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We investigate the use of prior knowledge of human and animal movement to learn reusable locomotion skills for real legged robots. Our approach builds upon previous work on imitating human or dog Motion Capture (MoCap) data to learn a…

We present a framework for learning human user models from joint-action demonstrations that enables the robot to compute a robust policy for a collaborative task with a human. The learning takes place completely automatically, without any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Stefanos Nikolaidis , Keren Gu , Ramya Ramakrishnan , Julie Shah

The generalization ability of imitation learning policies for robotic manipulation is fundamentally constrained by the diversity of expert demonstrations, while collecting demonstrations across varied environments is costly and difficult in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yichen Xie , Yixiao Wang , Shuqi Zhao , Cheng-En Wu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Jianwen Xie , Hao-Shu Fang

We investigate the visual cross-embodiment imitation setting, in which agents learn policies from videos of other agents (such as humans) demonstrating the same task, but with stark differences in their embodiments -- shape, actions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Kevin Zakka , Andy Zeng , Pete Florence , Jonathan Tompson , Jeannette Bohg , Debidatta Dwibedi

Imitation from observation is a computational technique that teaches an agent on how to mimic the behavior of an expert by observing only the sequence of states from the expert demonstrations. Recent approaches learn the inverse dynamics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Juarez Monteiro , Nathan Gavenski , Roger Granada , Felipe Meneguzzi , Rodrigo Barros

In contrast to single-skill tasks, long-horizon tasks play a crucial role in our daily life, e.g., a pouring task requires a proper concatenation of reaching, grasping and pouring subtasks. As an efficient solution for transferring human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shaokang Wu , Yijin Wang , Yanlong Huang

Reward function specification, which requires considerable human effort and iteration, remains a major impediment for learning behaviors through deep reinforcement learning. In contrast, providing visual demonstrations of desired behaviors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Rafael Rafailov , Tianhe Yu , Aravind Rajeswaran , Chelsea Finn

Mobile grasping enhances manipulation efficiency by utilizing robots' mobility. This study aims to enable a commercial off-the-shelf robot for mobile grasping, requiring precise timing and pose adjustments. Self-supervised learning can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Takuya Kiyokawa , Eiki Nagata , Yoshihisa Tsurumine , Yuhwan Kwon , Takamitsu Matsubara

Visual imitation learning (VIL) provides an efficient and intuitive strategy for robotic systems to acquire novel skills. Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in vision and language…

Imitation Learning techniques enable programming the behavior of agents through demonstrations rather than manual engineering. However, they are limited by the quality of available demonstration data. Interactive Imitation Learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Snehal Jauhri , Carlos Celemin , Jens Kober

Humans develop visual intelligence through perceiving and interacting with their environment - a self-supervised learning process grounded in egocentric experience. Inspired by this, we ask how can artificial systems learn stable object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yuting Tan , Xilong Cheng , Yunxiao Qin , Zhengnan Li , Jingjing Zhang

Imitation learning (IL) enables agents to mimic expert behaviors. Most previous IL techniques focus on precisely imitating one policy through mass demonstrations. However, in many applications, what humans require is the ability to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xiong-Hui Chen , Junyin Ye , Hang Zhao , Yi-Chen Li , Haoran Shi , Yu-Yan Xu , Zhihao Ye , Si-Hang Yang , Anqi Huang , Kai Xu , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

This study proposes an imitation learning method based on force and position information. Force information is required for precise object manipulation but is difficult to obtain because the acting and reaction forces cannnot be separated.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Tsuyoshi Adachi , Kazuki Fujimoto , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Learning to solve precision-based manipulation tasks from visual feedback using Reinforcement Learning (RL) could drastically reduce the engineering efforts required by traditional robot systems. However, performing fine-grained motor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Rishabh Jangir , Nicklas Hansen , Sambaran Ghosal , Mohit Jain , Xiaolong Wang

Learning from Demonstration~(LfD) should capture not only how a task is executed, but also its high-level task structure that explains the demonstrated behavior. As robots become more autonomous, such task representations must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oleh Borys , Karla Stepanova

We propose a novel representation of virtual humans for highly realistic real-time animation and rendering in 3D applications. We learn pose dependent appearance and geometry from highly accurate dynamic mesh sequences obtained from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Wieland Morgenstern , Milena T. Bagdasarian , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

In the era of generative AI, integrating video generation models into robotics opens new possibilities for the general-purpose robot agent. This paper introduces imitation learning with latent video planning (VILP). We propose a latent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Zhengtong Xu , Qiang Qiu , Yu She

Personalized federated learning (PFL) jointly trains a variety of local models through balancing between knowledge sharing across clients and model personalization per client. This paper addresses PFL via explicit disentangling latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Peng Yan , Guodong Long

Collecting human demonstrations via teleoperation is a common approach for teaching robots task-specific skills. However, when only a limited number of demonstrations are available, policies are prone to entering out-of-distribution (OOD)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rui Yan , Zaitian Gongye , Lars Paulsen , Xuxin Cheng , Xiaolong Wang

Visual imitation learning (VIL) provides an efficient and intuitive strategy for robotic systems to acquire novel skills. Recent advancements in foundation models, particularly Vision Language Models (VLMs), have demonstrated remarkable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Guangyan Chen , Meiling Wang , Te Cui , Yao Mu , Haoyang Lu , Zicai Peng , Mengxiao Hu , Tianxing Zhou , Mengyin Fu , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue