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Recent advances in imitation learning, particularly using generative modelling techniques like diffusion, have enabled policies to capture complex multi-modal action distributions. However, these methods often require large datasets and…

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Achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires agents that learn and interact adaptively, with interactive world models providing scalable environments for perception, reasoning, and action. Yet current research still lacks…

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Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning have showcased its potential in tackling complex tasks. However, experiments on visual control tasks have revealed that state-of-the-art reinforcement learning models struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Rudra P. K. Poudel , Harit Pandya , Chao Zhang , Roberto Cipolla

Inspired by how humans combine direct interaction with action-free experience (e.g., videos), we study world models that learn from heterogeneous data. Standard world models typically rely on action-conditioned trajectories, which limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Marvin Alles , Xingyuan Zhang , Patrick van der Smagt , Philip Becker-Ehmck

Language-guided robotic manipulation is a challenging task that requires an embodied agent to follow abstract user instructions to accomplish various complex manipulation tasks. Previous work trivially fitting the data without revealing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kaidong Zhang , Pengzhen Ren , Bingqian Lin , Junfan Lin , Shikui Ma , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

In Model Predictive Control (MPC), world models predict the future outcomes of various action proposals, which are then scored to guide the selection of the optimal action. For visuomotor MPC, the score function is a distance metric between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Quanyi Li , Lan Feng , Haonan Zhang , Wuyang Li , Letian Wang , Alexandre Alahi , Harold Soh

A natural approach for reinforcement learning is to predict future rewards by unrolling a neural network world model, and to backpropagate through the resulting computational graph to learn a policy. However, this method often becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Michel Ma , Tianwei Ni , Clement Gehring , Pierluca D'Oro , Pierre-Luc Bacon

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

Action recognition is a crucial task in artificial intelligence, with significant implications across various domains. We initially perform a comprehensive analysis of seven prominent action recognition methods across five widely-used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jiangning Wei , Lixiong Qin , Bo Yu , Tianjian Zou , Chuhan Yan , Dandan Xiao , Yang Yu , Lan Yang , Ke Li , Jun Liu

We focus on developing efficient and reliable policy optimization strategies for robot learning with real-world data. In recent years, policy gradient methods have emerged as a promising paradigm for training control policies in simulation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tyler Westenbroek , Jacob Levy , David Fridovich-Keil

Anticipating future actions based on spatiotemporal observations is essential in video understanding and predictive computer vision. Moreover, a model capable of anticipating the future has important applications, it can benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tsung-Ming Tai , Giuseppe Fiameni , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Simon See , Oswald Lanz

Learned Neural Network based policies have shown promising results for robot navigation. However, most of these approaches fall short of being used on a real robot due to the extensive simulated training they require. These simulations lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Ayzaan Wahid , Alexander Toshev , Marek Fiser , Tsang-Wei Edward Lee

Learning latent actions from action-free video has emerged as a powerful paradigm for scaling up controllable world model learning. Latent actions provide a natural interface for users to iteratively generate and manipulate videos. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zizhao Wang , Chang Shi , Jiaheng Hu , Kevin Rohling , Roberto Martín-Martín , Amy Zhang , Peter Stone

This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 12 different tasks from 4…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Cheng Chi , Zhenjia Xu , Siyuan Feng , Eric Cousineau , Yilun Du , Benjamin Burchfiel , Russ Tedrake , Shuran Song

World Foundation Models (WFMs) offer remarkable visual dynamics simulation capabilities, yet their application to precise robotic control remains limited by the gap between generative realism and control-oriented precision. While existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yuhang Huang , Shilong Zou , Jiazhao Zhang , Xinwang Liu , Ruizhen Hu , Kai Xu

Learning to control robots directly based on images is a primary challenge in robotics. However, many existing reinforcement learning approaches require iteratively obtaining millions of robot samples to learn a policy, which can take…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-02 AJ Piergiovanni , Alan Wu , Michael S. Ryoo

Learning natural, stable, and compositionally generalizable whole-body control policies for humanoid robots performing simultaneous locomotion and manipulation (loco-manipulation) remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. Existing…

Vision-language-action (VLA) models remain constrained by the scarcity of action-labeled robot data, whereas action-free videos provide abundant evidence of how the physical world changes. Latent action models offer a promising way to…

Specifying robotic manipulation tasks in a manner that is both expressive and precise remains a central challenge. While visual goals provide a compact and unambiguous task specification, existing goal-conditioned policies often struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Pengfei Zhou , Liliang Chen , Shengcong Chen , Di Chen , Wenzhi Zhao , Rongjun Jin , Guanghui Ren , Jianlan Luo