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Multi-step manipulation in dynamic environments remains challenging. Imitation learning (IL) is reactive but lacks compositional generalization, since monolithic policies do not decide which skill to reuse when scenes change. Classical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yifei Simon Shao , Yuchen Zheng , Sunan Sun , Pratik Chaudhari , Vijay Kumar , Nadia Figueroa

Randomly masking and predicting word tokens has been a successful approach in pre-training language models for a variety of downstream tasks. In this work, we observe that the same idea also applies naturally to sequential decision-making,…

Tabular data prediction is a fundamental machine learning task for many applications. Existing methods predominantly employ discriminative modeling and operate under the assumption of a fixed target column, necessitating re-training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruiyu Wang , Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun

Robotic assembly systems traditionally require substantial manual engineering effort to integrate new tasks, adapt to new environments, and improve performance over time. This paper presents a framework for autonomous integration and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Peiqi Yu , Philip Huang , Chaitanya Chawla , Guanya Shi , Jiaoyang Li , Changliu Liu

Humanoid robots hold significant potential in accomplishing daily tasks across diverse environments thanks to their flexibility and human-like morphology. Recent works have made significant progress in humanoid whole-body control and…

Loco-Manipulation for humanoid robots aims to enable robots to integrate mobility with upper-body tracking capabilities. Most existing approaches adopt hierarchical architectures that decompose control into isolated upper-body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wandong Sun , Luying Feng , Baoshi Cao , Yang Liu , Yaochu Jin , Zongwu Xie

Learning from experience is critical for building capable large language model (LLM) agents, yet prevailing self-evolving paradigms remain inefficient: agents learn in isolation, repeatedly rediscover similar behaviors from limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxi Wang , Zhuoyun Yu , Xin Xie , Wuguannan Yao , Runnan Fang , Shuofei Qiao , Kexin Cao , Guozhou Zheng , Xiang Qi , Peng Zhang , Shumin Deng

Designing effective data manipulation methods is a long standing problem in data lakes. Traditional methods, which rely on rules or machine learning models, require extensive human efforts on training data collection and tuning models.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yichen Qian , Yongyi He , Rong Zhu , Jintao Huang , Zhijian Ma , Haibin Wang , Yaohua Wang , Xiuyu Sun , Defu Lian , Bolin Ding , Jingren Zhou

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown a promising ability in image geolocation, but they still lack structured geographic reasoning and the capacity for autonomous self-evolution. Existing methods predominantly rely on implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chenjie Yang , Yutian Jiang , Yutong Deng , Chenyu Wu

Human motion is highly diverse and dynamic, posing challenges for imitation learning algorithms that aim to generalize motor skills for controlling simulated characters. Previous methods typically rely on a universal full-body controller…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yiming Huang , Zhiyang Dou , Lingjie Liu

Recently, dynamic computation methods have shown notable acceleration for Large Language Models (LLMs) by skipping several layers of computations through elaborate heuristics or additional predictors. However, in the decoding process of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems, gradually becoming the mainstream approach. However, most current approaches address these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Wenhao Guan , Zhikang Niu , Ziyue Jiang , Kaidi Wang , Peijie Chen , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li , Xie Chen

This paper explores the development of UniFolding, a sample-efficient, scalable, and generalizable robotic system for unfolding and folding various garments. UniFolding employs the proposed UFONet neural network to integrate unfolding and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Han Xue , Yutong Li , Wenqiang Xu , Huanyu Li , Dongzhe Zheng , Cewu Lu

Humans demonstrate an impressive ability to acquire and generalize manipulation "tricks." Even from a single demonstration, such as using soup ladles to reach for distant objects, we can apply this skill to new scenarios involving different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Surgical skills have a great influence on surgical safety and patients' well-being. Traditional assessment of surgical skills involves strenuous manual efforts, which lacks efficiency and repeatability. Therefore, we attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Daochang Liu , Qiyue Li , Tingting Jiang , Yizhou Wang , Rulin Miao , Fei Shan , Ziyu Li

Robots are good at performing repetitive tasks in modern manufacturing industries. However, robot motions are mostly planned and preprogrammed with a notable lack of adaptivity to task changes. Even for slightly changed tasks, the whole…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Tian Yu , Qing Chang

The development of a generalist agent with adaptive multiple manipulation skills has been a long-standing goal in the robotics community. In this paper, we explore a crucial task, skill-incremental learning, in robotic manipulation, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zexin Zheng , Jia-Feng Cai , Xiao-Ming Wu , Yi-Lin Wei , Yu-Ming Tang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Unsupervised reinforcement learning (URL) poses a promising paradigm to learn useful behaviors in a task-agnostic environment without the guidance of extrinsic rewards to facilitate the fast adaptation of various downstream tasks. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yifu Yuan , Jianye Hao , Fei Ni , Yao Mu , Yan Zheng , Yujing Hu , Jinyi Liu , Yingfeng Chen , Changjie Fan

Unsupervised Skill Discovery (USD) allows agents to autonomously learn diverse behaviors without task-specific rewards. While recent USD methods have shown promise, their application to real-world robotics remains underexplored. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Rafael Cathomen , Mayank Mittal , Marin Vlastelica , Marco Hutter

Robots trained via Reinforcement Learning (RL) or Imitation Learning (IL) often adapt slowly to new tasks, whereas recent Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) promise knowledge-rich planning from minimal data.…