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130 131 132</head> 133 134<body onload="onPageLoad()"> 135 136 <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light" style="background-color: #990000;"> 137 <div class="container-fluid"> 138 <a class="navbar-brand" href="#"> 139 <img class="glamor-thumbnail" src="thumbnails/glamor-logo-big.svg" title="GLAMOR lab logo"> 140 </a> 141 <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-bs-toggle="collapse" data-bs-target="#navbarSupportedContent" aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation"> 142 <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span> 143 </button> 144 <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarSupportedContent"> 145 <ul class="navbar-nav ms-auto mb-lg-0" > 146 <li class="nav-item"><a id="nav-link-custom" class="nav-link" href="people.html">People</a></li> 147 <li class="nav-item"><a id="nav-link-custom" class="nav-link" href="publications.html">Publications</a></li> 148 <li class="nav-item"><a id="nav-link-custom" class="nav-link" href="sponsors.html">Sponsors</a></li> 149 <li class="nav-item"><a id="nav-link-custom" class="nav-link" href="opportunities.html">Opportunities</a></li> 150 <li class="nav-item"><a id="nav-link-custom" class="nav-link" href="fun.html">Fun!</a></li> 151 </ul> 152 </div> 153 </div> 154 </nav> 155 156 <div id="container"> 157 158 <br/> 159 160 <div class="row"> 161 <p style="color:#990000;text-align:justify;font-size:28.75px">GLAMOR: G<span style="color:black">rounding </span> L<span style="color:black">anguage in </span>A<span style="color:black">ctions, </span>M<span style="color:black">ultimodal </span>O<span style="color:black">bservations and </span>R<span style="color:black">obots</span></p> 162 <br/> 163 164 <div class="col-md-5"> 165 <img src="glamor_photos/lab-pic-04_2023.jpg" class="img col-md-12" style="border:2px solid #000"> 166 </div> 167 168 <div class="col-md-7"> 169 <p align="justify" style="font-size:20px"> 170 Welcome to the GLAMOR Lab ⨠at the <span style="color:#990000"><b>University of Southern California</b></span>! We bring together <b>natural language processing and robotics</b> to connect language to the world (<b>RoboNLP</b>). Our lab is broadly interested in connecting language to agent perception and action, and lifelong learning through interaction. 171 </p> 172 </div> 173 </div> 174 175 <!-- 176 <div class="row"> 177 178 <a id="news"></a> 179 <div class="row"> 180 <div class="col-md-12"> 181 182 <table class="table-sm"><tr><td colspan="4"><h4>News</h4></td></tr> 183 <tr><td class="col-md-3"><b>Opportunity!</b><br/> REU</td><td class="col-md-5">Glass is to Break as Rubber is to Bend: Analogies for Natural Language Processing</td><td class="col-md-2"><a class="btn btn-light" style="padding:5px;" href="#analogies_urap">details</a></td><td class="col-md-2">Fall 2022-Spring 2023</td></tr> 184 <tr><td class="col-md-3"><b>Robotics Ed Week</b><br/> Viterbi K-12 STEM Center</td><td class="col-md-5">Talking to Robots: Challenges for Communicating with Robots in Text</td><td class="col-md-2"><a class="btn btn-light" style="padding:5px;" href="https://viterbik12.usc.edu/robotics-ed-week/">website</a></td><td class="col-md-2">April 8, 2022</td></tr> 185 </table> 186 </div> 187 </div> 188 </div> 189 --> 190 <br/> 191 192 <div class="row g-0"> 193 <h4 style="text-align:left;color:#990000;margin-bottom:20px">Research Areas</h4> 194 195 <div class="row me-1 col-md-4" id="ws3"> 196 <h5 style="text-align:left; padding-left: 0"><img class="tiny-thumbnail" src="thumbnails/ws3.png"> Language & Perception</h5> 197 <p align="justify" style="font-size:20px;vertical-align: top; padding-left: 0"> 198 Language paired with sensory perception like vision, audio, and haptics. This scope includes audio-visual speech recognition, visual dialog, and recognizing heavy means increased physical weight. 199 </p> 200 </div> 201 202 <div class="row col-md-4 me-0" id="ws4"> 203 <h5 style="text-align:left; padding-left: 0"><img class="tiny-thumbnail" src="thumbnails/ws4.png"> Embodiment & Action</h5> 204 <p align="justify" style="font-size:20px;vertical-align: top; padding-left: 0"> 205 Language paired with or leading to world actions. This scope includes learning that <i>left</i> corresponds to a spatial orientation, and that <i>it's hot</i> is a pragmatic warning against physically touching an object. 