Jesse Thomason
Jesse Thomason is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, where he leads the GLAMOR (Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observations, And Robots) Lab. His research focuses on connecting natural language processing to robotics and embodied simulation agents, with emphasis on grounding language in perception, action, and lifelong learning through dialogue. He is known for his work on language-conditioned robot policies, including benchmarking generalization for Vision Language Action models and documenting failures of language generalization under paraphrasing.
“Colosseum V2: Benchmarking Generalization for Vision Language Action Models”
Source→“Jesse Thomason — USC Department of Computer Science. Co-author with expertise in language-conditioned robot policies. Prior work from Thomason's group (Anwar et al. 2024) first documented the catastrophic failure of language generalization under paraphrasing.”
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