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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are promising for generalist robot manipulation but remain brittle in out-of-distribution (OOD) settings, especially with limited real-robot data. To resolve the generalization bottleneck, we introduce a…

We are interested in enabling visual planning for complex long-horizon tasks in the space of generated videos and language, leveraging recent advances in large generative models pretrained on Internet-scale data. To this end, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yilun Du , Mengjiao Yang , Pete Florence , Fei Xia , Ayzaan Wahid , Brian Ichter , Pierre Sermanet , Tianhe Yu , Pieter Abbeel , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Leslie Kaelbling , Andy Zeng , Jonathan Tompson

Language-guided long-horizon manipulation of deformable objects presents significant challenges due to high degrees of freedom, complex dynamics, and the need for accurate vision-language grounding. In this work, we focus on multi-step…

Vision-language model (VLM) fine-tuning for application-specific visual grounding based on natural language instructions has become one of the most popular approaches for learning-enabled autonomous systems. However, such fine-tuning relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Joshua R. Waite , Md. Zahid Hasan , Qisai Liu , Zhanhong Jiang , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked a revolution across many research fields. In robotics, the integration of common-sense knowledge from LLMs into task and motion planning has drastically advanced the field by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuchen Liu , Luigi Palmieri , Sebastian Koch , Ilche Georgievski , Marco Aiello

Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics. This requires robots to perceive and reason over the current task scene through multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jin Wang , Kim Tien Ly , Jacques Cloete , Nikos Tsagarakis , Ioannis Havoutis

Recent work on robot manipulation has advanced policy generalization to novel scenarios. However, it is often difficult to characterize how different evaluation settings actually represent generalization from the training distribution of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jensen Gao , Dorsa Sadigh , Sandy Huang , Dhruv Shah

Ensuring reliable autonomous operation when visual input is degraded remains a key challenge in intelligent vehicles and robotics. We present DepthVision, a multimodal framework that enables Vision--Language Models (VLMs) to exploit LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sven Kirchner , Nils Purschke , Ross Greer , Alois C. Knoll

Accurately estimating task progress is critical for embodied agents to plan and execute long-horizon, multi-step tasks. Despite promising advances, existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) based methods primarily leverage their video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuelin Zhang , Sijie Cheng , Chen Li , Zongzhao Li , Yuxin Huang , Yang Liu , Wenbing Huang

Solving long-horizon tasks requires robots to integrate high-level semantic reasoning with low-level physical interaction. While vision-language models (VLMs) and video generation models can decompose tasks and imagine outcomes, they often…

Recent advances in visual reasoning (VR), particularly with the aid of Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs), show promise but require access to large-scale datasets and face challenges such as high computational costs and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fucai Ke , Zhixi Cai , Simindokht Jahangard , Weiqing Wang , Pari Delir Haghighi , Hamid Rezatofighi

In the realm of data-driven AI technology, the application of open-source large language models (LLMs) in robotic task planning represents a significant milestone. Recent robotic task planning methods based on open-source LLMs typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yike Wu , Jiatao Zhang , Nan Hu , LanLing Tang , Guilin Qi , Jun Shao , Jie Ren , Wei Song

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate remarkable potential in robotic manipulation, yet challenges persist in executing complex fine manipulation tasks with high speed and precision. While excelling at high-level planning, existing VLM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Qingxuan Jia , Guoqin Tang , Zeyuan Huang , Zixuan Hao , Ning Ji , Shihang , Yin , Gang Chen

We study long-horizon planning in 3D environments from under-specified natural-language goals using only visual observations, focusing on multi-step 3D box rearrangement tasks. Existing approaches typically rely on symbolic planners with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ashish Malik , Caleb Lowe , Aayam Shrestha , Stefan Lee , Fuxin Li , Alan Fern

3D visual grounding aims to identify and localize objects in a 3D space based on textual descriptions. However, existing methods struggle with disentangling targets from anchors in complex multi-anchor queries and resolving inconsistencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ronggang Huang , Haoxin Yang , Yan Cai , Xuemiao Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Shengfeng He

Many advanced Learning from Demonstration (LfD) methods consider the decomposition of complex, real-world tasks into simpler sub-tasks. By reusing the corresponding sub-policies within and between tasks, they provide training data for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Kyriacos Shiarlis , Markus Wulfmeier , Sasha Salter , Shimon Whiteson , Ingmar Posner

When searching for objects in cluttered environments, it is often necessary to perform complex interactions in order to move occluding objects out of the way and fully reveal the object of interest and make it graspable. Due to the…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise generalist robot manipulation, but are typically trained and deployed as short-horizon policies that assume the latest observation is sufficient for action reasoning. This assumption breaks in…

This paper introduces RoboDexVLM, an innovative framework for robot task planning and grasp detection tailored for a collaborative manipulator equipped with a dexterous hand. Previous methods focus on simplified and limited manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haichao Liu , Sikai Guo , Pengfei Mai , Jiahang Cao , Haoang Li , Jun Ma

Despite tremendous recent advances in large model reasoning ability, vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with detailed visual reasoning, especially when compute resources are limited. To address this challenge, we draw inspiration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Sunil Kumar , Bowen Zhao , Leo Dirac , Paulina Varshavskaya