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A representation gap exists between grasp synthesis for rigid and soft grippers. Anygrasp [1] and many other grasp synthesis methods are designed for rigid parallel grippers, and adapting them to soft grippers often fails to capture their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Tanisha Parulekar , Ge Shi , Josh Pinskier , David Howard , Jen Jen Chung

Reinforcement learning is a promising method for robotic grasping as it can learn effective reaching and grasping policies in difficult scenarios. However, achieving human-like manipulation capabilities with sophisticated robotic hands is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Martin Schuck , Jan Brüdigam , Alexandre Capone , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche

Generative models have attracted considerable attention for speech separation tasks, and among these, diffusion-based methods are being explored. Despite the notable success of diffusion techniques in generation tasks, their adaptation to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Jinwei Dong , Xinsheng Wang , Qirong Mao

Grasping is a fundamental capability for robots to interact with the physical world. Humans, equipped with two hands, autonomously select appropriate grasp strategies based on the shape, size, and weight of objects, enabling robust grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sizhe Yang , Yiman Xie , Zhixuan Liang , Yang Tian , Jia Zeng , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Generative modelling paradigms based on denoising diffusion processes have emerged as a leading candidate for conditional sampling in inverse problems. In many real-world applications, we often have access to large, expensively trained…

We introduce Gradient Equilibrium Propagation (GradEP), a mechanism that extends Equilibrium Propagation (EP) to train energy gradients rather than energy minima, enabling EP to be applied to tasks where the learning objective depends on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-26 Alex Gower

Generating large-scale, physically consistent AC Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) datasets is essential for modern data-driven power system applications. The central challenge lies in balancing solution accuracy with computational efficiency.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Shashank Shekhar , Abhinav Karn , Kris Keshav , Shivam Bansal , Parikshit Pareek

We introduce Equilibrium Matching (EqM), a generative modeling framework built from an equilibrium dynamics perspective. EqM discards the non-equilibrium, time-conditional dynamics in traditional diffusion and flow-based generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Runqian Wang , Yilun Du

Current state-of-the-art generative models map noise to data distributions by matching flows or scores. A key limitation of these models is their inability to readily integrate available partial observations and additional priors. In…

In this work, we consider the problem of training a generator from evaluations of energy functions or unnormalized densities. This is a fundamental problem in probabilistic inference, which is crucial for scientific applications such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Dongyeop Woo , Sungsoo Ahn

Dexterous grasping aims to produce diverse grasping postures with a high grasping success rate. Regression-based methods that directly predict grasping parameters given the object may achieve a high success rate but often lack diversity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jiaxin Lu , Hao Kang , Haoxiang Li , Bo Liu , Yiding Yang , Qixing Huang , Gang Hua

To meet the demands of increasingly diverse dexterous hand hardware, it is crucial to develop a policy that enables zero-shot cross-embodiment grasping without redundant re-learning. Cross-embodiment alignment is challenging due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuliang Wu , Yanhan Lin , WengKit Lao , Yuhao Lin , Yi-Lin Wei , Wei-Shi Zheng , Ancong Wu

In this work, we tackle the problem of learning universal robotic dexterous grasping from a point cloud observation under a table-top setting. The goal is to grasp and lift up objects in high-quality and diverse ways and generalize across…

The task of conditional generation is one of the most important applications of generative models, and numerous methods have been developed to date based on the celebrated flow-based models. However, many flow-based models in use today are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Noboru Isobe , Masanori Koyama , Jinzhe Zhang , Kohei Hayashi , Kenji Fukumizu

Flow-based generative models synthesize data by integrating a learned velocity field from a reference distribution to the target data distribution. Prior work has focused on endpoint metrics (e.g., fidelity, likelihood, perceptual quality)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ziyun Li , Ben Dai , Huancheng Hu , Henrik Boström , Soon Hoe Lim

Generative models such as denoising diffusion models are quickly advancing their ability to approximate highly complex data distributions. They are also increasingly leveraged in scientific machine learning, where samples from the implied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jan-Hendrik Bastek , WaiChing Sun , Dennis M. Kochmann

Task-oriented dexterous grasping holds broad application prospects in robotic manipulation and human-object interaction. However, most existing methods still struggle to generalize across diverse objects and task instructions, as they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Juntao Jian , Yi-Lin Wei , Chengjie Mou , Yuhao Lin , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Wei-Shi Zheng , Ruizhen Hu

Grasping is a fundamental skill in robotics with diverse applications across medical, industrial, and domestic domains. However, current approaches for predicting valid grasps are often tailored to specific grippers, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Roman Freiberg , Alexander Qualmann , Ngo Anh Vien , Gerhard Neumann

Grasp learning in noisy environments, such as occlusions, sensor noise, and out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, poses significant challenges. Recent learning-based approaches focus primarily on capturing aleatoric uncertainty from inherent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yitian Shi , Edgar Welte , Maximilian Gilles , Rania Rayyes

Reliable dual-arm grasping is essential for manipulating large and complex objects but remains a challenging problem due to stability, collision, and generalization requirements. Prior methods typically decompose the task into two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Md Faizal Karim , Vignesh Vembar , Keshab Patra , Gaurav Singh , K Madhava Krishna