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Generalizable object manipulation skills are critical for intelligent and multi-functional robots to work in real-world complex scenes. Despite the recent progress in reinforcement learning, it is still very challenging to learn a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Hao Shen , Weikang Wan , He Wang

Robots collaborating with humans must convert natural language goals into actionable, physically grounded decisions. For example, executing a command such as "go two meters to the right of the fridge" requires grounding semantic references,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Swagat Padhan , Lakshya Jain , Bhavya Minesh Shah , Omkar Patil , Thao Nguyen , Nakul Gopalan

The ability to understand and reason about spatial relationships between objects in images is an important component of visual reasoning. This skill rests on the ability to recognize and localize objects of interest and determine their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Navid Rajabi , Jana Kosecka

Large language models (LLMs) can provide rich physical descriptions of most worldly objects, allowing robots to achieve more informed and capable grasping. We leverage LLMs' common sense physical reasoning and code-writing abilities to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 William Xie , Maria Valentini , Jensen Lavering , Nikolaus Correll

Reasoning about objects, relations, and physics is central to human intelligence, and a key goal of artificial intelligence. Here we introduce the interaction network, a model which can reason about how objects in complex systems interact,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Peter W. Battaglia , Razvan Pascanu , Matthew Lai , Danilo Rezende , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Robots are finding wider adoption in human environments, increasing the need for natural human-robot interaction. However, understanding a natural language command requires the robot to infer the intended task and how to decompose it into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Julia Kuhn , Francesco Verdoja , Tsvetomila Mihaylova , Ville Kyrki

Enabling robots to perform precise and generalized manipulation in unstructured environments remains a fundamental challenge in embodied AI. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in semantic reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Mingyang Sun , Jiude Wei , Qichen He , Donglin Wang , Cewu Lu , Jianhua Sun

The advantages of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) are apparent in a variety of language processing tasks. But can a language model's knowledge be further harnessed to effectively disambiguate objects and navigate decision-making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Connie Jiang , Yiqing Xu , David Hsu

Visual grounding is an essential tool that links user-provided text queries with query-specific regions within an image. Despite advancements in visual grounding models, their ability to comprehend complex queries remains limited. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoyu Zhao , Wenhang Ge , Ying-cong Chen

Reviewing the progress in artificial intelligence over the past decade, various significant advances (e.g. object detection, image generation, large language models) have enabled AI systems to produce more semantically meaningful outputs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jianhua Sun , Cewu Lu

Recent advancements in zero-shot commonsense reasoning have empowered Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to acquire extensive commonsense knowledge without requiring task-specific fine-tuning. Despite this progress, these models frequently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hyuntae Park , Yeachan Kim , SangKeun Lee

Conceptualization, or viewing entities and situations as instances of abstract concepts in mind and making inferences based on that, is a vital component in human intelligence for commonsense reasoning. Despite recent progress in artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Mutian He , Tianqing Fang , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song

Reasoning segmentation aims to segment target objects in complex scenes based on human intent and spatial reasoning. While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive 2D image reasoning segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Huang , Runnan Chen , Ziwen Li , Zhengqing Gao , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Scientific reasoning, the process through which humans apply logic, evidence, and critical thinking to explore and interpret scientific phenomena, is essential in advancing knowledge reasoning across diverse fields. However, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yibo Yan , Shen Wang , Jiahao Huo , Jingheng Ye , Zhendong Chu , Xuming Hu , Philip S. Yu , Carla Gomes , Bart Selman , Qingsong Wen

Communication among humans relies on conversational grounding, allowing interlocutors to reach mutual understanding even when they do not have perfect knowledge and must resolve discrepancies in each other's beliefs. This paper investigates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Clara Lachenmaier , Judith Sieker , Sina Zarrieß

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been recently used in robot applications for grounding LLM common-sense reasoning with the robot's perception and physical abilities. In humanoid robots, memory also plays a critical role in fostering…

Large language models (LLMs) show remarkable capabilities across a variety of tasks. Despite the models only seeing text in training, several recent studies suggest that LLM representations implicitly capture aspects of the underlying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yutaro Yamada , Yihan Bao , Andrew K. Lampinen , Jungo Kasai , Ilker Yildirim

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance autonomous robotic manipulation using the Large Language Model (LLM) for logical inference, converting high-level language commands into sequences of executable motion functions. The proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Haokun Liu , Yaonan Zhu , Kenji Kato , Izumi Kondo , Tadayoshi Aoyama , Yasuhisa Hasegawa

We propose a deep semantic characterization of space and motion categorically from the viewpoint of grounding embodied human-object interactions. Our key focus is on an ontological model that would be adept to formalisation from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Jakob Suchan , Mehul Bhatt

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in vision and visual-language tasks within the natural image domain. Owing to the significant diversities between the natural and remote sensing (RS) images, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Wei Zhang , Miaoxin Cai , Tong Zhang , Yin Zhuang , Xuerui Mao