Christian Scherer

I'm a master's student at TU Darmstadt and actively engaged in research at Jan Peter's group Intelligent Autonomous Systems. I am supported through a research-oriented master's scholarship by the Zuse School ELIZA.

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Research

I'm interested in Large Behaviour Models, VLAs and improving them using RL. Most of my research is about inferring a dense reward for them and improving the ability to leverage their vast knowledge for improving exploration.

Coherent Soft Imitation Learning for Vision-Language-Action models
Christian Scherer, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Joe Watson, Jan Peters
Bachelor's thesis, Nov. 2025
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ALLMAN: A German Vision-Language-Action Model
Christian Scherer, Maximilian Tölle, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Tim Schneider, Patrick Schramowski, Boris Belousov, Jan Peters
GRC, 2025
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