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Understanding instructional videos requires recognizing fine-grained actions and modeling their temporal relations, which remains challenging for current Video Foundation Models (VFMs). This difficulty stems from noisy web supervision and a…

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Imitation learning for robotic manipulation often suffers from limited generalization and data scarcity, especially in complex, long-horizon tasks. In this work, we introduce a hierarchical framework that leverages code-generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Markus Peschl , Pietro Mazzaglia , Daniel Dijkman

Efficiently predicting motion plans directly from vision remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, where planning typically requires explicit goal specification and task-specific design. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models infer…

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

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to control robots for manipulation from visual observations and natural-language instructions. However, existing hierarchical and autoregressive paradigms often introduce architectural overhead,…

We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a single human demonstration, without requiring task-specific training or paired human-robot data. Our approach is based on two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungjae Park , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Shubham Tulsiani

Vision-language-action (VLA) models typically rely on large-scale real-world videos, whereas simulated data, despite being inexpensive and highly parallelizable to collect, often suffers from a substantial visual domain gap and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chenyu Hui , Xiaodi Huang , Siyu Xu , Yunke Wang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Tao Huang , Chang Xu

The advancement of large Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has significantly improved robotic manipulation in terms of language-guided task execution and generalization to unseen scenarios. While existing VLAs adapted from pretrained…

The diversity, quantity, and quality of manipulation data are critical for training effective robot policies. However, due to hardware and physical setup constraints, collecting large-scale real-world manipulation data remains difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Boyang Wang , Haoran Zhang , Shujie Zhang , Jinkun Hao , Mingda Jia , Qi Lv , Yucheng Mao , Zhaoyang Lyu , Jia Zeng , Xudong Xu , Jiangmiao Pang

Vision-based robotic policies often struggle with even minor viewpoint changes, underscoring the need for view-invariant visual representations. This challenge becomes more pronounced in real-world settings, where viewpoint variability is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Youngjoon Jeong , Junha Chun , Taesup Kim

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 seek to learn a generalizable goal-conditioned policy that enables zero-shot robot manipulation: interacting with unseen objects in novel scenes without test-time adaptation. While typical approaches rely on a large amount of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani

World model-based policy evaluation is a practical proxy for testing real-world robot control by rolling out candidate actions in action-conditioned video diffusion models. As these models increasingly adopt latent diffusion modeling (LDM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Nilaksh , Saurav Jha , Artem Zholus , Sarath Chandar

Diffusion Policy (DP) enables robots to learn complex behaviors by imitating expert demonstrations through action diffusion. However, in practical applications, hardware limitations often degrade data quality, while real-time constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jiahua Ma , Yiran Qin , Yixiong Li , Xuanqi Liao , Yulan Guo , Ruimao Zhang

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) can generate high-quality videos, but often struggle with producing temporally coherent motion. Optical flow supervision is a promising approach to address this, with prior works commonly employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kuanting Wu , Kei Ota , Asako Kanezaki

Robots often struggle to follow free-form human instructions in real-world settings due to computational and sensing limitations. We address this gap with a lightweight, fully on-device pipeline that converts natural-language commands into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Archit Sharma , Dharmendra Sharma , John Rebeiro , Peeyush Thakur , Narendra Dhar , Laxmidhar Behera

Recent advances in diffusion models have opened new avenues for research into embodied AI agents and robotics. Despite significant achievements in complex robotic locomotion and skills, mobile manipulation-a capability that requires the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sixu Yan , Zeyu Zhang , Muzhi Han , Zaijin Wang , Qi Xie , Zhitian Li , Zhehan Li , Hangxin Liu , Xinggang Wang , Song-Chun Zhu

Visual-motor policy learning has advanced with architectures like diffusion-based policies, known for modeling complex robotic trajectories. However, their prolonged inference times hinder high-frequency control tasks requiring real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Bofang Jia , Pengxiang Ding , Can Cui , Mingyang Sun , Pengfang Qian , Siteng Huang , Zhaoxin Fan , Donglin Wang

Recent video generation models demonstrate remarkable ability to capture complex physical interactions and scene evolution over time. To leverage their spatiotemporal priors, robotics works have adapted video models for policy learning but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Moo Jin Kim , Yihuai Gao , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yen-Chen Lin , Yunhao Ge , Grace Lam , Percy Liang , Shuran Song , Ming-Yu Liu , Chelsea Finn , Jinwei Gu

The emergence of Diffusion Transformers (DiT) has brought significant advancements to video generation, especially in text-to-video and image-to-video tasks. Although video generation is widely applied in various fields, most existing…

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