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Sanjay Haresh

9 accepted papers

2026

Notes-To-Self: Scratchpad Augmented VLAs for Memory Dependent Manipulation Tasks

ICRA 2026poster

Many dexterous manipulation tasks are non-markovian in nature, yet little attention has been paid to this fact in the recent upsurge of the vision-language-action (VLA) paradigm. Although they are successful in bringing internet-scale semantic understanding to robotics, existing VLAs are primarily "…

2025

Can Multi-Modal LLMs Provide Live Step-by-Step Task Guidance?

NeurIPS 2025poster

Multi-modal Large Language Models (LLM) have advanced conversational abilities but struggle with providing live, interactive step-by-step guidance, a key capability for future AI assistants. Effective guidance requires not only delivering instructions but also detecting their successful execution, a…

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2025

Focusing on What Matters: Object-Agent-centric Tokenization for Vision Language Action models

CoRL 2025poster

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a pivotal approach to learning robotic manipulation at scale by repurposing large pre-trained Vision-Language-Models (VLM) to output robotic actions. However, adapting VLMs for robotic domains comes with an unnecessarily high computational cost, which we att…

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2024

ClevrSkills: Compositional Language And Visual Reasoning in Robotics

NeurIPS 2024poster

Robotics tasks are highly compositional by nature. For example, to perform a high-level task like cleaning the table a robot must employ low-level capabilities of moving the effectors to the objects on the table, pick them up and then move them off the table one-by-one, while re-evaluating the conse…

2024

Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives

CVPR 2024poster

We present Ego-Exo4D a diverse large-scale multimodal multiview video dataset and benchmark challenge. Ego-Exo4D centers around simultaneously-captured egocentric and exocentric video of skilled human activities (e.g. sports music dance bike repair). 740 participants from 13 cities worldwide perform…

2024

Habitat Synthetic Scenes Dataset (HSSD-200): An Analysis of 3D Scene Scale and Realism Tradeoffs for ObjectGoal Navigation

CVPR 2024poster

We contribute the Habitat Synthetic Scene Dataset a dataset of 211 high-quality 3D scenes and use it to test navigation agent generalization to realistic 3D environments. Our dataset represents real interiors and contains a diverse set of 18656 models of real-world objects. We investigate the impact…

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2022

Timestamp-Supervised Action Segmentation with Graph Convolutional Networks

IROS 2022poster

We introduce a novel approach for temporal activity segmentation with timestamp supervision. Our main contribution is a graph convolutional network, which is learned in an end-to-end manner to exploit both frame features and connections between neighboring frames to generate dense framewise labels f…

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2022

Unsupervised Action Segmentation by Joint Representation Learning and Online Clustering

CVPR 2022poster

We present a novel approach for unsupervised activity segmentation which uses video frame clustering as a pretext task and simultaneously performs representation learning and online clustering. This is in contrast with prior works where representation learning and clustering are often performed sequ…

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2021

Learning by Aligning Videos in Time

CVPR 2021poster

We present a self-supervised approach for learning video representations using temporal video alignment as a pretext task, while exploiting both frame-level and video-level information. We leverage a novel combination of temporal alignment loss and temporal regularization terms, which can be used as…

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