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Generative model-based imitation learning methods have recently achieved strong results in learning high-complexity motor skills from human demonstrations. However, imitation learning of interactive policies that coordinate with humans in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Max M. Sun , Todd Murphey

Learning from demonstration is widely used as an efficient way for robots to acquire new skills. However, it typically requires that demonstrations provide full access to the state and action sequences. In contrast, learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zachary W. Robertson , Matthew R. Walter

There are several challenges in developing a model for multi-tasking humanoid control. Reinforcement learning and imitation learning approaches are quite popular in this domain. However, there is a trade-off between the two. Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Siddharth Padmanabhan , Kazuki Miyazawa , Takato Horii , Takayuki Nagai

Large-scale demonstration data has powered key breakthroughs in robot manipulation, but collecting that data remains costly and time-consuming. We present Constraint-Preserving Data Generation (CP-Gen), a method that uses a single expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kevin Lin , Varun Ragunath , Andrew McAlinden , Aaditya Prasad , Jimmy Wu , Yuke Zhu , Jeannette Bohg

Imitation learning from human demonstrations is a promising paradigm for teaching robots manipulation skills in the real world. However, learning complex long-horizon tasks often requires an unattainable amount of demonstrations. To reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Chen Wang , Linxi Fan , Jiankai Sun , Ruohan Zhang , Li Fei-Fei , Danfei Xu , Yuke Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

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

We consider the problem of learning useful robotic skills from previously collected offline data without access to manually specified rewards or additional online exploration, a setting that is becoming increasingly important for scaling…

This work introduces the Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MDT), a novel diffusion policy framework, that excels at learning versatile behavior from multimodal goal specifications with few language annotations. MDT leverages a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Moritz Reuss , Ömer Erdinç Yağmurlu , Fabian Wenzel , Rudolf Lioutikov

In collaborative human-robot manipulation, a robot must predict human intents and adapt its actions accordingly to smoothly execute tasks. However, the human's intent in turn depends on actions the robot takes, creating a chicken-or-egg…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Kushal Kedia , Atiksh Bhardwaj , Prithwish Dan , Sanjiban Choudhury

With the rise of stochastic generative models in robot policy learning, end-to-end visuomotor policies are increasingly successful at solving complex tasks by learning from human demonstrations. Nevertheless, since real-world evaluation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Joseph A. Vincent , Haruki Nishimura , Masha Itkina , Paarth Shah , Mac Schwager , Thomas Kollar

Building robotic agents capable of operating across diverse environments and object types remains a significant challenge, often requiring extensive data collection. This is particularly restrictive in robotics, where each data point must…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Siddhant Haldar , Lerrel Pinto

This paper studies the performative policy learning problem, where agents adjust their features in response to a released policy to improve their potential outcomes, inducing an endogenous distribution shift. There has been growing interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Qianyi Chen , Ying Chen , Bo Li

Behavior cloning has seen a resurgence as scaling model and data sizes demonstrate strong performance. In this work, we introduce an open recipe for training a video game playing foundation model designed for inference in realtime on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yuguang Yue , Irakli Salia , Samuel Hunt , Chris Green , Wenzhe Shi , Jonathan J Hunt

Extracting the rules of real-world multi-agent behaviors is a current challenge in various scientific and engineering fields. Biological agents independently have limited observation and mechanical constraints; however, most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Keisuke Fujii , Naoya Takeishi , Yoshinobu Kawahara , Kazuya Takeda

The exploration problem is one of the main challenges in deep reinforcement learning (RL). Recent promising works tried to handle the problem with population-based methods, which collect samples with diverse behaviors derived from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiajun Fan , Yuzheng Zhuang , Yuecheng Liu , Jianye Hao , Bin Wang , Jiangcheng Zhu , Hao Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

Methods for learning latent user representations from historical behavior logs have gained traction for recommendation tasks in e-commerce, content streaming, and other settings. However, this area still remains relatively underexplored in…

A long-standing goal in robotics is to build robots that can perform a wide range of daily tasks from perceptions obtained with their onboard sensors and specified only via natural language. While recently substantial advances have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Wolfram Burgard

Despite increasing attention paid to the need for fast, scalable methods to analyze next-generation neuroscience data, comparatively little attention has been paid to the development of similar methods for behavioral analysis. Just as the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-02 Shariq Iqbal , John Pearson

Recent robot learning methods commonly rely on imitation learning from massive robotic dataset collected with teleoperation. When facing a new task, such methods generally require collecting a set of new teleoperation data and finetuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiang Zhu , Yichen Liu , Hezhong Li , Jianyu Chen

Behavior trees (BTs) are a popular method for modeling NPC and enemy AI behavior and have been widely used in commercial games. In this work, rather than use BTs to model game playing agents, we use them for modeling game design agents,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Anurag Sarkar , Seth Cooper