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July 10, 20265 min readHydroShear, a new physics-based simulator, teaches robots how to use their sense of touch to perform complex manipulation tasks, in a way that transfers seamlessly to the real world. -
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IROS 20262026Existing robotic foundation policies are trained primarily via large-scale imitation learning. While such models demonstrate strong capabilities, they often struggle with long-horizon tasks due to distribution shift and error accumulation.While reinforcement learning (RL) can finetune these models, it cannot work well across diverse tasks without manual reward engineering. We propose VLLR, a dense reward
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UAI 20262026The problem of relevant and diverse subset selection has a wide range of applications, from recommender systems to retrieval-augmented generation(RAG). For example, in recommender systems, one is interested in selecting relevant items, while providing a diversified recommendation. Constrained subset selection problem is NP-hard, and popular approaches such as Maximum Marginal Relevance (MMR) are based on
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Knowledge-Based Systems Journal2026Knowledge graphs provide a source of up-to-date structured knowledge, which makes them an ideal counterpart to LLMs. LLMs, by themselves, are not trained to run structured queries internally and can become stale without a source of up-to-date information. We hypothesize that knowledge graphs can be effectively connected to large language models via controlled natural languages. Unlike standard formal query
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ICML 2026 Workshop on Generative and Agentic AI for Biology2026Protein design requires extrapolating beyond training data to achieve higher fitness. State-of-the-art methods typically fine-tune billion-parameter language models end-to-end, often combined with external scorers, data distillation, and multiple rounds of iterative refinement. We introduce a residual latent adapter, a 5M parameter MLP inserted between the encoder and decoder of a frozen ProtT5-3B model
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2026As efficient alternatives to softmax Attention, linear statespace models (SSMs) achieve constant memory and linear compute, but maintain only a lossy, fading summary of the past, often leading to inferior performance in recall oriented settings. We propose Gated KalmaNet (GKA), a layer that reduces this gap by accounting for the full past when predicting the next token, while maintaining SSM-style efficiency
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