English
Related papers

Related papers: C3DM: Constrained-Context Conditional Diffusion Mo…

200 papers

Fine-tuning pre-trained robot policies with reinforcement learning (RL) often inherits the bottlenecks introduced by pre-training with behavioral cloning (BC), which produces narrow action distributions that lack the coverage necessary for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Matthew M. Hong , Jesse Zhang , Anusha Nagabandi , Abhishek Gupta

We present a visual imitation learning framework that enables learning of robot action policies solely based on expert samples without any robot trials. Robot exploration and on-policy trials in a real-world environment could often be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Alan Wu , AJ Piergiovanni , Michael S. Ryoo

Object-centric learning aims to represent visual data with a set of object entities (a.k.a. slots), providing structured representations that enable systematic generalization. Leveraging advanced architectures like Transformers, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Ziyi Wu , Jingyu Hu , Wuyue Lu , Igor Gilitschenski , Animesh Garg

Recent advances in robotic manipulation have highlighted the effectiveness of learning from demonstration. However, while end-to-end policies excel in expressivity and flexibility, they struggle both in generalizing to novel object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lyuxing He , Eric Cai , Shobhit Aggarwal , Jianjun Wang , David Held

When performing tasks like laundry, humans naturally coordinate both hands to manipulate objects and anticipate how their actions will change the state of the clothes. However, achieving such coordination in robotics remains challenging due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haonan Chen , Jiaming Xu , Lily Sheng , Tianchen Ji , Shuijing Liu , Yunzhu Li , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Learning robust driving policies from large-scale, real-world datasets is a central challenge in autonomous driving, as online data collection is often unsafe and impractical. While Behavioral Cloning (BC) offers a straightforward approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Antonio Guillen-Perez

Recent advances in generative modeling with diffusion processes (DPs) enabled breakthroughs in image synthesis. Despite impressive image quality, these models have various prompt compliance problems, including low recall in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Deepak Sridhar , Abhishek Peri , Rohith Rachala , Nuno Vasconcelos

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables policy optimization from fixed datasets, making it suitable for safety-critical applications where online exploration is infeasible. However, these datasets are often contaminated by adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shriram Karpoora Sundara Pandian , Ali Baheri

Data imputation and data generation have important applications for many domains, like healthcare and finance, where incomplete or missing data can hinder accurate analysis and decision-making. Diffusion models have emerged as powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mario Villaizán-Vallelado , Matteo Salvatori , Carlos Segura , Ioannis Arapakis

Collaborative 3D object detection holds significant importance in the field of autonomous driving, as it greatly enhances the perception capabilities of each individual agent by facilitating information exchange among multiple agents.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zhe Huang , Shuo Wang , Yongcai Wang , Lei Wang

Behavior cloning (BC) has become a staple imitation learning paradigm in robotics due to its ease of teaching robots complex skills directly from expert demonstrations. However, BC suffers from an inherent generalization issue. To solve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Tianyu Li , Sunan Sun , Shubhodeep Shiv Aditya , Nadia Figueroa

Three-dimensional molecular generators based on diffusion models can now reach near-crystallographic accuracy, yet they remain fragmented across tasks. SMILES-only inputs, two-stage pretrain-finetune pipelines, and one-task-one-model…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-11 Dong Xu , Zhangfan Yang , Sisi Yuan , Jenna Xinyi Yao , Jiangqiang Li , Junkai Ji

Diffusion models have attained prominence for their ability to synthesize a probability distribution for a given dataset via a diffusion process, enabling the generation of new data points with high fidelity. However, diffusion processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Shervin Khalafi , Dongsheng Ding , Alejandro Ribeiro

Leveraging pre-trained 2D image representations in behavior cloning policies has achieved great success and has become a standard approach for robotic manipulation. However, such representations fail to capture the 3D spatial information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 I-Chun Arthur Liu , Krzysztof Choromanski , Sandy Huang , Connor Schenck

We introduce Compartmentalized Diffusion Models (CDM), a method to train different diffusion models (or prompts) on distinct data sources and arbitrarily compose them at inference time. The individual models can be trained in isolation, at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Aditya Golatkar , Alessandro Achille , Ashwin Swaminathan , Stefano Soatto

In autonomous driving tasks, trajectory prediction in complex traffic environments requires adherence to real-world context conditions and behavior multimodalities. Existing methods predominantly rely on prior assumptions or generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yiming Xu , Hao Cheng , Monika Sester

In Continual Learning (CL), a model is required to learn a stream of tasks sequentially without significant performance degradation on previously learned tasks. Current approaches fail for a long sequence of tasks from diverse domains and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Iordanis Fostiropoulos , Jiaye Zhu , Laurent Itti

In this paper, we build upon two major recent developments in the field, Diffusion Policies for visuomotor manipulation and large pre-trained multimodal foundational models to obtain a robotic skill learning system. The system can obtain…

Learning robot policies using imitation learning requires collecting large amounts of costly action-labeled expert demonstrations, which fundamentally limits the scale of training data. A promising approach to address this bottleneck is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Liang , Pavel Czempin , Matthew Hong , Yutai Zhou , Erdem Biyik , Stephen Tu

Approximating model predictive control (MPC) using imitation learning (IL) allows for fast control without solving expensive optimization problems online. However, methods that use neural networks in a simple L2-regression setup fail to…