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The availability of challenging benchmarks has played a key role in the recent progress of machine learning. In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, the StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge (SMAC) has become a popular testbed for…

Character image animation aims to synthesize high-fidelity videos by transferring motion from a driving sequence to a static reference image. Despite recent advancements, existing methods suffer from two fundamental challenges: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mingshuang Luo , Shuang Liang , Zhengkun Rong , Yuxuan Luo , Tianshu Hu , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Yong Li , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

Long-horizon robotic manipulation poses significant challenges for autonomous systems, requiring extended reasoning, precise execution, and robust error recovery across complex sequential tasks. Current approaches, whether based on static…

Learning diverse manipulation skills for real-world robots is severely bottlenecked by the reliance on costly and hard-to-scale teleoperated demonstrations. While human videos offer a scalable alternative, effectively transferring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Han Zhou , Jinjin Cao , Liyuan Ma , Xueji Fang , Guo-jun Qi

Robotic manipulation in unstructured environments requires reliable execution under diverse conditions, yet many state-of-the-art systems still struggle with high-dimensional action spaces, sparse rewards, and slow generalization beyond…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Leonidas Askianakis , Aleksandr Artemov

To realize effective large-scale, real-world robotic applications, we must evaluate how well our robot policies adapt to changes in environmental conditions. Unfortunately, a majority of studies evaluate robot performance in environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Wilbert Pumacay , Ishika Singh , Jiafei Duan , Ranjay Krishna , Jesse Thomason , Dieter Fox

Recent advances in robot manipulation increasingly leverage Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for high-level reasoning, such as decomposing task instructions into sequential action plans expressed in natural language that guide downstream…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sehun Jung , HyunJee Song , Dong-Hee Kim , Reuben Tan , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee , Donghyun Kim

Pretrained video generation models provide strong priors for robot control, but existing unified world action models still struggle to decode reliable actions without substantial robot-specific training. We attribute this limitation to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Liaoyuan Fan , Zetian Xu , Chen Cao , Wenyao Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Jiayu Chen

Imitation learning for robotic grasping is often plagued by the multimodal problem: when a scene contains multiple valid targets, demonstrations of grasping different objects create conflicting training signals. Standard imitation learning…

Active perception and manipulation are crucial for robots to interact with complex scenes. Existing methods struggle to unify semantic-driven active perception with robust, viewpoint-invariant execution. We propose SaPaVe, an end-to-end…

Embodied intelligence aims to enable robots to learn, reason, and generalize robustly across complex real-world environments. However, existing approaches often struggle with partial observability, fragmented spatial reasoning, and…

Industrial robotic manipulation demands reliable long-horizon execution across embodiments, tasks, and changing object distributions. While Vision-Language-Action models have demonstrated strong generalization, they remain fundamentally…

Multi-task imitation learning (MTIL) has shown significant potential in robotic manipulation by enabling agents to perform various tasks using a single policy. This simplifies the policy deployment and enhances the agent's adaptability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Litao Liu , Wentao Wang , Yifan Han , Zhuoli Xie , Pengfei Yi , Junyan Li , Yi Qin , Wenzhao Lian

Robotic manipulation requires precise spatial understanding to interact with objects in the real world. Point-based methods suffer from sparse sampling, leading to the loss of fine-grained semantics. Image-based methods typically feed RGB…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hao Shi , Bin Xie , Yingfei Liu , Yang Yue , Tiancai Wang , Haoqiang Fan , Xiangyu Zhang , Gao Huang

While recent foundation models have significantly advanced robotic manipulation, these systems still struggle to autonomously recover from execution errors. Current failure-learning paradigms rely on either costly and unsafe real-world data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Dayou Li , Jiuzhou Lei , Hao Wang , Lulin Liu , Yunhao Yang , Zihan Wang , Bangya Liu , Minghui Zheng , Zhiwen Fan

Autonomous control of multi-stage industrial processes requires both local specialization and global coordination. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising approach, but its industrial adoption remains limited due to challenges such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tom Maus , Asma Atamna , Tobias Glasmachers

While imitation learning has shown impressive results in single-task robot manipulation, scaling it to multi-task settings remains a fundamental challenge due to issues such as suboptimal demonstrations, trajectory noise, and behavioral…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yihang Zhu , Weiqing Wang , Shijie Wu , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled instruction-conditioned robotic systems with improved generalization. However, most existing work focuses on reactive System 1 policies, underutilizing VLMs' strengths in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Songhao Han , Boxiang Qiu , Yue Liao , Siyuan Huang , Chen Gao , Shuicheng Yan , Si Liu

Despite significant advances in deep learning for image and video segmentation, existing models continue to face challenges in cross-domain adaptability and generalization. Image and video segmentation are fundamental tasks in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhang Jiaxing , Tang Hao

We propose Point2Act, which directly retrieves the 3D action point relevant to a contextually described task, leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Foundation models opened the possibility for generalist robots that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sang Min Kim , Hyeongjun Heo , Junho Kim , Yonghyeon Lee , Young Min Kim