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Learning an accurate model of the environment is essential for model-based control tasks. Existing methods in robotic visuomotor control usually learn from data with heavily labelled actions, object entities or locations, which can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Haoqi Yuan , Ruihai Wu , Andrew Zhao , Haipeng Zhang , Zihan Ding , Hao Dong

Object-centric learning aims to break down complex visual scenes into more manageable object representations, enhancing the understanding and reasoning abilities of machine learning systems toward the physical world. Recently, slot-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jian Li , Pu Ren , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

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

The visual world can be parsimoniously characterized in terms of distinct entities with sparse interactions. Discovering this compositional structure in dynamic visual scenes has proven challenging for end-to-end computer vision approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Aravindh Mahendran , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Klaus Greff , Michael C. Mozer , Thomas Kipf

Predictive world models enable agents to model scene dynamics and reason about the consequences of their actions. Inspired by human perception, object-centric world models capture scene dynamics using object-level representations, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jonathan Spieler , Angel Villar-Corrales , Sven Behnke

Learned dynamics models combined with both planning and policy learning algorithms have shown promise in enabling artificial agents to learn to perform many diverse tasks with limited supervision. However, one of the fundamental challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Suraj Nair , Silvio Savarese , Chelsea Finn

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

Unsupervised object-centric learning from videos is a promising approach towards learning compositional representations that can be applied to various downstream tasks, such as prediction and reasoning. Recently, it was shown that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Cristian Meo , Akihiro Nakano , Mircea Lică , Aniket Didolkar , Masahiro Suzuki , Anirudh Goyal , Mengmi Zhang , Justin Dauwels , Yutaka Matsuo , Yoshua Bengio

3D world models (i.e., learning-based 3D dynamics models) offer a promising approach to generalizable robotic manipulation by capturing the underlying physics of environment evolution conditioned on robot actions. However, existing 3D world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Suning Huang , Qianzhong Chen , Xiaohan Zhang , Jiankai Sun , Mac Schwager

Learning a latent dynamics model provides a task-agnostic representation of an agent's understanding of its environment. Leveraging this knowledge for model-based reinforcement learning (RL) holds the potential to improve sample efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Malte Mosbach , Jan Niklas Ewertz , Angel Villar-Corrales , Sven Behnke

A core challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to predict how its actions affect objects in its environment. Many existing methods for learning the dynamics of physical interactions require labeled object information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Chelsea Finn , Ian Goodfellow , Sergey Levine

Agents with the ability to comprehend and reason about the dynamics of objects would be expected to exhibit improved robustness and generalization in novel scenarios. However, achieving this capability necessitates not only an effective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Trang Nguyen , Amin Mansouri , Kanika Madan , Khuong Nguyen , Kartik Ahuja , Dianbo Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Understanding temporal dynamics of video is an essential aspect of learning better video representations. Recently, transformer-based architectural designs have been extensively explored for video tasks due to their capability to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sukmin Yun , Jaehyung Kim , Dongyoon Han , Hwanjun Song , Jung-Woo Ha , Jinwoo Shin

Unsupervised multi-object segmentation has shown impressive results on images by utilizing powerful semantics learned from self-supervised pretraining. An additional modality such as depth or motion is often used to facilitate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Görkay Aydemir , Weidi Xie , Fatma Güney

A key challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to reason about physical properties of objects and to foresee their dynamics under the effect of applied forces. In order to scale learning through interaction to many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Iman Nematollahi , Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Wolfram Burgard

Humans naturally decompose their environment into entities at the appropriate level of abstraction to act in the world. Allowing machine learning algorithms to derive this decomposition in an unsupervised way has become an important line of…

This paper addresses key challenges in object-centric representation learning of video. While existing approaches struggle with complex scenes, we propose a novel weakly-supervised framework that emphasises geometric understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Phúc H. Le Khac , Graham Healy , Alan F. Smeaton

World modelling, i.e. building a representation of the rules that govern the world so as to predict its evolution, is an essential ability for any agent interacting with the physical world. Recent applications of the Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Francesco Petri , Luigi Asprino , Aldo Gangemi

When humans observe a physical system, they can easily locate objects, understand their interactions, and anticipate future behavior, even in settings with complicated and previously unseen interactions. For computers, however, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jannik Kossen , Karl Stelzner , Marcel Hussing , Claas Voelcker , Kristian Kersting

In this paper, a self-supervised model that simultaneously predicts a sequence of future frames from video-input with a novel spatial-temporal attention (ST) network is proposed. The ST transformer network allows constraining both temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Houssem Boulahbal , Adrian Voicila , Andrew Comport