1st Workshop on Safely Leveraging Vision-Language Foundation Models in Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities

Accepted papers (18)

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1. Adapting Diffusion Policies to Human Preferences via Reward-Guided Fine-Tuning

   Yuxin Chen, Devesh K. Jha, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Diego Romeres · PDF

2. Adaptive Energy Regularization for Autonomous Gait Transition and Energy-Efficient Quadruped Locomotion

   Boyuan Liang, Lingfeng Sun, Xinghao Zhu, Bike Zhang, Ziyin Xiong, Yixiao Wang, Chenran Li, Koushil Sreenath, Masayoshi Tomizuka · PDF

3. CREStE: Scalable Mapless Navigation with Internet Scale Priors and Counterfactual Guidance

   Arthur Zhang, Harshit Sikchi, Amy Zhang, Joydeep Biswas · PDF

4. DynaMem: Online Dynamic Spatio-Semantic Memory for Open World Mobile Manipulation

   Peiqi Liu, Zhanqiu Guo, Mohit Warke, Soumith Chintala, Chris Paxton, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah, Lerrel Pinto · PDF

5. Human-in-the-loop Foundation Model Failure Recovery for Robot-Assisted Bite Acquisition

   Krishna Palempalli, Rohan Banerjee, Sarah Dean, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee · PDF

6. Interleave-VLA: Enhancing Robot Manipulation with Interleaved Image-Text Instructions

   Cunxin Fan, Xiaosong Jia, Yihang Sun, Yixiao Wang, Jianglan Wei, ZiYang Gong, Xiangyu Zhao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Xue Yang, Junchi Yan, Mingyu Ding · PDF

7. KitchenVLA: Iterative Vision-Language Corrections for Robotic Execution of Human Tasks

   Kai Lu, Chenyang Ma, Chiori Hori, Diego Romeres · PDF

8. Let's Talk About Language! Investigating Linguistic Diversity in Embodied AI Datasets

   Selma Liliane Wanna, Agnes Luhtaru, Ryan Barron, Jonathan Salfity, Juston Moore, Cynthia Matuszek, Mitch Pryor · PDF

9. MAGIC-VFM Meta-learning Adaptation for Ground Interaction Control with Visual Foundation Models

   Elena Sorina Lupu, Fengze Xie, James A Preiss, Jedidiah Alindogan, Matthew Anderson, Soon-Jo Chung · PDF

10. OpenLex3D: A New Evaluation Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Representations

    Christina Kassab, Sacha Morin, Martin Büchner, Matias Mattamala, Kumaraditya Gupta, Abhinav Valada, Liam Paull, Maurice Fallon · PDF

11. Probing a Vision-Language-Action Model for Symbolic States and Integration into a Cognitive Architecture

    Hong Lu, Matthias Scheutz · PDF

12. Residual Policy Gradient: A Reward View of KL-regularized Objective

    Pengcheng Wang, Xinghao Zhu, Yuxin Chen, Chenfeng Xu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenran Li · PDF

13. Robot Utility Models: General Policies for Zero-Shot Deployment in New Environments

    Haritheja Etukuru, Norihito Naka, Zijin Hu, Seungjae Lee, Chris Paxton, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah · PDF

14. Run-time Observation Interventions Make Vision-Language-Action Models More Visually Robust

    Asher James Hancock, Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar · PDF

15. Semantically Safe Robot Manipulation: From Semantic Scene Understanding to Motion Safeguards

    Lukas Brunke, Yanni Zhang, Ralf Römer, Jack Naimer, Nikola Staykov, SiQi Zhou, Angela P. Schoellig · PDF

16. Towards Safe Robot Foundation Models Using Inductive Biases

    Maximilian Tölle, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Tim Schneider, Jonas Günster, Joe Watson, Davide Tateo, Puze Liu, Jan Peters · PDF

17. Versatile Legged Locomotion Adaptation through Vision-Language Grounding

    I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Seunghyun Lee, Dongkyu Lee, Hyun Myung · PDF

18. Vision Foundation Model Embedding-Based Semantic Anomaly Detection

    Max Peter Ronecker, Matt Foutter, Amine Elhafsi, Daniele Gammelli, Ihor Barakaiev, Marco Pavone, Daniel Watzenig · PDF