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World models learn the consequences of actions in vision-based interactive systems. However, in practical scenarios like autonomous driving, noncontrollable dynamics that are independent or sparsely dependent on action signals often exist,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Minting Pan , Xiangming Zhu , Yitao Zheng , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

Capturing temporal dependencies is critical for model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) in partially observable, high-dimensional domains. We introduce NE-Dreamer, a decoder-free MBRL agent that leverages a temporal transformer to predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 George Bredis , Nikita Balagansky , Daniil Gavrilov , Ruslan Rakhimov

Training an agent to solve control tasks directly from high-dimensional images with model-free reinforcement learning (RL) has proven difficult. A promising approach is to learn a latent representation together with the control policy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Denis Yarats , Amy Zhang , Ilya Kostrikov , Brandon Amos , Joelle Pineau , Rob Fergus

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) has gained much attention for its ability to learn complex behaviors in a sample-efficient way: planning actions by generating imaginary trajectories with predicted rewards. Despite its success, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Vint Lee , Pieter Abbeel , Youngwoon Lee

We introduce DreamerAD, the first latent world model framework that enables efficient reinforcement learning for autonomous driving by compressing diffusion sampling from 100 steps to 1 - achieving 80x speedup while maintaining visual…

In this paper we tackle the problem of deformable object manipulation through model-free visual reinforcement learning (RL). In order to circumvent the sample inefficiency of RL, we propose two key ideas that accelerate learning. First, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Yilin Wu , Wilson Yan , Thanard Kurutach , Lerrel Pinto , Pieter Abbeel

Despite rapid advancements, machine learning, particularly deep learning, is hindered by the need for large amounts of labeled data to learn meaningful patterns without overfitting and immense demands for computation and storage, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xiaobo Zhao , Aaron Hurst , Panagiotis Karras , Daniel E. Lucani

We consider model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) in 2-agent, high-fidelity continuous control problems -- an important domain for robots interacting with other agents in the same workspace. For non-trivial dynamical systems, MBRL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Orr Krupnik , Igor Mordatch , Aviv Tamar

For deep reinforcement learning (RL) from pixels, learning effective state representations is crucial for achieving high performance. However, in practice, limited experience and high-dimensional inputs prevent effective representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tao Yu , Zhizheng Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Yan Lu , Zhibo Chen

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) holds the promise of sample-efficient learning by utilizing a world model, which models how the environment works and typically encompasses components for two tasks: observation modeling and reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Haoyu Ma , Jialong Wu , Ningya Feng , Chenjun Xiao , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Current control algorithms for aerial robots struggle with robustness in dynamic environments and adverse conditions. Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) has shown strong potential in handling these challenges while remaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Eashan Vytla , Bhavanishankar Kalavakolanu , Andrew Perrault , Matthew McCrink

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) is recognized with the potential to be significantly more sample-efficient than model-free RL. How an accurate model can be developed automatically and efficiently from raw sensory inputs (such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jun Lv , Yunhai Feng , Cheng Zhang , Shuang Zhao , Lin Shao , Cewu Lu

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful approach for robot learning. However, model-free RL (MFRL) requires a large number of environment interactions to learn successful control policies. This is due to the noisy RL training updates and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Maria Krinner , Elie Aljalbout , Angel Romero , Davide Scaramuzza

Model-Based Reinforcement Learning yields sample efficiency via latent imagination, yet remains constrained by Historical Tethering: imagination is typically initialized from observed states. This creates a learning asymmetry, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shaojun Xu , Xiaoling Zhou , Yihan Lin , Yapeng Meng , Xinglong Ji , Luping Shi , Rong Zhao

Model-based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL) allows data-efficient learning which is required in real world applications such as robotics. However, despite the impressive data-efficiency, MBRL does not achieve the final performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Zhang-Wei Hong , Joni Pajarinen , Jan Peters

Incremental learning aims to enable machine learning models to continuously acquire new knowledge given new classes, while maintaining the knowledge already learned for old classes. Saving a subset of training samples of previously seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Jian Jiang , Edoardo Cetin , Oya Celiktutan

We study how representation learning can accelerate reinforcement learning from rich observations, such as images, without relying either on domain knowledge or pixel-reconstruction. Our goal is to learn representations that both provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Amy Zhang , Rowan McAllister , Roberto Calandra , Yarin Gal , Sergey Levine

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) improves sample efficiency by optimizing policies inside imagined rollouts, but long-horizon planning degrades when model errors compound and imagined trajectories drift off the training manifold.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Prakul Sunil Hiremath

Visual model-based reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to enable sample-efficient robot learning from visual observations. Yet the current approaches typically train a single model end-to-end for learning both visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Younggyo Seo , Danijar Hafner , Hao Liu , Fangchen Liu , Stephen James , Kimin Lee , Pieter Abbeel

Reinforcement learning (RL) solves sequential decision-making problems via a trial-and-error process interacting with the environment. While RL achieves outstanding success in playing complex video games that allow huge trial-and-error,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Fan-Ming Luo , Tian Xu , Hang Lai , Xiong-Hui Chen , Weinan Zhang , Yang Yu