Publications, Talks & Workshops

Last updated July 2026

Pre-training for manipulation: Empirical studies and open tools for the science of robot pre-training

Pre-training for manipulation: Empirical studies and open tools for the science of robot pre-training Speaker & Panelist · VLA Pipelines Workshop, ICRA 2026 · June 2026 [Workshop]

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

roboticsdiffusionplanning
Jean Mercat, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Isabella Huang, Paarth Shah, Haruki Nishimura, Shun Iwase, Katherine Liu arXiv 2025 [Website][Code]

A Careful Examination of Large Behavior Models for Multitask Dexterous Manipulation

diffusionroboticsplanning
TRI Large Behavior Models Team arXiv 2025 [Website][PDF]

CodeDiffuser: Attention-Enhanced Diffusion Policy via VLM-Generated Code for Instruction Ambiguity

CodeDiffuser: Attention-Enhanced Diffusion Policy via VLM-Generated Code for Instruction Ambiguity

computer visiondiffusionobject-centricneural fieldsroboticsplanning
Guang Yin Yin, Yitong Li, Yixuan Wang, Dale Mcconachie, Paarth Shah, Kunimatsu Hashimoto, Huan Zhang, Katherine Liu, Yunzhu Li RSS 2025 [PDF]

OmniShape: Zero-Shot Multi-Hypothesis Shape and Pose Estimation in the Real World

computer visiondiffusionobject-centricneural fieldszero-shot
Katherine Liu, Sergey Zakharov, Dian Chen, Taku Ikeda, Greg Shakhnarovich, Adrien Gaidon, Rares Ambrus ICRA 2025 [Website][PDF]

ZeroGrasp: Zero-Shot Shape Reconstruction Enabled Robotic Grasping

ZeroGrasp: Zero-Shot Shape Reconstruction Enabled Robotic Grasping

computer visionobject-centricneural fieldsroboticszero-shot
Shun Iwase, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Katherine Liu, Vitor Guizilini, Robert Lee, Takuya Ikeda, Ayako Amma, Koichi Nishiwaki, Kris Kitani, Rareș Ambruș, Sergey Zakharov CVPR 2025 [Website][PDF]

Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds

Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds Organizer & Panel Moderator · CoRL 2025 · September 2025 [Workshop]

Zero-Shot Multi-object Scene Completion

Zero-Shot Multi-object Scene Completion

computer visionobject-centriczero-shot
Shun Iwase, Katherine Liu, Vitor Guizilini, Adrien Gaidon, Kris Kitani, Rares Ambrus, Sergey Zakharov ECCV 2024 [Website][PDF]

SE(3) Equivariant Ray Embeddings for Implicit Multi-View Depth Estimation

SE(3) Equivariant Ray Embeddings for Implicit Multi-View Depth Estimation

computer vision
Yinshuang Xu, Dian Chen, Katherine Liu, Sergey Zakharov, Rares Ambrus, Kostas Daniilidis, Vitor Guizilini NeuRIPS 2024 [PDF]

View-Invariant Policy Learning via Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesis

View-Invariant Policy Learning via Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesis

roboticsplanningcomputer visionzero-shot
Stephen Tian, Blake Wulfe, Kyle Sargent, Katherine Liu, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Jiajun Wu CoRL 2024 [Website][PDF]

ReFiNe: Recursive Field Networks for Cross-Modal Multi-Scene Representation

ReFiNe: Recursive Field Networks for Cross-Modal Multi-Scene Representation

neural fieldsobject-centriccomputer vision
Sergey Zakharov, Katherine Liu, Adrien Gaidon, Rares Ambrus SIGGRAPH 2024 [Website][PDF]

DiffusionNOCS: Managing Symmetry and Uncertainty in Sim2Real Multi-Modal Category-level Pose Estimation

