// PERSON
Nastaran Darabi
ROLE PHD RESEARCHER / LEAD AUTHORAT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGOMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN JUNE 4, 2026
// BIO
Lead author of ProGAL-VLA, focusing on grounding and instruction-sensitivity in VLA systems.
// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
2 SIGNALS
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product·arXiv Physical AI·JUNE 4, 2026
“ProGAL-VLA introduces a verification bottleneck that forces every action to be anchored to a specific, confirmed 3D entity before execution, yielding dramatic robustness gains and the first principled mechanism for robots to say 'I don't understand — please clarify.'”
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mention·arXiv Physical AI·JUNE 4, 2026
“robot perturbation robustness jumps from 30.3% to 71.5%, and grounding failures drop from 41.2% to 6.3%”
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