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The exploration problem is one of the main challenges in deep reinforcement learning (RL). Recent promising works tried to handle the problem with population-based methods, which collect samples with diverse behaviors derived from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiajun Fan , Yuzheng Zhuang , Yuecheng Liu , Jianye Hao , Bin Wang , Jiangcheng Zhu , Hao Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

Human motion generation is a critical task with a wide range of applications. Achieving high realism in generated motions requires naturalness, smoothness, and plausibility. Despite rapid advancements in the field, current generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Haoru Wang , Wentao Zhu , Luyi Miao , Yishu Xu , Feng Gao , Qi Tian , Yizhou Wang

Humans inhabit a world defined by interactions -- with other humans, objects, and environments. These interactive movements not only convey our relationships with our surroundings but also demonstrate how we perceive and communicate with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kewei Sui , Anindita Ghosh , Inwoo Hwang , Bing Zhou , Jian Wang , Chuan Guo

Enabling humanoid robots to reliably execute complex multi-step manipulation tasks is crucial for their effective deployment in industrial and household environments. This paper presents a hierarchical planning and control framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-11 André Schakkal , Ben Zandonati , Zhutian Yang , Navid Azizan

In this work, we propose an LLM-based BT generation framework to leverage the strengths of both for sequential manipulation planning. To enable human-robot collaborative task planning and enhance intuitive robot programming by nonexperts,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jicong Ao , Yansong Wu , Fan Wu , Sami Haddadin

Over the past two decades, researchers have made significant steps in simulating agent-based human crowds, yet most efforts remain focused on low-level tasks such as collision avoidance, path following, and flocking. As a result, these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Andreas Panayiotou , Panayiotis Charalambous , Ioannis Karamouzas

In spite of the great progress in human motion prediction, it is still a challenging task to predict those aperiodic and complicated motions. We believe that to capture the correlations among human body components is the key to understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Honghong Zhou , Caili Guo , Hao Zhang , Yanjun Wang

Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data. Traditionally, these models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Milena Rmus , Akshay K. Jagadish , Marvin Mathony , Tobias Ludwig , Eric Schulz

Generating realistic human motion from given action descriptions has experienced significant advancements because of the emerging requirement of digital humans. While recent works have achieved impressive results in generating motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yaqi Zhang , Di Huang , Bin Liu , Shixiang Tang , Yan Lu , Lu Chen , Lei Bai , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu , Wanli Ouyang

Long-term Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) is crucial for enabling flexible manufacturing systems and integrating companion robots into daily human environments over extended periods. This paper identifies several key challenges for such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Peiqi Yu , Abulikemu Abuduweili , Ruixuan Liu , Changliu Liu

We revisit human motion synthesis, a task useful in various real world applications, in this paper. Whereas a number of methods have been developed previously for this task, they are often limited in two aspects: focusing on the poses while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jingbo Wang , Sijie Yan , Bo Dai , Dahua LIn

Humanoid robots are increasingly demanded to operate in interactive and human-surrounded environments while achieving sophisticated locomotion and manipulation tasks. To accomplish these tasks, roboticists unremittingly seek for advanced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Ye Zhao

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

Reinforcement learning has shown great promise for synthesizing realistic human behaviors by learning humanoid control policies from motion capture data. However, it is still very challenging to reproduce sophisticated human skills like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ye Yuan , Kris Kitani

Humanoid robots are drawing significant attention as versatile platforms for complex motor control, human-robot interaction, and general-purpose physical intelligence. However, achieving efficient whole-body control (WBC) in humanoids…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mingqi Yuan , Tao Yu , Wenqi Ge , Xiuyong Yao , Huijiang Wang , Jiayu Chen , Bo Li , Wei Zhang , Wenjun Zeng , Hua Chen , Xin Jin

Whole-body control (WBC) of humanoid robots has witnessed remarkable progress in skill versatility, enabling a wide range of applications such as locomotion, teleoperation, and motion tracking. Despite these achievements, existing WBC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Weishuai Zeng , Shunlin Lu , Kangning Yin , Xiaojie Niu , Minyue Dai , Jingbo Wang , Jiangmiao Pang

Human-human motion generation is essential for understanding humans as social beings. Current methods fall into two main categories: single-person-based methods and separate modeling-based methods. To delve into this field, we abstract the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yabiao Wang , Shuo Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Ke Fan , Jiafu Wu , Zhucun Xue , Yong Liu

Learning agile humanoid behaviors from human motion offers a powerful route to natural, coordinated control, but existing approaches face a persistent trade-off: reference-tracking policies are often brittle outside the demonstration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jiashun Wang , M. Eva Mungai , He Li , Jean Pierre Sleiman , Jessica Hodgins , Farbod Farshidian

Learning from real-world robot demonstrations holds promise for interacting with complex real-world environments. However, the complexity and variability of interaction dynamics often cause purely positional controllers to struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lai Wei , Xuanbin Peng , Ri-Zhao Qiu , Tianshu Huang , Xuxin Cheng , Xiaolong Wang

There are several challenges in developing a model for multi-tasking humanoid control. Reinforcement learning and imitation learning approaches are quite popular in this domain. However, there is a trade-off between the two. Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Siddharth Padmanabhan , Kazuki Miyazawa , Takato Horii , Takayuki Nagai