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In this work, we introduce a new perspective for learning transferable content in multi-task imitation learning. Humans are able to transfer skills and knowledge. If we can cycle to work and drive to the store, we can also cycle to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Bian Xihan , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield

While combining imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising way to address poor sample efficiency in autonomous behavior acquisition, methods that do so typically assume that the requisite behavior demonstrations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Caroline Wang , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

Real-world robotic manipulation tasks remain an elusive challenge, since they involve both fine-grained environment interaction, as well as the ability to plan for long-horizon goals. Although deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Núria Armengol Urpí , Marco Bagatella , Otmar Hilliges , Georg Martius , Stelian Coros

Imitation Learning (IL) is a promising paradigm for teaching robots to perform novel tasks using demonstrations. Most existing approaches for IL utilize neural networks (NN), however, these methods suffer from several well-known…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Jimmy Xin , Linus Zheng , Kia Rahmani , Jiayi Wei , Jarrett Holtz , Isil Dillig , Joydeep Biswas

Imitation Learning (IL) aims to discover a policy by minimizing the discrepancy between the agent's behavior and expert demonstrations. However, IL is susceptible to limitations imposed by noisy demonstrations from non-expert behaviors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Ye Yuan , Xin Li , Yong Heng , Leiji Zhang , MingZhong Wang

Hand-crafting generalised decision-making rules for real-world urban autonomous driving is hard. Alternatively, learning behaviour from easy-to-collect human driving demonstrations is appealing. Prior work has studied imitation learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Jeffrey Hawke , Richard Shen , Corina Gurau , Siddharth Sharma , Daniele Reda , Nikolay Nikolov , Przemyslaw Mazur , Sean Micklethwaite , Nicolas Griffiths , Amar Shah , Alex Kendall

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a method for learning decision-making tasks that could enable robots to learn and adapt to their situation on-line. For an RL algorithm to be practical for robotic control tasks, it must learn in very few…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Todd Hester , Michael Quinlan , Peter Stone

Learning a single universal policy that can perform a diverse set of manipulation tasks is a promising new direction in robotics. However, existing techniques are limited to learning policies that can only perform tasks that are encountered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xinyu Zhang , Abdeslam Boularias

One of the biggest challenges that complicates applied supervised machine learning is the need for huge amounts of labeled data. Active Learning (AL) is a well-known standard method for efficiently obtaining labeled data by first labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Julius Gonsior , Maik Thiele , Wolfgang Lehner

In imitation and reinforcement learning, the cost of human supervision limits the amount of data that robots can be trained on. An aspirational goal is to construct self-improving robots: robots that can learn and improve on their own, from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Archit Sharma , Ahmed M. Ahmed , Rehaan Ahmad , Chelsea Finn

Acquiring physically plausible motor skills across diverse and unconventional morphologies-including humanoid robots, quadrupeds, and animals-is essential for advancing character simulation and robotics. Traditional methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Mert Albaba , Chenhao Li , Markos Diomataris , Omid Taheri , Andreas Krause , Michael Black

Human demonstration data is often ambiguous and incomplete, motivating imitation learning approaches that also exhibit reliable planning behavior. A common paradigm to perform planning-from-demonstration involves learning a reward function…

Humans often acquire new skills through observation and imitation. For robotic agents, learning from the plethora of unlabeled video demonstration data available on the Internet necessitates imitating the expert without access to its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Yuyang Liu , Weijun Dong , Yingdong Hu , Chuan Wen , Zhao-Heng Yin , Chongjie Zhang , Yang Gao

Embodied agents, such as robots and virtual characters, must continuously select actions to execute tasks effectively, solving complex sequential decision-making problems. Given the difficulty of designing such controllers manually,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pedro Santana

Imitation learning is a powerful machine learning algorithm for a robot to acquire manipulation skills. Nevertheless, many real-world manipulation tasks involve precise and dexterous robot-object interactions, which make it difficult for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zhao-Heng Yin , Pieter Abbeel

Imitation learning (IL) aims to learn an optimal policy from demonstrations. However, such demonstrations are often imperfect since collecting optimal ones is costly. To effectively learn from imperfect demonstrations, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Yueh-Hua Wu , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Han Bao , Voot Tangkaratt , Masashi Sugiyama

Acquiring a diverse repertoire of general-purpose skills remains an open challenge for robotics. In this work, we propose self-supervising control on top of human teleoperated play data as a way to scale up skill learning. Play has two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Corey Lynch , Mohi Khansari , Ted Xiao , Vikash Kumar , Jonathan Tompson , Sergey Levine , Pierre Sermanet

Video generative models trained on expert demonstrations have been utilized as performant text-conditioned visual planners for solving robotic tasks. However, generalization to unseen tasks remains a challenge. Whereas improved…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Calvin Luo , Zilai Zeng , Mingxi Jia , Yilun Du , Chen Sun

Humans learn to imitate by observing others. However, robot imitation learning generally requires expert demonstrations in the first-person view (FPV). Collecting such FPV videos for every robot could be very expensive. Third-person…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jinghuan Shang , Michael S. Ryoo

Learning to solve complex manipulation tasks from visual observations is a dominant challenge for real-world robot learning. Although deep reinforcement learning algorithms have recently demonstrated impressive results in this context, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Eugenio Chisari , Tim Welschehold , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada