28 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…
Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language-Action Robot Policies via Parameter Merging
Yajat Yadav, Zhiyuan Zhou, Andrew Wagenmaker +2
Generalist robot policies, trained on large and diverse datasets, have demonstrated the ability to generalize across a wide spectrum of behaviors, enabling a single policy to act i…
SteerVLA: Steering Vision-Language-Action Models in Long-Tail Driving Scenarios
Tian Gao, Celine Tan, Catherine Glossop +8
A fundamental challenge in autonomous driving is the integration of high-level, semantic reasoning for long-tail events with low-level, reactive control for robust driving. While l…
RoboReward: General-Purpose Vision-Language Reward Models for Robotics
Tony Lee, Andrew Wagenmaker, Karl Pertsch +3
A well-designed reward is critical for effective reinforcement learning-based policy improvement. In real-world robotics, obtaining such rewards typically requires either labor-int…