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.

Dhruv's Work

Dhruv's Publications

March 12, 2024

ROBOTICS

Habitat 3.0: A Co-Habitat for Humans, Avatars and Robots

Xavi Puig, Eric Undersander, Andrew Szot, Mikael Dallaire Cote, Jimmy Yang, Ruslan Partsey, Ruta Desai, Alexander William Clegg, Tiffany Min, Vladimír Vondruš, Theo Gervet, Vincent-Pierre Berges, Oleksandr Maksymets, Zsolt Kira, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Jitendra Malik, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai, Roozbeh Mottaghi

March 12, 2024

October 24, 2023

ROBOTICS

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

HomeRobot: Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation

Sriram Yenamandra, Arun Ramachandran, Karmesh Yadav, Austin Wang, Mukul Khanna, Theo Gervet, Jimmy Yang, Vidhi Jain, Alexander William Clegg, John Turner, Zsolt Kira, Andrew Szot, Dhruv Batra, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Yonatan Bisk, Christopher Paxton

October 24, 2023

June 18, 2023

ROBOTICS

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Galactic: Scaling End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Rearrangement at 100k Steps-Per-Second

Vincent-Pierre Berges, Andrew Szot, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Aaron Gokaslan, Dhruv Batra, Eric Undersander

June 18, 2023

March 31, 2023

ROBOTICS

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

PIRLNav: Pretraining with Imitation and RL Finetuning for ObjectNav

Ram Ramrakhya, Dhruv Batra, Erik Wijmans, Abhishek Das

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