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We present a mask-piloted Transformer which improves masked-attention in Mask2Former for image segmentation. The improvement is based on our observation that Mask2Former suffers from inconsistent mask predictions between consecutive decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Huaizhe Xu , Shijia Huang , Shilong Liu , Lionel M. Ni , Lei Zhang

Learning a general humanoid whole-body controller is challenging because practical reference motions can exhibit noise and inconsistencies after being transferred to the robot domain, and local defects may be amplified by closed-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yubiao Ma , Han Yu , Jiayin Xie , Changtai Lv , Qiang Luo , Chi Zhang , Yunpeng Yin , Boyang Xing , Xuemei Ren , Dongdong Zheng

There are several challenges in developing a model for multi-tasking humanoid control. Reinforcement learning and imitation learning approaches are quite popular in this domain. However, there is a trade-off between the two. Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Siddharth Padmanabhan , Kazuki Miyazawa , Takato Horii , Takayuki Nagai

Masked video modeling~(MVM) has emerged as a highly effective pre-training strategy for visual foundation models, whereby the model reconstructs masked spatiotemporal tokens using information from visible tokens. However, a key challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ayush K. Rai , Kyle Min , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

Robotic systems operating in real-world environments inevitably encounter unobserved dynamics shifts during continuous execution, including changes in actuation, mass distribution, or contact conditions. When such shifts occur mid-episode,…

Deep motion forecasting models have achieved great success when trained on a massive amount of data. Yet, they often perform poorly when training data is limited. To address this challenge, we propose a transfer learning approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Parth Kothari , Danya Li , Yuejiang Liu , Alexandre Alahi

Masked language modeling (MLM) is the standard objective for training protein language models, typically implemented by randomly masking individual residues at a fixed rate (e.g., 15%). This practice implicitly assumes that all sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Thomas Walton , Ayan Goel , Amirali Aghazadeh

Humanoid loco-manipulation holds transformative potential for daily service and industrial tasks, yet achieving precise, robust whole-body control with 3D end-effector force interaction remains a major challenge. Prior approaches are often…

Imitation learning frameworks that learn robot control policies from demonstrators' motions via hand-mounted demonstration interfaces have attracted increasing attention. However, due to differences in physical characteristics between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Kei Takahashi , Hikaru Sasaki , Takamitsu Matsubara

Masked autoencoding has shown excellent performance on self-supervised video representation learning. Temporal redundancy has led to a high masking ratio and customized masking strategy in VideoMAE. In this paper, we aim to further improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bingkun Huang , Zhiyu Zhao , Guozhen Zhang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang

Humanoid robots, with their human-like morphology, hold great potential for industrial applications. However, existing loco-manipulation methods primarily focus on dexterous manipulation, falling short of the combined requirements for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Kaiyan Xiao , Zihan Xu , Cheng Zhe , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Motion imitation is a pivotal and effective approach for humanoid robots to achieve a more diverse range of complex and expressive movements, making their performances more human-like. However, the significant differences in kinematics and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zhenghan Chen , Haodong Zhang , Dongqi Wang , Jiyu Yu , Haocheng Xu , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

This paper presents a novel approach that combines the advantages of both model-based and learning-based frameworks to achieve robust locomotion. The residual modules are integrated with each corresponding part of the model-based framework,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Min-Gyu Kim , Dongyun Kang , Hajun Kim , Hae-Won Park

Simulated humanoids are an appealing research domain due to their physical capabilities. Nonetheless, they are also challenging to control, as a policy must drive an unstable, discontinuous, and high-dimensional physical system. One widely…

Object manipulation is a basic element in everyday human lives. Robotic manipulation has progressed from maneuvering single-rigid-body objects with firm grasping to maneuvering soft objects and handling contact-rich actions. Meanwhile,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Leidi Zhao , Raheem Lawhorn , Siddharth Patil , Steve Susanibar , Lu Lu , Cong Wang , Bo Ouyang

Force control is essential for medical robots when touching and contacting the patient's body. To increase the stability and efficiency in force control, an Adaption Module could be used to adjust the parameters for different contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Zhaoxing Deng , Xutian Deng , Miao Li

We present a hierarchical policy-learning framework that enables a legged humanoid to cooperatively carry extended loads with a human partner using only haptic cues for intent inference. At the upper tier, a lightweight behavior-cloning…

Rapid progress in deep reinforcement learning has made it increasingly feasible to train controllers for high-dimensional humanoid bodies. However, methods that use pure reinforcement learning with simple reward functions tend to produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Josh Merel , Yuval Tassa , Dhruva TB , Sriram Srinivasan , Jay Lemmon , Ziyu Wang , Greg Wayne , Nicolas Heess

Recent advances in diffusion models bring new vitality to visual content creation. However, current text-to-video generation models still face significant challenges such as high training costs, substantial data requirements, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sicong Feng , Jielong Yang , Li Peng

Lower limb amputations and neuromuscular impairments severely restrict mobility, necessitating advancements beyond conventional prosthetics. While motorized bionic limbs show promise, their effectiveness depends on replicating the dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sharmita Dey , Benjamin Paassen , Sarath Ravindran Nair , Sabri Boughorbel , Arndt F. Schilling