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Modeling multimodal human behavior has been a key barrier to increasing the level of interaction between human and robot, particularly for collaborative tasks. Our key insight is that an effective, learned robot policy used for human-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Eley Ng , Ziang Liu , Monroe Kennedy

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization across tasks and embodiments; however, their reliance on large-scale human demonstrations limits their scalability owing to the cost and effort of manual data collection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rushuai Yang , Hangxing Wei , Ran Zhang , Zhiyuan Feng , Xiaoyu Chen , Tong Li , Chuheng Zhang , Li Zhao , Jiang Bian , Xiu Su , Yi Chen

Manipulation of articulated and deformable objects can be difficult due to their compliant and under-actuated nature. Unexpected disturbances can cause the object to deviate from a predicted state, making it necessary to use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zixuan Huang , Yating Lin , Fan Yang , Dmitry Berenson

Recent works have shown the potential of diffusion models in computer vision and natural language processing. Apart from the classical supervised learning fields, diffusion models have also shown strong competitiveness in reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jifeng Hu , Yanchao Sun , Sili Huang , SiYuan Guo , Hechang Chen , Li Shen , Lichao Sun , Yi Chang , Dacheng Tao

Most end-to-end autonomous driving methods rely on imitation learning from single expert demonstrations, often leading to conservative and homogeneous behaviors that limit generalization in complex real-world scenarios. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ziying Song , Lin Liu , Hongyu Pan , Bencheng Liao , Mingzhe Guo , Lei Yang , Yongchang Zhang , Shaoqing Xu , Caiyan Jia , Yadan Luo

Diffusion models have become popular for policy learning in robotics due to their ability to capture high-dimensional and multimodal distributions. However, diffusion policies are stochastic and typically trained offline, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ralf Römer , Alexander von Rohr , Angela P. Schoellig

We study continual offline reinforcement learning, a practical paradigm that facilitates forward transfer and mitigates catastrophic forgetting to tackle sequential offline tasks. We propose a dual generative replay framework that retains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jinmei Liu , Wenbin Li , Xiangyu Yue , Shilin Zhang , Chunlin Chen , Zhi Wang

Autoregressive models for text sometimes generate repetitive and low-quality output because errors accumulate during the steps of generation. This issue is often attributed to exposure bias - the difference between how a model is trained,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yizhe Zhang , Jiatao Gu , Zhuofeng Wu , Shuangfei Zhai , Josh Susskind , Navdeep Jaitly

Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and restores it through a trainable model. This framework enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Hartl , Yanbo Zhang , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Collaborative edge computing uses edge nodes in different locations to execute tasks, necessitating dynamic task offloading decisions to maintain low latency and high reliability, especially under unpredictable node failures. Although deep…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hao Guo , Kaixiang Xv , Ziwu Ge , Lei Yang

Reinforcement learning has been applied to many interesting problems such as the famous TD-gammon and the inverted helicopter flight. However, little effort has been put into developing methods to learn policies for complex persistent tasks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Xiao Li , Calin Belta

High-level autonomous driving requires motion planners capable of modeling multimodal future uncertainties while remaining robust in closed-loop interactions. Although diffusion-based planners are effective at modeling complex trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hao Gao , Shaoyu Chen , Yifan Zhu , Yuehao Song , Wenyu Liu , Qian Zhang , Xinggang Wang

To achieve scenario intelligence, humans must transfer knowledge to robots by developing goal-oriented algorithms, which are sometimes insensitive to dynamically changing environments. While deep reinforcement learning achieves significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Tingguang Li , Jin Pan , Delong Zhu , Max Q. -H. Meng

Trajectory generation for mobile robots in unstructured environments faces a critical dilemma: balancing kinematic smoothness for safe execution with terminal precision for fine-grained tasks. Existing generative planners often struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jinyang Zhao , Handong Zheng , Yanjiu Zhong , Qiang Zhang , Yu Kang , Shunyu Wu

With the increasing availability of open-source robotic data, imitation learning has become a promising approach for both manipulation and locomotion. Diffusion models are now widely used to train large, generalized policies that predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Shashank Hegde , Satyajeet Das , Gautam Salhotra , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Research in robotic planning with temporal logic specifications, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), has relied on single formulas. However, as task complexity increases, LTL formulas become lengthy, making them difficult to interpret and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xusheng Luo , Changliu Liu

Diffusion models have recently been successfully applied to a wide range of robotics applications for learning complex multi-modal behaviors from data. However, prior works have mostly been confined to single-robot and small-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yorai Shaoul , Itamar Mishani , Shivam Vats , Jiaoyang Li , Maxim Likhachev

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Swarm robotic trajectory planning faces challenges in computational efficiency, scalability, and safety, particularly in complex, obstacle-dense environments. To address these issues, we propose SwarmDiff, a hierarchical and scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kang Ding , Chunxuan Jiao , Yunze Hu , Kangjie Zhou , Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Chang Liu

The evolutionary processes of complex systems contain critical information regarding their functional characteristics. The generation time of edges provides insights into the historical evolution of various networked complex systems, such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 En Xu , Can Rong , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li