Allen Z. Ren

According to our database, Allen Z. Ren authored at least 30 papers between 2020 and 2026.

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2026

π_0.7: a Steerable Generalist Robotic Foundation Model with Emergent Capabilities.

Physical Intelligence, Bo Ai, Ali Amin, Raichelle Aniceto, Ashwin Balakrishna, Greg Balke, Kevin Black, George Bokinsky, Shihao Cao, Thomas Charbonnier, Vedant Choudhary, Foster Collins, Ken Conley, Grace Connors, James Darpinian, Karan Dhabalia, Maitrayee Dhaka, Jared DiCarlo, Danny Driess, Michael Equi, Adnan Esmail, Yunhao Fang, Chelsea Finn, Catherine Glossop, Thomas Godden, Ivan Goryachev, Lachlan Groom, Haroun Habeeb, Hunter Hancock, Karol Hausman, Gashon Hussein, Victor Hwang, Brian Ichter, Connor Jacobsen, Szymon Jakubczak, Rowan Jen, Tim Jones, Gregg Kammerer, Ben Katz, Liyiming Ke, Mairbek Khadikov, Chandra Kuchi, Marinda Lamb, Devin LeBlanc, Brendon LeCount, Sergey Levine, Xinyu Li, Adrian Li-Bell, Vladislav Lialin, Zhonglin Liang, Wallace Lim, Yao Lu, Enyu Luo, Vishnu Mano, Nandan Marwaha, Aikys Mongush, Liam Murphy, Suraj Nair, Tyler Patterson, Karl Pertsch, Allen Z. Ren, Gavin Schelske, Charvi Sharma, Baifeng Shi, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Laura Smith, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Kyle Stachowicz, Will Stoeckle, Jiaming Tang, Jimmy Tanner, Shalom Tekeste, Marcel Torne, Kyle Vedder, Quan Vuong, Anna Walling, Haohuan Wang, Jason Wang, XuDong Wang, Chris Whalen, Samuel Whitmore, Blake Williams, Charles Xu, Sukwon Yoo, Lili Yu, Wuming Zhang, Zhuoyang Zhang, Ury Zhilinsky

CoRR, April, 2026

MEM: Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models.

Marcel Torne, Karl Pertsch, Homer Walke, Kyle Vedder, Suraj Nair, Brian Ichter, Allen Z. Ren, Haohuan Wang, Jiaming Tang, Kyle Stachowicz, Karan Dhabalia, Michael Equi, Quan Vuong, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Danny Driess

CoRR, March, 2026

A Survey on Uncertainty Quantification of Large Language Models: Taxonomy, Open Research Challenges, and Future Directions.

Ola Shorinwa, Zhiting Mei, Justin Lidard, Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar

ACM Comput. Surv., February, 2026

LAP: Language-Action Pre-Training Enables Zero-shot Cross-Embodiment Transfer.

Lihan Zha, Asher J. Hancock, Mingtong Zhang, Tenny Yin, Yixuan Huang, Dhruv Shah, Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar

CoRR, February, 2026

Perceive with confidence: Statistical safety assurances for navigation with learning-based perception.

Zhiting Mei, Anushri Dixit, Meghan Booker, Emily Zhou, Mariko Storey-Matsutani, Allen Z. Ren, Ola Shorinwa, Anirudha Majumdar

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2026

2025

Training-Time Action Conditioning for Efficient Real-Time Chunking.

Kevin Black, Allen Z. Ren, Michael Equi, Sergey Levine

CoRR, December, 2025

π^*_0.6: a VLA That Learns From Experience.

Physical Intelligence, Ali Amin, Raichelle Aniceto, Ashwin Balakrishna, Kevin Black, Ken Conley, Grace Connors, James Darpinian, Karan Dhabalia, Jared DiCarlo, Danny Driess, Michael Equi, Adnan Esmail, Yunhao Fang, Chelsea Finn, Catherine Glossop, Thomas Godden, Ivan Goryachev, Lachy Groom, Hunter Hancock, Karol Hausman, Gashon Hussein, Brian Ichter, Szymon Jakubczak, Rowan Jen, Tim Jones, Ben Katz, Liyiming Ke, Chandra Kuchi, Marinda Lamb, Devin LeBlanc, Sergey Levine, Adrian Li-Bell, Yao Lu, Vishnu Mano, Mohith Mothukuri, Suraj Nair, Karl Pertsch, Allen Z. Ren, Charvi Sharma, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Laura Smith, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Kyle Stachowicz, Will Stoeckle, Alex Swerdlow, James Tanner, Marcel Torne, Quan Vuong, Anna Walling, Haohuan Wang, Blake Williams, Sukwon Yoo, Lili Yu, Ury Zhilinsky, Zhiyuan Zhou

CoRR, November, 2025

Guiding Data Collection via Factored Scaling Curves.

Lihan Zha, Apurva Badithela, Michael Zhang, Justin Lidard, Jeremy Bao, Emily Zhou, David Snyder, Allen Z. Ren, Dhruv Shah, Anirudha Majumdar

CoRR, May, 2025

π_0.5: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization.

Physical Intelligence, Kevin Black, Noah Brown, James Darpinian, Karan Dhabalia, Danny Driess, Adnan Esmail, Michael Equi, Chelsea Finn, Niccolo Fusai, Manuel Y. Galliker, Dibya Ghosh, Lachy Groom, Karol Hausman, Brian Ichter, Szymon Jakubczak, Tim Jones, Liyiming Ke, Devin LeBlanc, Sergey Levine, Adrian Li-Bell, Mohith Mothukuri, Suraj Nair, Karl Pertsch, Allen Z. Ren, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Laura Smith, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Kyle Stachowicz, James Tanner, Quan Vuong, Homer Walke, Anna Walling, Haohuan Wang, Lili Yu, Ury Zhilinsky

CoRR, April, 2025

Knowledge Insulating Vision-Language-Action Models: Train Fast, Run Fast, Generalize Better.

Danny Driess, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Brian Ichter, Lili Yu, Adrian Li-Bell, Karl Pertsch, Allen Z. Ren, Homer Walke, Quan Vuong, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Sergey Levine

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2025, 2025

Run-time Observation Interventions Make Vision-Language-Action Models More Visually Robust.

Asher J. Hancock, Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2025

Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization.

Allen Z. Ren, Justin Lidard, Lars Lien Ankile, Anthony Simeonov, Pulkit Agrawal, Anirudha Majumdar, Benjamin Burchfiel, Hongkai Dai, Max Simchowitz

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

2024

Thinking Forward and Backward: Effective Backward Planning with Large Language Models.

Allen Z. Ren, Brian Ichter, Anirudha Majumdar

CoRR, 2024

Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control.

Jacky Liang, Fei Xia, Wenhao Yu, Andy Zeng, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Maria Attarian, Maria Bauzá, Matthew Bennice, Alex Bewley, Adil Dostmohamed, Chuyuan Kelly Fu, Nimrod Gileadi, Marissa Giustina, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Leonard Hasenclever, Jan Humplik, Jasmine Hsu, Nikhil J. Joshi, Ben Jyenis, J. Chase Kew, Sean Kirmani, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, Kuang-Huei Lee, Assaf Hurwitz Michaely, Joss Moore, Ken Oslund, Dushyant Rao, Allen Z. Ren, Baruch Tabanpour, Quan Vuong, Ayzaan Wahid, Ted Xiao, Ying Xu, Vincent Zhuang, Peng Xu, Erik Frey, Ken Caluwaerts, Tingnan Zhang, Brian Ichter, Jonathan Tompson, Leila Takayama, Vincent Vanhoucke, Izhak Shafran, Maja J. Mataric, Dorsa Sadigh, Nicolas Heess, Kanishka Rao, Nik Stewart, Jie Tan, Carolina Parada

CoRR, 2024

Explore until Confident: Efficient Exploration for Embodied Question Answering.

Allen Z. Ren, Jaden Clark, Anushri Dixit, Masha Itkina, Anirudha Majumdar, Dorsa Sadigh

Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XX, 2024

Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control.

