15 papers
Autonomous Scientific Discovery via Iterative Meta-Reflection
Bingchen Zhao, Sara Beery, Oisin Mac Aodha
Autonomous scientific discovery systems offer the potential to accelerate research by automating the process of hypothesis generation and validation. However, current systems opera…
Decoupling the Declarative from the Procedural in Vision-Language-Action Models
Nikolaos Tsagkas, Andreas Sochopoulos, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu +2
Deploying generalist robotic agents in the real world requires transferable skills. Specifically, a policy trained to clone a behavior from object-specific demonstrations must gene…
roto 2.0: The Robot Tactile Olympiad
Elle Miller, Jayaram Reddy, Ayush Deshmukh +4
Tactile-based reinforcement learning (RL) is currently hindered by fragmented research and a focus on over-saturated orientation tasks. We introduce v2 of the Robot Tactile Olympia…
APRES: An Agentic Paper Revision and Evaluation System
Bingchen Zhao, Jenny Zhang, Chenxi Whitehouse +8
Scientific discoveries must be communicated clearly to realize their full potential. Without effective communication, even the most groundbreaking findings risk being overlooked or…
INQUIRE-Search: Interactive Discovery in Large-Scale Biodiversity Databases
Edward Vendrow, Julia Chae, Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan +10
Many ecological questions center on complex phenomena, such as species interactions, behaviors, phenology, and responses to disturbance, that are inherently difficult to observe an…
MotionPhysics: Learnable Motion Distillation for Text-Guided Simulation
Miaowei Wang, Jakub Zadrożny, Oisin Mac Aodha +1
Accurately simulating existing 3D objects and a wide variety of materials often demands expert knowledge and time-consuming physical parameter tuning to achieve the desired dynamic…