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Machine learning techniques have enabled robots to learn narrow, yet complex tasks and also perform broad, yet simple skills with a wide variety of objects. However, learning a model that can both perform complex tasks and generalize to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Annie Xie , Frederik Ebert , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Distilling knowledge from human demonstrations is a promising way for robots to learn and act. Existing methods, which often rely on coarsely-aligned video pairs, are typically constrained to learning global or task-level features. As a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sicheng Xie , Haidong Cao , Zejia Weng , Zhen Xing , Haoran Chen , Shiwei Shen , Jiaqi Leng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Diffusion models have emerged as the best approach for generative modeling of 2D images. Part of their success is due to the possibility of training them on millions if not billions of images with a stable learning objective. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Animesh Karnewar , Andrea Vedaldi , David Novotny , Niloy Mitra

After many researchers observed fruitfulness from the recent diffusion probabilistic model, its effectiveness in image generation is actively studied these days. In this paper, our objective is to evaluate the potential of diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Hyemin Ahn , Esteve Valls Mascaro , Dongheui Lee

Imitation learning is an effective tool for robotic learning tasks where specifying a reinforcement learning (RL) reward is not feasible or where the exploration problem is particularly difficult. Imitation, typically behavior cloning or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yuxiang Zhou , Yusuf Aytar , Konstantinos Bousmalis

Humans demonstrate an impressive ability to acquire and generalize manipulation "tricks." Even from a single demonstration, such as using soup ladles to reach for distant objects, we can apply this skill to new scenarios involving different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Imitation Learning presents a promising approach for learning generalizable and complex robotic skills. The recently proposed Diffusion Policy generates robot action sequences through a conditional denoising diffusion process, achieving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiu Yuan

We present a method for generating a full 360{\deg} orbit video around a person from a single input image. Existing methods typically adapt image-based diffusion models for multi-view synthesis, but yield inconsistent results across views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Keito Suzuki , Kunyao Chen , Lei Wang , Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Peng Liu , Ning Bi , Truong Nguyen

A crucial ability of human intelligence is to build up models of individual 3D objects from partial scene observations. Recent works achieve object-centric generation but without the ability to infer the representation, or achieve 3D scene…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Chang Chen , Fei Deng , Sungjin Ahn

Imitation learning is a popular approach for training visual navigation policies. However, collecting expert demonstrations for legged robots is challenging as these robots can be hard to control, move slowly, and cannot operate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Xinlei Pan , Tingnan Zhang , Brian Ichter , Aleksandra Faust , Jie Tan , Sehoon Ha

We introduce DreamControl, a novel methodology for learning autonomous whole-body humanoid skills. DreamControl leverages the strengths of diffusion models and Reinforcement Learning (RL): our core innovation is the use of a diffusion prior…

Robotic manipulation tasks often rely on static cameras for perception, which can limit flexibility, particularly in scenarios like robotic surgery and cluttered environments where mounting static cameras is impractical. Ideally, robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiatao Sun , Francis Fan , Yinxing Chen , Daniel Rakita

Much work in robotics has focused on "human-in-the-loop" learning techniques that improve the efficiency of the learning process. However, these algorithms have made the strong assumption of a cooperating human supervisor that assists the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Jiali Duan , Qian Wang , Lerrel Pinto , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Imitation learning allows agents to learn complex behaviors from demonstrations. However, learning a complex vision-based task may require an impractical number of demonstrations. Meta-imitation learning is a promising approach towards…

The representation of the personal context is complex and essential to improve the help machines can give to humans for making sense of the world, and the help humans can give to machines to improve their efficiency. We aim to design a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Fausto Giunchiglia , Marcelo Rodas Britez , Andrea Bontempelli , Xiaoyue Li

Humans can easily understand a single image as depicting multiple potential objects permitting interaction. We use this skill to plan our interactions with the world and accelerate understanding new objects without engaging in interaction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Shengyi Qian , David F. Fouhey

General-purpose object placement is a fundamental capability of an intelligent generalist robot: being capable of rearranging objects following precise human instructions even in novel environments. This work is dedicated to achieving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jianyang Wu , Jie Gu , Xiaokang Ma , Fangzhou Qiu , Chu Tang , Jingmin Chen

Humans naturally obtain intuition about the interactions between and the stability of rigid objects by observing and interacting with the world. It is this intuition that governs the way in which we regularly configure objects in our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Luzhe Sun , Takuma Yoneda , Samuel W. Wheeler , Tianchong Jiang , Matthew R. Walter

Generating high-quality whole-body human object interaction motion sequences is becoming increasingly important in various fields such as animation, VR/AR, and robotics. The main challenge of this task lies in determining the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yonghao Zhang , Qiang He , Yanguang Wan , Yinda Zhang , Xiaoming Deng , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang

We present InstructDiffusion, a unifying and generic framework for aligning computer vision tasks with human instructions. Unlike existing approaches that integrate prior knowledge and pre-define the output space (e.g., categories and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Zigang Geng , Binxin Yang , Tiankai Hang , Chen Li , Shuyang Gu , Ting Zhang , Jianmin Bao , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu , Dong Chen , Baining Guo