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Multi-modal AI systems will likely become a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. A promising approach to making these systems more interactive is to embody them as agents within physical and virtual environments. At present, systems…

Although LLMs demonstrate proficiency in several text-based reasoning and planning tasks, their implementation in robotics control is constrained by significant deficiencies: (1) LLM agents are designed to work mainly with textual inputs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shuang Ao , Flora D. Salim , Simon Khan

This study focuses on using large language models (LLMs) as a planner for embodied agents that can follow natural language instructions to complete complex tasks in a visually-perceived environment. The high data cost and poor sample…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Chan Hee Song , Jiaman Wu , Clayton Washington , Brian M. Sadler , Wei-Lun Chao , Yu Su

While large language models (LLMs) excel in a simulated world of texts, they struggle to interact with the more realistic world without perceptions of other modalities such as visual or audio signals. Although vision-language models (VLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yijun Yang , Tianyi Zhou , Kanxue Li , Dapeng Tao , Lusong Li , Li Shen , Xiaodong He , Jing Jiang , Yuhui Shi

Recent advances in large language model (LLM) have empowered autonomous agents to perform multi-turn interactions with tools and environments. However, scaling such agent training is limited by the lack of diverse and reliable environments.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhaoyang Wang , Canwen Xu , Boyi Liu , Yite Wang , Siwei Han , Zhewei Yao , Huaxiu Yao , Yuxiong He

Embodied task planning requires agents to execute long-horizon, goal-directed actions in complex 3D environments, where success depends on both immediate perception and accumulated experience across tasks. However, most existing LLM-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiaoyu Ma , Lianyu Hu , Wenbing Tang , Zixuan Hu , Zeqin Liao , Zhizhen Wu , Yang Liu

Foundation models for agriculture are increasingly trained on massive spatiotemporal data (e.g., multi-spectral remote sensing, soil grids, and field-level management logs) and achieve strong performance on forecasting and monitoring.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zhixing Zhang , Jesen Zhang , Hao Liu , Qinhan Lv , Jing Yang , Kaitong Cai , Keze Wang

State abstraction is an effective technique for planning in robotics environments with continuous states and actions, long task horizons, and sparse feedback. In object-oriented environments, predicates are a particularly useful form of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Amber Li , Tom Silver

Humans, even at a very early age, can learn visual concepts and understand geometry and layout through active interaction with the environment, and generalize their compositions to complete tasks described by natural languages in novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Mingyu Ding , Yan Xu , Zhenfang Chen , David Daniel Cox , Ping Luo , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Agentic reinforcement learning increasingly relies on experience-driven scaling, yet real-world environments remain non-adaptive, limited in coverage, and difficult to scale. World models offer a potential way to improve learning efficiency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yixia Li , Hongru Wang , Jiahao Qiu , Zhenfei Yin , Dongdong Zhang , Cheng Qian , Zeping Li , Pony Ma , Guanhua Chen , Heng Ji

Embodied artificial intelligence emphasizes the role of an agent's body in generating human-like behaviors. The recent efforts on EmbodiedAI pay a lot of attention to building up machine learning models to possess perceiving, planning, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Chen Gao , Baining Zhao , Weichen Zhang , Jinzhu Mao , Jun Zhang , Zhiheng Zheng , Fanhang Man , Jianjie Fang , Zile Zhou , Jinqiang Cui , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

Recent research on instructable agents has used memory-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) as task planners, a technique that retrieves language-program examples relevant to the input instruction and uses them as in-context examples in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Gabriel Sarch , Sahil Somani , Raghav Kapoor , Michael J. Tarr , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable general capabilities, yet embodied agents built on them fail at complex tasks, often skipping critical steps, proposing invalid actions, and repeating mistakes. These failures arise from a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bingqing Wei , Zhongyu Xia , Dingai Liu , Xiaoyu Zhou , Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang

Can world knowledge learned by large language models (LLMs) be used to act in interactive environments? In this paper, we investigate the possibility of grounding high-level tasks, expressed in natural language (e.g. "make breakfast"), to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Wenlong Huang , Pieter Abbeel , Deepak Pathak , Igor Mordatch

Embodied agents in household environments must plan under partial observation: they need to remember objects, track state changes, and recover when actions fail. Existing benchmarks only partially test this ability. Egocentric video…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Qinchuan Cheng , Zhantao Gong , Pengzhan Sun , Angela Yao , Xulei Yang , Shijie Li

Embodied AI Agents are quickly becoming important and common tools in society. These embodied agents should be able to learn about and accomplish a wide range of user goals and preferences efficiently and robustly. Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Rachel Ma , Jingyi Qu , Andreea Bobu , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Recently there has been a rising interest in training agents, embodied in virtual environments, to perform language-directed tasks by deep reinforcement learning. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective neural language grounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Haonan Yu , Xiaochen Lian , Haichao Zhang , Wei Xu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional general reasoning capabilities. However, their performance in embodied navigation remains hindered by a scarcity of aligned open-world vision and robot control data. Despite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhixuan Shen , Jiawei Du , Ziyu Guo , Han Luo , Lilan Peng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Haonan Luo , Tianrui Li

Autonomous intelligent agents must bridge computational challenges at disparate levels of abstraction, from the low-level spaces of sensory input and motor commands to the high-level domain of abstract reasoning and planning. A key question…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ruben van Bergen , Justus Hübotter , Alma Lago , Pablo Lanillos

Learning a perception and reasoning module for robotic assistants to plan steps to perform complex tasks based on natural language instructions often requires large free-form language annotations, especially for short high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Taewoong Kim , Byeonghwi Kim , Jonghyun Choi