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most citedNatural Language Understanding with the Quora Question Pairs Dataset

57 citations · 118 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots with Advanced Embodied Reasoning, Thinking, and Motion Transfer

Gemini Robotics Team, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Saminda Abeyruwan +169

General-purpose robots need a deep understanding of the physical world, advanced reasoning, and general and dexterous control. This report introduces the latest generation of the G…

cs.RO2025

SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement

Heni Ben Amor, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen +7

We demonstrate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to perform iterative self-improvement of robot policies. An important insight of this paper is that LLMs have a built-in…

cs.RO2025★ 6 cited

Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World

Gemini Robotics Team, Saminda Abeyruwan, Joshua Ainslie +115

Recent advancements in large multimodal models have led to the emergence of remarkable generalist capabilities in digital domains, yet their translation to physical agents such as…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis

David B. D'Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser +24

Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first…

cs.RO2023★ 18 cited

Robotic Table Tennis: A Case Study into a High Speed Learning System

David B. D'Ambrosio, Jonathan Abelian, Saminda Abeyruwan +32

We present a deep-dive into a real-world robotic learning system that, in previous work, was shown to be capable of hundreds of table tennis rallies with a human and has the abilit…

cs.RO2022★ 2 cited

GoalsEye: Learning High Speed Precision Table Tennis on a Physical Robot

Tianli Ding, Laura Graesser, Saminda Abeyruwan +5

Learning goal conditioned control in the real world is a challenging open problem in robotics. Reinforcement learning systems have the potential to learn autonomously via trial-and…

cs.RO2022★ 12 cited

i-Sim2Real: Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Policies in Tight Human-Robot Interaction Loops

Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, David B. D'Ambrosio +6

Sim-to-real transfer is a powerful paradigm for robotic reinforcement learning. The ability to train policies in simulation enables safe exploration and large-scale data collection…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

The State of Sparse Training in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Laura Graesser, Utku Evci, Erich Elsen +1

The use of sparse neural networks has seen rapid growth in recent years, particularly in computer vision. Their appeal stems largely from the reduced number of parameters required…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Robotic Table Tennis with Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

Wenbo Gao, Laura Graesser, Krzysztof Choromanski +5

We propose a model-free algorithm for learning efficient policies capable of returning table tennis balls by controlling robot joints at a rate of 100Hz. We demonstrate that evolut…

cs.LG2019★ 6 cited

SLM Lab: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Modular Software Framework for Reproducible Deep Reinforcement Learning

Keng Wah Loon, Laura Graesser, Milan Cvitkovic

We introduce SLM Lab, a software framework for reproducible reinforcement learning (RL) research. SLM Lab implements a number of popular RL algorithms, provides synchronous and asy…

cs.CL2019★ 57 cited

Natural Language Understanding with the Quora Question Pairs Dataset

Lakshay Sharma, Laura Graesser, Nikita Nangia +1

This paper explores the task Natural Language Understanding (NLU) by looking at duplicate question detection in the Quora dataset. We conducted extensive exploration of the dataset…

cs.CL2019

Emergent Linguistic Phenomena in Multi-Agent Communication Games

Laura Graesser, Kyunghyun Cho, Douwe Kiela

In this work, we propose a computational framework in which agents equipped with communication capabilities simultaneously play a series of referential games, where agents are trai…

cs.LG2018★ 2 cited

Composable Unpaired Image to Image Translation

Laura Graesser, Anant Gupta

There has been remarkable recent work in unpaired image-to-image translation. However, they're restricted to translation on single pairs of distributions, with some exceptions. In…

cs.CL2017★ 1 cited

Sentiment Classification using Images and Label Embeddings

Laura Graesser, Abhinav Gupta, Lakshay Sharma +1

In this project we analysed how much semantic information images carry, and how much value image data can add to sentiment analysis of the text associated with the images. To bette…