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SHRED: Self-Play for Heterogeneous Road-Users without Expert Demonstrations
Wei-Jer Chang, Zhouchonghao Wu, Akshay Rangesh +3
Realistic traffic simulation and autonomous planning both depend on modeling interactions among heterogeneous road users whose dynamics, constraints, and behaviors differ fundament…
UniQueR: Unified Query-based Feedforward 3D Reconstruction
Chensheng Peng, Quentin Herau, Jiezhi Yang +6
We present UniQueR, a unified query-based feedforward framework for efficient and accurate 3D reconstruction from unposed images. Existing feedforward models such as DUSt3R, VGGT,…
HetroD: A High-Fidelity Drone Dataset and Benchmark for Autonomous Driving in Heterogeneous Traffic
Yu-Hsiang Chen, Wei-Jer Chang, Christian Kotulla +7
We present HetroD, a dataset and benchmark for developing autonomous driving systems in heterogeneous environments. HetroD targets the critical challenge of navi- gating real-world…
Fractional-order Modeling for Nonlinear Soft Actuators via Particle Swarm Optimization
Wu-Te Yang, Masayoshi Tomizuka
Modeling soft pneumatic actuators with high precision remains a fundamental challenge due to their highly nonlinear and compliant characteristics. This paper proposes an innovative…
SPACeR: Self-Play Anchoring with Centralized Reference Models
Wei-Jer Chang, Akshay Rangesh, Kevin Joseph +4
Developing autonomous vehicles (AVs) requires not only safety and efficiency, but also realistic, human-like behaviors that are socially aware and predictable. Achieving this requi…
VER: Vision Expert Transformer for Robot Learning via Foundation Distillation and Dynamic Routing
Yixiao Wang, Mingxiao Huo, Zhixuan Liang +8
Pretrained vision foundation models (VFMs) advance robotic learning via rich visual representations, yet individual VFMs typically excel only in specific domains, limiting generali…
DEXOP: A Device for Robotic Transfer of Dexterous Human Manipulation
Hao-Shu Fang, Branden Romero, Yichen Xie +9
We introduce perioperation, a paradigm for robotic data collection that sensorizes and records human manipulation while maximizing the transferability of the data to real robots. W…
R3D2: Realistic 3D Asset Insertion via Diffusion for Autonomous Driving Simulation
William Ljungbergh, Bernardo Taveira, Wenzhao Zheng +8
Validating autonomous driving (AD) systems requires diverse and safety-critical testing, making photorealistic virtual environments essential. Traditional simulation platforms, whi…
Generative AI for Autonomous Driving: Frontiers and Opportunities
Yuping Wang, Shuo Xing, Cui Can +46
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) constitutes a transformative technological wave that reconfigures industries through its unparalleled capabilities for content creation,…
Improved Immiscible Diffusion: Accelerate Diffusion Training by Reducing Its Miscibility
Yiheng Li, Feng Liang, Dan Kondratyuk +3
The substantial training cost of diffusion models hinders their deployment. Immiscible Diffusion recently showed that reducing diffusion trajectory mixing in the noise space via li…
Interleave-VLA: Enhancing Robot Manipulation with Interleaved Image-Text Instructions
Cunxin Fan, Xiaosong Jia, Yihang Sun +8
The rise of foundation models paves the way for generalist robot policies in the physical world. Existing methods relying on text-only instructions often struggle to generalize to…
LANGTRAJ: Diffusion Model and Dataset for Language-Conditioned Trajectory Simulation
Wei-Jer Chang, Wei Zhan, Masayoshi Tomizuka +2
Evaluating autonomous vehicles with controllability enables scalable testing in counterfactual or structured settings, enhancing both efficiency and safety. We introduce LangTraj,…
Fair Play in the Fast Lane: Integrating Sportsmanship into Autonomous Racing Systems
Zhenmin Huang, Ce Hao, Wei Zhan +2
Autonomous racing has gained significant attention as a platform for high-speed decision-making and motion control. While existing methods primarily focus on trajectory planning an…
REMAC: Self-Reflective and Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
Puzhen Yuan, Angyuan Ma, Yunchao Yao +3
Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in robotic planning, particularly for long-horizon tasks that require a holistic understanding of the enviro…
Residual Policy Gradient: A Reward View of KL-regularized Objective
Pengcheng Wang, Xinghao Zhu, Yuxin Chen +3
Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning have achieved widespread success in many domains but remain constrained during real-world deployment. One of the main issues is the ad…
Physics-Aware Robotic Palletization with Online Masking Inference
Tianqi Zhang, Zheng Wu, Yuxin Chen +6
The efficient planning of stacking boxes, especially in the online setting where the sequence of item arrivals is unpredictable, remains a critical challenge in modern warehouse an…
Dobi-SVD: Differentiable SVD for LLM Compression and Some New Perspectives
Qinsi Wang, Jinghan Ke, Masayoshi Tomizuka +3
We provide a new LLM-compression solution via SVD, unlocking new possibilities for LLM compression beyond quantization and pruning. We point out that the optimal use of SVD lies in…
Algebraic Control: Complete Stable Inversion with Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Burak Kürkçü, Masayoshi Tomizuka
In this paper, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for stable inversion, addressing challenges in non-minimum phase, non-square, and singular systems. An H-Infinity ba…
DrivingRecon: Large 4D Gaussian Reconstruction Model For Autonomous Driving
Hao Lu, Tianshuo Xu, Wenzhao Zheng +6
Photorealistic 4D reconstruction of street scenes is essential for developing real-world simulators in autonomous driving. However, most existing methods perform this task offline…
Driv3R: Learning Dense 4D Reconstruction for Autonomous Driving
Xin Fei, Wenzhao Zheng, Yueqi Duan +4
Realtime 4D reconstruction for dynamic scenes remains a crucial challenge for autonomous driving perception. Most existing methods rely on depth estimation through self-supervision…
A Lesson in Splats: Teacher-Guided Diffusion for 3D Gaussian Splats Generation with 2D Supervision
Chensheng Peng, Ido Sobol, Masayoshi Tomizuka +3
We present a novel framework for training 3D image-conditioned diffusion models using only 2D supervision. Recovering 3D structure from 2D images is inherently ill-posed due to the…
X-Drive: Cross-modality consistent multi-sensor data synthesis for driving scenarios
Yichen Xie, Chenfeng Xu, Chensheng Peng +6
Recent advancements have exploited diffusion models for the synthesis of either LiDAR point clouds or camera image data in driving scenarios. Despite their success in modeling sing…
DexHandDiff: Interaction-aware Diffusion Planning for Adaptive Dexterous Manipulation
Zhixuan Liang, Yao Mu, Yixiao Wang +6
Dexterous manipulation with contact-rich interactions is crucial for advanced robotics. While recent diffusion-based planning approaches show promise for simple manipulation tasks,…
DeSiRe-GS: 4D Street Gaussians for Static-Dynamic Decomposition and Surface Reconstruction for Urban Driving Scenes
Chensheng Peng, Chengwei Zhang, Yixiao Wang +6
We present DeSiRe-GS, a self-supervised gaussian splatting representation, enabling effective static-dynamic decomposition and high-fidelity surface reconstruction in complex drivi…