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Imitation learning from human motion capture (MoCap) data provides a promising way to train humanoid robots. However, due to differences in morphology, such as varying degrees of joint freedom and force limits, exact replication of human…

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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are flourishing, but mainly focus on images with less attention than videos, especially in sub-fields such as prompt engineering, video chain-of-thought (CoT), and instruction tuning on videos.…

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Long-horizon collaborative vision-language navigation (VLN) is critical for multi-robot systems to accomplish complex tasks beyond the capability of a single agent. CoNavBench takes a first step by introducing the first collaborative…

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Natural language is often the easiest and most convenient modality for humans to specify tasks for robots. However, learning to ground language to behavior typically requires impractical amounts of diverse, language-annotated demonstrations…

Recent Vision-based Large Language Models~(VisionLLMs) for autonomous driving have seen rapid advancements. However, such promotion is extremely dependent on large-scale high-quality annotated data, which is costly and labor-intensive. To…

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Recent advances in legged locomotion learning are still dominated by the utilization of geometric representations of the environment, limiting the robot's capability to respond to higher-level semantics such as human instructions. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 I Made Aswin Nahrendra , Seunghyun Lee , Dongkyu Lee , Hyun Myung

With the evergrowing sizes of pre-trained models (PTMs), it has been an emerging practice to only provide the inference APIs for users, namely model-as-a-service (MaaS) setting. To adapt PTMs with model parameters frozen, most current…

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Process reward models (PRMs) offer fine-grained, step-level evaluations that facilitate deeper reasoning processes in large language models (LLMs), proving effective in complex tasks like mathematical reasoning. However, developing PRMs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuyang Ding , Xinyu Shi , Juntao Li , Xiaobo Liang , Zhaopeng Tu , Min Zhang

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into education presents unprecedented opportunities for scalable personalized learning. However, standard LLMs often function as generic information providers, lacking alignment with…

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We introduce LUMOS, a language-conditioned multi-task imitation learning framework for robotics. LUMOS learns skills by practicing them over many long-horizon rollouts in the latent space of a learned world model and transfers these skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Iman Nematollahi , Branton DeMoss , Akshay L Chandra , Nick Hawes , Wolfram Burgard , Ingmar Posner

Imitation learning has become a cornerstone for solving complex robotic manipulation tasks. In particular, multimodality, which enables robots to capture diverse yet valid behavioral patterns, has driven the rapid emergence of generative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jindou Jia , Tuo An , Yuxuan Hu , Gen Li , Jingliang Li , Bohan Hou , Xiangyu Chen , Jiaqi Bai , Bofan Lyu , Jianfei Yang

Annotating object ground truth in videos is vital for several downstream tasks in robot perception and machine learning, such as for evaluating the performance of an object tracker or training an image-based object detector. The accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Eric Price , Aamir Ahmad

In this work, we investigate how spatially grounded auxiliary representations can provide both broad, high-level grounding as well as direct, actionable information to improve policy learning performance and generalization for dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jonathan Yang , Chuyuan Kelly Fu , Dhruv Shah , Dorsa Sadigh , Fei Xia , Tingnan Zhang

One of the current trends in robotics is to employ large language models (LLMs) to provide non-predefined command execution and natural human-robot interaction. It is useful to have an environment map together with its language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Evgenii Kruzhkov , Sven Behnke

Humans routinely rely on memory to perform tasks, yet most robot policies lack this capability; our goal is to endow robot policies with the same ability. Naively conditioning on long observation histories is computationally expensive and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Ajay Sridhar , Jennifer Pan , Satvik Sharma , Chelsea Finn

Reinforcement Learning (RL) plays an important role in the robotic manipulation domain since it allows self-learning from trial-and-error interactions with the environment. Still, sample efficiency and reward specification seriously limit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kun Chu , Xufeng Zhao , Cornelius Weber , Mengdi Li , Stefan Wermter

Dense video captioning aims to identify the events of interest in an input video, and generate descriptive captions for each event. Previous approaches usually follow a two-stage generative process, which first proposes a segment for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Wanrong Zhu , Bo Pang , Ashish V. Thapliyal , William Yang Wang , Radu Soricut

We demonstrate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to perform iterative self-improvement of robot policies. An important insight of this paper is that LLMs have a built-in ability to perform (stochastic) numerical optimization and…

Building a generalist robot that can perceive, reason, and act across diverse tasks remains an open challenge, especially for dexterous manipulation. A major bottleneck lies in the scarcity of large-scale, action-annotated data for…

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When tasked with supporting multiple languages for a given problem, two approaches have arisen: training a model for each language with the annotation budget divided equally among them, and training on a high-resource language followed by…

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