AI Ph.D. at Oregon State | Automated driving at Ford

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27 Mar 2025
Excited to share our work to appear at #CVPR2025! This work in collaboration with @jacob__krantz and @stefmlee investigates if visual representations (imaginations) of natural language instructions can improve performance of vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents. TL;DR-yes
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We are grateful to all of the 17,491 reviewers who helped make #CVPR2026 possible. We are especially pleased to recognize the following Outstanding Reviewers, whose high-quality reviews (as judged by their Area Chairs) placed them among the top 5% of reviewers.
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Introducing PEGrad, a hyperparameter-free method for energy-efficient robot control. By projecting energy gradients orthogonal to task rewards, it cuts energy use by up to 64% without hurting performance. Demonstrated on DM-Control, HumanoidBench, and real Unitree GO2 robots,
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25 Sep 2025
Energy usage in robots is a double-edged sword: spend too much and you drain batteries (or risk damage), spend too little and the robot fails. Excited to share our work PEGrad, co-authored with Skand, @bikcrum and @stefmlee, accepted for an oral presentation at #CoRL2025 🧵👇
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25 Sep 2025
Key takeaways: - Extends robot battery life and safety. - Removes the need for tedious hyperparameter tuning between energy and task rewards. - Brings us closer to sustainable, deployable energy-efficient RL robots.
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25 Sep 2025
Website: pvskand.github.io/projects/P… Paper: Non-conflicting Energy Minimization in Reinforcement Learning based Robot Control - arxiv.org/abs/2509.01765

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29 Aug 2025
Happy to share that our collaborative work, “Harnessing Input-Adaptive Inference for Efficient VLN” has been accepted to #ICCV2025 ! 🤖 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09262 (contd.)
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29 Aug 2025
Combined, these methods achieve about 56% average reduction in computation, with only about 12% average drop in success rate (SR) across standard VLN benchmarks—and even higher savings (~87–90%) in continuous VLN environments with modest performance trade-offs.
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29 Aug 2025
We also evaluated robustness under visual corruptions like motion blur and speckle noise, finding that while both baseline and our method degrade, the efficiency gains are preserved and de-noising helps recover performance.
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18 May 2025
Happy to be recognized as an outstanding reviewer at #CVPR2025. :)
10 May 2025
Behind every great conference is a team of dedicated reviewers. Congratulations to this year’s #CVPR2025 Outstanding Reviewers! cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/…
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27 Mar 2025
Excited to share our work to appear at #CVPR2025! This work in collaboration with @jacob__krantz and @stefmlee investigates if visual representations (imaginations) of natural language instructions can improve performance of vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents. TL;DR-yes
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27 Mar 2025
We use a language-conditioned pre-trained diffusion model to generate imaginations by leveraging its strong priors. The imagination representations are aligned to corresponding noun-phrases from instructions using an auxiliary alignment loss.
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27 Mar 2025
Finally, they are encoded along with other modalities in a cross-modal encoder to sample agent actions. We observe performance improvements across agents and natural language instruction granularities. For more details, our work is available at akhilperincherry.com/VLN-Ima….

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