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Jan Kautz

Publications 8

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ASENA: Self-evolving Agents for Embodied Navigation

We present ASENA, an embodied agent system that connects general-purpose coding agents to robot sensing, computation, supervised execution, and persistent experience. Agents can write and execute programs, inspect recorded outcomes, repair failures, and reuse notes and executable skills while keeping their model weight …

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S4VY: Segment Anything in Feed-Forward 4D Visual Geometry

Jingdong Zhang, Xin Li, Jan Kautz et al. · 2026

Accurate instance segmentation in dynamic scenes is important for downstream applications such as robotics and autonomous driving. Existing Segment Anything models operate primarily on 2D image or video masks and preserve identity through sequential memory, while promptable 4D instance segmentation built upon feed-forw …

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Agora: Git as Shared Memory for Collective AutoResearch

Research agents working in separate sessions need to know what others have tried and which results they can build on. Agora stores their contributions as an append-only directed acyclic graph (DAG) in Git. Each commit records a result, insight, hypothesis, verification, or report and links it to prior work. Searchable …

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