arxivcs.CVcs.MMcs.RO2026-07-01
Wake up for Touch! Mask-isolated Tactile Alignment Learning in MLLMs
Yoonhyung Park, Minji Kim, Sungwon Moon, Jiyoung Lee
Touch supplies the physical grounding needed to perceive intrinsic material properties, such as friction and compliance, that vision alone often cannot resolve. Recent efforts for equipping multimodal LLMs with this tactile sense, however, expose a zero-sum trade-off: the limited…