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Learning control policies for visual servoing in novel environments is an important problem. However, standard model-free policy learning methods are slow. This paper explores planner cloning: using behavior cloning to learn policies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Ulrich Viereck , Kate Saenko , Robert Platt

We examine the problem of learning sequential tasks from a single visual demonstration. A key challenge arises when demonstrations are temporally misaligned due to variations in timing, differences in embodiment, or inconsistencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 William Huey , Huaxiaoyue Wang , Anne Wu , Yoav Artzi , Sanjiban Choudhury

Letting robots emulate human behavior has always posed a challenge, particularly in scenarios involving multiple robots. In this paper, we presented a framework aimed at achieving multi-agent reinforcement learning for robot control in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kangkang Duan , Christine Wun Ki Suen , Zhengbo Zou

Behavioral cloning uses a dataset of demonstrations to learn a policy. To overcome computationally expensive training procedures and address the policy adaptation problem, we propose to use latent spaces of pre-trained foundation models to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Federco Malato , Florian Leopold , Andrew Melnik , Ville Hautamaki

Behavior cloning is a fundamental paradigm in machine learning, enabling policy learning from expert demonstrations across robotics, autonomous driving, and generative models. Autoregressive models like transformer have proven remarkably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Haoqun Cao , Tengyang Xie

In this paper, we present a method for learning from video demonstrations by using human feedback to construct a mapping between the standard representation of the agent and the visual representation of the demonstration. In this way, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Sunil Gandhi , Tim Oates , Tinoosh Mohsenin , Nicholas Waytowich

Traditionally, learning from human demonstrations via direct behavior cloning can lead to high-performance policies given that the algorithm has access to large amounts of high-quality data covering the most likely scenarios to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Nicholas Waytowich , James Hare , Vinicius G. Goecks , Mark Mittrick , John Richardson , Anjon Basak , Derrik E. Asher

Recent progress in end-to-end Imitation Learning approaches has shown promising results and generalization capabilities on mobile manipulation tasks. Such models are seeing increasing deployment in real-world settings, where scaling up…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Cem Gokmen , Daniel Ho , Mohi Khansari

Robot learning is at an inflection point, driven by rapid advancements in machine learning and the growing availability of large-scale robotics data. This shift from classical, model-based methods to data-driven, learning-based paradigms is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Francesco Capuano , Caroline Pascal , Adil Zouitine , Thomas Wolf , Michel Aractingi

The ability to successfully grasp objects is crucial in robotics, as it enables several interactive downstream applications. To this end, most approaches either compute the full 6D pose for the object of interest or learn to predict a set…

Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios requiring strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Junjia Liu , Zhuo Li , Minghao Yu , Zhipeng Dong , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

Behaviour change lies at the heart of many observable collective phenomena such as the transmission and control of infectious diseases, adoption of public health policies, and migration of animals to new habitats. Representing the process…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-03 Roben Delos Reyes , Hugo Lyons Keenan , Cameron Zachreson

Behavioral cloning becomes difficult when the same observation admits several valid actions. We study this problem for action-chunking policies and show that different multimodal parameterizations fail in different ways. For latent-variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lorenzo Mazza , Massimiliano Datres , Ariel Rodriguez , Sebastian Bodenstedt , Gitta Kutyniok , Stefanie Speidel

Imitation learning enables autonomous agents to learn from human examples, without the need for a reward signal. Still, if the provided dataset does not encapsulate the task correctly, or when the task is too complex to be modeled, such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Federico Malato , Ville Hautamaki

In this work, we explore techniques for augmenting interactive agents with information from symbolic modules, much like humans use tools like calculators and GPS systems to assist with arithmetic and navigation. We test our agent's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Ruoyao Wang , Peter Jansen , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu

Imitation learning from a large set of human demonstrations has proved to be an effective paradigm for building capable robot agents. However, the demonstrations can be extremely costly and time-consuming to collect. We introduce MimicGen,…

Developing robust and general-purpose manipulation policies represents a fundamental objective in robotics research. While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising capabilities for end-to-end robot control, existing…

Learned path planners have attracted research interest due to their ability to model human driving behavior and rapid inference. Recent works on behavioral cloning show that simple imitation of expert observations is not sufficient to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Nelson Fernandez Pinto , Thomas Gilles

We design a new approach that allows robot learning of new activities from unlabeled human example videos. Given videos of humans executing the same activity from a human's viewpoint (i.e., first-person videos), our objective is to make the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Jangwon Lee , Michael S. Ryoo

In imitation learning, robots are supposed to learn from demonstrations of the desired behavior. Most of the work in imitation learning for swarm robotics provides the demonstrations as rollouts of an existing policy. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mattes Kraus , Jonas Kuckling