Allen Z. Ren

1. π_0.5: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization
   2025/04/22 by Physical Intelligence, Intelligence, Physical, Kevin Black +66 · 307 citations
   Social Sciences · #Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria #Geographic Information Systems Studies #African history and culture analysis
2. Robots That Ask For Help: Uncertainty Alignment for Large Language Model Planners
   2023/07/04 by Allen Z. Ren, Anushri Dixit, Ren, Allen Z. +25 · 44 citations
   Computer Science · #Topic Modeling #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
3. Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization
   2024/09/01 by Allen Z. Ren, Justin Lidard, Ren, Allen Z. +15 · 48 citations
   Social Sciences · #EU Law and Policy Analysis
4. A Survey on Uncertainty Quantification of Large Language Models: Taxonomy, Open Research Challenges, and Future Directions
   2024/12/07 by Ola Shorinwa, Zhiting Mei, Shorinwa, Ola +7 · 29 citations
   Computer Science · #Topic Modeling
5. Explore until Confident: Efficient Exploration for Embodied Question Answering
   2024/03/23 by Allen Z. Ren, Ren, Allen Z., Jaden Clark +9 · 16 citations
   Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Robotics (cs.RO) #Speech and dialogue systems #Topic Modeling
6. Knowledge Insulating Vision-Language-Action Models: Train Fast, Run Fast, Generalize Better
   2025/05/29 by Danny Driess, Driess, Danny, Jost Tobias Springenberg +19 · 36 citations
   Computer Science · Engineering · #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #Robot Manipulation and Learning #Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
7. Sim-to-Lab-to-Real: Safe reinforcement learning with shielding and generalization guarantees
   2022/10/26 by Kai-Chieh Hsu, Kai–Chieh Hsu, Allen Z. Ren +3 · 6 citations
   Engineering · Computer Science · #Robot Manipulation and Learning #Reinforcement Learning in Robotics #Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
8. AdaptSim: Task-Driven Simulation Adaptation for Sim-to-Real Transfer
   2023/02/09 by Allen Z. Ren, Ren, Allen Z., Hongkai Dai +5 · 6 citations
   Computer Science · Engineering · #Reinforcement Learning in Robotics #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Robot Manipulation and Learning
9. Run-time Observation Interventions Make Vision-Language-Action Models More Visually Robust
   2024/10/02 by Asher J. Hancock, Allen Z. Ren, Hancock, Asher J. +3 · 11 citations
   Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #Robotics (cs.RO)
10. Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control
    2024/02/18 by Jacky Liang, Fei Xia, Liang, Jacky +97 · 4 citations
    Computer Science · #Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
11. Distributionally Robust Policy Learning via Adversarial Environment Generation
    2021/07/13 by Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar, Ren, Allen Z. +1 · 2 citations
    Computer Science · #Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis #Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning #Advanced Neural Network Applications
12. Perceive With Confidence: Statistical Safety Assurances for Navigation with Learning-Based Perception
    2024/03/13 by Zhiting Mei, Anushri Dixit, Mei, Zhiting +11 · 2 citations
    Decision Sciences · #Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Robotics (cs.RO) #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
13. Leveraging Language for Accelerated Learning of Tool Manipulation
    2022/06/27 by Allen Z. Ren, Ren, Allen Z., Bharat Govil +7 · 1 citation
    Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Robotics (cs.RO) #Software Engineering Research
14. Thinking Forward and Backward: Effective Backward Planning with Large Language Models
    2024/11/04 by Allen Z. Ren, Brian Ichter, Ren, Allen Z. +3 · 1 citation
    Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Natural Language Processing Techniques
15. Training-Time Action Conditioning for Efficient Real-Time Chunking
    2025/12/05 by Kevin Black, Black, Kevin, Allen Z. Ren +5 · 1 citation
    Computer Science · Engineering · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #Reinforcement Learning in Robotics #Robot Manipulation and Learning #Robotics (cs.RO)