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While great strides have been made in using deep learning algorithms to solve supervised learning tasks, the problem of unsupervised learning - leveraging unlabeled examples to learn about the structure of a domain - remains a difficult…

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The emergence of vision catalysed a pivotal evolutionary advancement, enabling organisms not only to perceive but also to interact intelligently with their environment. This transformation is mirrored by the evolution of robotic systems,…

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We propose to learn tasks directly from visual demonstrations by learning to predict the outcome of human and robot actions on an environment. We enable a robot to physically perform a human demonstrated task without knowledge of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Adam Tow , Niko Sünderhauf , Sareh Shirazi , Michael Milford , Jürgen Leitner

Intuitive physics understanding in video diffusion models plays an essential role in building general-purpose physically plausible world simulators, yet accurately evaluating such capacity remains a challenging task due to the difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jianhao Yuan , Fabio Pizzati , Francesco Pinto , Lars Kunze , Ivan Laptev , Paul Newman , Philip Torr , Daniele De Martini

A key challenge in scaling up robot learning to many skills and environments is removing the need for human supervision, so that robots can collect their own data and improve their own performance without being limited by the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

From just a glance, humans can make rich predictions about the future state of a wide range of physical systems. On the other hand, modern approaches from engineering, robotics, and graphics are often restricted to narrow domains and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Nicholas Watters , Andrea Tacchetti , Theophane Weber , Razvan Pascanu , Peter Battaglia , Daniel Zoran

Imitation learning has gained immense popularity because of its high sample-efficiency. However, in real-world scenarios, where the trajectory distribution of most of the tasks dynamically shifts, model fitting on continuously aggregated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Kiran Lekkala , Sami Abu-El-Haija , Laurent Itti

Object-centric representations are a promising path toward more systematic generalization by providing flexible abstractions upon which compositional world models can be built. Recent work on simple 2D and 3D datasets has shown that models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Thomas Kipf , Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Aravindh Mahendran , Austin Stone , Sara Sabour , Georg Heigold , Rico Jonschkowski , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Klaus Greff

Machine learning methods can be a valuable aid in the scientific process, but they need to face challenging settings where data come from inhomogeneous experimental conditions. Recent meta-learning methods have made significant progress in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Matthieu Blanke , Marc Lelarge

In order to reach human performance on complexvisual tasks, artificial systems need to incorporate a sig-nificant amount of understanding of the world in termsof macroscopic objects, movements, forces, etc. Inspiredby work on intuitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ronan Riochet , Mario Ynocente Castro , Mathieu Bernard , Adam Lerer , Rob Fergus , Véronique Izard , Emmanuel Dupoux

The sound of crashing waves, the roar of fast-moving cars -- sound conveys important information about the objects in our surroundings. In this work, we show that ambient sounds can be used as a supervisory signal for learning visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Andrew Owens , Jiajun Wu , Josh H. McDermott , William T. Freeman , Antonio Torralba

In this work we aim to mimic the human ability to acquire the intuition to estimate the performance of a design from visual inspection and experience alone. We study the ability of convolutional neural networks to predict static and dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Philippe M. Wyder , Hod Lipson

Inferring the physical properties of 3D scenes from visual information is a critical yet challenging task for creating interactive and realistic virtual worlds. While humans intuitively grasp material characteristics such as elasticity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Long Le , Ryan Lucas , Chen Wang , Chuhao Chen , Dinesh Jayaraman , Eric Eaton , Lingjie Liu

Predictive models have been at the core of many robotic systems, from quadrotors to walking robots. However, it has been challenging to develop and apply such models to practical robotic manipulation due to high-dimensional sensory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Lucas Manuelli , Yunzhu Li , Pete Florence , Russ Tedrake

We introduce a framework that predicts the goals behind observable human action in video. Motivated by evidence in developmental psychology, we leverage video of unintentional action to learn video representations of goals without direct…

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Machine Learning and Inference methods have become ubiquitous in our attempt to induce more abstract representations of natural language text, visual scenes, and other messy, naturally occurring data, and support decisions that depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Dan Roth

The ability to detect and track objects in the visual world is a crucial skill for any intelligent agent, as it is a necessary precursor to any object-level reasoning process. Moreover, it is important that agents learn to track objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Eric Crawford , Joelle Pineau

Nonlinear models and optimization methods have successfully tackled a rapidly growing set of problems in recent years. Indeed, a relatively small toolbox of such models and methods can provide sufficient performance across a large landscape…

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Learning sensorimotor control policies from high-dimensional images crucially relies on the quality of the underlying visual representations. Prior works show that structured latent space such as visual keypoints often outperforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Boyuan Chen , Pieter Abbeel , Deepak Pathak

Unsupervised object-centric learning aims to represent the modular, compositional, and causal structure of a scene as a set of object representations and thereby promises to resolve many critical limitations of traditional single-vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Gautam Singh , Yi-Fu Wu , Sungjin Ahn