ROAug 2, 2024
HeteroMorpheus: Universal Control Based on Morphological Heterogeneity ModelingYiFan Hao, Yang Yang, Junru Song et al.
In the field of robotic control, designing individual controllers for each robot leads to high computational costs. Universal control policies, applicable across diverse robot morphologies, promise to mitigate this challenge. Predominantly, models based on Graph Neural Networks (GNN) and Transformers are employed, owing to their effectiveness in capturing relational dynamics across a robot's limbs. However, these models typically employ homogeneous graph structures that overlook the functional diversity of different limbs. To bridge this gap, we introduce HeteroMorpheus, a novel method based on heterogeneous graph Transformer. This method uniquely addresses limb heterogeneity, fostering better representation of robot dynamics of various morphologies. Through extensive experiments we demonstrate the superiority of HeteroMorpheus against state-of-the-art methods in the capability of policy generalization, including zero-shot generalization and sample-efficient transfer to unfamiliar robot morphologies.
AIFeb 17, 2025Code
Leveraging Dual Process Theory in Language Agent Framework for Real-time Simultaneous Human-AI CollaborationShao Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Wenhao Zhang et al.
Agents built on large language models (LLMs) have excelled in turn-by-turn human-AI collaboration but struggle with simultaneous tasks requiring real-time interaction. Latency issues and the challenge of inferring variable human strategies hinder their ability to make autonomous decisions without explicit instructions. Through experiments with current independent System 1 and System 2 methods, we validate the necessity of using Dual Process Theory (DPT) in real-time tasks. We propose DPT-Agent, a novel language agent framework that integrates System 1 and System 2 for efficient real-time simultaneous human-AI collaboration. DPT-Agent's System 1 uses a Finite-state Machine (FSM) and code-as-policy for fast, intuitive, and controllable decision-making. DPT-Agent's System 2 integrates Theory of Mind (ToM) and asynchronous reflection to infer human intentions and perform reasoning-based autonomous decisions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of DPT-Agent through further experiments with rule-based agents and human collaborators, showing significant improvements over mainstream LLM-based frameworks. DPT-Agent can effectively help LLMs convert correct slow thinking and reasoning into executable actions, thereby improving performance. To the best of our knowledge, DPT-Agent is the first language agent framework that achieves successful real-time simultaneous human-AI collaboration autonomously. Code of DPT-Agent can be found in https://github.com/sjtu-marl/DPT-Agent.
CLJan 29
$G^2$-Reader: Dual Evolving Graphs for Multimodal Document QAYaxin Du, Junru Song, Yifan Zhou et al.
Retrieval-augmented generation is a practical paradigm for question answering over long documents, but it remains brittle for multimodal reading where text, tables, and figures are interleaved across many pages. First, flat chunking breaks document-native structure and cross-modal alignment, yielding semantic fragments that are hard to interpret in isolation. Second, even iterative retrieval can fail in long contexts by looping on partial evidence or drifting into irrelevant sections as noise accumulates, since each step is guided only by the current snippet without a persistent global search state. We introduce $G^2$-Reader, a dual-graph system, to address both issues. It evolves a Content Graph to preserve document-native structure and cross-modal semantics, and maintains a Planning Graph, an agentic directed acyclic graph of sub-questions, to track intermediate findings and guide stepwise navigation for evidence completion. On VisDoMBench across five multimodal domains, $G^2$-Reader with Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct reaches 66.21\% average accuracy, outperforming strong baselines and a standalone GPT-5 (53.08\%).
54.8CVApr 29
Delineating Knowledge Boundaries for Honest Large Vision-Language ModelsJunru Song, Yimeng Hu, Yijing Chen et al.
Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable multimodal performance yet remain prone to factual hallucinations, particularly in long-tail or specialized domains. Moreover, current models exhibit a weak capacity to refuse queries that exceed their parametric knowledge. In this paper, we propose a systematic framework to enhance the refusal capability of VLMs when facing such unknown questions. We first curate a model-specific "Visual-Idk" (Visual-I don't know) dataset, leveraging multi-sample consistency probing to distinguish between known and unknown facts. We then align the model using supervised fine-tuning followed by preference-aware optimization (e.g., DPO, ORPO) to effectively delineate its knowledge boundaries. Results on the Visual-Idk dataset show our method improves the Truthful Rate from 57.9\% to 67.3\%. Additionally, internal probing also demonstrates that the model genuinely recognizes its boundaries instead of just memorizing refusal patterns. Our framework further generalizes to out-of-distribution medical and perceptual domains, providing a robust path toward more trustworthy and prudent visual assistants.