Giuliano Albanese — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

AR-VLA: Autoregressive Action Expert for Vision–Language–Action Models

Yutong Hu, Jan-Nico Zaech, Nikolay Nikolov, Yuanqi Yao, Sombit Dey, Giuliano Albanese +3

RSS 2026poster

We propose a standalone autoregressive (AR) Action Expert that generates actions as a continuous causal sequence while conditioning on refreshable vision-language prefixes. In contrast to existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and diffusion policies that reset temporal context with each new ob…

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2026

SPEAR-1: Scaling Beyond Robot Demonstrations via 3D Understanding

Nikolay Nikolov, Giuliano Albanese, Sombit Dey, Aleksandar Yanev, Luc Van Gool, Jan-Nico Zaech +1

CVPR 2026

Robotic Foundation Models (RFMs) hold great promise as generalist, end-to-end systems for robot control.Yet their ability to generalize across new environments, tasks, and embodiments remains limited.We argue that a major bottleneck lies in their foundations: most RFMs are built by fine-tuning inter

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