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    "headline": "The Same View Needed the Opposite Motion",
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    "dek": "EndoLIFT uses an explicit language instruction to distinguish advance from withdrawal when an endoscope camera image alone is ambiguous.",
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    "body_text": "Routine endoscopy changes direction: an instrument advances toward anatomy, withdraws for inspection and may reverse early when an operator requests it. The EndoLIFT preprint calls the resulting same-view, opposite-action problem intent aliasing. Its policy conditions continuous action chunks on RGB video, prior action state, language and a learned trajectory latent. Controlled instruction swaps showed that language selected the axial direction, while the latent improved directional correctness and retraction; the system retained 82.8 percent intent-following accuracy across 44 held-out phrasings and completed ten of ten ex-vivo porcine-trachea trials. Those phantom and ex-vivo results are not human clinical validation, but they isolate why an action policy sometimes needs the operator's stated intent, not another look at the same frame.",
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      "title": "arXiv preprint 2608.20478",
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