206 </p> 207 </div> 208 209 <div class="row col-md-4 me-0" id="ws5"> 210 <h5 style="text-align:left; padding-left: 0"><img class="tiny-thumbnail" src="thumbnails/ws5.png"> The Social World</h5> 211 <p align="justify" style="font-size:20px;vertical-align: top; padding-left: 0"> 212 Language is what language does, and so language use in social contexts to cause changes in others' behavior and states of mind is the highest scope for grounded natural langauge use.<br/> 213 </p> 214 </div> 215 216 </div> 217 <br/> 218 219 <div class="row g-0"> 220 221 <div class="row col-md-8" id="group"> 222 <div class="col-md-12"> 223 <h4 style="text-align:left;color:#990000;margin-bottom:20px;vertical-align:top">Group</h4> 224 </div> 225 <div class="col-md-4"> 226 <div class="card mb-3" style="max-width: 540px; min-height: 160px;"> 227 <div class="row g-0"> 228 <div class="image-cropper" style="border-radius:50%"> 229 <a href="https://jessethomason.com/" target="_blank"><img src="glamor_photos/jesse.jpeg" class="img-fluid rounded-start" title="Jesse Thomason"></a> 230 </div> 231 </div><div class="row g-0"> 232 <div class="card-body"> 233 <h5 class="card-title">Jesse Thomason</h5> 234 <p class="card-text">Principal Investigator</p> 235 </div> 236 </div> 237 </div> 238 </div><div class="col-md-8"></div> 239 <div class="col-md-4 px-0" id="phd_students_col1"></div> 240 <div class="col-md-4 px-0" id="phd_students_col2"></div> 241 <div class="col-md-4 px-0" id="phd_students_col3"></div> 242 <!-- 243 <div class="col-md-12"> 244 <h5 style="text-align:left">Undergraduate Students</h5> 245 </div> 246 <div class="col-md-6" id="ug_students_left"></div> 247 <div class="col-md-6" id="ug_students_right"></div> 248 --> 249 </div> 250 251 <div class="row col-md-4 g-0"> 252 <div class="col-md-12"> 253 <h4 style="text-align:left;color:#990000;margin-bottom:20px;padding-bottom:0px;vertical-align:top">News</h4> 254 </div> 255 <div class="6u" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 10px; background-color: #f8f8f8;vertical-align:top " id="news">
256 <div class="content" style="overflow-y: scroll; padding-left: 20px; max-height: 1100px; padding-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left" id="div-news"> 257 <ul style="list-style-type: none; padding: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-bottom: 10"> 258 <li><b>02/2026</b> Three papers accepted to ICRA 2026! <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20097">PSALM-V</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18282">PEEK</a>, and <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20455">HAND</a>.</li> 259 <li><b>01/2026</b> One <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27617">paper</a> accepted to MLSys 2026!</li> 260 <li><b>12/2025</b> One <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13321">paper</a> accepted to IUI 2026!</li> 261 <li><b>11/2025</b> One <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03817">paper</a> accepted to AAAI 2026!</li> 262 <li><b>07/2025</b> Two papers accepted to CoRL 2025!</li> 263 <li><b>01/2025</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03568">Two</a> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02791">papers</a> accepted to NAACL 2025!</li> 264 <li><b>10/2025</b> One paper each at <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.574.pdf">EMNLP</a> and <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13636">CoRL</a>!</li> 265 <li><b>08/2024</b> Tejas has been selected as an <a href="https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2024/12/uscamazon-center-announces-2024-2025-projects-and-fellows/">Amazon ML Fellow</a> by the USC-Amazon Center on Secure and Trusted Machine Learning! </li> 266 <li><b>05/2024</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08191">One paper</a> accepted to RSS 2024 and <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15610">one paper</a> accepted to ACL Findings 2024! 267 <li><b>03/2024</b> New <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17246">pre-print</a> on multi-agent task planning!</li> 268 <li><b>03/2024</b> Three papers accepted to NAACL 2024!