DeFM: Learning Foundation Representations from Depth for Robotics

arXiv:2601.18923 · cs.RO, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-01-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-01-26

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Sim-to-Real Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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