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We present the ADaptive Adversarial Imitation Learning (ADAIL) algorithm for learning adaptive policies that can be transferred between environments of varying dynamics, by imitating a small number of demonstrations collected from a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Yiren Lu , Jonathan Tompson

Reinforcement learning often requires extensive training data. Simulation-to-real transfer offers a promising approach to address this challenge in robotics. While differentiable simulators offer improved sample efficiency through exact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Severin Bochem , Eduardo Gonzalez-Sanchez , Yves Bicker , Gabriele Fadini

Robotic systems operating in real-world environments often suffer from concept shift, where the input-output relationship changes due to latent environmental factors that are not directly observable. Conventional adaptation methods update…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yasuyuki Fujii , Emika Kameda , Hiroki Fukada , Yoshiki Mori , Tadashi Matsuo , Nobutaka Shimada

We propose a novel robotic system that can improve its perception during deployment. Contrary to the established approach of learning semantics from large datasets and deploying fixed models, we propose a framework in which semantic models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Hermann Blum , Francesco Milano , René Zurbrügg , Roland Siegward , Cesar Cadena , Abel Gawel

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a promising paradigm for robot learning by integrating visual perception with language-guided policy learning. However, most existing approaches rely on 2D visual inputs to perform actions in 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yicheng Feng , Wanpeng Zhang , Ye Wang , Hao Luo , Haoqi Yuan , Sipeng Zheng , Zongqing Lu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate remarkable potential for generalizable robotic manipulation. The execution of complex multi-step behaviors in VLA models can be improved by robust instruction grounding, a critical component…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a compelling framework for tackling complex robotic manipulation tasks, but they are often expensive to train. In this paper, we propose a novel VLA approach that leverages the competitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Max Argus , Jelena Bratulic , Houman Masnavi , Maxim Velikanov , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada , Thomas Brox

In an unfamiliar setting, a model-based reinforcement learning agent can be limited by the accuracy of its world model. In this work, we present a novel, training-free approach to improving the performance of such agents separately from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Martin Benfeghoul , Umais Zahid , Qinghai Guo , Zafeirios Fountas

In recent years, the development of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems has been nothing short of remarkable. As these systems continue to evolve, they are being utilized in increasingly complex and unstructured environments,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Maryam Zare , Parham M. Kebria , Abbas Khosravi , Saeid Nahavandi

Imitation Learning (IL) is a powerful technique for intuitive robotic programming. However, ensuring the reliability of learned behaviors remains a challenge. In the context of reaching motions, a robot should consistently reach its goal,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari , Cosimo Della Santina , Jens Kober

We consider stochastic convex optimization problems, where several machines act asynchronously in parallel while sharing a common memory. We propose a robust training method for the constrained setting and derive non asymptotic convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Rotem Zamir Aviv , Ido Hakimi , Assaf Schuster , Kfir Y. Levy

Test Time Adaptation (TTA) addresses the problem of distribution shift by adapting a pretrained model to a new domain during inference. When faced with challenging shifts, most methods collapse and perform worse than the original pretrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sabyasachi Sahoo , Mostafa ElAraby , Jonas Ngnawe , Yann Pequignot , Frederic Precioso , Christian Gagne

Learning-based approaches, such as reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL), have indicated superiority over rule-based approaches in complex urban autonomous driving environments, showing great potential to make intelligent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Haochen Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Jingda Wu , Chen Lv

In standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) settings, the interaction between the agent and the environment is typically modeled as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), which assumes that the agent observes the system state instantaneously, selects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 John Wikman , Alexandre Proutiere , David Broman

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models exhibit strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning often degrades robustness under spatial distribution shifts. For flow-matching VLA policies, this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xu Pan , Zhenglin Wan , Xingrui Yu , Xianwei Zheng , Youkai Ke , Ming Sun , Rui Wang , Ziwei Wang , Ivor Tsang

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

Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are becoming increasingly capable across diverse robotic tasks. However, their real-world deployment remains slow and inefficient: demonstration videos are often sped up by 5-10x to appear smooth, with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiaming Tang , Yufei Sun , Yilong Zhao , Shang Yang , Yujun Lin , Zhuoyang Zhang , James Hou , Yao Lu , Zhijian Liu , Song Han

Humans are able to seamlessly visually imitate others, by inferring their intentions and using past experience to achieve the same end goal. In other words, we can parse complex semantic knowledge from raw video and efficiently translate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Sudeep Dasari , Abhinav Gupta

This paper proposes a method to combine reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL) using a dynamic, performance-based modulation over learning signals. The proposed method combines RL and behavioral cloning (IL), or corrective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Francisco Leiva , Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

In recent years, studies have been actively conducted on combining large language models (LLM) and robotics; however, most have not considered end-to-end feedback in the robot-motion generation phase. The prediction of deep neural networks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Kanata Suzuki , Tetsuya Ogata