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Deep imitation learning is promising for robot manipulation because it only requires demonstration samples. In this study, deep imitation learning is applied to tasks that require force feedback. However, existing demonstration methods have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Heecheol Kim , Yoshiyuki Ohmura , Akihiko Nagakubo , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

In mobile manipulation, the manipulation policy has strong preferences for initial poses where it is executed. However, the navigation module focuses solely on reaching the task area, without considering which initial pose is preferable for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Kaixin Chai , Hyunjun Lee , Joseph J. Lim

Specifying robotic manipulation tasks in a manner that is both expressive and precise remains a central challenge. While visual goals provide a compact and unambiguous task specification, existing goal-conditioned policies often struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Pengfei Zhou , Liliang Chen , Shengcong Chen , Di Chen , Wenzhi Zhao , Rongjun Jin , Guanghui Ren , Jianlan Luo

Multi-task learning has recently emerged as a promising solution for a comprehensive understanding of complex scenes. In addition to being memory-efficient, multi-task models, when appropriately designed, can facilitate the exchange of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ivan Lopes , Tuan-Hung Vu , Raoul de Charette

Communication is essential in coordinating the behaviors of multiple agents. However, existing methods primarily emphasize content, timing, and partners for information sharing, often neglecting the critical aspect of integrating shared…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Chuxiong Sun , Peng He , Qirui Ji , Zehua Zang , Jiangmeng Li , Rui Wang , Wei Wang

In reinforcement learning (RL) for robotic manipulation, the Decision Transformer (DT) has emerged as an effective framework for addressing long-horizon tasks. However, DT's performance depends heavily on the coverage of collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kaiyan Zhao , Borong Zhang , Yiming Wang , Xingyu Liu , Xuetao Li , Yuyang Chen , Xiaoguang Niu

Recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have achieved exceptional visual quality in image editing tasks. However, the global denoising dynamics of DMs inherently conflate local editing targets with the full-image context, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Wei Chow , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Zefeng Li , Qi Xu , Hang Song , Tian Ye , Xian Wang , Jinbin Bai , Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Junting Pan , Shaoteng Liu , Ran Zhou , Tianshu Yang , Songhua Liu

Massively Multilingual Transformer based Language Models have been observed to be surprisingly effective on zero-shot transfer across languages, though the performance varies from language to language depending on the pivot language(s) used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Kabir Ahuja , Shanu Kumar , Sandipan Dandapat , Monojit Choudhury

Industrial robotic manipulation demands reliable long-horizon execution across embodiments, tasks, and changing object distributions. While Vision-Language-Action models have demonstrated strong generalization, they remain fundamentally…

Transformer has been widely used for self-supervised pre-training in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and achieved great success. However, it has not been fully explored in visual self-supervised learning. Meanwhile, previous methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhaowen Li , Zhiyang Chen , Fan Yang , Wei Li , Yousong Zhu , Chaoyang Zhao , Rui Deng , Liwei Wu , Rui Zhao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Recent advances in robotics have been largely driven by imitation learning, which depends critically on large-scale, high-quality demonstration data. However, collecting such data remains a significant challenge-particularly for mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yilin Mei , Peng Qiu , Wei Zhang , WenChao Zhang , Wenjie Song

Real-world manipulation problems in heavy clutter require robots to reason about potential contacts with objects in the environment. We focus on pick-and-place style tasks to retrieve a target object from a shelf where some `movable'…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Dhruv Mauria Saxena , Maxim Likhachev

Large-scale multi-task robotic manipulation systems often rely on text to specify the task. In this work, we explore whether a robot can learn by observing humans. To do so, the robot must understand a person's intent and perform the…

Relational object rearrangement (ROR) tasks (e.g., insert flower to vase) require a robot to manipulate objects with precise semantic and geometric reasoning. Existing approaches either rely on pre-collected demonstrations that struggle to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Liang Heng , Jiadong Xu , Yiwen Wang , Xiaoqi Li , Muhe Cai , Yan Shen , Juan Zhu , Guanghui Ren , Hao Dong

In the research field of few-shot learning, the main difference between image-based and video-based is the additional temporal dimension. In recent years, some works have used the Transformer to deal with frames, then get the attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Fei Guo , Li Zhu , YiWang Wang , Jing Sun

Moving objects have special importance for Autonomous Driving tasks. Detecting moving objects can be posed as Moving Object Segmentation, by segmenting the object pixels, or Moving Object Detection, by generating a bounding box for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Eslam Mohamed , Ahmed El-Sallab

Sora has unveiled the immense potential of the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture in single-scene video generation. However, the more challenging task of multi-scene video generation, which offers broader applications, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Tianhao Qi , Jianlong Yuan , Wanquan Feng , Shancheng Fang , Jiawei Liu , SiYu Zhou , Qian He , Hongtao Xie , Yongdong Zhang

Large language models have shown their remarkable capabilities as a general interface for various language-related applications. Motivated by this, we target to build a unified interface for completing many vision-language tasks including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Jun Chen , Deyao Zhu , Xiaoqian Shen , Xiang Li , Zechun Liu , Pengchuan Zhang , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra , Yunyang Xiong , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Humans throw and catch objects all the time. However, such a seemingly common skill introduces a lot of challenges for robots to achieve: The robots need to operate such dynamic actions at high-speed, collaborate precisely, and interact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Binghao Huang , Yuanpei Chen , Tianyu Wang , Yuzhe Qin , Yaodong Yang , Nikolay Atanasov , Xiaolong Wang

Most recent successes in robot reinforcement learning involve learning a specialized single-task agent. However, robots capable of performing multiple tasks can be much more valuable in real-world applications. Multi-task reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Elie Aljalbout , Nikolaos Sotirakis , Patrick van der Smagt , Maximilian Karl , Nutan Chen