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Action-labeled data for robotics is scarce and expensive, limiting the generalization of learned policies. In contrast, vast amounts of action-free video data are readily available, but translating these observations into effective policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jeremy A. Collins , Loránd Cheng , Kunal Aneja , Albert Wilcox , Benjamin Joffe , Animesh Garg

Semi-supervised imitation learning (SSIL) consists in learning a policy from a small dataset of action-labeled trajectories and a much larger dataset of action-free trajectories. Some SSIL methods learn an inverse dynamics model (IDM) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sacha Morin , Moonsub Byeon , Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Sébastien Lachapelle

Trained on internet-scale video data, generative world models are increasingly recognized as powerful world simulators that can generate consistent and plausible dynamics over structure, motion, and physics. This raises a natural question:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kevin Zhang , Kuangzhi Ge , Xiaowei Chi , Renrui Zhang , Shaojun Shi , Zhen Dong , Sirui Han , Shanghang Zhang

When performing 3D manipulation tasks, robots have to execute action planning based on perceptions from multiple fixed cameras. The multi-camera setup introduces substantial redundancy and irrelevant information, which increases…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yixiang Chen , Yan Huang , Keji He , Peiyan Li , Liang Wang

Designing reward functions that generalize beyond controlled laboratory settings remains a fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning for robotics. In open-world manipulation problems, a single task can appear in numerous variants…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Tengye Xu , Yangting Sun , Ziju Shen , Guanqi Chen , Zhen Fu , Chen yizhou , Hua Chen , Jia Pan

Imitation learning based visuomotor policies have achieved strong performance in robotic manipulation, yet they often remain sensitive to egocentric viewpoint shifts. Unlike third-person viewpoint changes that only move the camera,…

Recently, world-action models (WAM) have emerged to bridge vision-language-action (VLA) models and world models, unifying their reasoning and instruction-following capabilities and spatio-temporal world modeling. However, existing WAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yang Zhou , Xiaofeng Wang , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Guosheng Zhao , Jiangnan Shao , Jiagang Zhu , Tingdong Yu , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Steven L. Waslander

Moving beyond the traditional paradigm of adapting internet-pretrained models to physical tasks, we present DM0, an Embodied-Native Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework designed for Physical AI. Unlike approaches that treat physical…

Action-conditioned video models offer a promising path to building general-purpose robot simulators that can improve directly from data. Yet, despite training on large-scale robot datasets, current state-of-the-art video models still…

Video world models can generate realistic futures from a single instruction, but they often fail to preserve consistent point-level motion over time. As a result, the generated videos appear plausible, yet lack the physical grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Kaichen Zhou , Yuzhen Chen , Fangneng Zhan , Hang Hua , Grace Chen , Xinhai Chang , Ao Qu , Yilun Du , Zhuang Liu , Paul Pu Liang , Mengyu Wang

Generative video modeling has emerged as a compelling tool to zero-shot reason about plausible physical interactions for open-world manipulation. Yet, it remains a challenge to translate such human-led motions into the low-level actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Karthik Dharmarajan , Wenlong Huang , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Ruohan Zhang

Autonomous navigation is a fundamental task for robot vacuum cleaners in indoor environments. Since their core function is to clean entire areas, robots inevitably encounter dead zones in cluttered and narrow scenarios. Existing planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Han Zheng , Jiale Zhang , Mingyang Jiang , Peiyuan Liu , Danni Liu , Tong Qin , Ming Yang

Imitation learning trains control policies by mimicking pre-recorded expert demonstrations. In partially observable settings, imitation policies must rely on observation histories, but many seemingly paradoxical results show better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chuan Wen , Jierui Lin , Jianing Qian , Yang Gao , Dinesh Jayaraman

Generative video models, a leading approach to world modeling, face fundamental limitations. They often violate physical and logical rules, lack interactivity, and operate as opaque black boxes ill-suited for building structured, queryable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Felix O'Mahony , Roberto Cipolla , Ayush Tewari

Training generalist robots demands large-scale, diverse manipulation data, yet real-world collection is prohibitively expensive, and existing simulators are often constrained by fixed asset libraries and manual heuristics. To bridge this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Songjia He , Zixuan Chen , Hongyu Ding , Dian Shao , Jieqi Shi , Chenxu Li , Jing Huo , Yang Gao

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

Augmenting reinforcement learning with imitation learning is often hailed as a method by which to improve upon learning from scratch. However, most existing methods for integrating these two techniques are subject to several strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Brahma S. Pavse , Faraz Torabi , Josiah P. Hanna , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

Recent video diffusion models generate photorealistic, temporally coherent videos, yet they fall short as reliable world models for autonomous driving, where structured motion and physically consistent interactions are essential. Adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ahmad Rahimi , Valentin Gerard , Eloi Zablocki , Matthieu Cord , Alexandre Alahi

How can robot manipulation policies generalize to novel tasks involving unseen object types and new motions? In this paper, we provide a solution in terms of predicting motion information from web data through human video generation and…

Embodied action planning is a core challenge in robotics, requiring models to generate precise actions from visual observations and language instructions. While video generation world models are promising, their reliance on pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yangcheng Yu , Xin Jin , Yu Shang , Xin Zhang , Haisheng Su , Wei Wu , Yong Li