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Robot navigation is a crucial task with applications to social robots in dynamic human environments. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown great promise for this problem, the policy quality is highly sensitive to the specification of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhikai Zhao , Chuanbo Hua , Federico Berto , Zihan Ma , Kanghoon Lee , Jiachen Li , Jinkyoo Park

Unified video models exhibit strong capabilities in understanding and generation, yet they struggle with reason-informed visual editing even when equipped with powerful internal vision-language models (VLMs). We attribute this gap to two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xinyu Liu , Hangjie Yuan , Yujie Wei , Jiazheng Xing , Yujin Han , Jiahao Pan , Yanbiao Ma , Chi-Min Chan , Kang Zhao , Shiwei Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Yike Guo

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable progress in embodied tasks recently, but most methods process visual observations independently at each timestep. This history-agnostic design treats robot manipulation as a Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lei Xiao , Jifeng Li , Juntao Gao , Feiyang Ye , Yan Jin , Jingjing Qian , Jing Zhang , Yong Wu , Xiaoyuan Yu

The rise of foundation models paves the way for generalist robot policies in the physical world. Existing methods relying on text-only instructions often struggle to generalize to unseen scenarios. We argue that interleaved image-text…

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is the task of answering questions about a video. At its core is understanding the alignments between visual scenes in video and linguistic semantics in question to yield the answer. In leading VideoQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yicong Li , Xiang Wang , Junbin Xiao , Wei Ji , Tat-Seng Chua

Recent advances have shown that video generation models can enhance robot learning by deriving effective robot actions through inverse dynamics. However, these methods heavily depend on the quality of generated data and struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Kelin Yu , Sheng Zhang , Harshit Soora , Furong Huang , Heng Huang , Pratap Tokekar , Ruohan Gao

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a compelling framework for tackling complex robotic manipulation tasks, but they are often expensive to train. In this paper, we propose a novel VLA approach that leverages the competitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Max Argus , Jelena Bratulic , Houman Masnavi , Maxim Velikanov , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada , Thomas Brox

Scalable embodied intelligence is constrained by the scarcity of diverse, long-horizon robotic manipulation data. Existing video world models in this domain are limited to synthesizing short clips of simple actions and often rely on…

Existing text-to-video (T2V) models often struggle with generating videos with sufficiently pronounced or complex actions. A key limitation lies in the text prompt's inability to precisely convey intricate motion details. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Qiang Zhou , Shaofeng Zhang , Nianzu Yang , Ye Qian , Hao Li

Generative world models (WMs) can now simulate worlds with striking visual realism, which naturally raises the question of whether they can endow embodied agents with predictive perception for decision making. Progress on this question has…

Video generation has achieved significant advances through rectified flow techniques, but issues like unsmooth motion and misalignment between videos and prompts persist. In this work, we develop a systematic pipeline that harnesses human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jie Liu , Gongye Liu , Jiajun Liang , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaokun Liu , Mingwu Zheng , Xiele Wu , Qiulin Wang , Menghan Xia , Xintao Wang , Xiaohong Liu , Fei Yang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai , Yujiu Yang , Wanli Ouyang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as promising solutions for robotic manipulation, yet their robustness to real-world physical variations remains critically underexplored. To bridge this gap, we propose Eva-VLA, the first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hanqing Liu , Shouwei Ruan , Jiahuan Long , Junqi Wu , Jiacheng Hou , Huili Tang , Tingsong Jiang , Weien Zhou , Wen Yao

While language models have become impactful in many real-world applications, video generation remains largely confined to entertainment. Motivated by video's inherent capacity to demonstrate physical-world information that is difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Junhao Cheng , Liang Hou , Xin Tao , Jing Liao

It is well-known that inverse dynamics models can improve tracking performance in robot control. These models need to precisely capture the robot dynamics, which consist of well-understood components, e.g., rigid body dynamics, and effects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Moritz Reuss , Niels van Duijkeren , Robert Krug , Philipp Becker , Vaisakh Shaj , Gerhard Neumann

While leveraging abundant human videos and simulated robot data poses a scalable solution to the scarcity of real-world robot data, the generalization capability of existing vision-language-action models (VLAs) remains limited by mismatches…

Robot imitation learning relies on 4D multi-view sequential images. However, the high cost of data collection and the scarcity of high-quality data severely constrain the generalization and application of embodied intelligence policies like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chang Nie , Guangming Wang , Zhe Lie , Hesheng Wang

Predicting the dynamics of interacting objects is essential for both humans and intelligent systems. However, existing approaches are limited to simplified, toy settings and lack generalizability to complex, real-world environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rick Akkerman , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya

We propose Heterogeneous Masked Autoregression (HMA) for modeling action-video dynamics to generate high-quality data and evaluation in scaling robot learning. Building interactive video world models and policies for robotics is difficult…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Lirui Wang , Kevin Zhao , Chaoqi Liu , Xinlei Chen

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have emerged as powerful generative tools, capable of synthesizing high-quality spatiotemporal content. Yet, their potential goes far beyond mere video generation. We argue that the training dynamics of VDMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Pablo Acuaviva , Aram Davtyan , Mariam Hassan , Sebastian Stapf , Ahmad Rahimi , Alexandre Alahi , Paolo Favaro

Imitation learning has emerged as a promising approach towards building generalist robots. However, scaling imitation learning for large robot foundation models remains challenging due to its reliance on high-quality expert demonstrations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chuning Zhu , Raymond Yu , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Paarth Shah , Abhishek Gupta