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Human videos offer a scalable way to train robot manipulation policies, but lack the action labels needed by standard imitation learning algorithms. Existing cross-embodiment approaches try to map human motion to robot actions, but often…

Recent work has shown that eliciting Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate reasoning traces in natural language before answering the user's request can significantly improve their performance across tasks. This approach has been extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sara Ghazanfari , Francesco Croce , Nicolas Flammarion , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami , Siddharth Garg

Omni-modal Large Language Models (Omni-MLLMs) promise a unified integration of diverse sensory streams. However, recent evaluations reveal a critical performance paradox: unimodal baselines frequently outperform joint multimodal inference.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ziyang Luo , Nian Liu , Junwei Han

Recent advancements in language models have demonstrated their adeptness in conducting multi-turn dialogues and retaining conversational context. However, this proficiency remains largely unexplored in other multimodal generative models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Biao Jiang , Xin Chen , Chi Zhang , Fukun Yin , Zhuoyuan Li , Gang YU , Jiayuan Fan

A novel concept of vision-based intelligent control of robotic arms is developed here in this work. This work enables the controlling of robotic arms motion only with visual inputs, that is, controlling by showing the videos of correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Debarati B. Chakraborty , Mukesh Sharma , Bhaskar Vijay

Large behavior models have shown strong dexterous manipulation capabilities by extending imitation learning to large-scale training on multi-task robot data, yet their generalization remains limited by the insufficient robot data coverage.…

Humans have impressive generalization capabilities when it comes to manipulating objects and tools in completely novel environments. These capabilities are, at least partially, a result of humans having internal models of their bodies and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sarah Bechtle , Neha Das , Franziska Meier

We consider the problem of learning multi-stage vision-based tasks on a real robot from a single video of a human performing the task, while leveraging demonstration data of subtasks with other objects. This problem presents a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Tianhe Yu , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

A major challenge for the realization of intelligent robots is to supply them with cognitive abilities in order to allow ordinary users to program them easily and intuitively. One way of such programming is teaching work tasks by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-17 P. C. McGuire , J. Fritsch , J. J. Steil , F. Roethling , G. A. Fink , S. Wachsmuth , G. Sagerer , H. Ritter

In this paper, we discuss a framework for teaching bimanual manipulation tasks by imitation. To this end, we present a system and algorithms for learning compliant and contact-rich robot behavior from human demonstrations. The presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Simon Stepputtis , Maryam Bandari , Stefan Schaal , Heni Ben Amor

Due to burdensome data requirements, learning from demonstration often falls short of its promise to allow users to quickly and naturally program robots. Demonstrations are inherently ambiguous and incomplete, making correct generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Wonjoon Goo , Scott Niekum

In this paper, we propose a novel learning paradigm, termed Chain-of-Model (CoM), which incorporates the causal relationship into the hidden states of each layer as a chain style, thereby introducing great scaling efficiency in model…

Observing a human demonstrator manipulate objects provides a rich, scalable and inexpensive source of data for learning robotic policies. However, transferring skills from human videos to a robotic manipulator poses several challenges, not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Minttu Alakuijala , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Julien Mairal , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

Prompt-based learning has emerged as a successful paradigm in natural language processing, where a single general-purpose language model can be instructed to perform any task specified by input prompts. Yet task specification in robotics…

Humans are adept at learning new tasks by watching a few instructional videos. On the other hand, robots that learn new actions either require a lot of effort through trial and error, or use expert demonstrations that are challenging to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Vladimír Petrík , Makarand Tapaswi , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic

This work aims to learn how to perform complex robot manipulation tasks that are composed of several, consecutively executed low-level sub-tasks, given as input a few visual demonstrations of the tasks performed by a person. The sub-tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Junchi Liang , Bowen Wen , Kostas Bekris , Abdeslam Boularias

Robots operating in complex and uncertain environments face considerable challenges. Advanced robotic systems often rely on extensive datasets to learn manipulation tasks. In contrast, when humans are faced with unfamiliar tasks, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yichen Zhu , Feifei Feng

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with a collection of large and diverse instructions has improved the model's generalization to different tasks, even for unseen tasks. However, most existing instruction datasets include only single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Shirley Anugrah Hayati , Taehee Jung , Tristan Bodding-Long , Sudipta Kar , Abhinav Sethy , Joo-Kyung Kim , Dongyeop Kang

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) offers a promising paradigm for robot skill acquisition. Recent approaches attempt to extract manipulation commands directly from video demonstrations, yet face two critical challenges: (1) general video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Thanh-Tuan Tran , Haolan Zhang , Ziyan Gao , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

Given a natural language instruction and an input scene, our goal is to train a model to output a manipulation program that can be executed by the robot. Prior approaches for this task possess one of the following limitations: (i) rely on…