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Understanding and interpreting human actions is a long-standing challenge and a critical indicator of perception in artificial intelligence. However, a few imperative components of daily human activities are largely missed in prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Baoxiong Jia , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang , Yixin Zhu , Song-chun Zhu

The heterogeneity between high-level vision-language understanding and low-level action control remains a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. Although recent methods have advanced task-specific action alignment, they often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Wuding Weng , Tongshu Wu , Liucheng Chen , Siyu Xie , Zheng Wang , Xing Xu , Jingkuan Song , Heng Tao Shen

Programming robot behavior in a complex world faces challenges on multiple levels, from dextrous low-level skills to high-level planning and reasoning. Recent pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning ability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xufeng Zhao , Mengdi Li , Cornelius Weber , Muhammad Burhan Hafez , Stefan Wermter

Given a natural language instruction and an input scene, our goal is to train a model to output a manipulation program that can be executed by the robot. Prior approaches for this task possess one of the following limitations: (i) rely on…

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) systems have demonstrated strong capabilities in embodied manipulation. However, most existing VLA policies rely on limited observation windows and end-to-end action prediction, which makes them brittle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhen Liu , Xinyu Ning , Zhe Hu , Xinxin Xie , Weize Li , Zhipeng Tang , Chongyu Wang , Zejun Yang , Hanlin Wang , Yitong Liu , Zhongzhu Pu

This paper investigates robot manipulation based on human instruction with ambiguous requests. The intent is to compensate for imperfect natural language via visual observations. Early symbolic methods, based on manually defined symbols,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ruinian Xu , Hongyi Chen , Yunzhi Lin , Patricio A. Vela

In this paper, we propose a new approach to building a artificial general intelligence with self awareness, which includes: (1) a new method to implement attention mechanisms; (2) a way to give machines self-demands; (3) how to form a value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yongcong Chen , Ting Zeng , Xingyue Chen

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models mark a transformative advancement in artificial intelligence, aiming to unify perception, natural language understanding, and embodied action within a single computational framework. This foundational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ranjan Sapkota , Yang Cao , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in automating labor-intensive and complex activities, i.e., those consisting of multiple atomic tasks, by deploying robots in dynamic and unpredictable environments such as industrial and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Francesco Argenziano , Elena Umili , Francesco Leotta , Daniele Nardi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in various intelligent tasks but still struggle with complex action reasoning tasks that require systematic search. To address this limitation, we propose a method that bridges the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Adam Ishay , Joohyung Lee

This paper reviews the architecture and implementation methods of agents powered by large language models (LLMs). Motivated by the limitations of traditional LLMs in real-world tasks, the research aims to explore patterns to develop…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Victor de Lamo Castrillo , Habtom Kahsay Gidey , Alexander Lenz , Alois Knoll

This paper introduces the concept of Language-Guided World Models (LWMs) -- probabilistic models that can simulate environments by reading texts. Agents equipped with these models provide humans with more extensive and efficient control,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Alex Zhang , Khanh Nguyen , Jens Tuyls , Albert Lin , Karthik Narasimhan

This paper presents an innovative large language model (LLM)-based robotic system for enhancing multi-modal human-robot interaction (HRI). Traditional HRI systems relied on complex designs for intent estimation, reasoning, and behavior…

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance autonomous robotic manipulation using the Large Language Model (LLM) for logical inference, converting high-level language commands into sequences of executable motion functions. The proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Haokun Liu , Yaonan Zhu , Kenji Kato , Izumi Kondo , Tadayoshi Aoyama , Yasuhisa Hasegawa

This paper explores the integration of two AI subdisciplines employed in the development of artificial agents that exhibit intelligent behavior: Large Language Models (LLMs) and Cognitive Architectures (CAs). We present three integration…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Oscar J. Romero , John Zimmerman , Aaron Steinfeld , Anthony Tomasic

With strong capabilities of reasoning and a broad understanding of the world, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense potential in building versatile embodied decision-making agents capable of executing a wide array of tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Xiaoyu Chen , Shenao Zhang , Pushi Zhang , Li Zhao , Jianyu Chen

In order to flexibly act in an everyday environment, a robotic agent needs a variety of cognitive capabilities that enable it to reason about plans and perform execution recovery. Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to demonstrate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shinas Shaji , Fabian Huppertz , Alex Mitrevski , Sebastian Houben

Large language models (LLMs) as autonomous agents offer a novel avenue for tackling real-world challenges through a knowledge-driven manner. These LLM-enhanced methodologies excel in generalization and interpretability. However, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Kemou Jiang , Xuan Cai , Zhiyong Cui , Aoyong Li , Yilong Ren , Haiyang Yu , Hao Yang , Daocheng Fu , Licheng Wen , Pinlong Cai

Humans possess the innate ability to extract latent visuo-lingual cues to infer context through human interaction. During collaboration, this enables proactive prediction of the underlying intention of a series of tasks. In contrast,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Pranay Mathur

Robotic manipulation benefits from foundation models that describe goals, but today's agents still lack a principled way to learn from their own mistakes. We ask whether natural language can serve as feedback, an error-reasoning signal that…