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This article presents a hybrid approach based on a Grounded Text Generation (GTG) model to building robust task bots at scale. GTG is a hybrid model which uses a large-scale Transformer neural network as its backbone, combined with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Jianfeng Gao , Baolin Peng , Chunyuan Li , Jinchao Li , Shahin Shayandeh , Lars Liden , Heung-Yeung Shum

Long-tail and rare event problems become crucial when autonomous driving algorithms are applied in the real world. For the purpose of evaluating systems in challenging settings, we propose a generative framework to create safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Wenhao Ding , Baiming Chen , Minjun Xu , Ding Zhao

World models (WMs) demonstrate strong capabilities in prediction, generation, and planning tasks. Existing WMs primarily focus on unstructured data and cannot leverage the ubiquitous structured data, often represented as graphs, in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tao Feng , Yexin Wu , Guanyu Lin , Jiaxuan You

Learning generalist embodied agents, able to solve multitudes of tasks in different domains is a long-standing problem. Reinforcement learning (RL) is hard to scale up as it requires a complex reward design for each task. In contrast,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Pietro Mazzaglia , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt , Aaron Courville , Sai Rajeswar

Task-Oriented Grasping (TOG) requires robots to select grasps that are functionally appropriate for a specified task - a challenge that demands an understanding of task semantics, object affordances, and functional constraints. We present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shailesh , Alok Raj , Nayan Kumar , Priya Shukla , Andrew Melnik , Michael Beetz , Gora Chand Nandi

Realizing scaling laws in embodied AI has become a focus. However, previous work has been scattered across diverse simulation platforms, with assets and models lacking unified interfaces, which has led to inefficiencies in research. To…

Visual affordance learning is a key component for robots to understand how to interact with objects. Conventional approaches in this field rely on pre-defined objects and actions, falling short of capturing diverse interactions in realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Tomoya Yoshida , Shuhei Kurita , Taichi Nishimura , Shinsuke Mori

Recent advances in large language model (LLM) have empowered autonomous agents to perform multi-turn interactions with tools and environments. However, scaling such agent training is limited by the lack of diverse and reliable environments.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhaoyang Wang , Canwen Xu , Boyi Liu , Yite Wang , Siwei Han , Zhewei Yao , Huaxiu Yao , Yuxiong He

Though reinforcement learning has greatly benefited from the incorporation of neural networks, the inability to verify the correctness of such systems limits their use. Current work in explainable deep learning focuses on explaining only a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Nicholay Topin , Manuela Veloso

The rapid development of generative technology opens up possibility for higher level of automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) embodiment in robotic systems is imminent. However, due to the blackbox nature of the generative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yihao Liu , Mehran Armand

Learning robust manipulation policies typically requires large and diverse datasets, the collection of which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and often impractical for dynamic environments. In this work, we introduce DynaMimicGen (D-MG),…

As general intelligent agents are poised for widespread deployment in diverse households, evaluation tailored to each unique unseen 3D environment has become a critical prerequisite. However, existing benchmarks suffer from severe data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xinyi He , Ying Yang , Chuanjian Fu , Sihan Guo , Songchun Zhu , Lifeng Fan , Zhenliang Zhang , Yujia Peng

Real-world artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly required to operate autonomously in dynamic, uncertain, and continuously changing environments. However, most existing AI models rely on predefined objectives, static training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hong Su

Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence have triggered a surge in demand for machine learning training, which poses significant cost burdens and environmental challenges due to its substantial energy consumption.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Siyue Zhang , Minrui Xu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Dusit Niyato

We propose the use of latent space generative world models to address the covariate shift problem in autonomous driving. A world model is a neural network capable of predicting an agent's next state given past states and actions. By…

High-level autonomous operations depend on a robot's ability to construct a sufficiently expressive model of its environment. Traditional three-dimensional (3D) scene representations, such as point clouds and occupancy grids, provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chad R Samuelson , Timothy W McLain , Joshua G Mangelson

In real-world scenarios, human dialogues are multi-round and diverse. Furthermore, human instructions can be unclear and human responses are unrestricted. Interactive robots face difficulties in understanding human intents and generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhe Zhang , Wei Chai , Jiankun Wang

Humanoid robots, with their human-like form, are uniquely suited for interacting in environments built for people. However, enabling humanoids to reason, plan, and act in complex open-world settings remains a challenge. World models, models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Muhammad Qasim Ali , Aditya Sridhar , Shahbuland Matiana , Alex Wong , Mohammad Al-Sharman

LLM-based agents can autonomously accomplish complex tasks across various domains. However, to further cultivate capabilities such as adaptive behavior and long-term decision-making, training on static datasets built from human-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yuchen Huang , Sijia Li , Minghao Liu , Wei Liu , Shijue Huang , Zhiyuan Fan , Hou Pong Chan , Yi R. Fung

A fundamental objective in intelligent robotics is to move towards lifelong learning robot that can learn and adapt to unseen scenarios over time. However, continually learning new tasks would introduce catastrophic forgetting problems due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Pengzhi Yang , Xinyu Wang , Ruipeng Zhang , Cong Wang , Frans A. Oliehoek , Jens Kober