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20202026
most citedInformative Dropout for Robust Representation Learning: A Shape-bias Perspective

45 citations · 129 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CV2026

OmniTaskonomy: When Does Visual Generation Improve Visual Understanding?

Jiaxin Ge, Yiming Qin, Ji Xie +13

Training a model to generate visual content can encourage it to learn rich perceptual capabilities related to geometry, spatial relationships, and objectness; yet, its benefits for…

cs.RO2026

Contrastive Action-Image Pre-training for Visuomotor Control

Yuvan Sharma, Dantong Niu, Anirudh Pai +16

Existing vision encoders for robotics face a fundamental bottleneck: robotic datasets lack the scale necessary for large-scale pre-training. Prior work circumvents this data scarci…

cs.LG2026

: a Steerable Generalist Robotic Foundation Model with Emergent Capabilities

Physical Intelligence, Bo Ai, Ali Amin +85

We present a new robotic foundation model, called , that can enable strong out-of-the-box performance in a wide range of scenarios. can follow diverse language i…

cs.CV2026

Attend Before Attention: Efficient and Scalable Video Understanding via Autoregressive Gazing

Baifeng Shi, Stephanie Fu, Long Lian +10

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced general-purpose video understanding but struggle with long, high-resolution videos -- they process every pixel equally in th…

cs.CV2025

FoundationMotion: Auto-Labeling and Reasoning about Spatial Movement in Videos

Yulu Gan, Ligeng Zhu, Dandan Shan +8

Motion understanding is fundamental to physical reasoning, enabling models to infer dynamics and predict future states. However, state-of-the-art models still struggle on recent mo…

cs.RO2025

Learning to Grasp Anything by Playing with Random Toys

Dantong Niu, Yuvan Sharma, Baifeng Shi +11

Robotic manipulation policies often struggle to generalize to novel objects, limiting their real-world utility. In contrast, cognitive science suggests that children develop genera…

cs.CV2025

Scaling RL to Long Videos

Yukang Chen, Wei Huang, Baifeng Shi +11

We introduce a full-stack framework that scales up reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) to long videos, leveraging reinforcement learning. We address the unique challenges of…

cs.CV2025

Scaling Vision Pre-Training to 4K Resolution

Baifeng Shi, Boyi Li, Han Cai +8

High-resolution perception of visual details is crucial for daily tasks. Current vision pre-training, however, is still limited to low resolutions (e.g., 378 x 378 pixels) due to t…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

NVILA: Efficient Frontier Visual Language Models

Zhijian Liu, Ligeng Zhu, Baifeng Shi +24

Visual language models (VLMs) have made significant advances in accuracy in recent years. However, their efficiency has received much less attention. This paper introduces NVILA, a…

cs.RO2024

LLARVA: Vision-Action Instruction Tuning Enhances Robot Learning

Dantong Niu, Yuvan Sharma, Giscard Biamby +5

In recent years, instruction-tuned Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have been successful at several tasks, including image captioning and visual question answering; yet leveraging th…

cs.CV2024

When Do We Not Need Larger Vision Models?

Baifeng Shi, Ziyang Wu, Maolin Mao +2

Scaling up the size of vision models has been the de facto standard to obtain more powerful visual representations. In this work, we discuss the point beyond which larger vision mo…

cs.RO2024★ 5 cited

Humanoid Locomotion as Next Token Prediction

Ilija Radosavovic, Bike Zhang, Baifeng Shi +5

We cast real-world humanoid control as a next token prediction problem, akin to predicting the next word in language. Our model is a causal transformer trained via autoregressive p…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Rethinking Patch Dependence for Masked Autoencoders

Letian Fu, Long Lian, Renhao Wang +6

In this work, we examine the impact of inter-patch dependencies in the decoder of masked autoencoders (MAE) on representation learning. We decompose the decoding mechanism for mask…

cs.CV2023

Recursive Visual Programming

Jiaxin Ge, Sanjay Subramanian, Baifeng Shi +2

Visual Programming (VP) has emerged as a powerful framework for Visual Question Answering (VQA). By generating and executing bespoke code for each question, these methods demonstra…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

LLM-grounded Video Diffusion Models

Long Lian, Baifeng Shi, Adam Yala +2

Text-conditioned diffusion models have emerged as a promising tool for neural video generation. However, current models still struggle with intricate spatiotemporal prompts and oft…

cs.RO2023★ 4 cited

Robot Learning with Sensorimotor Pre-training

Ilija Radosavovic, Baifeng Shi, Letian Fu +3

We present a self-supervised sensorimotor pre-training approach for robotics. Our model, called RPT, is a Transformer that operates on sequences of sensorimotor tokens. Given a seq…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

TOAST: Transfer Learning via Attention Steering

Baifeng Shi, Siyu Gai, Trevor Darrell +1

Transfer learning involves adapting a pre-trained model to novel downstream tasks. However, we observe that current transfer learning methods often fail to focus on task-relevant f…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Top-Down Visual Attention from Analysis by Synthesis

Baifeng Shi, Trevor Darrell, Xin Wang

Current attention algorithms (e.g., self-attention) are stimulus-driven and highlight all the salient objects in an image. However, intelligent agents like humans often guide their…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Visual Attention Emerges from Recurrent Sparse Reconstruction

Baifeng Shi, Yale Song, Neel Joshi +2

Visual attention helps achieve robust perception under noise, corruption, and distribution shifts in human vision, which are areas where modern neural networks still fall short. We…

cs.CV2020

Temporal Action Detection with Multi-level Supervision

Baifeng Shi, Qi Dai, Judy Hoffman +3

Training temporal action detection in videos requires large amounts of labeled data, yet such annotation is expensive to collect. Incorporating unlabeled or weakly-labeled data to…

cs.LG2020★ 14 cited

Auxiliary Task Reweighting for Minimum-data Learning

Baifeng Shi, Judy Hoffman, Kate Saenko +2

Supervised learning requires a large amount of training data, limiting its application where labeled data is scarce. To compensate for data scarcity, one possible method is to util…

cs.LG2020★ 45 cited

Informative Dropout for Robust Representation Learning: A Shape-bias Perspective

Baifeng Shi, Dinghuai Zhang, Qi Dai +3

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known to rely more on local texture rather than global shape when making decisions. Recent work also indicates a close relationship between…

cs.CV2020★ 25 cited

Weakly-Supervised Action Localization with Expectation-Maximization Multi-Instance Learning

Zhekun Luo, Devin Guillory, Baifeng Shi +4

Weakly-supervised action localization requires training a model to localize the action segments in the video given only video level action label. It can be solved under the Multipl…

cs.CV2020★ 20 cited

Weakly-Supervised Action Localization by Generative Attention Modeling

Baifeng Shi, Qi Dai, Yadong Mu +1

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization is a problem of learning an action localization model with only video-level action labeling available. The general framework largely…