
Sergey Levine
@svlevine • 131,426 subscribers
Associate Professor at UC Berkeley Co-founder, Physical Intelligence
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Flow reversal steering allows "steering" diffusion-based VLAs with high-level actions, for example from VLM reasoning. This also lets us run RL in the diffusion noise space with exploration guided by high-level reasoning: think through a task, then practice it! 👇
Sergey Levine74,382 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

If you want a robot to do something well, you need to know how to talk to it. If you don't, you can learn, with Semantic Action RL! In our paper, Jagdeep Bhatia @ RSS 2026, Andrew Wagenmaker, Will Chen show how RL over VLA prompts enables new tasks and learns blazing fast in the real world!
Sergey Levine29,139 просмотров • 16 дней назад

We can learn a model that provides shaped "process rewards" for robotic RL, that evolves automatically as the policy gets better. This improves performance on benchmarks, and works in the real world! Some fun new work with Raymond Tsao & Andrew Wagenmaker
Sergey Levine36,440 просмотров • 23 дней назад

We finished evaluating π0.7, our new model at Physical Intelligence. What I'm most excited about with π0.7 is that it's starting to show some surprising emergent compositional generalization, being able to both perform complex tasks and learn new tasks just from instructions.
Sergey Levine60,722 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

If you have a policy that uses diffusion/flow (e.g. diffusion VLA), you can run RL where the actor chooses the noise, which is then denoised by the policy to produce an action. This method, which we call diffusion steering (DSRL), leads to a remarkably efficient RL method! 🧵👇
Sergey Levine152,824 просмотров • 1 год назад

A while back Benjie Holson described a set of "Robot Olympics" challenge tasks -- washing a pan, making a peanut butter sandwich, and more. We tried to fine-tune our models at PI to these tasks, and found that we could do most of them. A few highlights below.
Sergey Levine81,283 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

Really excited to share what I've been working on with my colleagues at Physical Intelligence! We've developed a prototype robotic foundation model that can fold laundry, assemble a box, bus a table, and many other things. We've written a paper and blog post about it. 🧵👇
Sergey Levine114,997 просмотров • 1 год назад

Real-time inference is a big challenge for VLAs. We’ve been working on a way to amortize inference delays in π0.5. Our new Real-Time Chunking (RTC) method speeds up π0.5 by allowing the robot to “think” while it’s moving, which makes it quite a bit faster! 🧵👇
Sergey Levine73,688 просмотров • 1 год назад

At Physical Intelligence, we teamed up with Weave Robotics and Ultra to stress-test our models in real-world deployments. This was a really fun collaboration that saw our latest pi06 model running in production at Sea Breeze Cleaners and a real warehouse! More below.
Sergey Levine31,910 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Diffusion models make great images. But can they drive robots? Usually that gets complicated really fast. We figured out how to get a Stable Diffusion model (based on Instruct pix2pix) to drive robotic instruction following. Simple recipe, works on a wide range of tasks. Thread👇
Sergey Levine126,523 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Watch this robot dog learn to walk from scratch in real time! Our new method, APRL, dynamically adjusts exploration constraints to enable fast and performant RL directly in the real world. APRL can also adapt to changes in the terrain. No simulation, no demos. A thread 👇
Sergey Levine105,579 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Language following is a tough problem for VLAs: while these models can follow complex language, in practice getting datasets that enable language following is hard. We developed a method to counterfactually and automatically label data to improve language following! 🧵👇
Sergey Levine44,229 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

We trained a robotic foundation model that can drive mobile robots in six different countries, and navigate Sproul Plaza in midday on the UC Berkeley campus! Some cool new work w/ noriaki_hirose, Lydia Ignatova, Kyle Stachowicz, Catherine Glossop, Dhruv Shah
Sergey Levine52,979 просмотров • 1 год назад

If we train VLAs to respond to diverse multimodal prompts, then we can steer them better: [grasp the carrot]/[move to x,y,z]/[put the carrot on the plate]. With many levels of detail, powerful VLMs can step in and steer the model to success much more often! More below 👇
Sergey Levine21,049 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад