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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…

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Behavioural cloning is an imitation learning technique that teaches an agent how to behave via expert demonstrations. Recent approaches use self-supervision of fully-observable unlabelled snapshots of the states to decode state pairs into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Juarez Monteiro , Nathan Gavenski , Felipe Meneguzzi , Rodrigo C. Barros

Diffusion models have demonstrated their powerful generative capability in many tasks, with great potential to serve as a paradigm for offline reinforcement learning. However, the quality of the diffusion model is limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Mingyu Ding , Fei Ni , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ping Luo

Acting in cluttered environments requires predicting and avoiding collisions while still achieving precise control. Conventional optimization-based controllers can enforce physical constraints, but they struggle to produce feasible…

Given a dataset of expert agent interactions with an environment of interest, a viable method to extract an effective agent policy is to estimate the maximum likelihood policy indicated by this data. This approach is commonly referred to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Eddy Hudson , Ishan Durugkar , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly advanced text-to-image generation, yet global text prompts alone remain insufficient for achieving fine-grained control over individual entities within an image. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Hong Zhang , Zhongjie Duan , Xingjun Wang , Yingda Chen , Yu Zhang

The ability to manipulate objects in a desired configurations is a fundamental requirement for robots to complete various practical applications. While certain goals can be achieved by picking and placing the objects of interest directly,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Utkarsh A. Mishra , Yongxin Chen

Imitation learning is the task of replicating expert policy from demonstrations, without access to a reward function. This task becomes particularly challenging when the expert exhibits a mixture of behaviors. Prior work has introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Arash Vahabpour , Tianyi Wang , Qiujing Lu , Omead Pooladzandi , Vwani Roychowdhury

We present Diffuse-CLoC, a guided diffusion framework for physics-based look-ahead control that enables intuitive, steerable, and physically realistic motion generation. While existing kinematics motion generation with diffusion models…

Compositing an object into an image involves multiple non-trivial sub-tasks such as object placement and scaling, color/lighting harmonization, viewpoint/geometry adjustment, and shadow/reflection generation. Recent generative image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Gemma Canet Tarrés , Zhe Lin , Zhifei Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Yizhi Song , Dan Ruta , Andrew Gilbert , John Collomosse , Soo Ye Kim

Diffusion generative modeling has become a promising approach for learning robotic manipulation tasks from stochastic human demonstrations. In this paper, we present Diffusion-EDFs, a novel SE(3)-equivariant diffusion-based approach for…

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which addresses both families of tasks simultaneously. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Yosuke Yamaguchi , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Tianyi Zhou , Jun Ohya , Abhinav Shrivastava

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a challenging vision task that aims to detect individual objects within a single frame and associate them across multiple frames. Recent MOT approaches can be categorized into two-stage tracking-by-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Run Luo , Zikai Song , Lintao Ma , Jinlin Wei , Wei Yang , Min Yang

Forecasting a typical object's future motion is a critical task for interpreting and interacting with dynamic environments in computer vision. Event-based sensors, which could capture changes in the scene with exceptional temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Song Wu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

Manipulation of large objects over long horizons (such as carts in a warehouse) is an essential skill for deployable robotic systems. Large objects require mobile manipulation which involves simultaneous manipulation, navigation, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yajvan Ravan , Zhutian Yang , Tao Chen , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Diffusion models have shown remarkable abilities in generating realistic and high-quality images from text prompts. However, a trained model remains largely black-box; little do we know about the roles of its components in exhibiting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Quang H. Nguyen , Hoang Phan , Khoa D. Doan

Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Building effective imitation learning methods that enable robots to learn from limited data and still generalize across diverse real-world environments is a long-standing problem in robot learning. We propose Equibot, a robust,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jingyun Yang , Zi-ang Cao , Congyue Deng , Rika Antonova , Shuran Song , Jeannette Bohg

Autonomous mobile app interaction has become increasingly important with growing complexity of mobile applications. Developing intelligent agents that can effectively navigate and interact with mobile apps remains a significant challenge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yanchu Guan , Dong Wang , Yan Wang , Haiqing Wang , Renen Sun , Chenyi Zhuang , Jinjie Gu , Zhixuan Chu

Humans are remarkably good at understanding and reasoning about complex visual scenes. The capability to decompose low-level observations into discrete objects allows us to build a grounded abstract representation and identify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ruixiang Zhang , Tong Che , Boris Ivanovic , Renhao Wang , Marco Pavone , Yoshua Bengio , Liam Paull