IROS 2026 has 1,933 papers — researcher curates 130-paper reading list on VLA and robot learning
GlenBerseth · x · 2026-09-28
Robotics researcher Glen Berseth filtered the 1,933 papers at IROS 2026 (Pittsburgh) down to 130 relevant to his group and shared the list publicly.
- Topics: robot learning, vision-language-action (VLA) models, RL fine-tuning of robot policies, imitation learning, diffusion/flow policies, world models, and generalization.
- Papers are tiered into P0 must-read (38), P1 should-read (69), and P2 nice-to-read (23).
- Each entry has a one-line abstract-based summary, session time, room, and direct arXiv links where available.
- P0 highlights include preserving pretrained VLM representations for VLA generalization, EgoVLA trained from egocentric human videos, and disentangled latent actions for cross-embodiment pretraining.
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