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Simulation based learning often provides a cost-efficient recourse to reinforcement learning applications in robotics. However, simulators are generally incapable of accurately replicating real-world dynamics, and thus bridging the sim2real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Buddhika Laknath Semage , Thommen George Karimpanal , Santu Rana , Svetha Venkatesh

Recent advances in behavior cloning (BC) have enabled impressive visuomotor control policies. However, these approaches are limited by the quality of human demonstrations, the manual effort required for data collection, and the diminishing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Lars Ankile , Zhenyu Jiang , Rocky Duan , Guanya Shi , Pieter Abbeel , Anusha Nagabandi

Few-shot intent classification and slot filling are important but challenging tasks due to the scarcity of finely labeled data. Therefore, current works first train a model on source domains with sufficiently labeled data, and then transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Jie Han , Yixiong Zou , Haozhao Wang , Jun Wang , Wei Liu , Yao Wu , Tao Zhang , Ruixuan Li

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled training action-selection policies, end-to-end, by learning a function which maps image pixels to action outputs. However, it's application to visuomotor robotic policy training has been limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Mårten Björkman , Patric Jensfelt

In manufacturing, assembly tasks have been a challenge for learning algorithms due to variant dynamics of different environments. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising framework to automatically learn these tasks, yet it is still not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Quantao Yang , Johannes A. Stork , Todor Stoyanov

We examine the problem of transferring a policy learned in a source environment to a target environment with different dynamics, particularly in the case where it is critical to reduce the amount of interaction with the target environment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Siddharth Desai , Ishan Durugkar , Haresh Karnan , Garrett Warnell , Josiah Hanna , Peter Stone

Transfer reinforcement learning (RL) aims at improving the learning efficiency of an agent by exploiting knowledge from other source agents trained on relevant tasks. However, it remains challenging to transfer knowledge between different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Mohammadamin Barekatain , Ryo Yonetani , Masashi Hamaya

Much like humans, robots should have the ability to leverage knowledge from previously learned tasks in order to learn new tasks quickly in new and unfamiliar environments. Despite this, most robot learning approaches have focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Stephen James , Michael Bloesch , Andrew J. Davison

Multi-goal policy learning for robotic manipulation is challenging. Prior successes have used state-based representations of the objects or provided demonstration data to facilitate learning. In this paper, by hand-coding a high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 David Klee , Ondrej Biza , Robert Platt

In task-based few-shot learning paradigms, it is commonly assumed that different tasks are independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.). However, in real-world scenarios, the distribution encountered in few-shot learning can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiajun Chen , Hongpeng Yin , Yifu Yang

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 this work we present a method for leveraging data from one source to learn how to do multiple new tasks. Task transfer is achieved using a self-model that encapsulates the dynamics of a system and serves as an environment for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Robert Kwiatkowski , Hod Lipson

Transfer learning is a problem defined over two domains. These two domains share the same feature space and class label space, but have significantly different distributions. One domain has sufficient labels, named as source domain, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Hongqi Wang , Anfeng Xu , Shanshan Wang , Sunny Chughtai

We explore possible methods for multi-task transfer learning which seek to exploit the shared physical structure of robotics tasks. Specifically, we train policies for a base set of pre-training tasks, then experiment with adapting to new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-30 K. R. Zentner , Ryan Julian , Ujjwal Puri , Yulun Zhang , Gaurav Sukhatme

Learning task-oriented dialog policies via reinforcement learning typically requires large amounts of interaction with users, which in practice renders such methods unusable for real-world applications. In order to reduce the data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jorge A. Mendez , Alborz Geramifard , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Bing Liu

Training generative models, such as GANs, on a target domain containing limited examples (e.g., 10) can easily result in overfitting. In this work, we seek to utilize a large source domain for pretraining and transfer the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Utkarsh Ojha , Yijun Li , Jingwan Lu , Alexei A. Efros , Yong Jae Lee , Eli Shechtman , Richard Zhang

In this paper, we deal with the reality gap from a novel perspective, targeting transferring Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies learned in simulated environments to the real-world domain for visual control tasks. Instead of adopting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Jingwei Zhang , Lei Tai , Peng Yun , Yufeng Xiong , Ming Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) on high quality (HQ) images involves important computing resources. This requirement represents a bottleneck for the development of applications of GANs. We propose a transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yaël Frégier , Jean-Baptiste Gouray

Transfer learning enables to re-use knowledge learned on a source task to help learning a target task. A simple form of transfer learning is common in current state-of-the-art computer vision models, i.e. pre-training a model for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Thomas Mensink , Jasper Uijlings , Alina Kuznetsova , Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

Learning the intents of an agent, defined by its goals or motion style, is often extremely challenging from just a few examples. We refer to this problem as task concept learning and present our approach, Few-Shot Task Learning through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Aviv Netanyahu , Yilun Du , Antonia Bronars , Jyothish Pari , Joshua Tenenbaum , Tianmin Shu , Pulkit Agrawal