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Recent vision-language-action models (VLAs) build upon pretrained vision-language models and leverage diverse robot datasets to demonstrate strong task execution, language following ability, and semantic generalization. Despite these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Moo Jin Kim , Chelsea Finn , Percy Liang

For effective human-robot interaction, robots need to understand, plan, and execute complex, long-horizon tasks described by natural language. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for translating natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yongchao Chen , Jacob Arkin , Charles Dawson , Yang Zhang , Nicholas Roy , Chuchu Fan

When a person is not satisfied with how a robot performs a task, they can intervene to correct it. Reward learning methods enable the robot to adapt its reward function online based on such human input, but they rely on handcrafted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Andreea Bobu , Marius Wiggert , Claire Tomlin , Anca D. Dragan

In order for robots to interact with objects effectively, they must understand the form and function of each object they encounter. Essentially, robots need to understand which actions each object affords, and where those affordances can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Edmond Tong , Anthony Opipari , Stanley Lewis , Zhen Zeng , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

The fusion of human-centric design and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has opened up new possibilities for next-generation autonomous vehicles that go beyond transportation. These vehicles can dynamically interact with passengers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Can Cui , Yunsheng Ma , Xu Cao , Wenqian Ye , Ziran Wang

Multi-robot coordination based on large language models (LLMs) has attracted growing attention, since LLMs enable the direct translation of natural language instructions into robot action plans by decomposing tasks and generating high-level…

Developing effective instruction-following policies in reinforcement learning remains challenging due to the reliance on extensive human-labeled instruction datasets and the difficulty of learning from sparse rewards. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhicheng Zhang , Ziyan Wang , Yali Du , Fei Fang

Training generalist robot agents is an immensely difficult feat due to the requirement to perform a huge range of tasks in many different environments. We propose selectively training robots based on end-user preferences instead. Given a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Carl Winge , Adam Imdieke , Bahaa Aldeeb , Dongyeop Kang , Karthik Desingh

The availability of large language models and open-vocabulary object perception methods enables more flexibility for domestic service robots. The large variability of domestic tasks can be addressed without implementing each task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yihao Wang , Raphael Memmesheimer , Sven Behnke

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into robotic task planning has unlocked better reasoning capabilities for complex, long-horizon workflows. However, ensuring safety in LLM-driven plans remains a critical challenge, as these…

Enabling robotic agents to perform complex long-horizon tasks has been a long-standing goal in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Despite the potential shown by large language models (LLMs), their planning capabilities remain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Guanqi Chen , Lei Yang , Ruixing Jia , Zhe Hu , Yizhou Chen , Wei Zhang , Wenping Wang , Jia Pan

We propose a novel approach to multi-robot collaboration that harnesses the power of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for both high-level communication and low-level path planning. Robots are equipped with LLMs to discuss and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zhao Mandi , Shreeya Jain , Shuran Song

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is widely used to train large language models (LLMs). However, it is unclear whether LLMs accurately learn the underlying preferences in human feedback data. We coin the term \textit{Learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Luke Marks , Amir Abdullah , Clement Neo , Rauno Arike , David Krueger , Philip Torr , Fazl Barez

Recent advancements in Recommender Systems (RS) have incorporated Reinforcement Learning (RL), framing the recommendation as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). However, offline RL policies trained on static user data are vulnerable to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jie Wang , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M. Jose

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

The impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to various efforts to enable robots to be controlled through natural language instructions, opening exciting possibilities for human-robot interaction The goal is for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Seif Ismail , Antonio Arbues , Ryan Cotterell , René Zurbrügg , Carmen Amo Alonso

Human intention-based systems enable robots to perceive and interpret user actions to interact with humans and adapt to their behavior proactively. Therefore, intention prediction is pivotal in creating a natural interaction with social…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Hassan Ali , Philipp Allgeuer , Stefan Wermter

In dynamic open-world environments, autonomous agents often encounter novelties that hinder their ability to find plans to achieve their goals. Specifically, traditional symbolic planners fail to generate plans when the robot's planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hong Lu , Pierrick Lorang , Timothy R. Duggan , Jivko Sinapov , Matthias Scheutz

Existing large language models (LLMs) face challenges of following complex instructions, especially when multiple constraints are present and organized in paralleling, chaining, and branching structures. One intuitive solution, namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yulei Qin , Gang Li , Zongyi Li , Zihan Xu , Yuchen Shi , Zhekai Lin , Xiao Cui , Ke Li , Xing Sun

In recent years, instruction-tuned Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have been successful at several tasks, including image captioning and visual question answering; yet leveraging these models remains an open question for robotics. Prior LMMs…