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Generating high-quality and diverse human images is an important yet challenging task in vision and graphics. However, existing generative models often fall short under the high diversity of clothing shapes and textures. Furthermore, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yuming Jiang , Shuai Yang , Haonan Qiu , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

While large multimodal models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable progress, generating pixel-level masks for image reasoning tasks involving multiple open-world targets remains a challenge. To bridge this gap, we introduce PixelLM, an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhongwei Ren , Zhicheng Huang , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao , Dongmei Fu , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin

Understanding and reasoning about objects' physical properties in the natural world is a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence. While some properties like colors and shapes can be directly observed, others, such as mass and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhenfang Chen , Shilong Dong , Kexin Yi , Yunzhu Li , Mingyu Ding , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Recent progress in robot learning has been driven by large-scale datasets and powerful visuomotor policy architectures, yet policy robustness remains limited by the substantial cost of collecting diverse demonstrations, particularly for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yujie Zhao , Hongwei Fan , Di Chen , Shengcong Chen , Liliang Chen , Xiaoqi Li , Guanghui Ren , Hao Dong

Pre-trained on extensive text and image corpora, current Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLM) have shown strong capabilities in general visual reasoning tasks. However, their performance is still lacking in physical domains that require…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Erle Zhu , Yadi Liu , Zhe Zhang , Xujun Li , Jin Zhou , Xinjie Yu , Minlie Huang , Hongning Wang

Puzzles have long served as compact and revealing probes of human cognition, isolating abstraction, rule discovery, and systematic reasoning with minimal reliance on prior knowledge. Leveraging these properties, visual puzzles have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Maria Lymperaiou , Vasileios Karampinis , Giorgos Filandrianos , Angelos Vlachos , Chrysoula Zerva , Athanasios Voulodimos

The autonomous evolution of networked AI systems relies heavily on robust environmental perception. However, physical understanding remains brittle in current models because key physical signals are visually ambiguous and sparsely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Minghao Han , Dingkang Yang , Yue Jiang , Yizhou Liu , Lihua Zhang

As general-purpose tools, Large Language Models (LLMs) must often reason about everyday physical environments. In a question-and-answer capacity, understanding the interactions of physical objects may be necessary to give appropriate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Matteo G. Mecattaf , Ben Slater , Marko Tešić , Jonathan Prunty , Konstantinos Voudouris , Lucy G. Cheke

Although Vision Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong perceptual abilities and impressive visual reasoning, they struggle with attention to detail and precise action planning in complex, dynamic environments, leading to subpar performance.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xinrun Xu , Pi Bu , Ye Wang , Börje F. Karlsson , Ziming Wang , Tengtao Song , Qi Zhu , Jun Song , Zhiming Ding , Bo Zheng

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming scientific workflows, not only through their generative capabilities but also through their emerging ability to use tools, reason about data, and coordinate complex analytical tasks. Yet in most…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yifang Wang , Rui Sheng , Erzhuo Shao , Yifan Qian , Haotian Li , Nan Cao , Dashun Wang

Modeling dynamical systems is important in many disciplines, e.g., control, robotics, or neurotechnology. Commonly the state of these systems is not directly observed, but only available through noisy and potentially high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-29 Niklas Wahlström , Thomas B. Schön , Marc Peter Deisenroth

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…

Humans have the ability to seamlessly combine low-level visual input with high-level symbolic reasoning often in the form of recognising objects, learning relations between them and applying rules. Neuro-symbolic systems aim to bring a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nuri Cingillioglu , Alessandra Russo

Effective data visualization is a key part of the discovery process in the era of big data. It is the bridge between the quantitative content of the data and human intuition, and thus an essential component of the scientific path from data…

Physical AI systems need to perceive, understand, and perform complex actions in the physical world. In this paper, we present the Cosmos-Reason1 models that can understand the physical world and generate appropriate embodied decisions…

Wave-physics-based intelligent sensing has driven multidisciplinary applications from smart industries to decision-making systems. Traditional sensing paradigms transform physical waveforms into human-understandable intermediate…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Yuhang Zheng , Yang Zhao , Xiuting Zou , Chunyu Zhao , Zhiyi Yu , Zechen Li , Jiaxing Wu , Shaofu Xu , Weiwen Zou

Dimensionless numbers and scaling laws provide elegant insights into the characteristic properties of physical systems. Classical dimensional analysis and similitude theory fail to identify a set of unique dimensionless numbers for a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-28 Xiaoyu Xie , Wing Kam Liu , Zhengtao Gan

Learning robotic manipulation policies directly in the real world can be expensive and time-consuming. While reinforcement learning (RL) policies trained in simulation present a scalable alternative, effective sim-to-real transfer remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Maggie Wang , Stephen Tian , Aiden Swann , Ola Shorinwa , Jiajun Wu , Mac Schwager

All physical laws are described as relationships between state variables that give a complete and non-redundant description of the relevant system dynamics. However, despite the prevalence of computing power and AI, the process of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Boyuan Chen , Kuang Huang , Sunand Raghupathi , Ishaan Chandratreya , Qiang Du , Hod Lipson

Distilling analytical models from data has the potential to advance our understanding and prediction of nonlinear dynamics. Although discovery of governing equations based on observed system states (e.g., trajectory time series) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Lele Luan , Yang Liu , Hao Sun