Jean Mercat

According to our database, Jean Mercat authored at least 23 papers between 2019 and 2026.

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2026

VLA Foundry: A Unified Framework for Training Vision-Language-Action Models.

Jean Mercat, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Isabella Huang, Paarth Shah, Haruki Nishimura, Shun Iwase, Katherine Liu

CoRR, April, 2026

A Systematic Study of Data Modalities and Strategies for Co-training Large Behavior Models for Robot Manipulation.

Fanqi Lin, Kushal Arora, Jean Mercat, Haruki Nishimura, Paarth Shah, Chen Xu, Mengchao Zhang, Mark Zolotas, Maya Angeles, Owen Pfannenstiehl, Andrew Beaulieu, Jose A. Barreiros

CoRR, February, 2026

A careful examination of large behavior models for multitask dexterous manipulation.

Jose A. Barreiros, Andrew Beaulieu, Aditya Bhat, Rick Cory, Eric Cousineau, Hongkai Dai, Ching-Hsin Fang, Kunimatsu Hashimoto, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Masha Itkina, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Kuan-Hui Lee, Katherine Liu, Dale McConachie, Ian McMahon, Haruki Nishimura, Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Charles Richter, Paarth Shah, Krishnan Srinivasan, Blake Wulfe, Chen Xu, Mengchao Zhang, Alex Alspach, Maya Angeles, Kushal Arora, Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini, Alejandro M. Castro, Dian Chen, Ting-Sheng Chu, Sam Creasey, Sean Curtis, Richard Denitto, Emma Dixon, Eric Dusel, Matthew Ferreira, Aimee Goncalves, Grant Gould, Damrong Guoy, Swati Gupta, Xuchen Han, Kyle Hatch, Brendan Hathaway, Allison Henry, Hillel Hochsztein, Phoebe Horgan, Shun Iwase, Donovon Jackson, Siddharth Karamcheti, Sedrick Keh, Joseph Masterjohn, Masayuki Masuda, Jean Mercat, Patrick Tree Miller, Paul Mitiguy, Tony Nguyen, Jeremy Nimmer, Yuki Noguchi, Reko Ong, Aykut Özgün Önol, Owen Pfannenstiehl, Richard Poyner, Leticia Priebe Rocha, Gordon Richardson, Christopher Rodriguez, Derick Seale, Michael A. Sherman, Mariah Smith-Jones, David Tago, Pavel Tokmakov, Matthew Tran, Basile Van Hoorick, Igor Vasiljevic, Sergey Zakharov, Mark Zolotas, Rares Ambrus, Kerri Fetzer-Borelli, Benjamin Burchfiel, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Siyuan Feng, Stacie Ford, Russ Tedrake

Sci. Robotics, 2026

2025

OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models.

Etash Kumar Guha, Ryan Marten, Sedrick Keh, Negin Raoof, Georgios Smyrnis, Hritik Bansal, Marianna Nezhurina, Jean Mercat, Trung Vu, Zayne Sprague, Ashima Suvarna, Benjamin Feuer, Liangyu Chen, Zaid Khan, Eric Frankel, Sachin Grover, Caroline Choi, Niklas Muennighoff, Shiye Su, Wanjia Zhao, John Yang, Shreyas Pimpalgaonkar, Kartik Sharma, Charlie Cheng-Jie Ji, Yichuan Deng, Sarah M. Pratt, Vivek Ramanujan, Jon Saad-Falcon, Jeffrey Li, Achal Dave, Alon Albalak, Kushal Arora, Blake Wulfe, Chinmay Hegde, Greg Durrett, Sewoong Oh, Mohit Bansal, Saadia Gabriel, Aditya Grover, Kai-Wei Chang, Vaishaal Shankar, Aaron Gokaslan, Mike A. Merrill, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Yejin Choi, Jenia Jitsev, Reinhard Heckel, Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Ludwig Schmidt

CoRR, June, 2025

Should VLMs be Pre-trained with Image Data?

Sedrick Keh, Jean Mercat, Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Kushal Arora, Igor Vasiljevic, Benjamin Burchfiel, Shuran Song, Russ Tedrake, Thomas Kollar, Ludwig Schmidt, Achal Dave

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

Language models scale reliably with over-training and on downstream tasks.

Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Georgios Smyrnis, Vaishaal Shankar, Suchin Gururangan, Mitchell Wortsman, Rulin Shao, Jean Mercat, Alex Fang, Jeffrey Li, Sedrick Keh, Rui Xin, Marianna Nezhurina, Igor Vasiljevic, Luca Soldaini, Jenia Jitsev, Alex Dimakis, Gabriel Ilharco, Pang Wei Koh, Shuran Song, Thomas Kollar, et al.

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

2024

Espresso: High Compression For Rich Extraction From Videos for Your Vision-Language Model.

Keunwoo Peter Yu, Achal Dave, Rares Ambrus, Jean Mercat

CoRR, 2024

Linearizing Large Language Models.

Jean Mercat, Igor Vasiljevic, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Achal Dave, Adrien Gaidon, Thomas Kollar

CoRR, 2024

DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset.

Alexander Khazatsky, Karl Pertsch, Suraj Nair, Ashwin Balakrishna, Sudeep Dasari, Siddharth Karamcheti, Soroush Nasiriany, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Kirsty Ellis, Peter David Fagan, Joey Hejna, Masha Itkina, Marion Lepert, Jason Ma, Patrick Tree Miller, Jimmy Wu, Suneel Belkhale, Shivin Dass, Huy Ha, Arhan Jain, Abraham Lee, Youngwoon Lee, Marius Memmel, Sungjae Park, Ilija Radosavovic, Kaiyuan Wang, Albert Zhan, Kevin Black, Cheng Chi, Kyle Beltran Hatch, Shan Lin, Jingpei Lu, Jean Mercat, Abdul Rehman, Pannag R. Sanketi, Archit Sharma, Cody Simpson, Quan Vuong, Homer Rich Walke, Blake Wulfe, Ted Xiao, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Arefeh Yavary, Tony Z. Zhao, Christopher Agia, Rohan Baijal, Mateo Guaman Castro, Daphne Chen, Qiuyu Chen, Trinity Chung, Jaimyn Drake, Ethan Paul Foster, et al.

CoRR, 2024

Language models scale reliably with over-training and on downstream tasks.

Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Georgios Smyrnis, Vaishaal Shankar, Suchin Gururangan, Mitchell Wortsman, Rulin Shao, Jean Mercat, Alex Fang, Jeffrey Li, Sedrick Keh, Rui Xin, Marianna Nezhurina, Igor Vasiljevic, Jenia Jitsev, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Gabriel Ilharco, Shuran Song, Thomas Kollar, Yair Carmon, Achal Dave, Reinhard Heckel, Niklas Muennighoff, Ludwig Schmidt

CoRR, 2024

DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset.

Alexander Khazatsky, Karl Pertsch, Suraj Nair, Ashwin Balakrishna, Sudeep Dasari, Siddharth Karamcheti, Soroush Nasiriany, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Kirsty Ellis, Peter David Fagan, Joey Hejna, Masha Itkina, Marion Lepert, Yecheng Jason Ma, Patrick Tree Miller, Jimmy Wu, Suneel Belkhale, Shivin Dass, Huy Ha, Arhan Jain, Abraham Lee, Youngwoon Lee, Marius Memmel, Sungjae Park, Ilija Radosavovic, Kaiyuan Wang, Albert Zhan, Kevin Black, Cheng Chi, Kyle Beltran Hatch, Shan Lin, Jingpei Lu, Jean Mercat, Abdul Rehman, Pannag R. Sanketi, Archit Sharma, Cody Simpson, Quan Vuong, Homer Rich Walke, Blake Wulfe, Ted Xiao, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Arefeh Yavary, Tony Z. Zhao, Christopher Agia, Rohan Baijal, Mateo Guaman Castro, Daphne Chen, Qiuyu Chen, Trinity Chung, Jaimyn Drake, Ethan Paul Foster, Jensen Gao, David Antonio Herrera, Minho Heo, Kyle Hsu, Jiaheng Hu, Donovon Jackson, Charlotte Le, Yunshuang Li, Roy Lin, Zehan Ma, Abhiram Maddukuri, Suvir Mirchandani, Daniel Morton, Tony Nguyen, Abigail O'Neill, Rosario Scalise, Derick Seale, Victor Son, Stephen Tian, Emi Tran, Andrew E. Wang, Yilin Wu, Annie Xie, Jingyun Yang, Patrick Yin, Yunchu Zhang, Osbert Bastani, Glen Berseth, Jeannette Bohg, Ken Goldberg, Abhinav Gupta, Abhishek Gupta, Dinesh Jayaraman, Joseph J. Lim, Jitendra Malik, Roberto Martín-Martín, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Dorsa Sadigh, Shuran Song, Jiajun Wu, Michael C. Yip, Yuke Zhu, Thomas Kollar, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn

Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XX, 2024

DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models.

Jeffrey Li, Alex Fang, Georgios Smyrnis, Maor Ivgi, Matt Jordan, Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Hritik Bansal, Etash Kumar Guha, Sedrick Scott Keh, Kushal Arora, Saurabh Garg, Rui Xin, Niklas Muennighoff, Reinhard Heckel, Jean Mercat, Mayee F. Chen, Suchin Gururangan, Mitchell Wortsman, Alon Albalak, Yonatan Bitton, Marianna Nezhurina, Amro Abbas, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Dhruba Ghosh, Josh Gardner, Maciej Kilian, Hanlin Zhang, Rulin Shao, Sarah M. Pratt, Sunny Sanyal, Gabriel Ilharco, Giannis Daras, Kalyani Marathe, Aaron Gokaslan, Jieyu Zhang, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Thao Nguyen, Igor Vasiljevic, Sham M. Kakade, Shuran Song, Sujay Sanghavi, Fartash Faghri, Sewoong Oh, Luke Zettlemoyer, Kyle Lo, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Hadi Pouransari, Alexander Toshev, Stephanie Wang, Dirk Groeneveld, Luca Soldaini, Pang Wei Koh, Jenia Jitsev, Thomas Kollar, Alex Dimakis, Yair Carmon, Achal Dave, Ludwig Schmidt, Vaishaal Shankar

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Multi-Modal Representation Learning with Tactile Data.

Hyung-Gun Chi, Jose A. Barreiros, Jean Mercat, Karthik Ramani, Thomas Kollar

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2024

2023

Residual Q-Learning: Offline and Online Policy Customization without Value.

Chenran Li, Chen Tang, Haruki Nishimura, Jean Mercat, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

2022

Dynamics-Aware Comparison of Learned Reward Functions.

Blake Wulfe, Ashwin Balakrishna, Logan Ellis, Jean Mercat, Rowan McAllister, Adrien Gaidon

CoRR, 2022

Control-Aware Prediction Objectives for Autonomous Driving.

Rowan McAllister, Blake Wulfe, Jean Mercat, Logan Ellis, Sergey Levine, Adrien Gaidon

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

Dynamics-Aware Comparison of Learned Reward Functions.

Blake Wulfe, Logan Michael Ellis, Jean Mercat, Rowan Thomas McAllister, Adrien Gaidon

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022

RAP: Risk-Aware Prediction for Robust Planning.

Haruki Nishimura, Jean Mercat, Blake Wulfe, Rowan Thomas McAllister, Adrien Gaidon

Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 2022

2020

Higher Order Linear Transformer.

Jean Mercat

CoRR, 2020

Multi-Head Attention for Multi-Modal Joint Vehicle Motion Forecasting.

Jean Mercat, Thomas Gilles, Nicole El Zoghby, Guillaume Sandou, Dominique Beauvois, Guillermo Pita Gil

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

2019

Social Attention for Autonomous Decision-Making in Dense Traffic.

Edouard Leurent, Jean Mercat

CoRR, 2019

Multi-Modal Simultaneous Forecasting of Vehicle Position Sequences using Social Attention.

Jean Mercat, Thomas Gilles, Nicole El Zoghby, Guillaume Sandou, Dominique Beauvois, Guillermo Pita Gil

CoRR, 2019

Inertial Single Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Baselines and Applications with the NGSIM Dataset.

Jean Mercat, Nicole El Zoghby, Guillaume Sandou, Dominique Beauvois, Guillermo Pita Gil

CoRR, 2019