Homer Walke

PhD student, Computer Science, University of California Berkeley

Joined

May 2021

Names

Homer Walke (Preferred)

Homer Rich Walke

Emails

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)

****@brown.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Computer Science, University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2021 – Present

Undergrad student

Computer Science, Brown University (brown.edu)

2017 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Sergey Levine

2021 – Present

Expertise

deep learning

robotics

imitation learning

2021 – Present

Publications

Knowledge Insulating Vision-Language-Action Models: Train Fast, Run Fast, Generalize Better
Danny Driess, Jost Tobias Springenberg, brian ichter, LILI YU, Adrian Li-Bell, Karl Pertsch, Allen Z. Ren, Homer Walke, Quan Vuong, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Sergey Levine
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
$\pi_{0.5}$: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization
Kevin Black, Noah Brown, James Darpinian, Karan Dhabalia, Danny Driess, Adnan Esmail, Michael Robert Equi, Chelsea Finn, Niccolo Fusai, Manuel Y. Galliker, Dibya Ghosh, Lachy Groom, Karol Hausman, brian ichter, Szymon Jakubczak, Tim Jones, Liyiming Ke, Devin LeBlanc, Sergey Levine, Adrian Li-Bell et al. (15 additional authors not shown)
- CoRL 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
Alexander Khazatsky, Karl Pertsch, Suraj Nair, Ashwin Balakrishna, Sudeep Dasari, Siddharth Karamcheti, Soroush Nasiriany, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Kirsty Ellis, Peter David Fagan, Joey Hejna, Masha Itkina, Marion Lepert, Yecheng Jason Ma, Patrick Tree Miller, Jimmy Wu, Suneel Belkhale, Shivin Dass, Huy Ha et al. (78 additional authors not shown)
- DGR@RSS2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Autonomous Improvement of Instruction Following Skills via Foundation Models
Zhiyuan Zhou, Pranav Atreya, Abraham Lee, Homer Rich Walke, Oier Mees, Sergey Levine
- CoRL 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Cross-Embodied Learning: One Policy for Manipulation, Navigation, Locomotion and Aviation
Ria Doshi, Homer Rich Walke, Oier Mees, Sudeep Dasari, Sergey Levine
- CoRL 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Real-World Robot Manipulation Policies in Simulation
Xuanlin Li, Kyle Hsu, Jiayuan Gu, Karl Pertsch, Oier Mees, Homer Rich Walke, Chuyuan Fu, Ishikaa Lunawat, Isabel Sieh, Sean Kirmani, Sergey Levine, Jiajun Wu, Chelsea Finn, Hao Su, Quan Vuong, Ted Xiao
- DGR@RSS2024 PosterSpotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Real-World Robot Manipulation Policies in Simulation
Xuanlin Li, Kyle Hsu, Jiayuan Gu, Oier Mees, Karl Pertsch, Homer Rich Walke, Chuyuan Fu, Ishikaa Lunawat, Isabel Sieh, Sean Kirmani, Sergey Levine, Jiajun Wu, Chelsea Finn, Hao Su, Quan Vuong, Ted Xiao
- CoRL 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy
Oier Mees, Dibya Ghosh, Karl Pertsch, Kevin Black, Homer Rich Walke, Sudeep Dasari, Joey Hejna, Tobias Kreiman, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, You Liang Tan, Dorsa Sadigh, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine
- VLMNM 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Quan Vuong, Sergey Levine, Homer Rich Walke, Karl Pertsch, Anikait Singh, Ria Doshi, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, Liam Tan, Dhruv Shah, Chelsea Finn, Max Du, Moo Jin Kim, Alexander Khazatsky, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Tony Z. Zhao, Ken Goldberg, Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Simeon Adebola et al. (154 additional authors not shown)
- LangRob @ CoRL 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Quan Vuong, Sergey Levine, Homer Rich Walke, Karl Pertsch, Anikait Singh, Ria Doshi, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, Liam Tan, Dhruv Shah, Chelsea Finn, Max Du, Moo Jin Kim, Alexander Khazatsky, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Tony Z. Zhao, Ken Goldberg, Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Simeon Adebola et al. (154 additional authors not shown)
- CoRL 2023 Workshop TGR Oral
- Readers: Everyone

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