</li> 269 <li><b>02/2024</b> New pre-prints on <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09612">visual document understanding</a> and <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15610">selective prediction for vision-language reasoning</a>! 270 <li><b>10/2023</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14901">Chain-of-Questions</a> has been accepted to EMNLP 2023!</li> 271 <li><b>05/2023</b> <a href="https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Hqb3t4Jqrk">Self-supervised 3D Representations</a> is a lightning talk at <a href="https://microsoft.github.io/robotics.pretraining.workshop.icra/">ICRA Pretraining for Robotics Workshop</a> </li> 272 <li><b>05/2023</b> <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/visarl">ViSaRL: Visual RL Guided By Human Saliency</a> is a Spotlight Talk at <a href="https://microsoft.github.io/robotics.pretraining.workshop.icra/">ICRA Pretraining for Robotics Workshop</a> </li> 273 <li><b>05/2023</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14030">One paper</a> accepted to Interspeech 2023! </li> 274 <li><b>05/2023</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02168">One paper</a> accepted to CoLLAs 2023! </li> 275 <li><b>05/2023</b> Leticia and Tejas received the Viterbi Graduate Mentorship and Viterbi Undergraduate Research Mentorship Awards, respectively!</li> 276 <li><b>04/2023</b> The lab participated in the <a href="https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2023/04/the-top-six-gifs-from-usc-robotics-open-house-2023/">
276USC Robotics Open House</a> for middle and high school students.</li> 277 <li><b>04/2023</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14525">Curriculum Learning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language Alignment</a> will be presented at the O-DRUM Workshop at CVPR 2023.</b> 278 <li><b>02/2023</b> <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14030">New pre-print</a>! We study the challenge of training embodied agents that can follow spoken instructions.</b> 279 <li><b>02/2023</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03087">IVLN</a> has been accepted to CVPR 2023!</li> 280 <li><b>01/2023</b> Lee's <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05759\">paper</a> on sign language phonology has been accepted to EACL 2023!</li> 281 <li><b>01/2023</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11302">ProgPrompt</a> has been accepted to ICRA 2023!</li> 282 <li><b>12/2022</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15037\">Transformer Adapters for Robot Learning</a> is a Spotlight Talk at the <a href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/corl2022-prl">Pretraining Robot Learning</a> workshop at CoRL 2022!</li> 283 <li><b>11/2022</b> One paper accepted to EMNLP 2022! <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15037\">Generalization Differences between End-to-End and Neuro-Symbolic Vision-Language Reasoning Systems</a></li> 284 <li><b>10/2022</b> New VLN benchmark release! <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03087">IVLN</a> challenges agents to follow a language-guided tour of a home, enabling them to leverage persistent memory.</li> 285 <li><b>09/2022</b> New pre-print! <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11302">ProgPrompt</a> adapts LLMs for situated robot task planning by prompting them with pythonic programs.</li> 286 <li><b>09/2022</b> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09059">CLiMB</a> ð§ââï¸ was accepted to the <a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2022">NeurIPS 2022</a> Datasets and Benchmarks Track! </li> 287 <li><b>06/2022</b> Pre-print alert! We introduce <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09059">CLiMB</a> ð§ââï¸, a new continual learning benchmark for vision-and-language tasks.</li> 288 <li><b>05/2022</b> REU research opportunity! Available Fall 2022-Spring 2023. <a href="opportunities.html#analogies_urap">More details</a>.</li> 289 <li><b>04/2022</b> Prof. Thomason talked to high school students at Viterbi K-12 STEM Center about robotics at <a href="https://viterbik12.usc.edu/robotics-ed-week/">Robotics Ed Week</a>.</li> 290 </ul> 291 </div> 292 </div> 293 </div> 294 295 </div> 296 297 298</div> 299</body> 300 301</html>
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