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Sergey Levine

Author of 66 papers in this index, working on reinforcement learning & control and navigation & mobility.

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Papers in this index

2026-08-24
Reinforcement learning & control
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-actionEgocentric & 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-actionFoundation 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-actionReinforcement 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-actionVideo & 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-actionDexterous manipulation
2025-01-16
FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Karl Pertsch, Kyle Stachowicz, Brian Ichter +6 · 607 citations
RoboticsVision-language-actionDexterous 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-actionDexterous manipulation
2024-08-21
CoRLHumanoids & locomotionNavigation & mobility
2024-07-30
Autonomous Improvement of Instruction Following Skills via Foundation Models
Zhiyuan Zhou, Pranav Atreya, Abraham Lee +3 · 35 citations
CoRLVision-language-actionFoundation 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-actionImitation & 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
2024-04-25
Learning Visuotactile Skills with Two Multifingered Hands
Toru Lin, Yu Zhang, Qiyang Li +4 · 148 citations
ICRADexterous manipulationEgocentric & human data
2024-03-19
DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
Alexander Khazatsky, Karl Pertsch, Suraj Nair +98 · 991 citations
RSSSafety & evaluation
2024-02-29
Pushing the Limits of Cross-Embodiment Learning for Manipulation and Navigation
Jonathan Yang, Catherine Glossop, Arjun Bhorkar +5 · 94 citations
RSSHumanoids & locomotionImitation & diffusion policies
2023-10-16
Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation with Pretrained Image-Editing Diffusion Models
Kevin Black, Mitsuhiko Nakamoto, Pranav Atreya +4 · 331 citations
ICLREgocentric & human dataFoundation 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 policiesReinforcement learning & control
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-actionFoundation models & pretraining
2023-05-22
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
Kevin Black, Michael Janner, Yilun Du +2 · 1,012 citations
ICLRImitation & diffusion policiesReinforcement learning & control
2023-04-23
Learning Fine-Grained Bimanual Manipulation with Low-Cost Hardware
Tony Z. Zhao, Vikash Kumar, Sergey Levine +1 · 2,214 citations
RSSEgocentric & human dataImitation & diffusion policies
2023-03-06
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
Danny Driess, Fei Xia, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi +19 · 3,056 citations
ICML
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
2022-07-12
Inner Monologue: Embodied Reasoning through Planning with Language Models
Wenlong Huang, Fei Xia, Ted Xiao +14 · 1,519 citations
CoRLNavigation & mobility
2022-04-18
INFOrmation Prioritization through EmPOWERment in Visual Model-Based RL
Homanga Bharadhwaj, Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Dumitru Erhan +1 · 37 citations
ICLRReinforcement learning & controlNavigation & mobility
2022-04-04
Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
Michael Ahn, Anthony Brohan, Noah Brown +42 · 3,571 citations
CoRL
2022-02-23
RSSEgocentric & human data3D & spatial reasoning
2022-02-04
BC-Z: Zero-Shot Task Generalization with Robotic Imitation Learning
Eric Jang, Alex Irpan, Mohi Khansari +5 · 835 citations
CoRLImitation & diffusion policiesData collection & teleoperation
2021-10-11
Legged Robots that Keep on Learning: Fine-Tuning Locomotion Policies in the Real World
Laura Smith, J. Chase Kew, Xue Bin Peng +3 · 154 citations
ICRAHumanoids & locomotionReinforcement learning & control
2021-09-27
Bridge Data: Boosting Generalization of Robotic Skills with Cross-Domain Datasets
Frederik Ebert, Yanlai Yang, Karl Schmeckpeper +5 · 372 citations
RSS
2021-07-28
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation
Charles Sun, Jędrzej Orbik, Coline Devin +4 · 74 citations
CoRLDexterous manipulationReinforcement learning & control
2021-04-16
MT-Opt: Continuous Multi-Task Robotic Reinforcement Learning at Scale
Dmitry Kalashnikov, Jacob Varley, Yevgen Chebotar +5 · 335 citations
Reinforcement learning & controlNavigation & mobility
2021-04-12
Rapid Exploration for Open-World Navigation with Latent Goal Models
Dhruv Shah, Benjamin Eysenbach, Gregory Kahn +2 · 160 citations
CoRLNavigation & mobility
2021-03-26
Reinforcement Learning for Robust Parameterized Locomotion Control of Bipedal Robots
Zhongyu Li, Xuxin Cheng, Xue Bin Peng +4 · 301 citations
ICRAHumanoids & locomotionSimulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks
2021-02-16
COMBO: Conservative Offline Model-Based Policy Optimization
Tianhe Yu, Aviral Kumar, Rafael Rafailov +3 · 542 citations
NeurIPSReinforcement learning & controlSafety & evaluation
2020-05-27
MOPO: Model-based Offline Policy Optimization
Tianhe Yu, Garrett Thomas, Lantao Yu +5 · 962 citations
NeurIPSReinforcement learning & controlNavigation & mobility
2020-04-15
D4RL: Datasets for Deep Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning
Justin Fu, Aviral Kumar, Ofir Nachum +2 · 1,893 citations
Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarksReinforcement learning & control
2020-02-20
