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Long-horizon manipulation has been a long-standing challenge in the robotics community. We propose ReinforceGen, a system that combines task decomposition, data generation, imitation learning, and motion planning to form an initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zihan Zhou , Animesh Garg , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett

From dishwashers to cabinets, humans interact with articulated objects every day, and for a robot to assist in common manipulation tasks, it must learn a representation of articulation. Recent deep learning learning methods can provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Russell Buchanan , Adrian Röfer , João Moura , Abhinav Valada , Sethu Vijayakumar

We introduce Adaptive Procedural Task Generation (APT-Gen), an approach to progressively generate a sequence of tasks as curricula to facilitate reinforcement learning in hard-exploration problems. At the heart of our approach, a task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Kuan Fang , Yuke Zhu , Silvio Savarese , Li Fei-Fei

Text- or image-to-3D generators and 3D scanners can now produce 3D assets with high-quality shapes and textures. These assets typically consist of a single, fused representation, like an implicit neural field, a Gaussian mixture, or a mesh,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Minghao Chen , Roman Shapovalov , Iro Laina , Tom Monnier , Jianyuan Wang , David Novotny , Andrea Vedaldi

We present a dataset with models of 14 articulated objects commonly found in human environments and with RGB-D video sequences and wrenches recorded of human interactions with them. The 358 interaction sequences total 67 minutes of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Roberto Martín-Martín , Clemens Eppner , Oliver Brock

We introduce DreamGen, a simple yet highly effective 4-stage pipeline for training robot policies that generalize across behaviors and environments through neural trajectories - synthetic robot data generated from video world models.…

In the pursuit of efficient automated content creation, procedural generation, leveraging modifiable parameters and rule-based systems, emerges as a promising approach. Nonetheless, it could be a demanding endeavor, given its intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Chunyi Sun , Junlin Han , Weijian Deng , Xinlong Wang , Zishan Qin , Stephen Gould

Robots deployed in human-centric environments may need to manipulate a diverse range of articulated objects, such as doors, dishwashers, and cabinets. Articulated objects often come with unexpected articulation mechanisms that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Nick Heppert , Toki Migimatsu , Brent Yi , Claire Chen , Jeannette Bohg

Efficiently leveraging simulation to acquire advanced manipulation skills is both challenging and highly significant. We introduce \textit{ForeRobo}, a generative robotic agent that utilizes generative simulations to autonomously acquire…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dexin wang , Faliang Chang , Chunsheng Liu

Robotic simulation today remains challenging to scale up due to the human efforts required to create diverse simulation tasks and scenes. Simulation-trained policies also face scalability issues as many sim-to-real methods focus on a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Pu Hua , Minghuan Liu , Annabella Macaluso , Yunfeng Lin , Weinan Zhang , Huazhe Xu , Lirui Wang

Recently developed pretrained models can encode rich world knowledge expressed in multiple modalities, such as text and images. However, the outputs of these models cannot be integrated into algorithms to solve sequential decision-making…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yunhao Yang , Cyrus Neary , Ufuk Topcu

We propose novel motion representations for animating articulated objects consisting of distinct parts. In a completely unsupervised manner, our method identifies object parts, tracks them in a driving video, and infers their motions by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Oliver J. Woodford , Jian Ren , Menglei Chai , Sergey Tulyakov

We show that explicit pragmatic inference aids in correctly generating and following natural language instructions for complex, sequential tasks. Our pragmatics-enabled models reason about why speakers produce certain instructions, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Daniel Fried , Jacob Andreas , Dan Klein

Autonomous systems that efficiently utilize tools can assist humans in completing many common tasks such as cooking and cleaning. However, current systems fall short of matching human-level of intelligence in terms of adapting to novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Carl Qi , Yilin Wu , Lifan Yu , Haoyue Liu , Bowen Jiang , Xingyu Lin , David Held

Digital modeling and reconstruction of human faces serve various applications. However, its availability is often hindered by the requirements of data capturing devices, manual labor, and suitable actors. This situation restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yunxuan Cai , Sitao Xiang , Zongjian Li , Haiwei Chen , Yajie Zhao

We describe and implement a symbolic algebra for scalar and vector-valued finite elements, enabling the computer generation of elements with tensor product structure on quadrilateral, hexahedral and triangular prismatic cells. The algebra…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Andrew T. T. McRae , Gheorghe-Teodor Bercea , Lawrence Mitchell , David A. Ham , Colin J. Cotter

Skills are a promising way to improve LLM agent capabilities without retraining, while keeping the added procedure reusable and controllable. However, high-quality skills are still largely written by hand. We introduce SkillGen, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yuchen Ma , Yue Huang , Han Bao , Haomin Zhuang , Swadheen Shukla , Michel Galley , Xiangliang Zhang , Stefan Feuerriegel

Over the past few years there is a growing interest in the learning-based self driving system. To ensure safety, such systems are first developed and validated in simulators before being deployed in the real world. However, most of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Quanyi Li , Zhenghao Peng , Qihang Zhang , Chunxiao Liu , Bolei Zhou

We propose Neural 3D Articulation Prior (NAP), the first 3D deep generative model to synthesize 3D articulated object models. Despite the extensive research on generating 3D objects, compositions, or scenes, there remains a lack of focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jiahui Lei , Congyue Deng , Bokui Shen , Leonidas Guibas , Kostas Daniilidis

Recent advancements in predictive models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in predicting the future state of objects and scenes. However, the lack of categorization based on inherent characteristics continues to hinder the progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yiran Qin , Zhelun Shi , Jiwen Yu , Xijun Wang , Enshen Zhou , Lijun Li , Zhenfei Yin , Xihui Liu , Lu Sheng , Jing Shao , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Ruimao Zhang