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We develop a simple framework to learn bio-inspired foraging policies using human data. We conduct an experiment where humans are virtually immersed in an open field foraging environment and are trained to collect the highest amount of…

The field of warehouse robotics is currently in high demand, with major technology and logistics companies making significant investments in these advanced systems. Training robots to operate in such complex environments is challenging,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Arunabh Bora

The goal of imitation learning is to mimic expert behavior from demonstrations, without access to an explicit reward signal. A popular class of approach infers the (unknown) reward function via inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) followed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Carl Qi , Pieter Abbeel , Aditya Grover

Recently, safe reinforcement learning (RL) with the actor-critic structure for continuous control tasks has received increasing attention. It is still challenging to learn a near-optimal control policy with safety and convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Xinglong Zhang , Yaoqian Peng , Biao Luo , Wei Pan , Xin Xu , Haibin Xie

Learning by interaction is the key to skill acquisition for most living organisms, which is formally called Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is efficient in finding optimal policies for endowing complex systems with sophisticated behavior.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Karim Farid , Nourhan Sakr

We study the problem of training a risk-sensitive reinforcement learning (RL) agent through imitation learning (IL). Unlike standard IL, our goal is not only to train an agent that matches the expert's expected return (i.e., its average…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Filippo Lazzati , Alberto Maria Metelli

Humans are experts in physical collaboration by leveraging cognitive abilities such as perception, reasoning, and decision-making to regulate compliance behaviors based on their partners' states and task requirements. Equipping robots with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chenzui Li , Xi Wu , Yiming Chen , Tao Teng , Xuefeng Zhang , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

For performing robotic manipulation tasks, the core problem is determining suitable trajectories that fulfill the task requirements. Various approaches to compute such trajectories exist, being learning and optimization the main driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Akshay Dhonthi , Philipp Schillinger , Leonel Rozo , Daniele Nardi

This paper proposes model-free imitation learning named Entropy-Regularized Imitation Learning (ERIL) that minimizes the reverse Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. ERIL combines forward and inverse reinforcement learning (RL) under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Eiji Uchibe , Kenji Doya

With the growing popularity of deep reinforcement learning (DRL), human-in-the-loop (HITL) approach has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach decision-making problems and create new opportunities for human-AI collaboration. In…

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) presents a powerful paradigm for learning complex robotic tasks from human demonstrations. However, most approaches make the assumption that expert demonstrations are available, which is often not the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Peter Crowley , Zachary Serlin , Tyler Paine , Makai Mann , Michael Benjamin , Calin Belta

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) aims to facilitate a learner's ability to imitate expert behavior by acquiring reward functions that explain the expert's decisions. Regularized IRL applies strongly convex regularizers to the learner's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Wonseok Jeon , Chen-Yang Su , Paul Barde , Thang Doan , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Joelle Pineau

Autonomous vehicles with a self-evolving ability are expected to cope with unknown scenarios in the real-world environment. Take advantage of trial and error mechanism, reinforcement learning is able to self evolve by learning the optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shuo Yang , Liwen Wang , Yanjun Huang , Hong Chen

Recent advances in robot skill learning have unlocked the potential to construct task-agnostic skill libraries, facilitating the seamless sequencing of multiple simple manipulation primitives (aka. skills) to tackle significantly more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Teng Xue , Amirreza Razmjoo , Suhan Shetty , Sylvain Calinon

Skill-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising strategy to leverage prior knowledge for accelerated robot learning. Skills are typically extracted from expert demonstrations and are embedded into a latent space from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Krishan Rana , Ming Xu , Brendan Tidd , Michael Milford , Niko Sünderhauf

This paper investigates the cost function learning in social information networks, wherein the influence of humans' memory on information consumption is explicitly taken into account. We first propose a model for social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yanbing Mao , Jining Li , Naira Hovakimyan , Tarek Abdelzaher , Christian Lebiere

Imitation learning (IL) algorithms have shown promising results for robots to learn skills from expert demonstrations. However, they need multi-task demonstrations to be provided at once for acquiring diverse skills, which is difficult in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Chongkai Gao , Haichuan Gao , Shangqi Guo , Tianren Zhang , Feng Chen

In Imitation Learning (IL), utilizing suboptimal and heterogeneous demonstrations presents a substantial challenge due to the varied nature of real-world data. However, standard IL algorithms consider these datasets as homogeneous, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Mark Beliaev , Ramtin Pedarsani

Robotic manipulation holds the potential to replace humans in the execution of tedious or dangerous tasks. However, control-based approaches are not suitable due to the difficulty of formally describing open-world manipulation in reality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zihao Liu , Xing Liu , Yizhai Zhang , Zhengxiong Liu , Panfeng Huang

Learning from offline task demonstrations is a problem of great interest in robotics. For simple short-horizon manipulation tasks with modest variation in task instances, offline learning from a small set of demonstrations can produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Ajay Mandlekar , Fabio Ramos , Byron Boots , Silvio Savarese , Li Fei-Fei , Animesh Garg , Dieter Fox