Jost Tobias Springenberg

Researcher, Physical Intelligence

Joined

November 2016

Names

Jost Tobias Springenberg (Preferred)

Emails

****@cs.uni-freiburg.de (Confirmed)

****@informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Physical Intelligence (physicalintelligence.company)

2025 – Present

Researcher

DeepMind (google.com)

2017 – 2025

PhD student

University of Freiburg (uni-freiburg.de)

2010 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

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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
Value from Observations: Towards Large-Scale Imitation Learning via Self-Improvement
Michael Bloesch, Markus Wulfmeier, Philemon Brakel, Todor Davchev, Martina Zambelli, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Abbas Abdolmaleki, William F Whitney, Nicolas Heess, Roland Hafner, Martin Riedmiller
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Learning from negative feedback, or positive feedback or both
Abbas Abdolmaleki, Bilal Piot, Bobak Shahriari, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Tim Hertweck, Michael Bloesch, Rishabh Joshi, Thomas Lampe, Junhyuk Oh, Nicolas Heess, Jonas Buchli, Martin Riedmiller
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Imitating Language via Scalable Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Markus Wulfmeier, Michael Bloesch, Nino Vieillard, Arun Ahuja, Jorg Bornschein, Sandy Huang, Artem Sokolov, Matt Barnes, Guillaume Desjardins, Alex Bewley, Sarah Maria Elisabeth Bechtle, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Nikola Momchev, Olivier Bachem, Matthieu Geist, Martin Riedmiller
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Offline Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning Scales to Large Models
Jost Tobias Springenberg, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Jingwei Zhang, Oliver Groth, Michael Bloesch, Thomas Lampe, Philemon Brakel, Sarah Maria Elisabeth Bechtle, Steven Kapturowski, Roland Hafner, Nicolas Heess, Martin Riedmiller
- ICML 2024 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
RoboCat: A Self-Improving Generalist Agent for Robotic Manipulation
Konstantinos Bousmalis, Giulia Vezzani, Dushyant Rao, Coline Manon Devin, Alex X. Lee, Maria Bauza Villalonga, Todor Davchev, Yuxiang Zhou, Agrim Gupta, Akhil Raju, Antoine Laurens, Claudio Fantacci, Valentin Dalibard, Martina Zambelli, Murilo Fernandes Martins, Rugile Pevceviciute, Michiel Blokzijl, Misha Denil, Nathan Batchelor, Thomas Lampe et al. (19 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
A Generalist Agent
Scott Reed, Konrad Zolna, Emilio Parisotto, Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo, Alexander Novikov, Gabriel Barth-maron, Mai Giménez, Yury Sulsky, Jackie Kay, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Tom Eccles, Jake Bruce, Ali Razavi, Ashley Edwards, Nicolas Heess, Yutian Chen, Raia Hadsell, Oriol Vinyals, Mahyar Bordbar, Nando de Freitas
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
On Multi-objective Policy Optimization as a Tool for Reinforcement Learning: Case Studies in Offline RL and Finetuning
Abbas Abdolmaleki, Sandy Huang, Giulia Vezzani, Bobak Shahriari, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Shruti Mishra, Dhruva Tirumala, Arunkumar Byravan, Konstantinos Bousmalis, András György, Csaba Szepesvari, raia hadsell, Nicolas Heess, Martin Riedmiller
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Model-Based Planning and Planner Amortization for Continuous Control
Arunkumar Byravan, Leonard Hasenclever, Piotr Trochim, Mehdi Mirza, Alessandro Davide Ialongo, Yuval Tassa, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Nicolas Heess, Josh Merel, Martin Riedmiller
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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