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Image-to-point cross-modal learning has emerged to address the scarcity of large-scale 3D datasets in 3D representation learning. However, current methods that leverage 2D data often result in large, slow-to-train models, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Avishka Perera , Kumal Hewagamage , Saeedha Nazar , Kavishka Abeywardana , Hasitha Gallella , Ranga Rodrigo , Mohamed Afham

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) need to reason about the multimodal behavior of neighboring agents while planning their own motion. Many existing trajectory planners seek a single trajectory that performs well under \emph{all} plausible futures…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yuxiao Chen , Peter Karkus , Boris Ivanovic , Xinshuo Weng , Marco Pavone

Neural policies have shown promise in solving vehicle routing problems due to their reduced reliance on handcrafted heuristics. However, current training paradigms suffer from a fundamental limitation: they primarily focus on next-node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xia Jiang , Yaoxin Wu , Yew-Soon Ong , Yingqian Zhang

Robotic imitation learning is often treated as reproducing demonstrated actions, but actions are inherently embodiment-specific. When demonstrations come from humans or robots with different morphology, kinematics, or action spaces, this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jingyang He , Guangrun Li , Jieyu Zhang , Chengkai Hou , Zhengping Che , Shanghang Zhang

The effectiveness of scaling up training data in robotic manipulation is still limited. A primary challenge in manipulation is the tasks are diverse, and the trained policy would be confused if the task targets are not specified clearly.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Zhuoling Li , Liangliang Ren , Jinrong Yang , Yong Zhao , Xiaoyang Wu , Zhenhua Xu , Xiang Bai , Hengshuang Zhao

Recent progress in imitation learning has been enabled by policy architectures that scale to complex visuomotor tasks, multimodal distributions, and large datasets. However, these methods often rely on learning from large amount of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Amber Xie , Oleh Rybkin , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

The rapid advancement of autonomous web navigation has significantly benefited from grounding pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs) as agents. However, current research has yet to fully leverage the redundancy of HTML elements for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiarun Liu , Jia Hao , Chunhong Zhang , Zheng Hu

Forecasting the scalable future states of surrounding traffic participants in complex traffic scenarios is a critical capability for autonomous vehicles, as it enables safe and feasible decision-making. Recent successes in learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Haochen Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Chen Lv

VLA architectures that pair a pretrained VLM with a flow-matching action expert have emerged as a strong paradigm for language-conditioned manipulation. Yet the VLM, optimized for semantic abstraction and typically conditioned on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zezhou Zhang , Songxin Zhang , Xiao Xiong , Junjie Zhang , Zejian Xie , Jingyi Xi , Zunyao Mao , Zan Mao , Zhixin Mai , Zhuoyang Song , Jiaxing Zhang

Diffusion policies (DP) have demonstrated significant potential in visual navigation by capturing diverse multi-modal trajectory distributions. However, standard imitation learning (IL), which most DP methods rely on for training, often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Runhua Zhang , Junyi Hou , Changxu Cheng , Qiyi Chen , Tao Wang , Wuyue Zhao

We present a modular approach for learning policies for navigation over long planning horizons from language input. Our hierarchical policy operates at multiple timescales, where the higher-level master policy proposes subgoals to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Abhishek Das , Georgia Gkioxari , Stefan Lee , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Future spacecraft operations require autonomy that can interpret high-level mission intent while preserving safety. However, existing trajectory optimization still relies heavily on expert-crafted formulations and does not support…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Yuji Takubo , Simone D'Amico

How do large language models solve spatial navigation tasks? We investigate this by training GPT-2 models on three spatial learning paradigms in grid environments: passive exploration (Foraging Model- predicting steps in random walks),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Caroline Baumgartner , Eleanor Spens , Neil Burgess , Petru Manescu

Robot sequential decision-making in the real world is a challenge because it requires the robots to simultaneously reason about the current world state and dynamics, while planning actions to accomplish complex tasks. On the one hand,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shiqi Zhang , Piyush Khandelwal , Peter Stone

Autonomous navigation in unfamiliar environments requires robots to simultaneously explore, localise, and plan under uncertainty, without relying on predefined maps or extensive training. We present Active Inference MAPping and Planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Daria de tinguy , Tim Verbelen , Emilio Gamba , Bart Dhoedt

Large-scale pre-training has shown promising results on the vision-and-language navigation (VLN) task. However, most existing pre-training methods employ discrete panoramas to learn visual-textual associations. This requires the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Dong An , Yuankai Qi , Yangguang Li , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan , Jing Shao

Embodied agents equipped with GPT as their brains have exhibited extraordinary decision-making and generalization abilities across various tasks. However, existing zero-shot agents for vision-and-language navigation (VLN) only prompt GPT-4…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jiaqi Chen , Bingqian Lin , Ran Xu , Zhenhua Chai , Xiaodan Liang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

The capacity of an embodied agent to understand, predict, and interact with its environment is fundamentally contingent on an internal world model. This paper introduces a novel framework for investigating the formation and adaptation of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Brennen Hill

Existing Vision-Language models (VLMs) estimate either long-term trajectory waypoints or a set of control actions as a reactive solution for closed-loop planning based on their rich scene comprehension. However, these estimations are coarse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Pranjal Paul , Anant Garg , Tushar Choudhary , Arun Kumar Singh , K. Madhava Krishna

The conditional diffusion model has been demonstrated as an efficient tool for learning robot policies, owing to its advancement to accurately model the conditional distribution of policies. The intricate nature of real-world scenarios,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Wenhao Yu , Jie Peng , Huanyu Yang , Junrui Zhang , Yifan Duan , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang