# OmniContact: Chaining Meta-Skills via Contact Flow for Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26201 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.26201/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 24 Jun 2026.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [CHOREO: Every Humanoid Skill as a Trajectory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.22274/) (2026)
- [EgoExplorer: A Vision-Motion-Touch Observatory for Human Loco-Manipulation In Situ](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.18872/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Learning long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation poses a dual challenge: it requires not only the robust execution of meta-skills but also their seamless, closed-loop chaining equipped with autonomous recovery. Existing approaches remain limited: explicit humanoid-object interaction representations offer precision but are notoriously difficult for high-level planning, whereas implicit skill embeddings are compact but lack the interpretability required for reliable composition. We propose ours, a hierarchical framework centered on contact flow (CF), a compact representation consisting of key body trajectories and time-series binary contact signals. Leveraging this shared interface, our low-level policy CF-Track learns a unified library of loco-manipulation skills, while our high-level module CF-Gen heuristically synthesizes future contact-flow sequences. To support this setting, we additionally collect the OmniContact dataset, a MoCap-based HOI corpus for humanoid loco-manipulation (Appendix~refsec:dataset). Together, they enable robust execution, autonomous failure recovery, and flexible composition of meta-skills for long-horizon tasks. Experiments show that OmniContact achieves (98.7%) success on textitCarry Box and (76.5%) on textitPush-Stack Boxes, outperforming prior baselines by average margins of (40.9%) in meta-skill and (66.5%) in skill chaining. Besides, our framework naturally integrates with VLMs for semantic task decomposition, enabling complex, semantically grounded loco-manipulation behaviors, such as arranging scattered boxes into a heart shape.