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Diffusion generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in visual domains such as image and video generation. They have also recently emerged as a promising approach in robotics, especially in robot manipulations. Diffusion models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Rosa Wolf , Yitian Shi , Sheng Liu , Rania Rayyes

Diffusion models have recently advanced human motion generation, producing realistic and diverse animations from textual prompts. However, adapting these models to unseen actions or styles typically requires additional motion capture data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Girolamo Macaluso , Lorenzo Mandelli , Mirko Bicchierai , Stefano Berretti , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Sim-to-real transfer remains a major challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) for robotics, as policies trained in simulation often fail to generalize to the real world due to discrepancies in environment dynamics. Domain Randomization (DR)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Marco Iannotta , Yuxuan Yang , Johannes A. Stork , Erik Schaffernicht , Todor Stoyanov

Many robotic manipulation tasks require sensing and responding to force signals such as torque to assess whether the task has been successfully completed and to enable closed-loop control. However, current Vision-Language-Action (VLA)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Zongzheng Zhang , Haobo Xu , Zhuo Yang , Chenghao Yue , Zehao Lin , Huan-ang Gao , Ziwei Wang , Hao Zhao

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled text-controlled synthesis of realistic and diverse images with impressive quality. Despite these remarkable advances, the application of text-to-image generative models in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yulu Gan , Sungwoo Park , Alexander Schubert , Anthony Philippakis , Ahmed M. Alaa

Adding additional control to pretrained diffusion models has become an increasingly popular research area, with extensive applications in computer vision, reinforcement learning, and AI for science. Recently, several studies have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yifei Shen , Xinyang Jiang , Yezhen Wang , Yifan Yang , Dongqi Han , Dongsheng Li

Current controllable diffusion models typically rely on fixed architectures that modify intermediate activations to inject guidance conditioned on a new modality. This approach uses a static conditioning strategy for a dynamic, multi-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Minkyoung Cho , Ruben Ohana , Christian Jacobsen , Adityan Jothi , Min-Hung Chen , Z. Morley Mao , Ethem Can

In this work we explore a new approach for robots to teach themselves about the world simply by observing it. In particular we investigate the effectiveness of learning task-agnostic representations for continuous control tasks. We extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Debidatta Dwibedi , Jonathan Tompson , Corey Lynch , Pierre Sermanet

Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning (OMRL) aims to learn transferable knowledge from offline datasets to enhance the learning process for new target tasks. Context-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) adopts a context encoder to expediently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Chenyang Zhao , Zihao Zhou , Bin Liu

The feasibility of collecting a large amount of expert demonstrations has inspired growing research interests in learning-to-drive settings, where models learn by imitating the driving behaviour from experts. However, exclusively relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jonathan Francis , Bingqing Chen , Weiran Yao , Eric Nyberg , Jean Oh

Observing a human demonstrator manipulate objects provides a rich, scalable and inexpensive source of data for learning robotic policies. However, transferring skills from human videos to a robotic manipulator poses several challenges, not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Minttu Alakuijala , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Julien Mairal , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

Diffusion models have enabled high-quality, conditional image editing capabilities. We propose to expand their arsenal, and demonstrate that off-the-shelf diffusion models can be used for a wide range of cross-domain compositing tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Roy Hachnochi , Mingrui Zhao , Nadav Orzech , Rinon Gal , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Daniel Cohen-Or , Amit Haim Bermano

We explore how to enhance next-token prediction models to perform in-context imitation learning on a real robot, where the robot executes new tasks by interpreting contextual information provided during the input phase, without updating its…

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in various domains, yet it often relies on carefully designed programmatic reward functions to guide agent behavior. Designing such reward functions can be challenging and may not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Qi Wang , Mian Wu , Yuyang Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Wenyao Zhang , Haoxiang You , Yunbo Wang , Xin Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zeng

We present OCRA, an Object-Centric framework for video-based human-to-Robot Action transfer that learns directly from human demonstration videos to enable robust manipulation. Object-centric learning emphasizes task-relevant objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Kuanning Wang , Ke Fan , Yuqian Fu , Siyu Lin , Hu Luo , Daniel Seita , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 12 different tasks from 4…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Cheng Chi , Zhenjia Xu , Siyuan Feng , Eric Cousineau , Yilun Du , Benjamin Burchfiel , Russ Tedrake , Shuran Song

Real-time adaptation is imperative to the control of robots operating in complex, dynamic environments. Adaptive control laws can endow even nonlinear systems with good trajectory tracking performance, provided that any uncertain dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Spencer M. Richards , Navid Azizan , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Marco Pavone

Robotic manipulation policies are commonly initialized through imitation learning, but their performance is limited by the scarcity and narrow coverage of expert data. Reinforcement learning can refine polices to alleviate this limitation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhennan Jiang , Kai Liu , Yuxin Qin , Shuai Tian , Yupeng Zheng , Mingcai Zhou , Chao Yu , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

Generalization to unseen environments is a significant challenge in the field of robotics and control. In this work, we focus on contextual reinforcement learning, where agents act within environments with varying contexts, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Bram Grooten , Patrick MacAlpine , Kaushik Subramanian , Peter Stone , Peter R. Wurman