Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents

@ CVPR 2025 Workshop

Wed June 11th - Sun June 15th, 2025

at the Music City Center, Nashville TN


Call For Papers Schedule

Call for Papers

Submission Topics

An embodied agent is a generalist agent that can take natural language instructions from humans and perform a wide range of tasks in diverse environments. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of Large Language Models as powerful tools for building Large Agent Models, which have shown remarkable success in supporting embodied agents for different abilities such as goal interpretation, subgoal decomposition, action sequencing, and transition modeling (causal transitions from preconditions to post-effects).

However, moving from Foundation Models to Embodied Agents poses significant challenges in understanding lower-level visual details, and long-horizon reasoning for reliable embodied decision-making. We will cover the advances of the foundation models into Large Language Models Vision-Language Models, and Vision-Language-Action Models. In this workshop, we will comprehensively review existing paradigms for foundations for embodied agents, and focus on their different formulations based on the fundamental mathematical framework of robot learning, Markov Decision Process (MDP), and present a structured view to investigate the robot’s decision-making process.

We welcome submissions on all topics related to Foundation Models and their interactions with Embodied Agents. We will also announce a Best Paper Award at our workshop.

Submission Instructions

We welcome submissions covering:

  • Research papers: Long papers (8 pages) showcasing novel findings, methods, or theoretical advancements.
  • Short/Abstract papers: Features exploratory work (4 pages or 2 pages excluding references) that may be preliminary but presents innovative concepts, early results, or thought-provoking viewpoints that stimulate discussion and future work.
  • Position papers: Offer critical perspectives on trends and challenges within the field (no less than 8 pages).
  • Survey papers: Provide thorough reviews of specific topics, mapping the current research landscape and suggesting directions for future exploration (no less than 8 pages).

All formats allow unlimited references and appendices.

Contributions will be non-archival but hosted on our workshop website, and thus dual submission is allowed where permitted by third parties. We welcome submissions that are under submission or accepted by other conferences. Please mention it in the last sentence of the paper abstract if your paper has been under submission or accepted by other conferences. Paper awards will prefer the original submissions.

Submissions should follow CVPR two-column style and be anonymous; see the CVPR-25 author kit for details. Please submit through OpenReview submission portal.

We are looking for program committee members. Please sign up at this form.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).

Submission Deadline May 1st 2025 May 17th 2025 (23:59pm AoE)
Call for Program Committee Members May 1st 2025 May 17th 2025 (23:59pm AoE)
Decision Notifications May 25th 2025 (23:59pm AoE)
Camera-Ready Deadline (Non-Archival) May 31st 2025 (23:59pm AoE)
Workshop Date June 11th 2025

Speakers

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Jitendra Malik

UC Berkeley

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Dieter Fox

University of Washington

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Xiaolong Wang

UC San Diego

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Yilun Du

Google Deepmind; Harvard

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Dorsa Sadigh

Stanford University

Schedule

Time Program
09:00-09:05 Opening Remarks
09:05-09:50 Keynote Speech
09:50-10:35 Keynote Speech
10:35-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Keynote Speech
11:45-12:00 Keynote Speech
12:35-14:00 Lunch Break (Student Mentoring Session + Poster Session)
14:00-14:45 Keynote Speech
14:45-15:30 Keynote Speech
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Keynote Speech
16:45-16:50 Lightning Talk
16:50-16:55 Lightning Talk
16:55-17:00 Lightning Talk
17:00-17:05 Lightning Talk
17:05-17:10 Lightning Talk
17:10-17:15 Best Paper Announcement
17:15-17:30 QA & Closing Remarks

Organizers

Organizer Committee @ CVPR25

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Manling Li

Northwestern University

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Ruohan Zhang

Stanford University

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Yunzhu Li

Columbia University

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Zihan Wang

Northwestern University

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Qineng Wang

Northwestern University

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Wenlong Huang

Stanford University

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Jiajun Wu

Stanford University

Steering Committee @ CVPR25

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Yejin Choi

NVIDIA, Stanford University

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Fei-Fei Li

Stanford University

Contact

Please email cvpr2025-foundationmodel-embodied@googlegroups.com if you have any questions.