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Alexander Swerdlow

5 accepted papers

2026

TQL: Scaling Q-Functions with Transformers by Preventing Attention Collapse

ICML 2026poster

Despite scale driving substantial recent advancements in machine learning, reinforcement learning (RL) methods still primarily use small value functions. Naively scaling value functions -- including with a transformer architecture, which is known to be highly scalable -- often results in learning in…

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2026

π∗0.6π0.6∗\pi^{*}_{0.6}: a VLA That Learns From Experience

RSS 2026poster

Vision–language–action (VLA) models offer a promising path toward general-purpose robots, but achieving the reliability and speed required for practical deployment remains challenging. We present a general-purpose method, RL with Experience and Corrections via Advantage-conditioned Policies (RECAP) …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Unifying 2D and 3D Vision-Language Understanding

ICML 2025poster

Progress in 3D vision-language learning has been hindered by the scarcity of large-scale 3D datasets. We introduce UniVLG, a unified architecture for 2D and 3D vision-language understanding that bridges the gap between existing 2D-centric models and the rich 3D sensory data available in embodied sys…

2022

SCALER: A Tough Versatile Quadruped Free-Climber Robot

IROS 2022poster

This paper introduces SCALER, a quadrupedal robot that demonstrates climbing on bouldering walls, over-hangs, ceilings and trotting on the ground. SCALER is one of the first high-degrees of freedom four-limbed robots that can free-climb under the Earth's gravity and one of the most mechanically effi…

Cited by 37SourceScholar