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Due to the strong context-awareness capabilities demonstrated by large language models (LLMs), recent research has begun exploring their integration into smart home assistants to help users manage and adjust their living environments. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Qingsong Zou , Zhi Yan , Zhiyao Xu , Kuofeng Gao , Jingyu Xiao , Yong Jiang

Humans, in comparison to robots, are remarkably adept at reaching for objects in cluttered environments. The best existing robot planners are based on random sampling of configuration space -- which becomes excessively high-dimensional with…

We use the reconfiguration framework to analyze problems that involve the rearrangement of items among groups. In various applications, a group of items could correspond to the files or jobs assigned to a particular machine, and the goal of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jeffrey Kam , Shahin Kamali , Avery Miller , Naomi Nishimura

Object rearrangement is important for many applications but remains challenging, especially in confined spaces, such as shelves, where objects cannot be accessed from above and they block reachability to each other. Such constraints require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Rui Wang , Kai Gao , Jingjin Yu , Kostas Bekris

We focus on the task of unknown object rearrangement, where a robot is supposed to re-configure the objects into a desired goal configuration specified by an RGB-D image. Recent works explore unknown object rearrangement systems by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kechun Xu , Zhongxiang Zhou , Jun Wu , Haojian Lu , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

In this paper, we introduce Watch-And-Help (WAH), a challenge for testing social intelligence in agents. In WAH, an AI agent needs to help a human-like agent perform a complex household task efficiently. To succeed, the AI agent needs to i)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Xavier Puig , Tianmin Shu , Shuang Li , Zilin Wang , Yuan-Hong Liao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Sanja Fidler , Antonio Torralba

Object search is a fundamental skill for household robots, yet the core problem lies in the robot's ability to locate the target object accurately. The dynamic nature of household environments, characterized by the arbitrary placement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Wenqi Ge , Chao Tang , Hong Zhang

This study introduces a novel conceptual framework distinguishing problem-seeking from problem-solving to clarify the unique features of human intelligence in contrast to AI. Problem-seeking refers to the embodied, emotionally grounded…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Naomi Omeonga wa Kayembe

We consider the problem of making AI agents that collaborate well with humans in partially observable fully cooperative environments given datasets of human behavior. Inspired by piKL, a human-data-regularized search method that improves…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Hengyuan Hu , David J Wu , Adam Lerer , Jakob Foerster , Noam Brown

We introduce Blueprint-Bench, a benchmark designed to evaluate spatial reasoning capabilities in AI models through the task of converting apartment photographs into accurate 2D floor plans. While the input modality (photographs) is well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Lukas Petersson , Axel Backlund , Axel Wennstöm , Hanna Petersson , Callum Sharrock , Arash Dabiri

Recent efforts in natural language processing (NLP) commonsense reasoning research have yielded a considerable number of new datasets and benchmarks. However, most of these datasets formulate commonsense reasoning challenges in artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Mete Ismayilzada , Debjit Paul , Syrielle Montariol , Mor Geva , Antoine Bosselut

General robotic grasping systems require accurate object affordance perception in diverse open-world scenarios following human instructions. However, current studies suffer from the problem of lacking reasoning-based large-scale affordance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dongming Wu , Yanping Fu , Saike Huang , Yingfei Liu , Fan Jia , Nian Liu , Feng Dai , Tiancai Wang , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Jianbing Shen

Multiple benchmarks have been developed to assess the alignment between deep neural networks (DNNs) and human vision. In almost all cases these benchmarks are observational in the sense they are composed of behavioural and brain responses…

Commonsense reasoning, the ability to make logical assumptions about daily scenes, is one core intelligence of human beings. In this work, we present a novel task and dataset for evaluating the ability of text-to-image generative models to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Mianzhi Pan , Jianfei Li , Mingyue Yu , Zheng Ma , Kanzhi Cheng , Jianbing Zhang , Jiajun Chen

Causal discovery through experimentation and intervention is fundamental to robust problem solving. It requires not just updating beliefs within a fixed framework but revising the hypothesis space itself, a capacity current AI agents lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 John Alderete , Sebastian Benthal , Connie Xu , John Xing

We present an end-to-end, model-based deep reinforcement learning agent which dynamically attends to relevant parts of its state during planning. The agent uses a bottleneck mechanism over a set-based representation to force the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Mingde Zhao , Zhen Liu , Sitao Luan , Shuyuan Zhang , Doina Precup , Yoshua Bengio

A key feature differentiating artificial general intelligence (AGI) from traditional AI is that AGI can perform composite tasks that require a wide range of capabilities. Although embodied agents powered by multimodal large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zhenliang Zhang , Yuxi Wang , Hongzhao Xie , Shiyun Zhao , Mingyuan Liu , Yujie Lu , Xinyi He , Zhenku Cheng , Yujia Peng

Effectively rearranging heterogeneous objects constitutes a high-utility skill that an intelligent robot should master. Whereas significant work has been devoted to the grasp synthesis of heterogeneous objects, little attention has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Kai Gao , Justin Yu , Tanay Sandeep Punjabi , Jingjin Yu

Commonsense knowledge is essential for advancing natural language processing (NLP) by enabling models to engage in human-like reasoning, which requires a deeper understanding of context and often involves making inferences based on implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yubo Xie , Zonghui Liu , Zongyang Ma , Fanyuan Meng , Yan Xiao , Fahui Miao , Pearl Pu

Advancements in foundation models have catalyzed research in Embodied AI to develop interactive agents capable of environmental reasoning and interaction. Developing such agents requires diverse, large-scale datasets. Prior frameworks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Siddharth Singh , Ifrah Idrees , Abraham Dauhajre