#01Oct 15, 2026
cs.RO
CoDA: Co-Evolution of Data Engines and Action Policies
Tianjiao Yu, Zhilin Ou, Yifan Shen and 5 more
Generative simulation can automate robot environment construction, but physically valid environments are not necessarily useful for training. The challenge is to identify environments that address a policy's failures and supervision that helps it overcome them. We introduce CoDA, a framework in which a simulation data engine and an action policy co-evolve through a shared heterogeneous memory of environment construction, policy failures, and learning progress. The memory compiles validated diagnoses from a vision-language critic into generation programs that recreate difficulties and training programs that help the policy overcome them. We further propose Text2potential to convert these diagnoses into staged potentials for action-chunk value learning, providing dense supervision for policy updates while preserving the task's optimal policy under standard shaping assumptions. Measured learning progress guides further generation and program refinement. Across four manipulation task families, CoDA improves out-of-distribution success from 5.3% after supervised fine-tuning to 27.6%, exceeding the strongest closed-loop baseline by 9.5 percentage points with the same generation budget. On LIBERO-Pro, 15 rounds of generation and training raise success from 25% to 84% under position perturbations and from 1% to 76% under instruction perturbations.
#02Oct 15, 2026
cs.CV
GeoState: Learning View-Decoupled Geometry States for 3D World Modeling
Hongchang Liu, Jian Liu, Yujuan Ding and 5 more
Recent 3D world models increasingly use features from geometry foundation models (GFMs) as predictive world states, benefiting from their rich geometric priors. However, the view dependence of these features entangles scene dynamics with camera-induced variation, making the resulting state evolution harder to predict. We propose GeoState, a view-decoupled geometry representation for predictive 3D world modeling that separates scene-state evolution from camera-dependent observation. Specifically, a scene tokenizer aggregates multi-view GFM features into a view-decoupled scene state, which a geometry decoder queries using camera rays. An autoregressive world model then predicts future scene states, while camera motion is modeled separately. The predicted states can therefore be decoded under either predicted or externally specified cameras, while retaining a single context-derived scale throughout the rollout without per-frame scale alignment. Experiments show that GeoState outperforms prior 3D world models on Waymo, supports geometrically consistent cross-view querying, and generalizes zero-shot to KITTI and nuScenes. Project page: https://hongchang-liu.github.io/GeoState-project-page/
#03Oct 15, 2026
cs.CV
Perceive, Predict, and Plan: a Unified World Action Model for Egocentric Dexterous Manipulation
Zirui Wu, Chen Guo, Tianjian Jiang and 11 more
We introduce P$^{3}$-WAM, a unified world action model for egocentric dexterous manipulation that learns 3D perception, action-conditioned prediction, and goal-directed planning through three complementary modes: Perceive, which reconstructs articulated hand motion and camera trajectories from video; Predict, which generates visual futures under prescribed actions; and Plan, which jointly generates action trajectories and their anticipated visual consequences conditioned on an initial image, a language instruction, and an optional visual goal. Our model integrates a compact, structured 3D action representation into a pretrained video diffusion transformer through a mixture-of-transformers architecture with shared base weights, modality-specific adaptation, and bidirectional visual-action attention. Randomized modality visibility lets video and 3D actions serve as either conditioning context or prediction targets across the three modes. Experiments show that unified training improves all three capabilities over single-mode training, including gains in planning quality under a vision-language model evaluation. Through unified training, our model outperforms specialized baselines on 3D hand reconstruction and action-conditioned video prediction across four datasets, while producing goal-directed manipulation videos with stronger instruction adherence and action progression than video-generation baselines. Project Page: https://p3-wam.pages.dev/
#04Oct 15, 2026
cs.AI
MLExpert: Towards a Generalist Agentic Model for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering
Shangheng Du, Jinxin Shi, Shuaiyu Zhang and 7 more
Large language models (LLMs) are expanding from assisting scientific research and engineering to autonomously developing and improving AI systems, advancing AI for AI (AI4AI) as a pathway toward recursive self-improvement (RSI). Workflow-driven machine learning engineering (MLE) systems provide a practical path toward this pursuit through complex orchestration that manages long-horizon experimentation, while recent MLE systems adopt model-directed interaction, allowing models to autonomously organize experiments and adapt optimization strategies based on execution feedback. However, feedback from each experiment reflects several preceding decisions, and a long MLE run contains many such costly experiments. Training must therefore select useful supervision from long interaction trajectories and learn from intermediate outcomes. We propose a post-training method for autonomous long-horizon MLE optimization and apply it to train MLExpert, a 35B Mixture-of-Experts agentic model. We design the Kaggle-MLE Factory to construct executable tasks and an interaction harness for model-directed experimentation. Hierarchical agentic SFT transfers general tool-use and coding capabilities to MLE through outcome-guided supervision. Windowed Interaction RL (WIRL) treats the multi-turn decisions between successive experiment results as an execution window and assigns it a shared outcome-based reward. Asynchronous collection and policy correction support policy updates before the trajectory ends. On MLE-Bench Lite, MLExpert improves the average medal rate of the base model from 37.9% to 72.7%, achieving performance comparable to larger frontier models such as Kimi-K3 and GLM-5.3. Further experiments show that MLExpert improves performance on NatureBench Lite, agent scaffold optimization, and algorithm optimization, suggesting that the learned optimization capability generalizes to other tasks.
#05Oct 15, 2026
cs.CV
Dense4D: Pixel-Level 4D Human Correspondence
Rıza Alp Güler
Reconstructing human motion in 4D requires identifying the same surface points through articulation, deformation and changes in visibility. We introduce Dense4D, to our knowledge the first feed-forward model dedicated to dense 4D correspondence across the body, clothing and hair from a set of monocular RGB images, without a body template. Trained specifically for human geometry, Dense4D jointly processes person-centred crops with known image-to-crop transforms to predict Human Point Maps (HPMs) and depth for each image. An HPM assigns each person pixel the 3D position of its observed surface point at a common reference time. These maps support amodal correspondence: points hidden in the reference image can be localised from observations in other frames. Matching HPM coordinates across crops establishes correspondence without predicting camera poses or large scene displacements; per-image depth then lifts the matches into 3D tracks. Experiments on real people demonstrate substantially higher tracking accuracy and closer agreement with scanned surfaces than the evaluated baselines. Points from different frames assemble into coherent human geometry in the reference pose, providing visible evidence of consistent dense correspondence through articulation and clothing deformation. Additional qualitative results, videos, and an interactive viewer are available at https://alpguler.com/dense4d.