Learning to Walk in the Real World with Minimal Human Effort
Sehoon Ha, Peng Xu, Zhenyu Tan +2 · 226 citations
CoRLHumanoids & locomotionReinforcement learning & control
2019-12-10
AVID: Learning Multi-Stage Tasks via Pixel-Level Translation of Human Videos
Laura Smith, Nikita Dhawan, Marvin Zhang +2 · 189 citations
RSSEgocentric & human dataReinforcement learning & control
2019-10-24
RoboNet: Large-Scale Multi-Robot Learning
Sudeep Dasari, Frederik Ebert, Stephen Tian +6 · 452 citations
CoRLWorld modelsFoundation models & pretraining
2019-10-24
Meta-World: A Benchmark and Evaluation for Multi-Task and Meta Reinforcement Learning
Tianhe Yu, Deirdre Quillen, Zhanpeng He +7 · 1,750 citations
CoRLReinforcement learning & control
2019-09-25
Deep Dynamics Models for Learning Dexterous Manipulation
Anusha Nagabandi, Kurt Konoglie, Sergey Levine +1 · 481 citations
CoRLDexterous manipulationTactile & force sensing
2019-07-18
Dynamical Distance Learning for Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Skill Discovery
Kristian Hartikainen, Xinyang Geng, Tuomas Haarnoja +1 · 97 citations
ICLRReinforcement learning & controlData collection & teleoperation
2019-07-02
Dynamics-Aware Unsupervised Discovery of Skills
Archit Sharma, Shixiang Gu, Sergey Levine +2 · 499 citations
ICLRReinforcement learning & control
2019-07-01
Stochastic Latent Actor-Critic: Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Latent Variable Model
Alex X. Lee, Anusha Nagabandi, Pieter Abbeel +1 · 435 citations
NeurIPSReinforcement learning & control
2019-06-13
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Industrial Insertion Tasks with Visual Inputs and Natural Rewards
Gerrit Schoettler, Ashvin Nair, Jianlan Luo +4 · 220 citations
IROSReinforcement learning & controlSafety & evaluation
2019-04-11
RSSImitation & diffusion policies
2019-03-11
Manipulation by Feel: Touch-Based Control with Deep Predictive Models
Stephen Tian, Frederik Ebert, Dinesh Jayaraman +4 · 157 citations
ICRADexterous manipulationTactile & force sensing
2019-03-08
Skew-Fit: State-Covering Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning
Vitchyr H. Pong, Murtaza Dalal, Steven Lin +3 · 316 citations
ICMLReinforcement learning & controlNavigation & mobility
2019-03-08
Learning to Identify Object Instances by Touch: Tactile Recognition via Multimodal Matching
Justin Lin, Roberto Calandra, Sergey Levine · 68 citations
ICRATactile & force sensingData collection & teleoperation
2019-03-05
Learning Latent Plans from Play
Corey Lynch, Mohi Khansari, Ted Xiao +4 · 522 citations
CoRL
2019-03-01
Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Atari
Lukasz Kaiser, Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Piotr Milos +11 · 1,008 citations
ICLRWorld modelsReinforcement learning & control
2018-12-13
Soft Actor-Critic Algorithms and Applications
Tuomas Haarnoja, Aurick Zhou, Kristian Hartikainen +8 · 3,264 citations
Dexterous manipulationHumanoids & locomotion
2018-12-03
Visual Foresight: Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Control
Frederik Ebert, Chelsea Finn, Sudeep Dasari +3 · 482 citations
Reinforcement learning & control
2018-10-02
Near-Optimal Representation Learning for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Ofir Nachum, Shixiang Gu, Honglak Lee +1 · 235 citations
ICLRReinforcement learning & control
2018-07-12
Visual Reinforcement Learning with Imagined Goals
Ashvin Nair, Vitchyr Pong, Murtaza Dalal +3 · 604 citations
NeurIPSReinforcement learning & control
2018-06-27
QT-Opt: Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation
Dmitry Kalashnikov, Alex Irpan, Peter Pastor +8 · 1,755 citations
CoRLDexterous manipulationReinforcement learning & control
2018-06-07
ICMLReinforcement learning & controlNavigation & mobility
2018-05-30
Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Handful of Trials using Probabilistic Dynamics Models
Kurtland Chua, Roberto Calandra, Rowan McAllister +1 · 1,589 citations
NeurIPSReinforcement learning & control
2018-05-28
More Than a Feeling: Learning to Grasp and Regrasp using Vision and Touch
Roberto Calandra, Andrew Owens, Dinesh Jayaraman +5 · 441 citations
RA-LDexterous manipulationTactile & force sensing
2018-05-21
Data-Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Ofir Nachum, Shixiang Gu, Honglak Lee +1 · 1,047 citations
NeurIPSReinforcement learning & control
2018-04-02
Universal Planning Networks
Aravind Srinivas, Allan Jabri, Pieter Abbeel +2 · 147 citations
ICMLImitation & diffusion policiesReinforcement learning & control
2018-02-28
Model-Based Value Estimation for Efficient Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
Vladimir Feinberg, Alvin Wan, Ion Stoica +3 · 355 citations
Reinforcement learning & control
2018-02-16
Diversity is All You Need: Learning Skills without a Reward Function
Benjamin Eysenbach, Abhishek Gupta, Julian Ibarz +1 · 1,323 citations
ICLRReinforcement learning & controlNavigation & mobility
2018-01-04
Soft Actor-Critic: Off-Policy Maximum Entropy Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Stochastic Actor
Tuomas Haarnoja, Aurick Zhou, Pieter Abbeel +1 · 12,130 citations
ICMLReinforcement learning & control

Works with

Chelsea FinnQuan VuongKarl PertschKarol HausmanBrian IchterTed XiaoSuraj NairKevin BlackDanny DriessHomer Walke

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

Works on

Reinforcement learning & controlNavigation & mobilityFoundation models & pretrainingData collection & teleoperation