token and query processing across multiple views and large 3D regions. Existing sparsity methods, designed mainly for 2D vision, prune or merge image tokens but do not extend to full-model sparsity or address 3D object queries. We introduce SToRe3D, a relevance-aligned sparsity framework that jointly selects 2D image tokens and 3D object queries while storing filtered features for reactivation. Mutual 2D-3D relevance heads allocate compute to driving-critical content and preserve other embeddings. Evaluated on nuScenes and our new nuScenes-Relevance benchmark, SToRe3D achieves up to 3x faster inference with marginal accuracy loss, establishing real-time large-scale ViT-based 3D detection while maintaining accuracy on planning-critical agents.

Lance C. Moore, Aranyo Mitra, Ryan Truong, Karoline Kallis, Kelly Kisling, Sandra M. Meyers, Nuno Vasconcelos

Brachytherapy is a complex radiation oncology problem that requires the simultaneous prediction of radiation dose, which is used for treatment planning, and a set of machine parameters, known as dwell times, used for treatment delivery. We propose Direct Dwell Time Transformer (D2T2), the first deep learning architecture that directly predicts dwell times during dose prediction. D2T2 is a two stage model, where the first stage predicts a vector of dwell times and the second implements the physical model of radiation delivery, namely a linear combination of radiation dose kernels. Besides the automatic prediction of dwell times, this has the benefit of constraining the model to make physically plausible dose predictions, when trained end-to-end. To enhance this training, we also propose a new loss function, denoted as the gamma loss, based on the prediction of the gamma index, which is the gold standard of dose comparisons. This is implemented by training a model to predict the latter using a synthetic dataset of groundtruth and predicted dose pairs. We train D2T2 on a large dataset of ~5,000 clinical brachytherapy plans---the largest such dataset to date---spanning gynecological, breast, and other treatment sites. Results demonstrate that D2T2 outperforms existing methods in both accuracy and speed. Notably, D2T2 produces deliverable plans and physically valid dose distributions in a single forward pass, for any application of brachytherapy, hours faster than manual planning and minutes faster than more recent automated methods.

Xiaotong Yu, Chang Wen Chen

Efficient view planning is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotic perception, critical for tasks ranging from search and rescue operations to autonomous navigation. While classical approaches, including sampling-based and deterministic methods, have shown promise in planning camera viewpoints for scene exploration, they often struggle with computational scalability and solution optimality in complex settings. This study introduces HQC-NBV, a hybrid quantum-classical framework for view planning that leverages quantum properties to efficiently explore the parameter space while maintaining robustness and scalability. We propose a specific Hamiltonian formulation with multi-component cost terms and a parameter-centric variational ansatz with bidirectional alternating entanglement patterns that capture the hierarchical dependencies between viewpoint parameters. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that quantum-specific components provide measurable performance advantages. Compared to the classical methods, our approach achieves 7.9-49.2% higher exploration efficiency across diverse environments. Our analysis of entanglement architecture and coherence-preserving terms provides insights into the mechanisms of quantum advantage in robotic exploration tasks. This work represents a significant advancement in integrating quantum computing into robotic perception systems, offering a paradigm-shifting solution for various robot vision tasks.