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Well structured visual representations can make robot learning faster and can improve generalization. In this paper, we study how we can acquire effective object-centric representations for robotic manipulation tasks without human labeling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Eric Jang , Coline Devin , Vincent Vanhoucke , Sergey Levine

In the era of generative AI, integrating video generation models into robotics opens new possibilities for the general-purpose robot agent. This paper introduces imitation learning with latent video planning (VILP). We propose a latent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Zhengtong Xu , Qiang Qiu , Yu She

Visual generative models have achieved remarkable progress in synthesizing photorealistic images and videos, yet aligning their outputs with human preferences across critical dimensions remains a persistent challenge. Though reinforcement…

Generating videos is a complex task that is accomplished by generating a set of temporally coherent images frame-by-frame. This limits the expressivity of videos to only image-based operations on the individual video frames needing network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Bipasha Sen , Aditya Agarwal , Vinay P Namboodiri , C. V. Jawahar

Reinforcement learning based post-training paradigms for Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have achieved significant success by optimizing for visual-semantic tasks such as captioning or VideoQA. However, while these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiaokun Sun , Zezhong Wu , Zewen Ding , Linli Xu

A well-designed reward is critical for effective reinforcement learning-based policy improvement. In real-world robotics, obtaining such rewards typically requires either labor-intensive human labeling or brittle, handcrafted objectives.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tony Lee , Andrew Wagenmaker , Karl Pertsch , Percy Liang , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

End-to-end reinforcement learning on images showed significant progress in the recent years. Data-based approach leverage data augmentation and domain randomization while representation learning methods use auxiliary losses to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Tom Dupuis , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Quoc-Cuong Pham , David Filliat

The diversity, quantity, and quality of manipulation data are critical for training effective robot policies. However, due to hardware and physical setup constraints, collecting large-scale real-world manipulation data remains difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Boyang Wang , Haoran Zhang , Shujie Zhang , Jinkun Hao , Mingda Jia , Qi Lv , Yucheng Mao , Zhaoyang Lyu , Jia Zeng , Xudong Xu , Jiangmiao Pang

Procedural video representation learning is an active research area where the objective is to learn an agent which can anticipate and forecast the future given the present video input, typically in conjunction with textual annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Han Lin , Tushar Nagarajan , Nicolas Ballas , Mido Assran , Mojtaba Komeili , Mohit Bansal , Koustuv Sinha

How should we learn visual representations for embodied agents that must see and move? The status quo is tabula rasa in vivo, i.e. learning visual representations from scratch while also learning to move, potentially augmented with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Karmesh Yadav , Ram Ramrakhya , Arjun Majumdar , Vincent-Pierre Berges , Sachit Kuhar , Dhruv Batra , Alexei Baevski , Oleksandr Maksymets

Future robots are envisioned as versatile systems capable of performing a variety of household tasks. The big question remains, how can we bridge the embodiment gap while minimizing physical robot learning, which fundamentally does not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hanzhi Chen , Boyang Sun , Anran Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Stefan Leutenegger

Anticipating actions and objects before they start or appear is a difficult problem in computer vision with several real-world applications. This task is challenging partly because it requires leveraging extensive knowledge of the world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Carl Vondrick , Hamed Pirsiavash , Antonio Torralba

Visual representation learning hold great promise for robotics, but is severely hampered by the scarcity and homogeneity of robotics datasets. Recent works address this problem by pre-training visual representations on large-scale but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Sudeep Dasari , Mohan Kumar Srirama , Unnat Jain , Abhinav Gupta

When operating in service of people, robots need to optimize rewards aligned with end-user preferences. Since robots will rely on raw perceptual inputs like RGB images, their rewards will inevitably use visual representations. Recently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ran Tian , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Jitendra Malik , Andrea Bajcsy

Collecting and automatically obtaining reward signals from real robotic visual data for the purposes of training reinforcement learning algorithms can be quite challenging and time-consuming. Methods for utilizing unlabeled data can have a…

In complex real-world tasks such as robotic manipulation and autonomous driving, collecting expert demonstrations is often more straightforward than specifying precise learning objectives and task descriptions. Learning from expert data can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Daulet Baimukashev , Gokhan Alcan , Kevin Sebastian Luck , Ville Kyrki

Discovering effective reward functions remains a fundamental challenge in motor control of high-dimensional musculoskeletal systems. While humans can describe movement goals explicitly such as "walking forward with an upright posture," the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Saraswati Soedarmadji , Yunyue Wei , Chen Zhang , Yisong Yue , Yanan Sui

We introduce DIP, a novel unsupervised post-training method designed to enhance dense image representations in large-scale pretrained vision encoders for in-context scene understanding. Unlike prior approaches that rely on complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sophia Sirko-Galouchenko , Spyros Gidaris , Antonin Vobecky , Andrei Bursuc , Nicolas Thome

Because of the rich dynamical structure of videos and their ubiquity in everyday life, it is a natural idea that video data could serve as a powerful unsupervised learning signal for training visual representations in deep neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Chengxu Zhuang , Tianwei She , Alex Andonian , Max Sobol Mark , Daniel Yamins

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms suffer severe performance degradation when the interaction data is scarce, which limits their real-world application. Recently, visual representation learning has been shown to be effective and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Yang Yue , Bingyi Kang , Zhongwen Xu , Gao Huang , Shuicheng Yan