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Ruta Desai

11 accepted papers

2025

COOPERA: Continual Open-Ended Human-Robot Assistance

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

To understand and collaborate with humans, robots must account for individual human traits, habits, and activities over time. However, most robotic assistants lack these abilities, as they primarily focus on predefined tasks in structured environments and lack a human model to learn from. This work…

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2025

Collaborative Reasoner: Self-Improving Social Agents with Synthetic Conversations

NeurIPS 2025poster

With increasingly powerful large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based agents tackling an ever-growing list of tasks, we envision a future where numerous LLM agents work seamlessly with other AI agents and humans to solve complex problems and enhance daily life. To achieve these goals, LLM agents mus…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

PARTNR: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-agent Tasks

ICLR 2025poster

We present a benchmark for Planning And Reasoning Tasks in humaN-Robot collaboration (PARTNR) designed to study human-robot coordination in household activities. PARTNR tasks exhibit characteristics of everyday tasks, such as spatial, temporal, and heterogeneous agent capability constraints. We empl…

2024

Habitat 3.0: A Co-Habitat for Humans, Avatars, and Robots

ICLR 2024poster

We present Habitat 3.0: a simulation platform for studying collaborative human-robot tasks in home environments. Habitat 3.0 offers contributions across three dimensions: (1) Accurate humanoid simulation: addressing challenges in modeling complex deformable bodies and diversity in appearance and mot…

Cited by 111SourcePDFScholar
2023

Adaptive Coordination in Social Embodied Rearrangement

ICML 2023poster

We present the task of "Social Rearrangement", consisting of cooperative everyday tasks like setting up the dinner table, tidying a house or unpacking groceries in a simulated multi-agent environment. In Social Rearrangement, two robots coordinate to complete a long-horizon task, using onboard sensi…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2023

EgoEnv: Human-centric environment representations from egocentric video

NeurIPS 2023oral

First-person video highlights a camera-wearer's activities in the context of their persistent environment. However, current video understanding approaches reason over visual features from short video clips that are detached from the underlying physical space and capture only what is immediately vis…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2023

EgoTV: Egocentric Task Verification from Natural Language Task Descriptions

ICCV 2023poster

To enable progress towards egocentric agents capable of understanding everyday tasks specified in natural language, we propose a benchmark and a synthetic dataset called Egocentric Task Verification (EgoTV). The goal in EgoTV is to verify the execution of tasks from egocentric videos based on the na…

Cited by 9PDFcodeScholar
2023

Pretrained Language Models as Visual Planners for Human Assistance

ICCV 2023poster

In our pursuit of advancing multi-modal AI assistants capable of guiding users to achieve complex multi-step goals, we propose the task of 'Visual Planning for Assistance (VPA)'. Given a succinct natural language goal, e.g., "make a shelf", and a video of the user's progress so far, the aim of VPA i…

Cited by 43PDFcodeScholar
2022

Cross-Domain Transfer via Semantic Skill Imitation

CoRL 2022poster

We propose an approach for semantic imitation, which uses demonstrations from a source domain, e.g. human videos, to accelerate reinforcement learning (RL) in a different target domain, e.g. a robotic manipulator in a simulated kitchen. Instead of imitating low-level actions like joint velocities, o…

Cited by 19SourceScholar
2022

Episodic Memory Question Answering

CVPR 2022oral

Egocentric augmented reality devices such as wearable glasses passively capture visual data as a human wearer tours a home environment. We envision a scenario wherein the human communicates with an AI agent powering such a device by asking questions (e.g., "where did you last see my keys?"). In orde…

Cited by 40PDFScholar