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View Matters: Keyframe-Guided Text-Driven 3D Gaussian Editing

arXiv cs.GR details View Matters, a keyframe-guided 3D Gaussian editing method that weights reliable viewpoints instead of treating every render …

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Humanoid Horizon: Extending Task Horizon in Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Parallel Training, Dynamic Starting, and Reward Gating

arXiv cs.GR details a humanoid control framework that keeps long-horizon whole-body tasks from collapsing as the episode stretches on. Humanoid …

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PhysLDM: Latent Diffusion for High-Fidelity Deformable Simulation

arXiv cs.GR details PhysLDM, a latent-diffusion system for high-fidelity deformable simulation that targets the long-horizon instability of mesh-based physics. The …

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