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People can learn a wide range of tasks from their own experience, but can also learn from observing other creatures. This can accelerate acquisition of new skills even when the observed agent differs substantially from the learning agent in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Abhishek Gupta , Coline Devin , YuXuan Liu , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

In this project we trained a neural network to perform specific interactions between a robot and objects in the environment, through imitation learning. In particular, we tackle the task of moving the robot to a fixed pose with respect to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Giorgia Adorni , Elia Cereda

Imitation learning is an effective alternative approach to learn a policy when the reward function is sparse. In this paper, we consider a challenging setting where an agent and an expert use different actions from each other. We assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Konrad Zolna , Negar Rostamzadeh , Yoshua Bengio , Sungjin Ahn , Pedro O. Pinheiro

We present Bi-LAT, a novel imitation learning framework that unifies bilateral control with natural language processing to achieve precise force modulation in robotic manipulation. Bi-LAT leverages joint position, velocity, and torque data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Takumi Kobayashi , Masato Kobayashi , Thanpimon Buamanee , Yuki Uranishi

Autonomous manipulation in robot arms is a complex and evolving field of study in robotics. This paper introduces an innovative approach to this challenge by focusing on imitation learning (IL). Unlike traditional imitation methods, our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Masato Kobayashi , Thanpimon Buamanee , Yuki Uranishi , Haruo Takemura

As robots and other intelligent agents move from simple environments and problems to more complex, unstructured settings, manually programming their behavior has become increasingly challenging and expensive. Often, it is easier for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Takayuki Osa , Joni Pajarinen , Gerhard Neumann , J. Andrew Bagnell , Pieter Abbeel , Jan Peters

In this work we propose an approach to learn a robust policy for solving the pivoting task. Recently, several model-free continuous control algorithms were shown to learn successful policies without prior knowledge of the dynamics of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Rika Antonova , Silvia Cruciani , Christian Smith , Danica Kragic

Imitation learning of robot policies from few demonstrations is crucial in open-ended applications. We propose a new method, Interaction Warping, for learning SE(3) robotic manipulation policies from a single demonstration. We infer the 3D…

Imitation learning is an effective tool for robotic learning tasks where specifying a reinforcement learning (RL) reward is not feasible or where the exploration problem is particularly difficult. Imitation, typically behavior cloning or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yuxiang Zhou , Yusuf Aytar , Konstantinos Bousmalis

The transformation towards intelligence in various industries is creating more demand for intelligent and flexible products. In the field of robotics, learning-based methods are increasingly being applied, with the purpose of training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Xinjie Liu

The drive for efficiency and safety in construction has boosted the role of robotics and automation. However, complex tasks like welding and pipe insertion pose challenges due to their need for precise adaptive force control, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Hengxu You , Yang Ye , Tianyu Zhou , Jing Du

Modern model-free reinforcement learning methods have recently demonstrated impressive results on a number of problems. However, complex domains like dexterous manipulation remain a challenge due to the high sample complexity. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ilija Radosavovic , Xiaolong Wang , Lerrel Pinto , Jitendra Malik

Observational learning is a type of learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and possibly replicating or imitating the behaviour of another agent. It is a core mechanism appearing in various instances of social learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Diana Borsa , Bilal Piot , Rémi Munos , Olivier Pietquin

In this paper, we present an approach based on reinforcement learning for eye tracking data manipulation. It is based on two opposing agents, where one tries to classify the data correctly and the second agent looks for patterns in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Wolfgang Fuhl , Efe Bozkir , Enkelejda Kasneci

Classical policy search algorithms for robotics typically require performing extensive explorations, which are time-consuming and expensive to implement with real physical platforms. To facilitate the efficient learning of robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shengzeng Huo , Anqing Duan , Lijun Han , Luyin Hu , Hesheng Wang , David Navarro-Alarcon

We introduce a simple new method for visual imitation learning, which allows a novel robot manipulation task to be learned from a single human demonstration, without requiring any prior knowledge of the object being interacted with. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Edward Johns

Learning from human demonstration is an effective approach for learning complex manipulation skills. However, existing approaches heavily focus on learning from passive human demonstration data for its simplicity in data collection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Philipp Wu , Yide Shentu , Qiayuan Liao , Ding Jin , Menglong Guo , Koushil Sreenath , Xingyu Lin , Pieter Abbeel

Humans often learn how to perform tasks via imitation: they observe others perform a task, and then very quickly infer the appropriate actions to take based on their observations. While extending this paradigm to autonomous agents is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

Imitation learning enables autonomous agents to learn from human examples, without the need for a reward signal. Still, if the provided dataset does not encapsulate the task correctly, or when the task is too complex to be modeled, such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Federico Malato , Ville Hautamaki

Robotic loco-manipulation tasks often involve contact-rich interactions with the environment, requiring the joint modeling of contact force and robot position. However, recent visuomotor policies often focus solely on learning position or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Peiyuan Zhi , Peiyang Li , Jianqin Yin , Baoxiong Jia , Siyuan Huang