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Our understanding of the world depends highly on our capacity to produce intuitive and simplified representations which can be easily used to solve problems. We reproduce this simplification process using a neural network to build a low…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Timothée Lesort , Mathieu Seurin , Xinrui Li , Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez , David Filliat

Autonomous robots require high degrees of cognitive and motoric intelligence to come into our everyday life. In non-structured environments and in the presence of uncertainties, such degrees of intelligence are not easy to obtain.…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have gained popularity for learning robotic manipulation tasks that follow language instructions. State-of-the-art VLAs, such as OpenVLA and $\pi_{0}$, were trained on large-scale, manually labeled action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bahey Tharwat , Yara Nasser , Ali Abouzeid , Ian Reid

We present a scalable framework for cross-embodiment humanoid robot control by learning a shared latent representation that unifies motion across humans and diverse humanoid platforms, including single-arm, dual-arm, and legged humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yashuai Yan , Dongheui Lee

In the context of imitation learning applied to dexterous robotic hands, the high complexity of the systems makes learning complex manipulation tasks challenging. However, the numerous datasets depicting human hands in various different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Davide Liconti , Yasunori Toshimitsu , Robert Katzschmann

Recent progress in large models has led to significant advances in unified multimodal generation and understanding. However, the development of models that unify motion-language generation and understanding remains largely underexplored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zekun Li , Sizhe An , Chengcheng Tang , Chuan Guo , Ivan Shugurov , Linguang Zhang , Amy Zhao , Srinath Sridhar , Lingling Tao , Abhay Mittal

Learning or identifying dynamics from a sequence of high-dimensional observations is a difficult challenge in many domains, including reinforcement learning and control. The problem has recently been studied from a generative perspective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Oliver Limoyo , Bryan Chan , Filip Marić , Brandon Wagstaff , Rupam Mahmood , Jonathan Kelly

Humans train robots to complete tasks in one environment, and expect robots to perform those same tasks in new environments. As humans, we know which aspects of the environment (i.e., the state) are relevant to the task. But there are also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Sagar Parekh , Preston Culbertson , Dylan P. Losey

We introduce a simple new method for visual imitation learning, which allows a novel robot manipulation task to be learned from a single human demonstration, without requiring any prior knowledge of the object being interacted with. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Edward Johns

Pre-training large models on vast amounts of web data has proven to be an effective approach for obtaining powerful, general models in domains such as language and vision. However, this paradigm has not yet taken hold in reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Dominik Schmidt , Minqi Jiang

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) models, have enabled the creation of visually compelling and dynamic videos from simple textual descriptions or initial frames. However, these models often fail to provide an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Thomas Ressler-Antal , Frank Fundel , Malek Ben Alaya , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Felix Krause , Ming Gui , Björn Ommer

State representation learning aims to capture latent factors of an environment. Contrastive methods have performed better than generative models in previous state representation learning research. Although some researchers realize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Li Meng , Morten Goodwin , Anis Yazidi , Paal Engelstad

This paper takes a step towards temporal reasoning in a dynamically changing video, not in the pixel space that constitutes its frames, but in a latent space that describes the non-linear dynamics of the objects in its world. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Marco Fraccaro , Simon Kamronn , Ulrich Paquet , Ole Winther

As embodied agents operate in increasingly complex environments, the ability to perceive, track, and reason about individual object instances over time becomes essential, especially in tasks requiring sequenced interactions with visually…

Learning robot policies using imitation learning requires collecting large amounts of costly action-labeled expert demonstrations, which fundamentally limits the scale of training data. A promising approach to address this bottleneck is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Liang , Pavel Czempin , Matthew Hong , Yutai Zhou , Erdem Biyik , Stephen Tu

While visual imitation learning offers one of the most effective ways of learning from visual demonstrations, generalizing from them requires either hundreds of diverse demonstrations, task specific priors, or large, hard-to-train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jyothish Pari , Nur Muhammad Shafiullah , Sridhar Pandian Arunachalam , Lerrel Pinto

Recent developments in Large Language Models pre-trained on extensive corpora have shown significant success in various natural language processing tasks with minimal fine-tuning. This success offers new promise for robotics, which has long…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yi Chen , Yuying Ge , Weiliang Tang , Yizhuo Li , Yixiao Ge , Mingyu Ding , Ying Shan , Xihui Liu

We can make it easier for disabled users to control assistive robots by mapping the user's low-dimensional joystick inputs to high-dimensional, complex actions. Prior works learn these mappings from human demonstrations: a non-disabled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Shaunak A. Mehta , Sagar Parekh , Dylan P. Losey

The ability to plan into the future while utilizing only raw high-dimensional observations, such as images, can provide autonomous agents with broad capabilities. Visual model-based reinforcement learning (RL) methods that plan future…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Oleh Rybkin , Chuning Zhu , Anusha Nagabandi , Kostas Daniilidis , Igor Mordatch , Sergey Levine

Although humanoid and quadruped robots provide a wide range of capabilities, current control methods, such as Deep Reinforcement Learning, focus mainly on single skills. This approach is inefficient for solving more complicated tasks where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Maciej Stępień , Rafael Kourdis , Constant Roux , Olivier Stasse