Publications from academics at the Applied AI Lab at the Oxford Robotics Institute

@misc{combograsplearn-2025/2,
  title={COMBO-Grasp: Learning Constraint-Based Manipulation for Bimanual Occluded Grasping},
  author={Yamada J, Mitchell A, Collins J & Posner I},
  year = "2025"
}

@misc{jointdecisionma-2025/1,
  title={Joint Decision-Making in Robot Teleoperation: When are Two Heads Better
  Than One?},
  author={Nguyen D-A, Bhattacharyya R, Colombatto C, Fleming S, Posner I et al.},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{tactgentactiles-2024/12,
  title={TactGen: tactile sensory data generation via zero-shot sim-to-real transfer},
  author={Zhong S, Albini A, Maiolino P & Posner I},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  volume={41},
  pages={1316-1328},
  publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
  year = "2024"
}

@misc{thecomplexitydy-2024/12,
  title={The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking},
  author={DeMoss B, Sapora S, Foerster J, Hawes N & Posner I},
  year = "2024"
}

@misc{offlineadaptati-2024/11,
  title={Offline Adaptation of Quadruped Locomotion using Diffusion Models},
  author={O'Mahoney R, Mitchell AL, Yu W, Posner I & Havoutis I},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{dissociatingcer-2024/8,
  title={Dissociating Cerebellar Regions Involved in Formulating and Articulating Words and Sentences.},
  author={Parker Jones O, Geva S, Prejawa S, Hope TMH, Oberhuber M et al.},
  journal={Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.)},
  volume={5},
  pages={795-817},
  publisher={MIT Press},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{twistteacherstu-2024/8,
  title={TWIST: Teacher-Student World Model Distillation for Sim-to-Real Transfer},
  author={Yamada J, Rigter M, Collins J & Posner I},
  booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024)},
  pages={9190-9196},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{dynamicnetworka-2024/7,
  title={Dynamic Network Analysis of Electrophysiological Task Data},
  author={Gohil C, Kohl O, Huang R, van Es MWJ, Jones OP et al.},
  journal={Imaging Neuroscience},
  publisher={MIT Press},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{areviewofdiffer-2024/7,
  title={A review of differentiable simulators},
  author={Newbury R, Collins J, He K, Pan J, Posner I et al.},
  journal={IEEE Access},
  volume={12},
  pages={97581-97604},
  publisher={IEEE},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{oscillatinglate-2024/5,
  title={Oscillating latent dynamics in robot systems during walking and reaching},
  author={Parker Jones O, Mitchell A, Yamada J, Merkt W, Geisert M et al.},
  journal={Scientific Reports},
  volume={14},
  number={11434},
  publisher={Springer Nature},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{theroleofrecove-2024/5,
  title={The role of recoverability in the implementation of non-phonemic glottalization in Hawaiian},
  author={Davidson L & Parker Jones O},
  journal={Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences},
  volume={10},
  pages={3-15},
  publisher={De Gruyter},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{oscillatinglate-2024/5,
  title={Oscillating latent dynamics in robot systems during walking and reaching},
  author={Parker Jones O, Mitchell A, Yamada J, Merkt W, Geisert M et al.},
  journal={Scientific Reports},
  volume={14},
  number={11434},
  publisher={Springer Nature},
  year = "2024"
}

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@misc{gaitorlearninga-2024/5,
  title={Gaitor: Learning a Unified Representation Across Gaits for Real-World Quadruped Locomotion},
  author={Mitchell AL, Merkt W, Papatheodorou A, Havoutis I & Posner I},
  year = "2024"
}

@misc{maihoomunaikaai-2024/4,
  title={Mai Ho'omāuna i ka 'Ai: Language Models Improve Automatic Speech
  Recognition in Hawaiian},
  author={Chaparala K, Zarrella G, Fischer BT, Kimura L & Jones OP},
  year = "2024"
}

@article{worldmodelsviap-2024/3,
  title={World models via policy-guided trajectory diffusion},
  author={Rigter M, Yamada J & Posner I},
  journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
  volume={2024},
  publisher={Journal of Machine Learning Research},
  year = "2024"
}

@misc{dcubedlatentdif-2024/3,
  title={D-Cubed: Latent Diffusion Trajectory Optimisation for Dexterous Deformable Manipulation},
  author={Yamada J, Zhong S, Collins J & Posner I},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{dreamupdobjectc-2024/2,
  title={DreamUp3D: object-centric generative models for single-view 3D scene understanding and real-to-sim transfer},
  author={Wu Y, Sáez de Ocáriz Borde H, Collins J, Jones OP & Posner I},
  journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume={9},
  pages={3291-3298},
  publisher={IEEE},
  year = "2024"
}

@inproceedings{neurallatentgeo-2024/2,
  title={Neural latent geometry search: product manifold inference via Gromov-Hausdorff-informed Bayesian optimization
},
  author={Sáez de Ocáriz Borde H, Arroyo Á, Morales López I, Posner I & Dong X},
  booktitle={37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{dreamupdobjectc-2024/1,
  title={DreamUp3D: Object-Centric Generative Models for Single-View 3D Scene Understanding and Real-to-Sim Transfer},
  author={Wu Y, Saez de Ocariz Borde H, Collins J, Jones OP & Posner I},
  journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  year = "2024"
}

@inproceedings{efficientskilla-2024/1,
  title={Efficient Skill Acquisition for Insertion Tasks in Obstructed Environments},
  author={Yamada J, Collins J & Posner I},
  pages={615-627},
  year = "2024"
}