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Missing Modality Robustness
How models learn to operate when one sensor disappears, why absence must remain distinct from delay or corruption, and what evaluation exposes dependence on a dominant channel.
Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
How rewards turn robot experience into a control policy, why offline data and simulation reduce costly hardware interaction, and where reinforcement learning still breaks on ambiguous success signals.
Cross-modal Alignment
What has to hold before two modalities agree on which of their parts refer to the same thing, why a robot policy scores highly on instructions it is actively contradicting, and where that correspondence comes from the labeling rather than the architecture.