6 papers
Ambient Diffusion Policy: Imitation Learning from Suboptimal Data in Robotics
Adam Wei, Nicholas Pfaff, Thomas Cohn +4
We propose Ambient Diffusion Policy, a simple and principled method for imitation learning from suboptimal data in robotics. High-quality, task-specific robot data is expensive and…
SceneSmith: Agentic Generation of Simulation-Ready Indoor Scenes
Nicholas Pfaff, Thomas Cohn, Sergey Zakharov +2
Simulation has become a key tool for training and evaluating home robots at scale, yet existing environments fail to capture the diversity and physical complexity of real indoor sp…
How Well do Diffusion Policies Learn Kinematic Constraint Manifolds?
Lexi Foland, Thomas Cohn, Adam Wei +3
Diffusion policies have shown impressive results in robot imitation learning, even for tasks that require satisfaction of kinematic equality constraints. However, task performance…
Steerable Scene Generation with Post Training and Inference-Time Search
Nicholas Pfaff, Hongkai Dai, Sergey Zakharov +2
Training robots in simulation requires diverse 3D scenes that reflect the specific challenges of downstream tasks. However, scenes that satisfy strict task requirements, such as hi…
Empirical Analysis of Sim-and-Real Cotraining of Diffusion Policies for Planar Pushing from Pixels
Adam Wei, Abhinav Agarwal, Boyuan Chen +3
Cotraining with demonstration data generated both in simulation and on real hardware has emerged as a promising recipe for scaling imitation learning in robotics. This work seeks t…
Scalable Real2Sim: Physics-Aware Asset Generation Via Robotic Pick-and-Place Setups
Nicholas Pfaff, Evelyn Fu, Jeremy Binagia +2
Simulating object dynamics from real-world perception shows great promise for digital twins and robotic manipulation but often demands labor-intensive measurements and expertise. W…