DiffusionNOCS: Managing Symmetry and Uncertainty in Sim2Real Multi-Modal Category-level Pose Estimation

diffusionobject-centriccomputer vision
Takuya Ikeda, Sergey Zakharov, Tianyi Ko, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Robert Lee, Katherine Liu, Rares Ambrus, Koichi Nishiwaki IROS 2024 [Website][PDF]

NeO 360: Neural Fields for Sparse View Synthesis of Outdoor Scenes

NeO 360: Neural Fields for Sparse View Synthesis of Outdoor Scenes

computer visionneural fields
Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Sergey Zakharov, Katherine Liu, Vitor Guizilini, Thomas Kollar, Adrien Gaidon, Zsolt Kira, Rares Ambrus ICCV 2023 [Website][PDF]

CARTO: Category and Joint Agnostic Reconstruction of ARTiculated Objects

CARTO: Category and Joint Agnostic Reconstruction of ARTiculated Objects

computer visionneural fieldsobject-centric
Nick Heppert, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Sergey Zakharov, Katherine Liu, Rares Andrei Ambrus, Jeannette Bohg, Abhinav Valada, Thomas Kollar CVPR 2023 [Website][PDF]

Multi-Object Manipulation via Object-Centric Neural Scattering Functions

Multi-Object Manipulation via Object-Centric Neural Scattering Functions

roboticsplanningobject-centric
Stephen Tian, Yancheng Cai, Hong-Xing Yu, Sergey Zakharov, Katherine Liu, Adrien Gaidon, Yunzhu Li, Jiajun Wu CVPR 2023

ROAD: Learning an Implicit Recursive Octree Auto-Decoder to Efficiently Encode 3D Shapes

ROAD: Learning an Implicit Recursive Octree Auto-Decoder to Efficiently Encode 3D Shapes

object-centricneural fields
Sergey Zakharov, Rares Ambrus, Katherine Liu, Adrien Gaidon CoRL 2022 [Website][PDF]

VoluMon: Weakly-Supervised Volumetric Monocular Estimation with Ellipsoid Representations

VoluMon: Weakly-Supervised Volumetric Monocular Estimation with Ellipsoid Representations

computer visionobject-centric
Katherine Liu, Kyel Ok, Nicholas Roy IROS 2021 [PDF]

Hierarchical Object Map Estimation for Efficient and Robust Navigation

Hierarchical Object Map Estimation for Efficient and Robust Navigation

computer visionobject-centricplanningrobotics
Kyel Ok, Katherine Liu, Nicholas Roy ICRA 2021 [PDF]

Online High-Level Model Estimation for Efficient Hierarchical Robot Navigation

Online High-Level Model Estimation for Efficient Hierarchical Robot Navigation

roboticsplanning
Martina Stadler, Katherine Liu, Nicholas Roy IROS 2021 [PDF]

Search and Rescue Under the Forest Canopy Using Multiple UAVs

Search and Rescue Under the Forest Canopy Using Multiple UAVs

roboticsplanning
Yulun Tian, Katherine Liu, Kyel Ok, Loc Tran, Danette Allen, Nicholas Roy, Jonathan P How IJRR 2020 [PDF]

Learned Sampling Distributions for Efficient Planning in Hybrid Geometric and Object-Level Representations

Learned Sampling Distributions for Efficient Planning in Hybrid Geometric and Object-Level Representations

roboticsplanningobject-centric
Katherine Liu, Martina Stadler, Nicholas Roy ICRA 2020 [PDF]

Robust Object-Based SLAM for High-Speed Autonomous Navigation

Robust Object-Based SLAM for High-Speed Autonomous Navigation

roboticsobject-centriccomputer vision
Kyel Ok, Katherine Liu, Kris Frey, Jonathan P How, Nicholas Roy ICRA 2019 [PDF]

Deep Inference for Covariance Estimation: Learning Gaussian Noise Models for State Estimation

Deep Inference for Covariance Estimation: Learning Gaussian Noise Models for State Estimation

roboticscomputer vision
Katherine Liu, Kyel Ok, William Vega-Brown, Nicholas Roy ICRA 2018 [PDF]