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Learning complex manipulation tasks in realistic, obstructed environments is a challenging problem due to hard exploration in the presence of obstacles and high-dimensional visual observations. Prior work tackles the exploration problem by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 I-Chun Arthur Liu , Shagun Uppal , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Joseph J. Lim , Peter Englert , Youngwoon Lee

We introduce UniCon, a novel architecture designed to enhance control and efficiency in training adapters for large-scale diffusion models. Unlike existing methods that rely on bidirectional interaction between the diffusion model and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Fanghua Yu , Jinjin Gu , Jinfan Hu , Zheyuan Li , Chao Dong

Modern video diffusion models excel at appearance synthesis but still struggle with physical consistency: objects drift, collisions lack realistic rebound, and material responses seldom match their underlying properties. We present PhyCo, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sriram Narayanan , Ziyu Jiang , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Manmohan Chandraker

Motion planning is a critical component of autonomous vehicle decision-making systems, directly determining trajectory safety and driving efficiency. While deep learning approaches have advanced planning capabilities, existing methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xin Yang , Yuhang Zhang , Wei Li , Xin Lin , Wenbin Zou , Chen Xu

Data-driven methods for physics-based character control using reinforcement learning have been successfully applied to generate high-quality motions. However, existing approaches typically rely on Gaussian distributions to represent the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Pei Xu , Ioannis Karamouzas

Although recent advances in visual generation have been remarkable, most existing architectures still depend on distinct encoders for images and text. This separation constrains diffusion models' ability to perform cross-modal reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kevin Li , Manuel Brack , Sudeep Katakol , Hareesh Ravi , Ajinkya Kale

Learning priors on trajectory distributions can help accelerate robot motion planning optimization. Given previously successful plans, learning trajectory generative models as priors for a new planning problem is highly desirable. Prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Joao Carvalho , An T. Le , Mark Baierl , Dorothea Koert , Jan Peters

Video Diffusion Models have been developed for video generation, usually integrating text and image conditioning to enhance control over the generated content. Despite the progress, ensuring consistency across frames remains a challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tian Xia , Xuweiyi Chen , Sihan Xu

We propose a two-stage framework for motion in-betweening that combines diffusion-based motion generation with physics-based character adaptation. In Stage 1, a character-agnostic diffusion model synthesizes transitions from sparse…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jia Qin

Generating realistic motions for digital humans is a core but challenging part of computer animations and games, as human motions are both diverse in content and rich in styles. While the latest deep learning approaches have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Ziyi Chang , Edmund J. C. Findlay , Haozheng Zhang , Hubert P. H. Shum

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

Existing deep learning-based models for remote sensing pansharpening exhibit exceptional performance on training datasets. However, due to sensor-specific characteristics and varying imaging conditions, these models suffer from substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yongchuan Cui , Peng Liu , Hui Zhang

In many complex scenarios, robotic manipulation relies on generative models to estimate the distribution of multiple successful actions. As the diffusion model has better training robustness than other generative models, it performs well in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ye Niu , Sanping Zhou , Yizhe Li , Ye Den , Le Wang

Uncertainty calibration in pre-trained transformers is critical for their reliable deployment in risk-sensitive applications. Yet, most existing pre-trained transformers do not have a principled mechanism for uncertainty propagation through…

Motion diffusion models and Reinforcement Learning (RL) based control for physics-based simulations have complementary strengths for human motion generation. The former is capable of generating a wide variety of motions, adhering to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Guy Tevet , Sigal Raab , Setareh Cohan , Daniele Reda , Zhengyi Luo , Xue Bin Peng , Amit H. Bermano , Michiel van de Panne

Robots hold great promise for performing repetitive or hazardous tasks, but achieving human-like dexterity, especially in contact-rich and dynamic environments, remains challenging. Rigid robots, which rely on position or velocity control,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Malek Aburub , Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez , Tatsuya Kamijo , Masashi Hamaya

A fundamental challenge in federated learning lies in mixing heterogeneous datasets and classification tasks while minimizing the high communication cost caused by clients as well as the exchange of weight updates with the server over a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Atefe Hassani , Islem Rekik

Multitask learning poses significant challenges due to the highly multimodal and diverse nature of robot action distributions. However, effectively fitting policies to these complex task distributions is often difficult, and existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chaoqi Liu , Haonan Chen , Sigmund H. Høeg , Shaoxiong Yao , Yunzhu Li , Kris Hauser , Yilun Du

While imitation learning provides a simple and effective framework for policy learning, acquiring consistent actions during robot execution remains a challenging task. Existing approaches primarily focus on either modifying the action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xiao Liu , Fabian Weigend , Yifan Zhou , Heni Ben Amor

Recent advances in generative models have shown promise in generating behavior plans for long-horizon, sparse reward tasks. While these approaches have achieved promising results, they often lack a principled framework for hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nandiraju Gireesh , Yuanliang Ju , Chaoyi Xu , Weiheng Liu , Yuxuan Wan , He Wang