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Diffusion policies have demonstrated strong performance in generative modeling, making them promising for robotic manipulation guided by natural language instructions. However, generalizing language-conditioned diffusion policies to…

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Learning a generalizable bimanual manipulation policy is extremely challenging for embodied agents due to the large action space and the need for coordinated arm movements. Existing approaches rely on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models to…

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In the field of Robot Learning, the complex mapping between high-dimensional observations such as RGB images and low-level robotic actions, two inherently very different spaces, constitutes a complex learning problem, especially with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Vitalis Vosylius , Younggyo Seo , Jafar Uruç , Stephen James

Multitask learning poses significant challenges due to the highly multimodal and diverse nature of robot action distributions. However, effectively fitting policies to these complex task distributions is often difficult, and existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chaoqi Liu , Haonan Chen , Sigmund H. Høeg , Shaoxiong Yao , Yunzhu Li , Kris Hauser , Yilun Du

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in image generation tasks, including image editing and video creation, representing a good understanding of the physical world. On the other line, diffusion models have also shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Yanjiang Guo , Yucheng Hu , Jianke Zhang , Yen-Jen Wang , Xiaoyu Chen , Chaochao Lu , Jianyu Chen

Diffusion-based human animation aims to animate a human character based on a source human image as well as driving signals such as a sequence of poses. Leveraging the generative capacity of diffusion model, existing approaches are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fa-Ting Hong , Zhan Xu , Haiyang Liu , Qinjie Lin , Luchuan Song , Zhixin Shu , Yang Zhou , Duygu Ceylan , Dan Xu

Multi-agent robotic manipulation remains challenging due to the combined demands of coordination, grasp stability, and collision avoidance in shared workspaces. To address these challenges, we propose the Adaptive Dynamic Modality Diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Enyi Wang , Wen Fan , Dandan Zhang

Contact-rich manipulation is central to many everyday human activities, requiring continuous adaptation to contact uncertainty and external disturbances through multi-modal perception, particularly vision and tactile feedback. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Teng Xue , Alberto Rigo , Bingjian Huang , Jiayi Shen , Zhengtong Xu , Nick Colonnese , Amirhossein H. Memar

Adjusting camera exposure in arbitrary lighting conditions is the first step to ensure the functionality of computer vision applications. Poorly adjusted camera exposure often leads to critical failure and performance degradation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Kyunghyun Lee , Ukcheol Shin , Byeong-Uk Lee

Interactive decision-making is essential in applications such as autonomous driving, where the agent must infer the behavior of nearby human drivers while planning in real-time. Traditional predict-then-act frameworks are often insufficient…

Integrating generative models with action chunking has shown significant promise in imitation learning for robotic manipulation. However, the existing diffusion-based paradigm often struggles to capture strong temporal dependencies across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dianye Huang , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

Recent work has demonstrated the potential of diffusion models in robot bimanual skill learning. However, existing methods ignore the learning of posture-dependent task features, which are crucial for adapting dual-arm configurations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhuo Li , Junjia Liu , Dianxi Li , Tao Teng , Miao Li , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

Learning to manipulate objects efficiently, particularly those involving sustained contact (e.g., pushing, sliding) and articulated parts (e.g., drawers, doors), presents significant challenges. Traditional methods, such as robot-centric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shijie Fang , Wenchang Gao , Shivam Goel , Christopher Thierauf , Matthias Scheutz , Jivko Sinapov

Diffusion Policy is a powerful technique tool for learning end-to-end visuomotor robot control. It is expected that Diffusion Policy possesses scalability, a key attribute for deep neural networks, typically suggesting that increasing model…

With the great success of diffusion models (DMs) in generating realistic synthetic vision data, many researchers have investigated their potential in decision-making and control. Most of these works utilized DMs to sample directly from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hanye Zhao , Xiaoshen Han , Zhengbang Zhu , Minghuan Liu , Yong Yu , De-Chuan Zhan , Weinan Zhang

Vision-based policies are widely applied in robotics for tasks such as manipulation and locomotion. On lightweight mobile robots, however, they face a trilemma of limited scene transferability, restricted onboard computation resources, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kai Li , Shiyu Zhao

We propose a planning and perception mechanism for a robot (agent), that can only observe the underlying environment partially, in order to solve an image classification problem. A three-layer architecture is suggested that consists of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Hossein K. Mousavi , Guangyi Liu , Weihang Yuan , Martin Takáč , Héctor Muñoz-Avila , Nader Motee

Recently, end-to-end robotic manipulation models have gained significant attention for their generalizability and scalability. However, they often suffer from limited robustness to camera viewpoint changes when training with a fixed camera.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Songen Gu , Yuhang Zheng , Weize Li , Yupeng Zheng , Yating Feng , Xiang Li , Yilun Chen , Pengfei Li , Wenchao Ding

Today robots must be safe, versatile, and user-friendly to operate in unstructured and human-populated environments. Dynamical system-based imitation learning enables robots to perform complex tasks stably and without explicit programming,…

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