#01Nov 5, 2026
cs.RO
Kinematic Hypothesis Context: Embodiment-Conditioned Learned Video Coding for Bandwidth-Limited Robot Policy Uplinks
Yuze Lu
Robots increasingly run large vision-language-action policies on remote servers, making the camera uplink the bottleneck. Existing video codecs spend bits on content the receiver could predict: the robot's own motion. We introduce the kinematic hypothesis context, a zero-rate conditioning signal that both ends build from joint states, the robot model and the camera calibration. Ego-motion homographies, per-link robot reprojections, an end-effector plane and a background memory warp the previous reconstruction into hypotheses that condition a learned video codec. We prove that history-only and global-pose conditioning with a limited receptive field cannot access this information under large motion, and that coding gains become task gains at the policy's success cliff. On LIBERO, the context saves 23.9% bit rate over a capacity-matched history-conditioned codec and 40-56% over x264, x265 and SVT-AV1, and needs 23.2% fewer bits than DCVC-RT at equal policy action deviation; trained to lower rates, it matches DCVC-RT in PSNR. In closed loop at equal rate, OpenVLA-OFT success nearly doubles from 22.8% to 43.1% at 6 kbps (72.6% with lower-rate training, 23.6 points above DCVC-RT), pi_0.5 success rises from 55.5% to 77.4%, and the gain grows under packet loss. The context transfers across three codec hosts and to real robot data.
#02Nov 5, 2026
cs.CV
ArtiVidRM: Verifiable Artifact-as-Rubric Reward Modeling for Explicit Quality Articulation in Video Generation
Caorui Li, Yangguang Ji, Shuxia Lin and 12 more
Reinforcement learning has become an effective approach for improving video generation, but its success depends heavily on reliable reward models. Existing methods either map videos directly to opaque scalar scores or generate free-form rationales that are not explicitly optimized as the basis of the final judgment. We propose ArtiVidRM, a verifiable, artifact-as-rubrics video reward model that follows an observe-then-score paradigm. It first identifies visible generation artifacts and organizes them into a structured artifact list, then uses these artifacts as explicit rubrics for quality assessment. This intermediate representation grounds each score in concrete video-level evidence, making the reward more interpretable and informative for optimization. We further introduce a multi-reward reinforcement learning strategy to jointly optimize artifact prediction and quality assessment. The reward decomposes into complementary objectives that evaluate artifact prediction quality, including semantic coverage and prediction efficiency, together with a pairwise preference objective that supervises quality ranking through score differences. By jointly optimizing the intermediate artifact representation and the downstream preference prediction, the model learns to produce informative artifact lists while improving the accuracy of video quality assessment. Experiments show that ArtiVidRM achieves state-of-the-art performance on video preference benchmarks, provides effective signals for video diffusion optimization, and enables artifact-guided refinement of closed-source video generators.
#03Nov 4, 2026
cs.CV
Motion-guided Contrastive Regularization For Latent World Models
Yiwen Chen, Qiqi Hou, Jisoo Jeong and 3 more
JEPA-style world models learn action-conditioned latent dynamics without reconstructing observations, but distributional regularization alone does not ensure that their representations preserve information needed for control. We identify static collapse, a failure mode in which the encoder preserves episode-specific static content while suppressing manipulation-relevant state changes. Because static content is temporally predictable yet diverse across episodes, this failure can persist despite regularizers such as SIGReg. A controlled study on OGBench-Cube shows that introducing randomized backgrounds substantially degrades planning performance while leaving the underlying manipulation task unchanged. To address this problem, we propose motion-guided contrastive regularization. Our approach compares predicted latent transitions with transitions to candidate observations from the same episode, reducing the usefulness of static background identity for distinguishing action outcomes. Optical-flow similarities provide soft contrastive targets, allowing candidates with similar motion to receive similar supervision. Combined with latent prediction and SIGReg, our objective encourages representations to preserve within-episode state distinctions and similarities between related transitions. Our method improves planning success over LeWorldModel (LeWM) from 52% to 78% on OGBench-Cube with randomized backgrounds and from 14% to 54% on LIBERO-Object, while maintaining comparable performance on four other visual-control benchmarks.
#04Nov 5, 2026
cs.LG
IMUDINO: Self-distilled Foundation Model for Inertial Sensing
Zhoutong Ye, Chengwen Zhang, Zixuan Wang and 9 more
We present IMUDINO, the first foundation model (FM) for inertial sensing to achieve competitive performance across diverse sensing tasks including human activity recognition (HAR), health, motion capture, and odometry. Prior inertial FMs often focus on one subfield of inertial sensing and sometimes underperform state-of-the-art supervised methods (e.g., in HAR), making their scope considerably narrower than FMs for vision and natural language. Moreover, they often require fixed input length and sampling rate, and generalize poorly to unseen sensor locations. To build a general-purpose foundation model for inertial sensing, we adapt the DINO self-supervised learning (SSL) paradigm to inertial data through a set of semantics-preserving motion transformations that simulate variations in motion pattern and sensor setup. For model architecture, we use a plain transformer encoder with frequency-aware positional encoding that natively supports varying input length and sampling rate. This simple setup proved remarkably effective for learning global and dense features generalizable across users, sensor setups, tasks, and, in the case of robot odometry, embodiments. We hope IMUDINO can serve as a backbone for inertial sensing and kickstart the development of general-purpose inertial FMs.
#05Nov 5, 2026
cs.CV
VIPA: View-Invariant Projector-Based Adversarial Attack
Jiyu Han, Qingyue Deng, Bingyao Huang
Projector-based adversarial attack aims to physically manipulate real-world scenes by projecting adversarial patterns, thereby causing deep image classifiers to produce incorrect predictions. However, existing stealthy projector-based adversarial attack methods model the project-and-capture process in a single and static view, limiting their view-invariant capability and practical applicability in dynamic environments. In this paper, we introduce View-Invariant Projector-Based Adversarial Attack (VIPA), a novel method designed to overcome these limitations by achieving both view-invariant and classifier-agnostic adversarial attacks in the physical world. We first leverage a view-invariant projector-camera system simulation method to model the physical interactions between projected patterns and real-world surfaces. To ensure robustness and stealthiness of the attack across different views, VIPA optimizes adversarial projections by aggregating simulated attack losses from multiple views. This joint optimization across diverse views helps maintain robustness regardless of the viewpoints. Finally, the optimized patterns are physically projected into real-world scenes, where they successfully fool various classifiers from different viewpoints, thereby enabling robust and practical view-invariant adversarial attacks. Our experiments in both targeted and untargeted attacks demonstrate that VIPA consistently achieves higher attack success rates than existing methods, while also enhancing stealthiness and ensuring minimal perceptual degradation across all tested views.