9 papers
Why Does Action Chunking Improve Behavioral Cloning Performance in Robotic Control?
Filippo Lazzati, Kyle Stachowicz, William Chen +3
Action chunking---predicting and executing multiple actions instead of a single action---has proven to be a critical component for learning effective robotic control policies. Howe…
Adapting Generalist Robot Policies with Semantic Reinforcement Learning
Jagdeep Singh Bhatia, Andrew Wagenmaker, William Chen +1
Generalist robot policies learn a diverse repertoire of behaviors from large-scale pretraining. In principle, this makes them excellent priors for downstream adaptation via reinfor…
Improving Robotic Generalist Policies via Flow Reversal Steering
Andy Tang, William Chen, Andrew Wagenmaker +2
Generalist policies can learn a wide range of skills from diverse robot datasets. In order to solve or improve on challenging new tasks, we need a way to infer and invoke the appro…
CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Catherine Glossop, William Chen, Arjun Bhorkar +2
Generalist robots should be able to understand and follow user instructions. Despite providing a powerful architecture for mapping open-vocabulary language instructions to robot ac…
Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical Control
William Chen, Jagdeep Singh Bhatia, Catherine Glossop +6
Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) can make semantic and visual inferences across diverse settings, providing valuable common-sense priors for robotic control. However, effec…
PolaRiS: Scalable Real-to-Sim Evaluations for Generalist Robot Policies
Arhan Jain, Mingtong Zhang, Kanav Arora +11
A significant challenge for robot learning research is our ability to accurately measure and compare the performance of robot policies. Benchmarking in robotics is historically cha…