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most citedMimicTouch: Leveraging Multi-modal Human Tactile Demonstrations for Contact-rich Manipulation

3 citations · 4 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.RO2026

Active Generative Simulation: Meta-Learning What to Simulate for Sim-and-Real Policy Co-Training

Liqian Ma, Vaibhav Saxena, Utkarsh Aashu Mishra +3

Sim-and-real co-training is an effective way to scale robot learning by augmenting limited real-world demonstrations with simulation data. However, existing approaches typically tr…

cs.RO2026

Learning to See While Learning to Act: Diffusion Models for Active Perception in Robot Imitation

Kuancheng Wang, Vaibhav Saxena, Shuo Cheng +2

Most imitation learning methods assume full observability in table-top settings. In practice, objects are often occluded, requiring robots to both search and act, and learning this…

cs.RO2026

KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and Planning

Yixuan Huang, Bowen Li, Vaibhav Saxena +9

Robotic systems that interact with the physical world must reason about kinematic and dynamic constraints imposed by their own embodiment, their environment, and the task at hand.…

cs.SE2025

Generating Verifiable Chain of Thoughts from Exection-Traces

Shailja Thakur, Vaibhav Saxena, Rohan Kulkarni +4

Getting language models to reason correctly about code requires training on data where each reasoning step can be checked. Current synthetic Chain-of-Thought (CoT) training data of…

cs.RO2025

What Matters in Learning from Large-Scale Datasets for Robot Manipulation

Vaibhav Saxena, Matthew Bronars, Nadun Ranawaka Arachchige +5

Imitation learning from large multi-task demonstration datasets has emerged as a promising path for building generally-capable robots. As a result, 1000s of hours have been spent o…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Scaling Granite Code Models to 128K Context

Matt Stallone, Vaibhav Saxena, Leonid Karlinsky +19

This paper introduces long-context Granite code models that support effective context windows of up to 128K tokens. Our solution for scaling context length of Granite 3B/8B code mo…

cs.RO2023

C3DM: Constrained-Context Conditional Diffusion Models for Imitation Learning

Vaibhav Saxena, Yotto Koga, Danfei Xu

Behavior Cloning (BC) methods are effective at learning complex manipulation tasks. However, they are prone to spurious correlation - expressive models may focus on distractors tha…

cs.RO2023★ 3 cited

MimicTouch: Leveraging Multi-modal Human Tactile Demonstrations for Contact-rich Manipulation

Kelin Yu, Yunhai Han, Qixian Wang +3

Tactile sensing is critical to fine-grained, contact-rich manipulation tasks, such as insertion and assembly. Prior research has shown the possibility of learning tactile-guided po…