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End-to-end learning is emerging as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation, but its effectiveness is limited by data scarcity and the heterogeneity of action spaces across robot embodiments. In particular, diverse action spaces across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Erik Bauer , Elvis Nava , Robert K. Katzschmann

In this paper, we introduce Motion-Grounded Video Reasoning, a new motion understanding task that requires generating visual answers (video segmentation masks) according to the input question, and hence needs implicit spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Andong Deng , Tongjia Chen , Shoubin Yu , Taojiannan Yang , Lincoln Spencer , Yapeng Tian , Ajmal Saeed Mian , Mohit Bansal , Chen Chen

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (O2O-RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for safe and efficient robotic policy deployment but suffers from two fundamental challenges: limited coverage of multimodal behaviors and distributional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Haidong Huang , Haiyue Zhu. Jiayu Song , Xixin Zhao , Yaohua Zhou , Jiayi Zhang , Yuze Zhai , Xiaocong Li

Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Motion is an important signal for agents in dynamic environments, but learning to represent motion from unlabeled video is a difficult and underconstrained problem. We propose a model of motion based on elementary group properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Andrew Jaegle , Stephen Phillips , Daphne Ippolito , Kostas Daniilidis

This work introduces DiffuseLoco, a framework for training multi-skill diffusion-based policies for dynamic legged locomotion from offline datasets, enabling real-time control of diverse skills on robots in the real world. Offline learning…

Recent progress in video diffusion models has markedly advanced character animation, which synthesizes motioned videos by animating a static identity image according to a driving video. Explicit methods represent motion using skeleton,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhufeng Xu , Xuan Gao , Feng-Lin Liu , Haoxian Zhang , Zhixue Fang , Yu-Kun Lai , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Lin Gao

We present a universal motion representation that encompasses a comprehensive range of motor skills for physics-based humanoid control. Due to the high dimensionality of humanoids and the inherent difficulties in reinforcement learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Zhengyi Luo , Jinkun Cao , Josh Merel , Alexander Winkler , Jing Huang , Kris Kitani , Weipeng Xu

Humanoid robots are well suited for human habitats due to their morphological similarity, but developing controllers for them is a challenging task that involves multiple sub-problems, such as control, planning and perception. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 K. Niranjan Kumar , Irfan Essa , Sehoon Ha

Sim-to-real transfer remains a fundamental challenge in robot manipulation due to the entanglement of perception and control in end-to-end learning. We present a decoupled framework that learns each component where it is most reliable:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jialei Huang , Zhaoheng Yin , Yingdong Hu , Shuo Wang , Xingyu Lin , Yang Gao

A prevailing view in robot learning is that simulation alone is not enough; effective sim-to-real transfer is widely believed to require at least some real-world data collection or task-specific fine-tuning to bridge the gap between…

We consider the problem of image-to-video translation, where an input image is translated into an output video containing motions of a single object. Recent methods for such problems typically train transformation networks to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Long Zhao , Xi Peng , Yu Tian , Mubbasir Kapadia , Dimitris Metaxas

Can we enable humanoid robots to generate rich, diverse, and expressive motions in the real world? We propose to learn a whole-body control policy on a human-sized robot to mimic human motions as realistic as possible. To train such a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Xuxin Cheng , Yandong Ji , Junming Chen , Ruihan Yang , Ge Yang , Xiaolong Wang

Diffusion models have achieved great progress in image animation due to powerful generative capabilities. However, maintaining spatio-temporal consistency with detailed information from the input static image over time (e.g., style,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xin Ma , Yaohui Wang , Gengyun Jia , Xinyuan Chen , Yuan-Fang Li , Cunjian Chen , Yu Qiao

World models derived from large-scale video generative pre-training have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robot policy learning. However, standard approaches often focus on high-fidelity RGB video prediction, this can result…

In order for robots to operate effectively in homes and workplaces, they must be able to manipulate the articulated objects common within environments built for and by humans. Previous work learns kinematic models that prescribe this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Zhengyang Wu , Mohit Bansal , Matthew R. Walter

Learning controllers that reproduce legged locomotion in nature has been a long-time goal in robotics and computer graphics. While yielding promising results, recent approaches are not yet flexible enough to be applicable to legged systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Daniel Ordonez-Apraez , Antonio Agudo , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Mario Martin

Recent text-to-image diffusion models are able to generate convincing results of unprecedented quality. However, it is nearly impossible to control the shapes of different regions/objects or their layout in a fine-grained fashion. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Omri Avrahami , Thomas Hayes , Oran Gafni , Sonal Gupta , Yaniv Taigman , Devi Parikh , Dani Lischinski , Ohad Fried , Xi Yin

Acting in human environments is a crucial capability for general-purpose robots, necessitating a robust understanding of natural language and its application to physical tasks. This paper seeks to harness the capabilities of diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jonas Bode , Raphael Memmesheimer , Sven Behnke

Utilizing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for robotic manipulation represents a novel paradigm, aiming to enhance the model's ability to generalize to new objects and instructions. However, due to variations in camera specifications and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Fanfan Liu , Feng Yan , Liming Zheng , Chengjian Feng , Yiyang Huang , Lin Ma