Search Results for author: Brian Ichter

Found 31 papers, 9 papers with code

Chain of Code: Reasoning with a Language Model-Augmented Code Emulator

no code implementations7 Dec 2023 Chengshu Li, Jacky Liang, Andy Zeng, Xinyun Chen, Karol Hausman, Dorsa Sadigh, Sergey Levine, Li Fei-Fei, Fei Xia, Brian Ichter

For example, consider prompting an LM to write code that counts the number of times it detects sarcasm in an essay: the LM may struggle to write an implementation for "detect_sarcasm(string)" that can be executed by the interpreter (handling the edge cases would be insurmountable).

Language Modelling

Navigation with Large Language Models: Semantic Guesswork as a Heuristic for Planning

no code implementations16 Oct 2023 Dhruv Shah, Michael Equi, Blazej Osinski, Fei Xia, Brian Ichter, Sergey Levine

Navigation in unfamiliar environments presents a major challenge for robots: while mapping and planning techniques can be used to build up a representation of the world, quickly discovering a path to a desired goal in unfamiliar settings with such methods often requires lengthy mapping and exploration.

Language Modelling Navigate

Video Language Planning

no code implementations16 Oct 2023 Yilun Du, Mengjiao Yang, Pete Florence, Fei Xia, Ayzaan Wahid, Brian Ichter, Pierre Sermanet, Tianhe Yu, Pieter Abbeel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Leslie Kaelbling, Andy Zeng, Jonathan Tompson

We are interested in enabling visual planning for complex long-horizon tasks in the space of generated videos and language, leveraging recent advances in large generative models pretrained on Internet-scale data.

Physically Grounded Vision-Language Models for Robotic Manipulation

no code implementations5 Sep 2023 Jensen Gao, Bidipta Sarkar, Fei Xia, Ted Xiao, Jiajun Wu, Brian Ichter, Anirudha Majumdar, Dorsa Sadigh

We incorporate this physically grounded VLM in an interactive framework with a large language model-based robotic planner, and show improved planning performance on tasks that require reasoning about physical object concepts, compared to baselines that do not leverage physically grounded VLMs.

Image Captioning Language Modelling +4

Large Language Models as General Pattern Machines

no code implementations10 Jul 2023 Suvir Mirchandani, Fei Xia, Pete Florence, Brian Ichter, Danny Driess, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Kanishka Rao, Dorsa Sadigh, Andy Zeng

We observe that pre-trained large language models (LLMs) are capable of autoregressively completing complex token sequences -- from arbitrary ones procedurally generated by probabilistic context-free grammars (PCFG), to more rich spatial patterns found in the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC), a general AI benchmark, prompted in the style of ASCII art.

In-Context Learning

Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis

no code implementations14 Jun 2023 Wenhao Yu, Nimrod Gileadi, Chuyuan Fu, Sean Kirmani, Kuang-Huei Lee, Montse Gonzalez Arenas, Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Tom Erez, Leonard Hasenclever, Jan Humplik, Brian Ichter, Ted Xiao, Peng Xu, Andy Zeng, Tingnan Zhang, Nicolas Heess, Dorsa Sadigh, Jie Tan, Yuval Tassa, Fei Xia

However, since low-level robot actions are hardware-dependent and underrepresented in LLM training corpora, existing efforts in applying LLMs to robotics have largely treated LLMs as semantic planners or relied on human-engineered control primitives to interface with the robot.

In-Context Learning Logical Reasoning

Grounded Decoding: Guiding Text Generation with Grounded Models for Embodied Agents

no code implementations NeurIPS 2023 Wenlong Huang, Fei Xia, Dhruv Shah, Danny Driess, Andy Zeng, Yao Lu, Pete Florence, Igor Mordatch, Sergey Levine, Karol Hausman, Brian Ichter

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated the ability to learn and leverage Internet-scale knowledge through pre-training with autoregressive models.

Language Modelling Text Generation

Scaling Robot Learning with Semantically Imagined Experience

no code implementations22 Feb 2023 Tianhe Yu, Ted Xiao, Austin Stone, Jonathan Tompson, Anthony Brohan, Su Wang, Jaspiar Singh, Clayton Tan, Dee M, Jodilyn Peralta, Brian Ichter, Karol Hausman, Fei Xia

Specifically, we make use of the state of the art text-to-image diffusion models and perform aggressive data augmentation on top of our existing robotic manipulation datasets via inpainting various unseen objects for manipulation, backgrounds, and distractors with text guidance.

Data Augmentation

LM-Nav: Robotic Navigation with Large Pre-Trained Models of Language, Vision, and Action

1 code implementation10 Jul 2022 Dhruv Shah, Blazej Osinski, Brian Ichter, Sergey Levine

Goal-conditioned policies for robotic navigation can be trained on large, unannotated datasets, providing for good generalization to real-world settings.

Instruction Following Language Modelling

Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models

14 code implementations28 Jan 2022 Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Maarten Bosma, Brian Ichter, Fei Xia, Ed Chi, Quoc Le, Denny Zhou

We explore how generating a chain of thought -- a series of intermediate reasoning steps -- significantly improves the ability of large language models to perform complex reasoning.

Common Sense Reasoning GSM8K +2

Learning Language-Conditioned Robot Behavior from Offline Data and Crowd-Sourced Annotation

no code implementations2 Sep 2021 Suraj Nair, Eric Mitchell, Kevin Chen, Brian Ichter, Silvio Savarese, Chelsea Finn

However, goal images also have a number of drawbacks: they are inconvenient for humans to provide, they can over-specify the desired behavior leading to a sparse reward signal, or under-specify task information in the case of non-goal reaching tasks.

Broadly-Exploring, Local-Policy Trees for Long-Horizon Task Planning

no code implementations13 Oct 2020 Brian Ichter, Pierre Sermanet, Corey Lynch

This task space can be quite general and abstract; its only requirements are to be sampleable and to well-cover the space of useful tasks.

Motion Planning

Neural Collision Clearance Estimator for Batched Motion Planning

no code implementations14 Oct 2019 J. Chase Kew, Brian Ichter, Maryam Bandari, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, Aleksandra Faust

We present a neural network collision checking heuristic, ClearanceNet, and a planning algorithm, CN-RRT.

Motion Planning

Learned Critical Probabilistic Roadmaps for Robotic Motion Planning

no code implementations8 Oct 2019 Brian Ichter, Edward Schmerling, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, Aleksandra Faust

Critical PRMs are demonstrated to achieve up to three orders of magnitude improvement over uniform sampling, while preserving the guarantees and complexity of sampling-based motion planning.

Motion Planning

Zero-shot Imitation Learning from Demonstrations for Legged Robot Visual Navigation

no code implementations27 Sep 2019 Xinlei Pan, Tingnan Zhang, Brian Ichter, Aleksandra Faust, Jie Tan, Sehoon Ha

Here, we propose a zero-shot imitation learning approach for training a visual navigation policy on legged robots from human (third-person perspective) demonstrations, enabling high-quality navigation and cost-effective data collection.

Disentanglement Imitation Learning +1

Learning Sampling Distributions for Robot Motion Planning

2 code implementations16 Sep 2017 Brian Ichter, James Harrison, Marco Pavone

This paper proposes a methodology for non-uniform sampling, whereby a sampling distribution is learned from demonstrations, and then used to bias sampling.

Collision Avoidance Motion Planning

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