Author

Karl Pertsch

Author of 15 papers in this index, working on vision-language-action and foundation models & pretraining.

15papers in this index

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Papers in this index

2025-12-27

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models

Simar Kareer, Karl Pertsch, James Darpinian +5 · 39 citations

club pickVision-language-action Egocentric & human data

2025-12-09

Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language-Action Robot Policies via Parameter Merging

Yajat Yadav, Zhiyuan Zhou, Andrew Wagenmaker +2 · 18 citations

Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining

2025-11-18

$π^{*}_{0.6}$: a VLA That Learns From Experience

Physical Intelligence, Ali Amin, Raichelle Aniceto +53 · 269 citations

Vision-language-action Reinforcement learning & control

2025-05-29

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

Danny Driess, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Brian Ichter +8 · 131 citations

NeurIPSVision-language-action Video & generative modeling

2025-04-22

$π_{0.5}$: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization

Physical Intelligence, Kevin Black, Noah Brown +33 · 1,625 citations

Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2025-01-16

FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models

Karl Pertsch, Kyle Stachowicz, Brian Ichter +6 · 607 citations

RoboticsVision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2024-10-31

$π_0$: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control

Kevin Black, Noah Brown, Danny Driess +21 · 2,461 citations

RSS 2025Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

2024-08-26

Re-Mix: Optimizing Data Mixtures for Large Scale Imitation Learning

Joey Hejna, Chethan Bhateja, Yichen Jiang +2 · 59 citations

CoRLImitation & diffusion policies Foundation models & pretraining

2024-06-13

OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

Moo Jin Kim, Karl Pertsch, Siddharth Karamcheti +15 · 3,113 citations

CoRLVision-language-action Imitation & diffusion policies

2024-05-20

Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy

Octo Model Team, Dibya Ghosh, Homer Walke +16 · 1,705 citations

RSS

2024-05-09

Evaluating Real-World Robot Manipulation Policies in Simulation

Xuanlin Li, Kyle Hsu, Jiayuan Gu +13 · 498 citations

CoRL

2024-03-19

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

Alexander Khazatsky, Karl Pertsch, Suraj Nair +98 · 991 citations

RSSSafety & evaluation

2023-10-13

Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models

Open X-Embodiment Collaboration, Abby O'Neill, Abdul Rehman +291 · 1,153 citations

ICRA

2023-07-28

RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control

Anthony Brohan, Noah Brown, Justice Carbajal +51 · 3,982 citations

CoRLVision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining

2022-12-13

RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale

Anthony Brohan, Noah Brown, Justice Carbajal +48 · 2,724 citations

RSSData collection & teleoperation

Works with

Sergey Levine Chelsea Finn Quan Vuong Suraj Nair Brian Ichter Danny Driess Ted Xiao Kevin Black Karol Hausman Dorsa Sadigh

Co-authors on the papers above, most frequent first. Linked names have a page here.

Works on

Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining Video & generative modeling Safety & evaluation