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20172023
most citedDynamics Learning with Cascaded Variational Inference for Multi-Step Manipulation

31 citations · 126 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.RO2023★ 4 cited

Goal Representations for Instruction Following: A Semi-Supervised Language Interface to Control

Vivek Myers, Andre He, Kuan Fang +7

Our goal is for robots to follow natural language instructions like "put the towel next to the microwave." But getting large amounts of labeled data, i.e. data that contains demons…

cs.RO2023★ 12 cited

BridgeData V2: A Dataset for Robot Learning at Scale

Homer Walke, Kevin Black, Abraham Lee +11

We introduce BridgeData V2, a large and diverse dataset of robotic manipulation behaviors designed to facilitate research on scalable robot learning. BridgeData V2 contains 60,096…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Multi-Stage Cable Routing through Hierarchical Imitation Learning

Jianlan Luo, Charles Xu, Xinyang Geng +5

We study the problem of learning to perform multi-stage robotic manipulation tasks, with applications to cable routing, where the robot must route a cable through a series of clips…

cs.RO2022

Active Task Randomization: Learning Robust Skills via Unsupervised Generation of Diverse and Feasible Tasks

Kuan Fang, Toki Migimatsu, Ajay Mandlekar +2

Solving real-world manipulation tasks requires robots to have a repertoire of skills applicable to a wide range of circumstances. When using learning-based methods to acquire such…

cs.RO2022

Generalization with Lossy Affordances: Leveraging Broad Offline Data for Learning Visuomotor Tasks

Kuan Fang, Patrick Yin, Ashvin Nair +3

The utilization of broad datasets has proven to be crucial for generalization for a wide range of fields. However, how to effectively make use of diverse multi-task data for novel…

cs.RO2022

Planning to Practice: Efficient Online Fine-Tuning by Composing Goals in Latent Space

Kuan Fang, Patrick Yin, Ashvin Nair +1

General-purpose robots require diverse repertoires of behaviors to complete challenging tasks in real-world unstructured environments. To address this issue, goal-conditioned reinf…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Discovering Generalizable Skills via Automated Generation of Diverse Tasks

Kuan Fang, Yuke Zhu, Silvio Savarese +1

The learning efficiency and generalization ability of an intelligent agent can be greatly improved by utilizing a useful set of skills. However, the design of robot skills can ofte…

cs.RO2021★ 6 cited

Synergies Between Affordance and Geometry: 6-DoF Grasp Detection via Implicit Representations

Zhenyu Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, Maxwell Svetlik +2

Grasp detection in clutter requires the robot to reason about the 3D scene from incomplete and noisy perception. In this work, we draw insight that 3D reconstruction and grasp lear…

cs.IR2020★ 2 cited

Beyond Lexical: A Semantic Retrieval Framework for Textual SearchEngine

Kuan Fang, Long Zhao, Zhan Shen +3

Search engine has become a fundamental component in various web and mobile applications. Retrieving relevant documents from the massive datasets is challenging for a search engine…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Adaptive Procedural Task Generation for Hard-Exploration Problems

Kuan Fang, Yuke Zhu, Silvio Savarese +1

We introduce Adaptive Procedural Task Generation (APT-Gen), an approach to progressively generate a sequence of tasks as curricula to facilitate reinforcement learning in hard-expl…

cs.IR2020★ 1 cited

SERank: Optimize Sequencewise Learning to Rank Using Squeeze-and-Excitation Network

RuiXing Wang, Kuan Fang, RiKang Zhou +2

Learning-to-rank (LTR) is a set of supervised machine learning algorithms that aim at generating optimal ranking order over a list of items. A lot of ranking models have been studi…

cs.RO2019★ 10 cited

KETO: Learning Keypoint Representations for Tool Manipulation

Zengyi Qin, Kuan Fang, Yuke Zhu +2

We aim to develop an algorithm for robots to manipulate novel objects as tools for completing different task goals. An efficient and informative representation would facilitate the…

cs.RO2019★ 31 cited

Dynamics Learning with Cascaded Variational Inference for Multi-Step Manipulation

Kuan Fang, Yuke Zhu, Animesh Garg +2

The fundamental challenge of planning for multi-step manipulation is to find effective and plausible action sequences that lead to the task goal. We present Cascaded Variational In…

cs.LG2019★ 17 cited

Scene Memory Transformer for Embodied Agents in Long-Horizon Tasks

Kuan Fang, Alexander Toshev, Li Fei-Fei +1

Many robotic applications require the agent to perform long-horizon tasks in partially observable environments. In such applications, decision making at any step can depend on obse…

cs.RO2018★ 13 cited

Learning Task-Oriented Grasping for Tool Manipulation from Simulated Self-Supervision

Kuan Fang, Yuke Zhu, Animesh Garg +4

Tool manipulation is vital for facilitating robots to complete challenging task goals. It requires reasoning about the desired effect of the task and thus properly grasping and man…

cs.CV2017★ 15 cited

Recurrent Autoregressive Networks for Online Multi-Object Tracking

Kuan Fang, Yu Xiang, Xiaocheng Li +1

The main challenge of online multi-object tracking is to reliably associate object trajectories with detections in each video frame based on their tracking history. In this work, w…

cs.LG2017★ 10 cited

Multi-Task Domain Adaptation for Deep Learning of Instance Grasping from Simulation

Kuan Fang, Yunfei Bai, Stefan Hinterstoisser +2

Learning-based approaches to robotic manipulation are limited by the scalability of data collection and accessibility of labels. In this paper, we present a multi-task domain adapt…