Author

Kevin Black

Author of 9 papers in this index, working on vision-language-action and reinforcement learning & control.

9papers in this index

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Identified by Semantic Scholar author 2258959388 on the paper records, so a namesake does not share this page. Career figures are that profile's and are not on file yet.

Papers in this index

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

2025-04-22

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

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

Vision-language-action Dexterous manipulation

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

2024-05-20

Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy

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

RSS

2024-03-19

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

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

RSSSafety & evaluation

2023-10-16

Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation with Pretrained Image-Editing Diffusion Models

Kevin Black, Mitsuhiko Nakamoto, Pranav Atreya +4 · 331 citations

ICLREgocentric & human data Foundation models & pretraining

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

2023-08-24

BridgeData V2: A Dataset for Robot Learning at Scale

Homer Walke, Kevin Black, Abraham Lee +11 · 816 citations

CoRLImitation & diffusion policies Reinforcement learning & control

2023-05-22

Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning

Kevin Black, Michael Janner, Yilun Du +2 · 1,012 citations

ICLRImitation & diffusion policies Reinforcement learning & control

Works with

Sergey Levine Chelsea Finn Quan Vuong Karl Pertsch Suraj Nair Homer Walke Danny Driess Karol Hausman Brian Ichter Ashwin Balakrishna

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

Works on

Vision-language-action Reinforcement learning & control Foundation models & pretraining Video & generative modeling