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A key challenge in scaling up robot learning to many skills and environments is removing the need for human supervision, so that robots can collect their own data and improve their own performance without being limited by the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Videos provide a rich source of information, but it is generally hard to extract dynamical parameters of interest. Inferring those parameters from a video stream would be beneficial for physical reasoning. Robots performing tasks in dynamic…

Pre-training for Reinforcement Learning (RL) with purely video data is a valuable yet challenging problem. Although in-the-wild videos are readily available and inhere a vast amount of prior world knowledge, the absence of action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hao Luo , Bohan Zhou , Zongqing Lu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have recently been leveraged to generate robotic actions, forming Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, directly adapting a pretrained VLM for robotic control remains challenging, particularly when…

This paper presents a novel approach for pretraining robotic manipulation Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models using a large corpus of unscripted real-life video recordings of human hand activities. Treating human hand as dexterous robot…

In this work, we aim to learn a unified vision-based policy for multi-fingered robot hands to manipulate a variety of objects in diverse poses. Though prior work has shown benefits of using human videos for policy learning, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Etienne Arlaud , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Learning transferable latent actions from large-scale object manipulation videos can significantly enhance generalization in downstream robotics tasks, as such representations are agnostic to different robot embodiments. Existing approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zuolei Li , Xingyu Gao , Xiaofan Wang , Jianlong Fu

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promise for robot control, but their dependence on action supervision limits scalability and generalization. To address this challenge, we introduce CARE, a novel framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jiaqi Shi , Xulong Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang

The ability to specify robot commands by a non-expert user is critical for building generalist agents capable of solving a large variety of tasks. One convenient way to specify the intended robot goal is by a video of a person demonstrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Elliot Chane-Sane , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Action-labeled data for robotics is scarce and expensive, limiting the generalization of learned policies. In contrast, vast amounts of action-free video data are readily available, but translating these observations into effective policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jeremy A. Collins , Loránd Cheng , Kunal Aneja , Albert Wilcox , Benjamin Joffe , Animesh Garg

One of the central challenges preventing robots from acquiring complex manipulation skills is the prohibitive cost of collecting large-scale robot demonstrations. In contrast, humans are able to learn efficiently by watching others interact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Changhe Chen , Quantao Yang , Xiaohao Xu , Nima Fazeli , Olov Andersson

Video is a promising source of knowledge for embodied agents to learn models of the world's dynamics. Large deep networks have become increasingly effective at modeling complex video data in a self-supervised manner, as evaluated by metrics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Stephen Tian , Chelsea Finn , Jiajun Wu

In order to autonomously learn wide repertoires of complex skills, robots must be able to learn from their own autonomously collected data, without human supervision. One learning signal that is always available for autonomously collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Frederik Ebert , Chelsea Finn , Alex X. Lee , Sergey Levine

A defining characteristic of intelligent systems is the ability to make action decisions based on the anticipated outcomes. Video prediction systems have been demonstrated as a solution for predicting how the future will unfold visually,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Manuel Serra Nunes , Atabak Dehban , Plinio Moreno , José Santos-Victor

While leveraging abundant human videos and simulated robot data poses a scalable solution to the scarcity of real-world robot data, the generalization capability of existing vision-language-action models (VLAs) remains limited by mismatches…

Distilling knowledge from human demonstrations is a promising way for robots to learn and act. Existing methods, which often rely on coarsely-aligned video pairs, are typically constrained to learning global or task-level features. As a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sicheng Xie , Haidong Cao , Zejia Weng , Zhen Xing , Haoran Chen , Shiwei Shen , Jiaqi Leng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We propose to learn tasks directly from visual demonstrations by learning to predict the outcome of human and robot actions on an environment. We enable a robot to physically perform a human demonstrated task without knowledge of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Adam Tow , Niko Sünderhauf , Sareh Shirazi , Michael Milford , Jürgen Leitner

This paper explores feature prediction as a stand-alone objective for unsupervised learning from video and introduces V-JEPA, a collection of vision models trained solely using a feature prediction objective, without the use of pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Adrien Bardes , Quentin Garrido , Jean Ponce , Xinlei Chen , Michael Rabbat , Yann LeCun , Mahmoud Assran , Nicolas Ballas

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models built upon pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved significant improvements in robotic manipulation. However, current VLAs still suffer from low sample efficiency and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shangchen Miao , Ningya Feng , Jialong Wu , Ye Lin , Xu He , Dong Li , Mingsheng Long

Video generation models offer a promising imagination mechanism for robot manipulation by predicting long-horizon future observations, but effectively exploiting these imagined futures for action execution remains challenging. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yajie Li , Bozhou Zhang , Chun Gu , Zipei Ma , Jiahui Zhang , Jiankang Deng , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang