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Introducing Axis Dataset V1 - the simulation dataset for scalable robot manipulation. Can noisy, crowdsourced simulation data support embodied pretraining? Yes—with enough coverage and diversity. Continual pretraining on AXIS dataset V1 lifts π0.5 from 83.9% to 88.8% on LIBERO-Plus, with performance improving consistently as the pretraining data scales from... show more

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20,486 views • 1 year ago

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Synthetic data will provide the next trillion tokens to fuel our hungry models. I'm excited to announce MimicGen: massively scaling up data pipeline for robot learning! We multiply high-quality human data in simulation with digital twins. Using 50,000 training episodes across 18 tasks, multiple simulators, and even in the real-world! The idea is simple: 1. Humans tele-operate the robot to complete a task. It is extremely high-quality but also very slow and expensive. 2. We create a digital twin of the robot and the scene in high-fidelity, GPU-accelerated simulation. 3. We can now move objects around, replace with new assets, and even change the robot hand - basically augment the training data with procedural generation. 4. Export the successful episodes, and feed that to a neural network! You now have an near-infinite stream of data. One of the key reasons that robotics lags far behind other AI fields is the lack of data: you cannot scrape control signals from the internet. They simply don't exist in-the-wild. MimicGen shows the power of synthetic data and simulation to keep our scaling laws alive. I believe this principle apply beyond robotics. We are quickly exhausting the high-quality, real tokens from the web. Artificial intelligence from artificial data will be the way forward. We are big fans of the OSS community. As usual, we open-source everything, including the generated dataset! - Website: - Paper: - Dataset is hosted on HuggingFace (thanks AK!!): - Code: MimicGen is led by Ajay Mandlekar, deep dive in the thread:

Jim Fan

332,238 views • 2 years ago

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Jim Fan

466,442 views • 1 year ago

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Vertaix® (AI & Science)

34,762 views • 1 year ago

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Figure announces Project Go-Big: Internet-Scale Humanoid Pretraining and Direct Human-to-Robot Transfer The company has achieved a new milestone for the Helix AI model: after training exclusively on egocentric human data, Figure robots can now navigate real-world spaces from natural language commands such as “Go water the plants.” This also enabled a unified Helix model that can output both manipulation and navigation commands to the continuous control system. This ties into the Brookfield partnership that they announced yesterday. Brookfield is a global asset manager overseeing $1 trillion in assets, including 100,000 residential units, 500M square feet of commercial office space, and 160M square feet of logistics space. Using human video capture in a variety of Brookfield environments, Figure will amass critical pretraining data at scale, allowing them to explore the full potential of internet-scale embodied datasets for locomotion and manipulation.

The Humanoid Hub

32,879 views • 11 months ago

Quadrupeds are fast. Agile. Great at locomotion. But can they manipulate? A new approach from Carnegie Mellon University, Google DeepMind, and Bosch is teaching quadrupedal robots to do more than walk, they’re learning to interact. It’s called Human2LocoMan: a system that uses human data to pretrain robot policies before finetuning on real hardware. The result? A four-legged robot that can walk, carry, organize, scoop, and sort with both single and dual-arm control. By pretraining on human motion, they cut the amount of robot data in half—while improving success rates by over 80% in unfamiliar environments. Their Modularized Cross-Embodiment Transformer (MXT) learns from both human and robot demonstrations, then generalizes those skills to physical tasks—no hardcoded behaviors required. It’s locomotion and manipulation. A quadruped that can walk and clean up after itself?

Quadrupeds are fast. Agile. Great at locomotion. But can they manipulate? A new approach from Carnegie Mellon University, Google DeepMind, and Bosch is teaching quadrupedal robots to do more than walk, they’re learning to interact. It’s called Human2LocoMan: a system that uses human data to pretrain robot policies before finetuning on real hardware. The result? A four-legged robot that can walk, carry, organize, scoop, and sort with both single and dual-arm control. By pretraining on human motion, they cut the amount of robot data in half—while improving success rates by over 80% in unfamiliar environments. Their Modularized Cross-Embodiment Transformer (MXT) learns from both human and robot demonstrations, then generalizes those skills to physical tasks—no hardcoded behaviors required. It’s locomotion and manipulation. A quadruped that can walk and clean up after itself?

Lukas Ziegler

61,610 views • 1 year ago

$*New Paper on AI & Democracy* Imagine two approaches to democracy. The one we have today, where citizens choose a professional politician to represent them and others. Or an augmented form of democracy, where each citizen controls a personalized AI that helps them participate in thousands of nuanced decisions. This second approach is the idea of Augmented Democracy I introduced six years ago at TED. In our latest paper we explore a simplified version of Augmented Democracy by combining off-the-shelf LLMs, such as ChatGPT, with data collected using a collaborative government program builder. This was an online game where people build a personalized government program using proposals extracted from the programs of the candidates of the 2022 presidential election in Brazil. So how accurate are these augmented forms of democracy? Imagine a user who gave us 40 answers. We can use the first 20 to fine-tune a model that we can test using the 20 answers the model didn’t see. We can then compare the accuracy of these predictions with the ones obtained by a “bundle” rule, which assumes that users that self-reported to be from the left or right always chose the proposals from the candidate that shares their political identity. This showed us that LLMs were more accurate at predicting policy preferences than the bundle rule, meaning that the preferences captured in the participation data were more nuanced than a left-right axis, and that the LLMs can capture some of that nuance. Also, the LLMs can choose among policies coming from the same candidate, which is something that we cannot do using a bundle rule. But can these LLMs help us complete the aggregate preferences of the population? Direct or unbundled forms of participation can result in incomplete data when people answer only a fraction of all questions. In our paper, we simulate this incompleteness by sampling the full dataset. We ask how close we can get to the full dataset by using a random sample, or a random sample augmented by predictions made by these LLMs. Overall, we find that LLM-augmented data gets much closer to the full dataset than a pure random sample. These results do not mean that augmented democracy technology is ready, but they means we are in a much better place to continue exploring this idea than six years ago. This paper was a collaborative effort with Jairo Gudino, PhD student at CCL at the University of Toulouse Capitole and Umberto Grandi from IRIT also at the University of Toulouse Capitole. We hope you find these results insightful!$

New Paper on AI & Democracy Imagine two approaches to democracy. The one we have today, where citizens choose a professional politician to represent them and others. Or an augmented form of democracy, where each citizen controls a personalized AI that helps them participate in thousands of nuanced decisions. This second approach is the idea of Augmented Democracy I introduced six years ago at TED. In our latest paper we explore a simplified version of Augmented Democracy by combining off-the-shelf LLMs, such as ChatGPT, with data collected using a collaborative government program builder. This was an online game where people build a personalized government program using proposals extracted from the programs of the candidates of the 2022 presidential election in Brazil. So how accurate are these augmented forms of democracy? Imagine a user who gave us 40 answers. We can use the first 20 to fine-tune a model that we can test using the 20 answers the model didn’t see. We can then compare the accuracy of these predictions with the ones obtained by a “bundle” rule, which assumes that users that self-reported to be from the left or right always chose the proposals from the candidate that shares their political identity. This showed us that LLMs were more accurate at predicting policy preferences than the bundle rule, meaning that the preferences captured in the participation data were more nuanced than a left-right axis, and that the LLMs can capture some of that nuance. Also, the LLMs can choose among policies coming from the same candidate, which is something that we cannot do using a bundle rule. But can these LLMs help us complete the aggregate preferences of the population? Direct or unbundled forms of participation can result in incomplete data when people answer only a fraction of all questions. In our paper, we simulate this incompleteness by sampling the full dataset. We ask how close we can get to the full dataset by using a random sample, or a random sample augmented by predictions made by these LLMs. Overall, we find that LLM-augmented data gets much closer to the full dataset than a pure random sample. These results do not mean that augmented democracy technology is ready, but they means we are in a much better place to continue exploring this idea than six years ago. This paper was a collaborative effort with Jairo Gudino, PhD student at CCL at the University of Toulouse Capitole and Umberto Grandi from IRIT also at the University of Toulouse Capitole. We hope you find these results insightful!

César A. Hidalgo

26,915 views • 1 year ago

Exciting updates on Project GR00T! We discover a systematic way to scale up robot data, tackling the most painful pain point in robotics. The idea is simple: human collects demonstration on a real robot, and we multiply that data 1000x or more in simulation. Let’s break it down: 1. We use Apple Vision Pro (yes!!) to give the human operator first person control of the humanoid. Vision Pro parses human hand pose and retargets the motion to the robot hand, all in real time. From the human’s point of view, they are immersed in another body like the Avatar. Teleoperation is slow and time-consuming, but we can afford to collect a small amount of data. 2. We use RoboCasa, a generative simulation framework, to multiply the demonstration data by varying the visual appearance and layout of the environment. In Jensen’s keynote video below, the humanoid is now placing the cup in hundreds of kitchens with a huge diversity of textures, furniture, and object placement. We only have 1 physical kitchen at the GEAR Lab in NVIDIA HQ, but we can conjure up infinite ones in simulation. 3. Finally, we apply MimicGen, a technique to multiply the above data even more by varying the motion of the robot. MimicGen generates vast number of new action trajectories based on the original human data, and filters out failed ones (e.g. those that drop the cup) to form a much larger dataset. To sum up, given 1 human trajectory with Vision Pro -> RoboCasa produces N (varying visuals) -> MimicGen further augments to NxM (varying motions). This is the way to trade compute for expensive human data by GPU-accelerated simulation. A while ago, I mentioned that teleoperation is fundamentally not scalable, because we are always limited by 24 hrs/robot/day in the world of atoms. Our new GR00T synthetic data pipeline breaks this barrier in the world of bits. Scaling has been so much fun for LLMs, and it's finally our turn to have fun in robotics! We are building tools to enable everyone in the ecosystem to scale up with us. Links in thread:

Jim Fan

364,514 views • 2 years ago

$QVAC SDK will support in 0.9.0 (gonna be release in ~10 days) LoRA fine-tuning directly on-device, letting developers customize LLMs with their own data without sending anything to the cloud. You just load a base model, point it at your training dataset, and get a lightweight LoRA adapter back — all running locally. The fine-tuned model can then be used for inference immediately, with no extra setup. Why it matters: LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) fine-tuning lets you specialize a general-purpose language model for your specific use case — like matching a brand's tone, mastering domain terminology, or following a particular output format — using a fraction of the compute a full fine-tune would require. QVAC handles the entire workflow locally: dataset preparation, training with configurable hyperparameters, checkpoint saving, and seamless inference with the resulting adapter. Your data never leaves the device. The developer experience: Fine-tuning with QVAC is as simple as calling "sdk.finetune()" with your dataset and a few hyperparameters. Training runs entirely on your local hardware, produces a compact LoRA adapter file, and supports pause/resume so you can stop a job and pick it back up without losing progress. The result plugs straight into QVAC's inference pipeline — no model conversion, no deployment step, just immediate local completions with your fine-tuned model.$

QVAC SDK will support in 0.9.0 (gonna be release in ~10 days) LoRA fine-tuning directly on-device, letting developers customize LLMs with their own data without sending anything to the cloud. You just load a base model, point it at your training dataset, and get a lightweight LoRA adapter back — all running locally. The fine-tuned model can then be used for inference immediately, with no extra setup. Why it matters: LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) fine-tuning lets you specialize a general-purpose language model for your specific use case — like matching a brand's tone, mastering domain terminology, or following a particular output format — using a fraction of the compute a full fine-tune would require. QVAC handles the entire workflow locally: dataset preparation, training with configurable hyperparameters, checkpoint saving, and seamless inference with the resulting adapter. Your data never leaves the device. The developer experience: Fine-tuning with QVAC is as simple as calling "sdk.finetune()" with your dataset and a few hyperparameters. Training runs entirely on your local hardware, produces a compact LoRA adapter file, and supports pause/resume so you can stop a job and pick it back up without losing progress. The result plugs straight into QVAC's inference pipeline — no model conversion, no deployment step, just immediate local completions with your fine-tuned model.

Paolo Ardoino 🤖

42,413 views • 4 months ago

MaterialFusion Enhancing Inverse Rendering with Material Diffusion Priors discuss: Recent works in inverse rendering have shown promise in using multi-view images of an object to recover shape, albedo, and materials. However, the recovered components often fail to render accurately under new lighting conditions due to the intrinsic challenge of disentangling albedo and material properties from input images. To address this challenge, we introduce MaterialFusion, an enhanced conventional 3D inverse rendering pipeline that incorporates a 2D prior on texture and material properties. We present StableMaterial, a 2D diffusion model prior that refines multi-lit data to estimate the most likely albedo and material from given input appearances. This model is trained on albedo, material, and relit image data derived from a curated dataset of approximately ~12K artist-designed synthetic Blender objects called BlenderVault. we incorporate this diffusion prior with an inverse rendering framework where we use score distillation sampling (SDS) to guide the optimization of the albedo and materials, improving relighting performance in comparison with previous work. We validate MaterialFusion's relighting performance on 4 datasets of synthetic and real objects under diverse illumination conditions, showing our diffusion-aided approach significantly improves the appearance of reconstructed objects under novel lighting conditions. We intend to publicly release our BlenderVault dataset to support further research in this field.

MaterialFusion Enhancing Inverse Rendering with Material Diffusion Priors discuss: Recent works in inverse rendering have shown promise in using multi-view images of an object to recover shape, albedo, and materials. However, the recovered components often fail to render accurately under new lighting conditions due to the intrinsic challenge of disentangling albedo and material properties from input images. To address this challenge, we introduce MaterialFusion, an enhanced conventional 3D inverse rendering pipeline that incorporates a 2D prior on texture and material properties. We present StableMaterial, a 2D diffusion model prior that refines multi-lit data to estimate the most likely albedo and material from given input appearances. This model is trained on albedo, material, and relit image data derived from a curated dataset of approximately ~12K artist-designed synthetic Blender objects called BlenderVault. we incorporate this diffusion prior with an inverse rendering framework where we use score distillation sampling (SDS) to guide the optimization of the albedo and materials, improving relighting performance in comparison with previous work. We validate MaterialFusion's relighting performance on 4 datasets of synthetic and real objects under diverse illumination conditions, showing our diffusion-aided approach significantly improves the appearance of reconstructed objects under novel lighting conditions. We intend to publicly release our BlenderVault dataset to support further research in this field.

AK

22,959 views • 1 year ago

Let's reverse engineer this demo. You need 3 things: (1) robust hardware and motor designs that treat simulation as first-class citizen; (2) a human motion capture ("mocap") dataset, such as those for film and gaming characters; (3) massively parallel RL training in GPU-accelerated simulation. Last October, our team trained a 1.5M parameter foundation model called HOVER for such agile motor control. It follows this recipe, roughly speaking (details in thread): (1) Simulation used to be an after-thought. Now, it has to be part of the hardware design process. If your robot doesn't simulate well, you can kiss RL goodbye. Hardware-simulation co-design is a very interesting emergent topic that only becomes meaningful with today's compute capability. (2) Human mocap dataset to produce natural-looking walking and running gaits. That's one huge advantage of using humanoid robot - you get to imitate from tons of human motions that were originally captured for movies or AAA games. At least 3 ways to use the data: - For initialization: pre-train the neural net to imitate human, and then finetune it into the robot form factor with physics turned on; - For reward function: penalize any deviations from the target pose; - For representation learning: treat the human poses as a "motion prior" to constrain the space of robot behaviors. (3) Shove the above into Isaac sim, add a lot of randomization, pump it through PPO, throw in a bunch of GPUs, and then watch Netflix till loss converges. If you have an urge to comment this is CGI, let me save you a few keystrokes — many academic labs now own the G1 robot in the flesh. See our team's HOVER work in the thread: 🧵

Let's reverse engineer this demo. You need 3 things: (1) robust hardware and motor designs that treat simulation as first-class citizen; (2) a human motion capture ("mocap") dataset, such as those for film and gaming characters; (3) massively parallel RL training in GPU-accelerated simulation. Last October, our team trained a 1.5M parameter foundation model called HOVER for such agile motor control. It follows this recipe, roughly speaking (details in thread): (1) Simulation used to be an after-thought. Now, it has to be part of the hardware design process. If your robot doesn't simulate well, you can kiss RL goodbye. Hardware-simulation co-design is a very interesting emergent topic that only becomes meaningful with today's compute capability. (2) Human mocap dataset to produce natural-looking walking and running gaits. That's one huge advantage of using humanoid robot - you get to imitate from tons of human motions that were originally captured for movies or AAA games. At least 3 ways to use the data: - For initialization: pre-train the neural net to imitate human, and then finetune it into the robot form factor with physics turned on; - For reward function: penalize any deviations from the target pose; - For representation learning: treat the human poses as a "motion prior" to constrain the space of robot behaviors. (3) Shove the above into Isaac sim, add a lot of randomization, pump it through PPO, throw in a bunch of GPUs, and then watch Netflix till loss converges. If you have an urge to comment this is CGI, let me save you a few keystrokes — many academic labs now own the G1 robot in the flesh. See our team's HOVER work in the thread: 🧵

Jim Fan

216,139 views • 1 year ago