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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…

Embodied world models have emerged as a promising paradigm in robotics, most of which leverage large-scale Internet videos or pretrained video generation models to enrich visual and motion priors. However, they still face key challenges: a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yixiang Chen , Peiyan Li , Jiabing Yang , Keji He , Xiangnan Wu , Yuan Xu , Kai Wang , Jing Liu , Nianfeng Liu , Yan Huang , Liang Wang

Robotic manipulation requires understanding both the 3D spatial structure of the environment and its temporal evolution, yet most existing policies overlook one or both. They typically rely on 2D visual observations and backbones pretrained…

Human videos are a scalable source of training data for robot learning. However, humans and robots significantly differ in embodiment, making many human actions infeasible for direct execution on a robot. Still, these demonstrations convey…

We present EmbodiedMAE, a unified 3D multi-modal representation for robot manipulation. Current approaches suffer from significant domain gaps between training datasets and robot manipulation tasks, while also lacking model architectures…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Zibin Dong , Fei Ni , Yifu Yuan , Yinchuan Li , Jianye Hao

This work introduces Video Diffusion Transformer (VDT), which pioneers the use of transformers in diffusion-based video generation. It features transformer blocks with modularized temporal and spatial attention modules to leverage the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Haoyu Lu , Guoxing Yang , Nanyi Fei , Yuqi Huo , Zhiwu Lu , Ping Luo , Mingyu Ding

Video Generation Models (VGMs) have become powerful backbones for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, leveraging large-scale pretraining for robust dynamics modeling. However, current methods underutilize their distribution modeling…

General visual representations learned from web-scale datasets for robotics have achieved great success in recent years, enabling data-efficient robot learning on manipulation tasks; yet these pre-trained representations are mostly on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Chengkai Hou , Yanjie Ze , Yankai Fu , Zeyu Gao , Songbo Hu , Yue Yu , Shanghang Zhang , Huazhe Xu

We present VIDIM, a generative model for video interpolation, which creates short videos given a start and end frame. In order to achieve high fidelity and generate motions unseen in the input data, VIDIM uses cascaded diffusion models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Siddhant Jain , Daniel Watson , Eric Tabellion , Aleksander Hołyński , Ben Poole , Janne Kontkanen

Diffusion models have achieved significant success in image and video generation. This motivates a growing interest in video editing tasks, where videos are edited according to provided text descriptions. However, most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Zihao Zhang , Hui Zhang , Han Hu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

Eye-in-hand cameras have shown promise in enabling greater sample efficiency and generalization in vision-based robotic manipulation. However, for robotic imitation, it is still expensive to have a human teleoperator collect large amounts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Moo Jin Kim , Jiajun Wu , Chelsea Finn

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown great potential in building generalist robots, but still face a dilemma-misalignment of 2D image forecasting and 3D action prediction. Besides, such a vision-action entangled training manner…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wenyao Zhang , Bozhou Zhang , Zekun Qi , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin , Li Zhang

Recent robot foundation models largely rely on large-scale behavior cloning, which imitates expert actions but discards transferable dynamics knowledge embedded in heterogeneous embodied data. While the Unified World Model (UWM) formulation…

Recent advances in imitation learning have shown significant promise for robotic control and embodied intelligence. However, achieving robust generalization across diverse mounted camera observations remains a critical challenge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Travis Davies , Jiahuan Yan , Xiang Chen , Yu Tian , Yueting Zhuang , Yiqi Huang , Luhui Hu

Recent advances in diffusion models have successfully enabled text-guided image inpainting. While it seems straightforward to extend such editing capability into the video domain, there have been fewer works regarding text-guided video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhixing Zhang , Bichen Wu , Xiaoyan Wang , Yaqiao Luo , Luxin Zhang , Yinan Zhao , Peter Vajda , Dimitris Metaxas , Licheng Yu

We introduce UMI-on-Air, a framework for embodiment-aware deployment of embodiment-agnostic manipulation policies. Our approach leverages diverse, unconstrained human demonstrations collected with a handheld gripper (UMI) to train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Harsh Gupta , Xiaofeng Guo , Huy Ha , Chuer Pan , Muqing Cao , Dongjae Lee , Sebastian Scherer , Shuran Song , Guanya Shi

Scaling up robot learning is hindered by the scarcity of robotic demonstrations, whereas human videos offer a vast, untapped source of interaction data. However, bridging the embodiment gap between human hands and robot arms remains a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yifu Xu , Bokai Lin , Xinyu Zhan , Hongjie Fang , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu , Lixin Yang

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

In this work, we address a challenge in video inpainting: reconstructing occluded regions in dynamic, real-world scenarios. Motivated by the need for continuous human motion monitoring in healthcare settings, where facial features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zheyan Zhang , Diego Klabjan , Renee CB Manworren