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Current vision-based robotics simulation benchmarks have significantly advanced robotic manipulation research. However, robotics is fundamentally a real-world problem, and evaluation for real-world applications has lagged behind in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xuning Yang , Clemens Eppner , Jonathan Tremblay , Dieter Fox , Stan Birchfield , Fabio Ramos

The development of control policies for multi-robot systems traditionally follows a complex and labor-intensive process, often lacking the flexibility to adapt to dynamic tasks. This has motivated research on methods to automatically create…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Wenkang Ji , Huaben Chen , Mingyang Chen , Guobin Zhu , Lufeng Xu , Roderich Groß , Rui Zhou , Ming Cao , Shiyu Zhao

In robot learning, it is common to either ignore the environment semantics, focusing on tasks like whole-body control which only require reasoning about robot-environment contacts, or conversely to ignore contact dynamics, focusing on…

Despite tremendous progress in dexterous manipulation, current visuomotor policies remain fundamentally limited by two challenges: they struggle to generalize under perceptual or behavioral distribution shifts, and their performance is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Junbang Liang , Pavel Tokmakov , Ruoshi Liu , Sruthi Sudhakar , Paarth Shah , Rares Ambrus , Carl Vondrick

Learning novel concepts, remembering previous knowledge, and adapting it to future tasks occur simultaneously throughout a human's lifetime. To model such comprehensive abilities, continual zero-shot learning (CZSL) has recently been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Wenxuan Zhang , Paul Janson , Kai Yi , Ivan Skorokhodov , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Learning the intents of an agent, defined by its goals or motion style, is often extremely challenging from just a few examples. We refer to this problem as task concept learning and present our approach, Few-Shot Task Learning through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Aviv Netanyahu , Yilun Du , Antonia Bronars , Jyothish Pari , Joshua Tenenbaum , Tianmin Shu , Pulkit Agrawal

Despite recent successes of reinforcement learning (RL), it remains a challenge for agents to transfer learned skills to related environments. To facilitate research addressing this problem, we propose CausalWorld, a benchmark for causal…

Despite the recent success of modern imitation learning methods in robot manipulation, their performance is often constrained by geometric variations due to limited data diversity. Leveraging powerful 3D generative models and vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiawei Zhang , Kaizhe Hu , Yingqian Huang , Yuanchen Ju , Zhengrong Xue , Huazhe Xu

We propose a symbolic generative task description language and a corresponding inference engine capable of representing arbitrary multimodal tasks as structured symbolic flows. Unlike conventional generative models that rely on large-scale…

We develop a novel generative model to simulate vehicle health and forecast faults, conditioned on practical operational considerations. The model, trained on data from the US Army's Predictive Logistics program, aims to support predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Patrick Kuiper , Sirui Lin , Jose Blanchet , Vahid Tarokh

In materials science, the challenge of rapid prototyping materials with desired properties often involves extensive experimentation to find suitable microstructures. Additionally, finding microstructures for given properties is typically an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Sébastien Bompas , Stefan Sandfeld

The generation of testing and training scenarios for autonomous vehicles has drawn significant attention. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled new scenario generation methods, current methods struggle to balance command adherence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Qingyuan Shi , Qingwen Meng , Hao Cheng , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

Quantitatively evaluating and comparing the performance of robotic solutions that are designed to work under a variety of conditions is inherently challenging because they need to be evaluated under numerous precisely repeatable conditions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Achim Gerstenberg , Martin Steinert

Score-based diffusion models have emerged as effective approaches for both conditional and unconditional generation. Still conditional generation is based on either a specific training of a conditional model or classifier guidance, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Davide Scassola , Sebastiano Saccani , Ginevra Carbone , Luca Bortolussi

We introduce a neural network architecture and a learning algorithm to produce factorized symbolic representations. We propose to learn these concepts by observing consecutive frames, letting all the components of the hidden representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-23 William F. Whitney , Michael Chang , Tejas Kulkarni , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

We present PRISM (Policy Reuse via Interpretable Strategy Mapping), a framework that grounds reinforcement learning agents' decisions in discrete, causally validated concepts and uses those concepts as a zero-shot transfer interface between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Thomas Pravetz

Although recent advancements in learning-based analog circuit design automation have tackled tasks such as topology generation, device sizing, and layout synthesis, efficient performance evaluation remains a major bottleneck. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiaomeng Yang , Jian Gao , Yanzhi Wang , Xuan Zhang

In high-stake scenarios like medical treatment and auto-piloting, it's risky or even infeasible to collect online experimental data to train the agent. Simulation-based training can alleviate this issue, but may suffer from its inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jialian Li , Tongzheng Ren , Dong Yan , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping tools. In this paper, we introduce generative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Joon Sung Park , Joseph C. O'Brien , Carrie J. Cai , Meredith Ringel Morris , Percy Liang , Michael S. Bernstein

Many data-driven decision problems are formulated using a nominal distribution estimated from historical data, while performance is ultimately determined by a deployment distribution that may be shifted, context-dependent, partially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xiuyuan Cheng , Yunqin Zhu , Yao Xie