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We consider the problem of learning useful robotic skills from previously collected offline data without access to manually specified rewards or additional online exploration, a setting that is becoming increasingly important for scaling…

Video generation models have emerged as high-fidelity models of the physical world, capable of synthesizing high-quality videos capturing fine-grained interactions between agents and their environments conditioned on multi-modal user…

This work highlights that video world modeling, alongside vision-language pre-training, establishes a fresh and independent foundation for robot learning. Intuitively, video world models provide the ability to imagine the near future by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lin Li , Qihang Zhang , Yiming Luo , Shuai Yang , Ruilin Wang , Fei Han , Mingrui Yu , Zelin Gao , Nan Xue , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu

Teaching robots to autonomously complete everyday tasks remains a challenge. Imitation Learning (IL) is a powerful approach that imbues robots with skills via demonstrations, but is limited by the labor-intensive process of collecting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Juntao Ren , Priya Sundaresan , Dorsa Sadigh , Sanjiban Choudhury , Jeannette Bohg

Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the development of ``world models'' capable of simulating potential futures for robotics and planning. However, specifying precise goals for these models remains a challenge; text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nate Gillman , Yinghua Zhou , Zitian Tang , Evan Luo , Arjan Chakravarthy , Daksh Aggarwal , Michael Freeman , Charles Herrmann , Chen Sun

Recent advancements in learning from human demonstration have shown promising results in addressing the scalability and high cost of data collection required to train robust visuomotor policies. However, existing approaches are often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Harry Freeman , Chung Hee Kim , George Kantor

Training on diverse, internet-scale data is a key factor in the success of recent large foundation models. Yet, using the same recipe for building embodied agents has faced noticeable difficulties. Despite the availability of many…

Video is a scalable observation of physical dynamics: it captures how objects move, how contact unfolds, and how scenes evolve under interaction -- all without requiring robot action labels. Yet translating this temporal structure into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Linfang Zheng , Zikai Ouyang , Chen Wang , Jia Pan , Wei Zhang

World models have become crucial for autonomous driving, as they learn how scenarios evolve over time to address the long-tail challenges of the real world. However, current approaches relegate world models to limited roles: they operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianze Xia , Yongkang Li , Lijun Zhou , Jingfeng Yao , Kaixin Xiong , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

While video-generation-based embodied world models have gained increasing attention, their reliance on large-scale embodied interaction data remains a key bottleneck. The scarcity, difficulty of collection, and high dimensionality of…

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

Generative models trained on internet data have revolutionized how text, image, and video content can be created. Perhaps the next milestone for generative models is to simulate realistic experience in response to actions taken by humans,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sherry Yang , Yilun Du , Kamyar Ghasemipour , Jonathan Tompson , Leslie Kaelbling , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel

The ability to simulate the effects of future actions on the world is a crucial ability of intelligent embodied agents, enabling agents to anticipate the effects of their actions and make plans accordingly. While a large body of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Yuncong Yang , Lei Han , Peihao Chen , Dit-Yan Yeung , Chuang Gan

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable success in a number of domains. However, for sequential decision-making problems, such as robotics, action-labelled data is often scarce and therefore scaling-up foundation models for…

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Standard methods for video recognition use large CNNs designed to capture spatio-temporal data. However, training these models requires a large amount of labeled training data, containing a wide variety of actions, scenes, settings and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 AJ Piergiovanni , Michael S. Ryoo

Recent progress in video-to-video (V2V) translation has enabled realistic resimulation of embodied AI demonstrations, a capability that allows pretrained robot policies to be transferable to new environments without additional data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Dong Chen , Yang Bai , Liudi Yang , Ziyuan Liu

We introduce UniReal, a unified framework designed to address various image generation and editing tasks. Existing solutions often vary by tasks, yet share fundamental principles: preserving consistency between inputs and outputs while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xi Chen , Zhifei Zhang , He Zhang , Yuqian Zhou , Soo Ye Kim , Qing Liu , Yijun Li , Jianming Zhang , Nanxuan Zhao , Yilin Wang , Hui Ding , Zhe Lin , Hengshuang Zhao

Action recognition in surveillance video makes our life safer by detecting the criminal events or predicting violent emergencies. However, efficient action recognition is not free of difficulty. First, there are so many action classes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Kun Liu , Wu Liu , Huadong Ma , Wenbing Huang , Xiongxiong Dong

Understanding 3D scenes requires flexible combinations of visual reasoning tasks, including depth estimation, novel view synthesis, and object manipulation, all of which are essential for perception and interaction. Existing approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wanhee Lee , Klemen Kotar , Rahul Mysore Venkatesh , Jared Watrous , Honglin Chen , Khai Loong Aw , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Conventionally, memory in end-to-end robotic learning involves inputting a sequence of past observations into the learned policy. However, in complex multi-stage real-world tasks, the robot's memory must represent past events at multiple…