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Visuomotor imitation learning policies enable robots to efficiently acquire manipulation skills from visual demonstrations. However, as scene complexity and visual distractions increase, policies that perform well in simple settings often…

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Language-guided robotic manipulation is a challenging task that requires an embodied agent to follow abstract user instructions to accomplish various complex manipulation tasks. Previous work trivially fitting the data without revealing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kaidong Zhang , Pengzhen Ren , Bingqian Lin , Junfan Lin , Shikui Ma , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Vision-and-language navigation requires an agent to navigate through a real 3D environment following natural language instructions. Despite significant advances, few previous works are able to fully utilize the strong correspondence between…

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Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) holds the promise of sample-efficient learning by utilizing a world model, which models how the environment works and typically encompasses components for two tasks: observation modeling and reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Haoyu Ma , Jialong Wu , Ningya Feng , Chenjun Xiao , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

A critical bottleneck in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is sample inefficiency, as training high-performance agents often demands extensive environmental interactions. Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) mitigates this by building…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Boxuan Zhang , Runqing Wang , Wei Xiao , Weipu Zhang , Jian Sun , Gao Huang , Jie Chen , Gang Wang

Action-conditioned robot world models generate future video frames of the manipulated scene given a robot action sequence, offering a promising alternative for simulating tasks that are difficult to model with traditional physics engines.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jai Bardhan , Patrik Drozdik , Josef Sivic , Vladimir Petrik

Scaling general-purpose manipulation to new robot embodiments remains challenging: each platform typically needs large, homogeneous demonstrations, and end-to-end pixel-to-action pipelines may degenerate under background and viewpoint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yao Feng , Hengkai Tan , Xinyi Mao , Chendong Xiang , Guodong Liu , Shuhe Huang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Learning generalizable visual representations across different embodied environments is essential for effective robotic manipulation in real-world scenarios. However, the limited scale and diversity of robot demonstration data pose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiaming Zhou , Teli Ma , Kun-Yu Lin , Zifan Wang , Ronghe Qiu , Junwei Liang

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

It is challenging for humans -- particularly those living with physical disabilities -- to control high-dimensional, dexterous robots. Prior work explores learning embedding functions that map a human's low-dimensional inputs (e.g., via a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Siddharth Karamcheti , Albert J. Zhai , Dylan P. Losey , Dorsa Sadigh

The ability to follow instructions is crucial for numerous real-world applications of language models. In pursuit of deeper insights and more powerful capabilities, we derive instruction-specific vector representations from language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Alessandro Stolfo , Vidhisha Balachandran , Safoora Yousefi , Eric Horvitz , Besmira Nushi

The rapid advancement of Embodied AI has led to an increasing demand for large-scale, high-quality real-world data. However, collecting such embodied data remains costly and inefficient. As a result, simulation environments have become a…

Vision-based policies for robot manipulation have achieved significant recent success, but are still brittle to distribution shifts such as camera viewpoint variations. Robot demonstration data is scarce and often lacks appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jeremiah Coholich , Justin Wit , Robert Azarcon , Zsolt Kira

Robot learning requires adaptation methods that improve reliably from limited, mixed-quality interaction data. This is especially challenging in long-horizon, contact-rich tasks, where end-to-end policy finetuning remains inefficient and…

We present a low-cost legged mobile manipulation system that solves long-horizon real-world tasks, trained by reinforcement learning purely in simulation. This system is made possible by 1) a hierarchical design of a high-level policy for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Haichao Zhang , Haonan Yu , Le Zhao , Andrew Choi , Qinxun Bai , Break Yang , Wei Xu

Imitation learning is a powerful paradigm for robot skill acquisition, yet conventional demonstration methods--such as kinesthetic teaching and teleoperation--are cumbersome, hardware-heavy, and disruptive to workflows. Recently, passive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rohan Walia , Yusheng Wang , Ralf Römer , Masahiro Nishio , Angela P. Schoellig , Jun Ota

Visual actionable affordance has emerged as a transformative approach in robotics, focusing on perceiving interaction areas prior to manipulation. Traditional methods rely on pixel sampling to identify successful interaction samples or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Taewhan Kim , Hojin Bae , Zeming Li , Xiaoqi Li , Iaroslav Ponomarenko , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong

World models, which are predictive representations of how environments evolve under actions, have become a central component of robot learning. They support policy learning, planning, simulation, evaluation, data generation, and have…

Vision-language models demonstrate unprecedented performance and generalization across a wide range of tasks and scenarios. Integrating these foundation models into robotic navigation systems opens pathways toward building general-purpose…

Training visual embeddings with labeled data supervision has been the de facto setup for representation learning in computer vision. Inspired by recent success of adopting masked image modeling (MIM) in self-supervised representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kaifeng Chen , Daniel Salz , Huiwen Chang , Kihyuk Sohn , Dilip Krishnan , Mojtaba Seyedhosseini