J.E. Hernandez Spain · Open to relocation
Featured Research · 202603 plates

Forgetting, grounding, and guiding.

Grounding and guidance in VLA policies. Unlearning in diffusion models.

PIU identity-unlearning examples comparing retained and forgotten identity characteristics
Identity-conditioned generations illustrating the PIU research direction.

First author · IJCB 2026

PIU: Proximity-guided Identity Unlearning

PIU protects a chosen identity in ID-conditioned diffusion models by re-teaching what its identity conditioning means, so the model stops generating that person while image quality stays intact.

Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Ljubljana

Identity unlearningDiffusion modelsGeneration preservation
Expert perceptual structure recovered from frozen X-VLA representations for action guidance and alignment.

Thesis work · 2026

Expert Distillation for Perceptual Guidance

Recover expert perceptual structure from frozen X-VLA representations, including DINOv2-like tokens and CeDiRNet-aligned maps, to support action generation and representation alignment.

Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory (ViCoS), University of Ljubljana

Representation alignmentExpert distillationPerceptual guidance
Language-conditioned queries expose the X-VLA image-token regions used during manipulation.

Research project · 2026

Token Grounding in Vision-Language-Action Models

Language-conditioned queries score the native X-VLA image-token grid to reveal which visual regions matter for the current manipulation step.

Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory (ViCoS), University of Ljubljana

Vision-language-actionToken attributionRobotic manipulation

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