I am a researcher at Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) at Meta Pittsburgh and a postdoc at Robotics Institute at CMU. I work with Prof. Abhinav Gupta, Prof. Deepak Pathak, and Xinlei Chen. My research focus is on embodied intelligence, at the intersection of computer vision (perception) and robot learning (action).

I got my PhD in Computer Science at UIUC working with Prof. Alex Schwing and Prof. Svetlana Lazebnik.

During my PhD, I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Prof. Rob Fergus (Google DeepMind & NYU), Prof. Kristen Grauman (Facebook AI Research & UT Austin), and Luca Weihs, Ani Kembhavi, and Prof. Ali Farhadi (Allen AI & UW).

Earlier, I graduated from IIT Kanpur where I worked with Prof. Vinay Namboodiri and Prof. Erik Learned-Miller.

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Exploitation-Guided Exploration for Semantic Embodied Navigation
Justin Wasserman, Girish Chowdhary, Abhinav Gupta, Unnat Jain
ICRA 2024
Best Paper at NeurIPS 2023 Robot Learning Workshop
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Habitat 3.0: A Co-Habitat for Humans, Avatars and Robots
Xavi Puig*, Eric Undersander*, Andrew Szot*, Mikael Cote*, Ruslan Partsey*, Jimmy Yang*, Ruta Desai*, Alexander Clegg*, Michal Hlavac, Tiffany Min, Theo Gervet, Vladimír Vondruš, Vincent-Pierre Berges, John Turner, Oleksandr Maksymets, Zsolt Kira, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Jitendra Malik, Devendra Chaplot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai**, Roozbeh Mottaghi**
ICLR 2024
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An Unbiased Look at Datasets for Visuo-Motor Pre-Training
Sudeep Dasari, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Unnat Jain*, Abhinav Gupta*
CoRL 2023
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Pretrained Language Models as Visual Planners for Human Assistance
Dhruvesh Patel, Hamid Eghbalzadeh, Nitin Kamra, Michael Louis Iuzzolino, Unnat Jain*, Ruta Desai*
ICCV 2023
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Adaptive Coordination in Social Embodied Rearrangement
Andrew Szot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra, Zsolt Kira, Ruta Desai, Akshara Rai
ICML 2023
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Affordances from Human Videos as a Versatile Representation for Robotics
Shikhar Bahl*, Russell Mendonca*, Lili Chen, Unnat Jain, Deepak Pathak
CVPR 2023
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MOPA: Modular Object Navigation with PointGoal Agents
Sonia Raychaudhuri, Tommaso Campari, Unnat Jain, Manolis Savva, Angel X. Chang
WACV 2024
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Last-Mile Embodied Visual Navigation
Justin Wasserman*, Karmesh Yadav, Girish Chowdhary, Abhinav Gupta, Unnat Jain*
CoRL 2022
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Retrospectives on the Embodied AI Workshop
Matt Deitke, Dhruv Batra, Yonatan Bisk, ... Unnat Jain ... Luca Weihs, Jiajun Wu
arXiv 2022
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Learning State-Aware Visual Representations from Audible Interactions
Himangi Mittal, Pedro Morgado, Unnat Jain, Abhinav Gupta
NeurIPS 2022
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Bridging the Imitation Gap by Adaptive Insubordination
Luca Weihs*, Unnat Jain*, Iou-Jen Liu, Jordi Salvador, Svetlana Lazebnik, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Alexander Schwing
NeurIPS 2021
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Language-Aligned Waypoint (LAW) Supervision for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments
Sonia Raychaudhuri, Saim Wani, Shivansh Patel, Unnat Jain, Angel X. Chang
EMNLP 2021 (short)
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GridToPix: Training Embodied Agents with Minimal Supervision
Unnat Jain, Iou-Jen Liu, Svetlana Lazebnik, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Luca Weihs*, Alexander Schwing*
ICCV 2021
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Interpretation of Emergent Communication in Heterogeneous Collaborative Embodied Agents
Shivansh Patel*, Saim Wani*, Unnat Jain*, Alexander Schwing, Svetlana Lazebnik, Manolis Savva, Angel X. Chang
ICCV 2021
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Cooperative Exploration for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Iou-Jen Liu, Unnat Jain, Raymond Yeh, Alexander Schwing
ICML 2021 (long oral)
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MultiON: Benchmarking Semantic Map Memory using Multi-Object Navigation
Saim Wani*, Shivansh Patel*, Unnat Jain*, Angel X. Chang, Manolis Savva
NeurIPS 2020
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AllenAct: A Framework for Embodied AI Research
Luca Weihs*, Jordi Salvador*, Klemen Kotar*, Unnat Jain, Kuo-Hao Zeng, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Aniruddha Kembhavi
arXiv 2020
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A Cordial Sync: Going Beyond Marginal Policies For Multi-Agent Embodied Tasks
Unnat Jain*, Luca Weihs*, Eric Kolve, Ali Farhadi, Svetlana Lazebnik, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Alexander Schwing
ECCV 2020 (spotlight)
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SoundSpaces: Audio-Visual Navigation in 3D Environments
Changan Chen*, Unnat Jain*, Carl Schissler, Sebastia Vicenc Amengual Gari, Ziad Al-Halah, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Philip Robinson, Kristen Grauman
ECCV 2020 (spotlight)
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TAB-VCR: Tags and Attributes based VCR Baselines
Jingxiang Lin, Unnat Jain, Alexander Schwing
NeurIPS 2019
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Two Body Problem: Collaborative Visual Task Completion
Unnat Jain*, Luca Weihs*, Eric Kolve, Mohammad Rastegari, Svetlana Lazebnik, Ali Farhadi, Alexander Schwing, Aniruddha Kembhavi
CVPR 2019 (oral)
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Talk @ Amazon: video, ppt, pdf
Talk @ CVPR'19: video, ppt, pdf, poster

Two can play this Game: Visual Dialog with Discriminative Question Generation and Answering
Unnat Jain, Svetlana Lazebnik, Alexander Schwing
CVPR 2018

Creativity: Generating Diverse Questions using Variational Autoencoders
Unnat Jain*, Ziyu Zhang*, Alexander Schwing
CVPR 2017 (spotlight)
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Compact Environment-Invariant Codes for Robust Visual Place Recognition
Unnat Jain, Vinay Namboodiri, Gaurav Pandey
Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) 2017

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