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Recently, latent action learning, pioneered by Latent Action Policies (LAPO), have shown remarkable pre-training efficiency on observation-only data, offering potential for leveraging vast amounts of video available on the web for embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Alexander Nikulin , Ilya Zisman , Denis Tarasov , Nikita Lyubaykin , Andrei Polubarov , Igor Kiselev , Vladislav Kurenkov

Latent action models (LAMs) offer a promising path to pre-training embodied agents on large amounts of action-free video. They infer latent actions between consecutive observations that can later be decoded to ground-truth actions using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Marcus Fechner , Hamza Adnan , Constantin C. Lüth , Matthew T. Jackson , Alexey Zakharov , J. Marius Zöllner

Learning latent actions from large-scale videos is crucial for the pre-training of scalable embodied foundation models, yet existing methods often struggle with action-irrelevant distractors. Although incorporating action supervision can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xizhou Bu , Jiexi Lyu , Fulei Sun , Ruichen Yang , Zhiqiang Ma , Wei Li

Pre-training large models on vast amounts of web data has proven to be an effective approach for obtaining powerful, general models in domains such as language and vision. However, this paradigm has not yet taken hold in reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Dominik Schmidt , Minqi Jiang

Latent Action Models (LAMs) have rapidly gained traction as an important component in the pre-training pipelines of leading Vision-Language-Action models. However, they fail when observations contain action-correlated distractors, often…

We propose a framework to continuously learn object-centric representations for visual learning and understanding. Existing object-centric representations either rely on supervisions that individualize objects in the scene, or perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chuanyu Pan , Yanchao Yang , Kaichun Mo , Yueqi Duan , Leonidas Guibas

The unsupervised pretraining of object detectors has recently become a key component of object detector training, as it leads to improved performance and faster convergence during the supervised fine-tuning stage. Existing unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Adrian Bulat , Ioannis Patras , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Inspired by how humans combine direct interaction with action-free experience (e.g., videos), we study world models that learn from heterogeneous data. Standard world models typically rely on action-conditioned trajectories, which limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Marvin Alles , Xingyuan Zhang , Patrick van der Smagt , Philip Becker-Ehmck

We introduce Latent Action Pretraining for general Action models (LAPA), an unsupervised method for pretraining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models without ground-truth robot action labels. Existing Vision-Language-Action models require…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have gained popularity for learning robotic manipulation tasks that follow language instructions. State-of-the-art VLAs, such as OpenVLA and $\pi_{0}$, were trained on large-scale, manually labeled action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bahey Tharwat , Yara Nasser , Ali Abouzeid , Ian Reid

Deep reinforcement learning agents, trained on raw pixel inputs, often fail to generalize beyond their training environments, relying on spurious correlations and irrelevant background details. To address this issue, object-centric agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jannis Blüml , Cedric Derstroff , Bjarne Gregori , Elisabeth Dillies , Quentin Delfosse , Kristian Kersting

Learning object detectors requires massive amounts of labeled training samples from the specific data source of interest. This is impractical when dealing with many different sources (e.g., in camera networks), or constantly changing ones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Adrien Gaidon , Gloria Zen , Jose A. Rodriguez-Serrano

Despite recent progress in reinforcement learning (RL) from raw pixel data, sample inefficiency continues to present a substantial obstacle. Prior works have attempted to address this challenge by creating self-supervised auxiliary tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ruijie Zheng , Xiyao Wang , Yanchao Sun , Shuang Ma , Jieyu Zhao , Huazhe Xu , Hal Daumé , Furong Huang

Object-centric world models (OCWM) aim to decompose visual scenes into object-level representations, providing structured abstractions that could improve compositional generalization and data efficiency in reinforcement learning. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Stefano Ferraro , Akihiro Nakano , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo

Offline reinforcement learning methods hold the promise of learning policies from pre-collected datasets without the need to query the environment for new transitions. This setting is particularly well-suited for continuous control robotic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Tianhe Yu , Yuan Gao , Jianhao Wang , Wenzhe Li , Bin Liang , Chelsea Finn , Chongjie Zhang

Learning robot policies using imitation learning requires collecting large amounts of costly action-labeled expert demonstrations, which fundamentally limits the scale of training data. A promising approach to address this bottleneck is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Liang , Pavel Czempin , Matthew Hong , Yutai Zhou , Erdem Biyik , Stephen Tu

In this paper, a self-learning approach is proposed towards solving scene-specific pedestrian detection problem without any human' annotation involved. The self-learning approach is deployed as progressive steps of object discovery, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Qixiang Ye , Tianliang Zhang , Qiang Qiu , Baochang Zhang , Jie Chen , Guillermo Sapiro

First-person object-interaction tasks in high-fidelity, 3D, simulated environments such as the AI2Thor virtual home-environment pose significant sample-efficiency challenges for reinforcement learning (RL) agents learning from sparse task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wilka Carvalho , Anthony Liang , Kimin Lee , Sungryull Sohn , Honglak Lee , Richard L. Lewis , Satinder Singh

A core challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to predict how its actions affect objects in its environment. Many existing methods for learning the dynamics of physical interactions require labeled object information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Chelsea Finn , Ian Goodfellow , Sergey Levine

This paper tackles the challenge of point-supervised temporal action detection, wherein only a single frame is annotated for each action instance in the training set. Most of the current methods, hindered by the sparse nature of annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Elahe Vahdani , Yingli Tian
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