Jacky Liang, Fei Xia, Wenhao Yu, Andy Zeng, Maria Attarian, Maria Bauzá Villalonga, Matthew Bennice, Alex Bewley, Adil Dostmohamed, Chuyuan Fu, Nimrod Gileadi, Marissa Giustina, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Leonard Hasenclever, Jan Humplik, Jasmine Hsu, Nikhil J. Joshi, Ben Jyenis, J. Chase Kew, Sean Kirmani, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, Kuang-Huei Lee, Assaf Hurwitz Michaely, Joss Moore, Kenneth Oslund, Dushyant Rao, Allen Z. Ren, Baruch Tabanpour, Quan Vuong, Ayzaan Wahid, Ted Xiao, Ying Xu, Vincent Zhuang, Peng Xu, Erik Frey, Ken Caluwaerts, Tingnan Zhang, Brian Ichter, Jonathan Tompson, Leila Takayama, Vincent Vanhoucke, Izhak Shafran, Maja J. Mataric, Dorsa Sadigh, Nicolas Heess, Kanishka Rao, Nik Stewart, Jie Tan, Carolina Parada

Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XX, 2024

How to Prompt Your Robot: A PromptBook for Manipulation Skills with Code as Policies.

Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Ted Xiao, Sumeet Singh, Vidhi Jain, Allen Z. Ren, Quan Vuong, Jake Varley, Alexander Herzog, Isabel Leal, Sean Kirmani, Mario Prats, Dorsa Sadigh, Vikas Sindhwani, Kanishka Rao, Jacky Liang, Andy Zeng

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024

Perceive With Confidence: Statistical Safety Assurances for Navigation with Learning-Based Perception.

Anushri Dixit, Zhiting Mei, Meghan Booker, Mariko Storey-Matsutani, Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar

Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 6-9 November 2024, Munich, Germany., 2024

Sim-to-Lab-to-Real: Safe Reinforcement Learning with Shielding and Generalization Guarantees (Abstract Reprint).

Kai-Chieh Hsu, Allen Z. Ren, Duy Phuong Nguyen, Anirudha Majumdar, Jaime F. Fisac

Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

2023

Learning a Universal Human Prior for Dexterous Manipulation from Human Preference.

Zihan Ding, Yuanpei Chen, Allen Z. Ren, Shixiang Shane Gu, Hao Dong, Chi Jin

CoRR, 2023

Sim-to-Lab-to-Real: Safe reinforcement learning with shielding and generalization guarantees.

Kai-Chieh Hsu, Allen Z. Ren, Duy Phuong Nguyen, Anirudha Majumdar, Jaime F. Fisac

Artif. Intell., 2023

FlowDrone: Wind Estimation and Gust Rejection on UAVs Using Fast-Response Hot-Wire Flow Sensors.

Nathaniel Simon, Allen Z. Ren, Alexander Piqué, David Snyder, Daphne Barretto, Marcus Hultmark, Anirudha Majumdar

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

Robots That Ask For Help: Uncertainty Alignment for Large Language Model Planners.

Allen Z. Ren, Anushri Dixit, Alexandra Bodrova, Sumeet Singh, Stephen Tu, Noah Brown, Peng Xu, Leila Takayama, Fei Xia, Jake Varley, Zhenjia Xu, Dorsa Sadigh, Andy Zeng, Anirudha Majumdar

Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 2023

AdaptSim: Task-Driven Simulation Adaptation for Sim-to-Real Transfer.

Allen Z. Ren, Hongkai Dai, Benjamin Burchfiel, Anirudha Majumdar

Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 2023

2022

Distributionally Robust Policy Learning via Adversarial Environment Generation.

Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2022

Failure Prediction with Statistical Guarantees for Vision-Based Robot Control.

Alec Farid, David Snyder, Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar

Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XVIII, New York City, NY, USA, June 27, 2022

Stronger Generalization Guarantees for Robot Learning by Combining Generative Models and Real-World Data.

Abhinav Agarwal, Sushant Veer, Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar

Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022

Leveraging Language for Accelerated Learning of Tool Manipulation.

Allen Z. Ren, Bharat Govil, Tsung-Yen Yang, Karthik R. Narasimhan, Anirudha Majumdar

Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 2022

2020

Generalization Guarantees for Multi-Modal Imitation Learning.

Allen Z. Ren, Sushant Veer, Anirudha Majumdar

CoRR, 2020

Generalization Guarantees for Imitation Learning.

Allen Z. Ren, Sushant Veer, Anirudha Majumdar

Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Robot Learning, 2020