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most citedManiSkill: Generalizable Manipulation Skill Benchmark with Large-Scale Demonstrations

27 citations · 58 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.RO2026

SILO: Simulation-in-the-Loop Sim-to-Real Transfer for Multi-Stage Cable Routing

Stone Tao, Jie Xu, Hesam Rabeti +3

Linear-deformable manipulation remains challenging due to the complex deformations of objects such as cables and ropes. Prior data-driven approaches, particularly imitation learnin…

cs.RO2026

Recover, Discover, Plan: Learning Skills and Concepts from Robot Failures

Bowen Li, Mayank Mishra, Y. Isabel Liu +7

Intelligent robots should not only recover from failures, but also acquire the abstract knowledge needed to avoid them in the future. While reinforcement learning (RL) can learn re…

cs.RO2026

Advances and Innovations in the Multi-Agent Robotic System (MARS) Challenge

Li Kang, Heng Zhou, Xiufeng Song +41

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models and vision-languageaction models have significantly driven progress in Embodied AI. As the field transitions toward more com…

cs.LG2025

Staggered Environment Resets Improve Massively Parallel On-Policy Reinforcement Learning

Sid Bharthulwar, Stone Tao, Hao Su

Massively parallel GPU simulation environments have accelerated reinforcement learning (RL) research by enabling fast data collection for on-policy RL algorithms like Proximal Poli…

cs.CL2025

Do Vision-Language Models Have Internal World Models? Towards an Atomic Evaluation

Qiyue Gao, Xinyu Pi, Kevin Liu +21

Internal world models (WMs) enable agents to understand the world's state and predict transitions, serving as the basis for advanced deliberative reasoning. Recent large Vision-Lan…

cs.LG2025

Multi-Stage Manipulation with Demonstration-Augmented Reward, Policy, and World Model Learning

Adrià López Escoriza, Nicklas Hansen, Stone Tao +2

Long-horizon tasks in robotic manipulation present significant challenges in reinforcement learning (RL) due to the difficulty of designing dense reward functions and effectively e…

cs.RO2024

Policy Decorator: Model-Agnostic Online Refinement for Large Policy Model

Xiu Yuan, Tongzhou Mu, Stone Tao +3

Recent advancements in robot learning have used imitation learning with large models and extensive demonstrations to develop effective policies. However, these models are often lim…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

ManiSkill-HAB: A Benchmark for Low-Level Manipulation in Home Rearrangement Tasks

Arth Shukla, Stone Tao, Hao Su

High-quality benchmarks are the foundation for embodied AI research, enabling significant advancements in long-horizon navigation, manipulation and rearrangement tasks. However, as…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

ManiSkill3: GPU Parallelized Robotics Simulation and Rendering for Generalizable Embodied AI

Stone Tao, Fanbo Xiang, Arth Shukla +20

Simulation has enabled unprecedented compute-scalable approaches to robot learning. However, many existing simulation frameworks typically support a narrow range of scenes/tasks an…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Reverse Forward Curriculum Learning for Extreme Sample and Demonstration Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning

Stone Tao, Arth Shukla, Tse-kai Chan +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) presents a promising framework to learn policies through environment interaction, but often requires an infeasible amount of interaction data to solve c…

cs.RO2023★ 22 cited

ManiSkill2: A Unified Benchmark for Generalizable Manipulation Skills

Jiayuan Gu, Fanbo Xiang, Xuanlin Li +12

Generalizable manipulation skills, which can be composed to tackle long-horizon and complex daily chores, are one of the cornerstones of Embodied AI. However, existing benchmarks,…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

Emergent collective intelligence from massive-agent cooperation and competition

Hanmo Chen, Stone Tao, Jiaxin Chen +6

Inspired by organisms evolving through cooperation and competition between different populations on Earth, we study the emergence of artificial collective intelligence through mass…

cs.LG2022

Abstract-to-Executable Trajectory Translation for One-Shot Task Generalization

Stone Tao, Xiaochen Li, Tongzhou Mu +3

Training long-horizon robotic policies in complex physical environments is essential for many applications, such as robotic manipulation. However, learning a policy that can genera…

cs.LG2021★ 27 cited

ManiSkill: Generalizable Manipulation Skill Benchmark with Large-Scale Demonstrations

Tongzhou Mu, Zhan Ling, Fanbo Xiang +6

Object manipulation from 3D visual inputs poses many challenges on building generalizable perception and policy models. However, 3D assets in existing benchmarks mostly lack the di…