Latent Telepathy: Multi-Robot Communication with Self-Supervised Perceptual Latents

arXiv:2609.23269 · cs.RO, cs.LG, cs.MA · Submitted 2026-09-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.LG, cs.MA

Submitted: 2026-09-20

Updated: 2026-09-20

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to IEEE ICRA 2027

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 10× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Abstraction — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Temporal Abstraction — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Action Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• International Conference on Machine Learning — 4× in this paper
• World Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 2× in this paper
• Entropy Collapse — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Learning Representations — 2× in this paper
• Linear probe — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• AUC — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation — 1× in this paper
• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reward Shaping — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Score Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning
• Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms
• One Future, Every Robot: Label-Efficient Collective-State Prediction with Decentralized JEPA
• Social-JEPA: Emergent Geometric Isomorphism

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