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Rethinking Safety for Generalist Robots
Rohan Sinha, Anushri Dixit, Ran Tian +2
Generalist robots promise to transform our society: the same system that prepares a meal or folds laundry might also repair a car, inspect infrastructure, or care for a loved one.…
Position: Good Embodied Reward Models Need Bad Behavior Data
Ran Tian, Yilin Wu, Andrea Bajcsy
This position paper argues that to obtain reliable embodied reward models, the community must invest in ``bad'' robot data: failed, suboptimal, error-prone, and even hazardous beha…
StressDream: Steering Video World Models for Robust Policy Evaluation and Improvement
Junwon Seo, Sushant Veer, Ran Tian +6
Video world models (WMs) have shown promise for policy evaluation and improvement by imagining realistic future observations conditioned on ego-robot actions. While WMs can model d…
AdaGamma: State-Dependent Discounting for Temporal Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning
Yaomin Wang, Jianting Pan, Ran Tian +4
The discount factor in reinforcement learning controls both the effective planning horizon and the strength of bootstrapping, yet most deep RL methods use a single fixed value acro…