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20172025
most citedAllenAct: A Framework for Embodied AI Research

44 citations · 243 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Robotic Manipulation by Imitating Generated Videos Without Physical Demonstrations

Shivansh Patel, Shraddhaa Mohan, Hanlin Mai +3

This work introduces Robots Imitating Generated Videos (RIGVid), a system that enables robots to perform complex manipulation tasks--such as pouring, wiping, and mixing--purely by…

cs.CV2024★ 10 cited

An Image is Worth More Than 16x16 Patches: Exploring Transformers on Individual Pixels

Duy-Kien Nguyen, Mahmoud Assran, Unnat Jain +3

This work does not introduce a new method. Instead, we present an interesting finding that questions the necessity of the inductive bias of locality in modern computer vision archi…

cs.CV2023

Exploitation-Guided Exploration for Semantic Embodied Navigation

Justin Wasserman, Girish Chowdhary, Abhinav Gupta +1

In the recent progress in embodied navigation and sim-to-robot transfer, modular policies have emerged as a de facto framework. However, there is more to compositionality beyond th…

cs.HC2023★ 15 cited

Habitat 3.0: A Co-Habitat for Humans, Avatars and Robots

Xavier Puig, Eric Undersander, Andrew Szot +20

We present Habitat 3.0: a simulation platform for studying collaborative human-robot tasks in home environments. Habitat 3.0 offers contributions across three dimensions: (1) Accur…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

An Unbiased Look at Datasets for Visuo-Motor Pre-Training

Sudeep Dasari, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Unnat Jain +1

Visual representation learning hold great promise for robotics, but is severely hampered by the scarcity and homogeneity of robotics datasets. Recent works address this problem by…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Adaptive Coordination in Social Embodied Rearrangement

Andrew Szot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra +3

We present the task of "Social Rearrangement", consisting of cooperative everyday tasks like setting up the dinner table, tidying a house or unpacking groceries in a simulated mult…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

Affordances from Human Videos as a Versatile Representation for Robotics

Shikhar Bahl, Russell Mendonca, Lili Chen +2

Building a robot that can understand and learn to interact by watching humans has inspired several vision problems. However, despite some successful results on static datasets, it…

cs.CV2023

Pretrained Language Models as Visual Planners for Human Assistance

Dhruvesh Patel, Hamid Eghbalzadeh, Nitin Kamra +3

In our pursuit of advancing multi-modal AI assistants capable of guiding users to achieve complex multi-step goals, we propose the task of "Visual Planning for Assistance (VPA)". G…

cs.RO2023

MOPA: Modular Object Navigation with PointGoal Agents

Sonia Raychaudhuri, Tommaso Campari, Unnat Jain +2

We propose a simple but effective modular approach MOPA (Modular ObjectNav with PointGoal agents) to systematically investigate the inherent modularity of the object navigation tas…

cs.CV2022★ 7 cited

Last-Mile Embodied Visual Navigation

Justin Wasserman, Karmesh Yadav, Girish Chowdhary +2

Realistic long-horizon tasks like image-goal navigation involve exploratory and exploitative phases. Assigned with an image of the goal, an embodied agent must explore to discover…

cs.CV2022★ 19 cited

Retrospectives on the Embodied AI Workshop

Matt Deitke, Dhruv Batra, Yonatan Bisk +36

We present a retrospective on the state of Embodied AI research. Our analysis focuses on 13 challenges presented at the Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR. These challenges are grouped i…

cs.CV2022★ 14 cited

Learning State-Aware Visual Representations from Audible Interactions

Himangi Mittal, Pedro Morgado, Unnat Jain +1

We propose a self-supervised algorithm to learn representations from egocentric video data. Recently, significant efforts have been made to capture humans interacting with their ow…

cs.CV2021

Interpretation of Emergent Communication in Heterogeneous Collaborative Embodied Agents

Shivansh Patel, Saim Wani, Unnat Jain +4

Communication between embodied AI agents has received increasing attention in recent years. Despite its use, it is still unclear whether the learned communication is interpretable…

cs.CV2021

Language-Aligned Waypoint (LAW) Supervision for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

Sonia Raychaudhuri, Saim Wani, Shivansh Patel +2

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task an embodied agent navigates a 3D environment, following natural language instructions. A challenge in this task is how to handle 'o…

cs.AI2021★ 32 cited

Cooperative Exploration for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

Iou-Jen Liu, Unnat Jain, Raymond A. Yeh +1

Exploration is critical for good results in deep reinforcement learning and has attracted much attention. However, existing multi-agent deep reinforcement learning algorithms still…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

GridToPix: Training Embodied Agents with Minimal Supervision

Unnat Jain, Iou-Jen Liu, Svetlana Lazebnik +3

While deep reinforcement learning (RL) promises freedom from hand-labeled data, great successes, especially for Embodied AI, require significant work to create supervision via care…

cs.CV2020★ 44 cited

MultiON: Benchmarking Semantic Map Memory using Multi-Object Navigation

Saim Wani, Shivansh Patel, Unnat Jain +2

Navigation tasks in photorealistic 3D environments are challenging because they require perception and effective planning under partial observability. Recent work shows that map-li…

cs.CV2020★ 44 cited

AllenAct: A Framework for Embodied AI Research

Luca Weihs, Jordi Salvador, Klemen Kotar +4

The domain of Embodied AI, in which agents learn to complete tasks through interaction with their environment from egocentric observations, has experienced substantial growth with…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

A Cordial Sync: Going Beyond Marginal Policies for Multi-Agent Embodied Tasks

Unnat Jain, Luca Weihs, Eric Kolve +4

Autonomous agents must learn to collaborate. It is not scalable to develop a new centralized agent every time a task's difficulty outpaces a single agent's abilities. While multi-a…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Bridging the Imitation Gap by Adaptive Insubordination

Luca Weihs, Unnat Jain, Iou-Jen Liu +4

In practice, imitation learning is preferred over pure reinforcement learning whenever it is possible to design a teaching agent to provide expert supervision. However, we show tha…

cs.CV2019★ 7 cited

SoundSpaces: Audio-Visual Navigation in 3D Environments

Changan Chen, Unnat Jain, Carl Schissler +5

Moving around in the world is naturally a multisensory experience, but today's embodied agents are deaf---restricted to solely their visual perception of the environment. We introd…

cs.CV2019★ 4 cited

TAB-VCR: Tags and Attributes based Visual Commonsense Reasoning Baselines

Jingxiang Lin, Unnat Jain, Alexander G. Schwing

Reasoning is an important ability that we learn from a very early age. Yet, reasoning is extremely hard for algorithms. Despite impressive recent progress that has been reported on…

cs.CV2019

Two Body Problem: Collaborative Visual Task Completion

Unnat Jain, Luca Weihs, Eric Kolve +5

Collaboration is a necessary skill to perform tasks that are beyond one agent's capabilities. Addressed extensively in both conventional and modern AI, multi-agent collaboration ha…

cs.CV2018

Two can play this Game: Visual Dialog with Discriminative Question Generation and Answering

Unnat Jain, Svetlana Lazebnik, Alexander Schwing

Human conversation is a complex mechanism with subtle nuances. It is hence an ambitious goal to develop artificial intelligence agents that can participate fluently in a conversati…