Featured Research · 2026

Forgetting, grounding, and guiding.

Academic research in 2026 across generative modeling and robotic policies. The work covers identity unlearning in diffusion models, token grounding, and expert-guided representations for vision-language-action models.

PIU identity-unlearning examples comparing retained and forgotten identity characteristics

Identity-conditioned generations illustrating the PIU research direction.

01 · First author · IJCB 2026

PIU: Proximity-guided Identity Unlearning

Targeted identity unlearning for ID-conditioned diffusion models, designed to forget requested identity information while preserving generation quality.

Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Ljubljana

Identity unlearning Diffusion models Generation preservation

Language-conditioned queries expose the X-VLA image-token regions used during manipulation.

02 · Research project · 2026

Token Grounding in Vision-Language-Action Models

Language-conditioned queries score the native X-VLA image-token grid to reveal which visual regions matter for the current manipulation step.

Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory (ViCoS), University of Ljubljana

Vision-language-action Token attribution Robotic manipulation

Expert perceptual structure recovered from frozen X-VLA representations for action guidance and alignment.

03 · Thesis work · 2026

Expert Distillation for Perceptual Guidance

Recover expert perceptual structure from frozen X-VLA representations, including DINOv2-like tokens and CeDiRNet-aligned maps, to support action generation and representation alignment.

Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory (ViCoS), University of Ljubljana

Representation alignment Expert distillation Perceptual guidance

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