Kevin Black

Researcher, Physical Intelligence

PhD student, University of California, Berkeley

Joined

September 2022

Names

Kevin Black (Preferred)

Emails

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@physicalintelligence.company (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Physical Intelligence (physicalintelligence.company)

2024 – Present

PhD student

University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2022 – 2026

Undergrad student

University of Texas at Austin (utexas.edu)

2018 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Sergey Levine

2022 – 2026

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Real-Time Execution of Action Chunking Flow Policies
Kevin Black, Manuel Y Galliker, Sergey Levine
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- 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
Fine-Tuning of Continuous-Time Diffusion Models as Entropy-Regularized Control
Masatoshi Uehara, Yulai Zhao, Kevin Black, Ehsan Hajiramezanali, Gabriele Scalia, Nathaniel Lee Diamant, Alex M Tseng, Tommaso Biancalani, Sergey Levine
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- 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
Learning Action-based Representations Using Invariance
Max Rudolph, Caleb Chuck, Kevin Black, Misha Lvovsky, Scott Niekum, Amy Zhang
- RLC 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
Feedback Efficient Online Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models
Masatoshi Uehara, Yulai Zhao, Kevin Black, Ehsan Hajiramezanali, Gabriele Scalia, Nathaniel Lee Diamant, Alex M Tseng, Sergey Levine, Tommaso Biancalani
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Granger Causal Interaction Skill Chains
Caleb Chuck, Kevin Black, Aditya Arjun, Yuke Zhu, Scott Niekum
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation with Pre-Trained Image-Editing Diffusion Models
Kevin Black, Mitsuhiko Nakamoto, Pranav Atreya, Homer Walke, Chelsea Finn, Aviral Kumar, Sergey Levine
- GCRL Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation with Pre-Trained Image-Editing Diffusion Models
Kevin Black, Mitsuhiko Nakamoto, Pranav Atreya, Homer Walke, Chelsea Finn, Aviral Kumar, Sergey Levine
- GenPlan'23
- Readers: Everyone

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