Dhruv Batra
RESEARCH SCIENTIST | MENLO PARK, UNITED STATES
Dhruv is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, and a faculty member in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, and is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2019, as well as a number of career and best paper awards.
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March 12, 2024
ROBOTICS
Habitat 3.0: A Co-Habitat for Humans, Avatars and Robots
Andrew Szot, Ruslan Partsey, Vladimír Vondruš, Zsolt Kira, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Akshara Rai, Alexander William Clegg, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Dhruv Batra, Eric Undersander, Jimmy Yang, Jitendra Malik, Mikael Dallaire Cote, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Oleksandr Maksymets, Ruta Desai, Theo Gervet, Tiffany Min, Unnat Jain, Vincent-Pierre Berges, Xavi Puig
March 12, 2024
October 24, 2023
ROBOTICS
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
HomeRobot: Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation
Sriram Yenamandra, Arun Ramachandran, Austin Wang, Mukul Khanna, Vidhi Jain, Zsolt Kira, Andrew Szot, Christopher Paxton, Alexander William Clegg, Dhruv Batra, Jimmy Yang, John Turner, Karmesh Yadav, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Theo Gervet, Yonatan Bisk
October 24, 2023
June 18, 2023
ROBOTICS
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Galactic: Scaling End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Rearrangement at 100k Steps-Per-Second
Aaron Gokaslan, Vincent-Pierre Berges, Andrew Szot, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Dhruv Batra, Eric Undersander
June 18, 2023
March 31, 2023
ROBOTICS
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
PIRLNav: Pretraining with Imitation and RL Finetuning for ObjectNav
Ram Ramrakhya, Erik Wijmans, Abhishek Das, Dhruv Batra
March 31, 2023
March 29, 2023
ROBOTICS
Where are we in the search for an Artificial Visual Cortex for Embodied Intelligence?
Franziska Meier, Aravind Rajeswaran, Dhruv Batra, Jitendra Malik, Karmesh Yadav, Oleksandr Maksymets, Sergio Arnaud, Sneha Silwal, Vincent-Pierre Berges, Aryan Jain, Claire Chen, Jason Ma, Yixin Lin
March 29, 2023
March 29, 2023
ROBOTICS
Adaptive Skill Coordination for Robotic Mobile Manipulation
Akshara Rai, Alexander William Clegg, Dhruv Batra, Eric Undersander, Naoki Yokoyama, Sehoon Ha
March 29, 2023
February 01, 2023
ROBOTICS
EMERGENCE OF MAPS IN THE MEMORIES OF BLIND NAVIGATION AGENTS
Dhruv Batra, Ari Morcos, Manolis Savva, Erik Wijmans, Irfan Essa, Stefan Lee
February 01, 2023
November 28, 2022
ROBOTICS
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
VER: Scaling On-Policy RL Leads to the Emergence of Navigation in Embodied Rearrangement
Dhruv Batra, Erik Wijmans, Irfan Essa
November 28, 2022
November 30, 2020
RESEARCH
NLP
Where Are You? Localization from Embodied Dialog
Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Meera Hahn, Jacob Krantz, James Rehg, Peter Anderson, Stefan Lee
November 30, 2020
August 23, 2020
AR/VR
RESEARCH
Improving Vision-and-Language Navigation with Image-Text Pairs from the Web
Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Arjun Majumdar, Ayush Shrivastava, Peter Anderson, Stefan Lee
August 23, 2020
August 23, 2020
AR/VR
RESEARCH
Beyond the Nav-Graph: Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments
Dhruv Batra, Erik Wijmans, Arjun Majumdar, Jacob Krantz, Stefan Lee
August 23, 2020
August 04, 2020
COMPUTER VISION
Seeing the Un-Scene: Learning Amodal Semantic Maps for Room Navigation
Amanpreet Singh, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Erik Wijmans, Xinlei Chen, Medhini Narasimhan
August 04, 2020
July 15, 2020
NLP
COMPUTER VISION
Large-scale Pretraining for Visual Dialog:A Simple State-of-the-Art Baseline
Devi Parikh, Abhishek Das, Dhruv Batra, Vishvak Murahari
July 15, 2020
July 14, 2020
RESEARCH
NLP
Spatially Aware Multimodal Transformers for TextVQA
Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Alex Shwing, Harsh Agrawal, Peter Anderson, Yash Kant
July 14, 2020
December 08, 2019
RESEARCH
NLP
Chasing Ghosts: Instruction Following as Bayesian State Tracking
Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Ayush Shrivastava, Peter Anderson, Stefan Lee
December 08, 2019
December 03, 2019
RESEARCH
SPEECH & AUDIO
ViLBERT: Pretraining Task-Agnostic Visiolinguistic Representations for Vision-and-Language Tasks
Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Jiasen Lu, Stefan Lee
December 03, 2019
October 27, 2019
RESEARCH
NLP
Habitat: A Platform for Embodied AI Research
Manolis Savva, Abhishek Kadian, Bhavana Mahendra Jain, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Erik Wijmans, Jia Liu, Jitendra Malik, Julian Straub, Oleksandr Maksymets, Yili Zhao, Vladlen Koltun
October 27, 2019
September 19, 2019
RESEARCH
NLP
CLEVR-Dialog: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-Round Reasoning in Visual Dialog
Marcus Rohrbach, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Satwik Kottur, José M. F. Moura
September 19, 2019
May 13, 2019
RESEARCH
Insights on Visual Representations for Embodied Navigation Tasks
Julian Straub, Ari Morcos, Dhruv Batra, Erik Wijmans, Judy Hoffman
May 13, 2019
March 19, 2019
RESEARCH
SPEECH & AUDIO
Visual Coreference Resolution in Visual Dialog using Neural Module Networks
Marcus Rohrbach, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, José M. F. Moura, Satwik Kottur
March 19, 2019
October 29, 2018
RESEARCH
NLP
Visual Curiosity: Learning to Ask Questions to Learn Visual Recognition
Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Jianwei Yang, Jiasen Lu, Stefan Lee
October 29, 2018
September 09, 2018
RESEARCH
NLP
Choose Your Neuron: Incorporating Domain Knowledge through Neuron Importance.
Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Prithvi Chattopadhyay, Ram Selvaraju, Stefan Lee
September 09, 2018
August 01, 2018
RESEARCH
Neural Modular Control for Embodied Question Answering
Dhruv Batra, Abhishek Das, Devi Parikh, Georgia Gkioxari, Stefan Lee
August 01, 2018
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