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We present a data-efficient framework for solving sequential decision-making problems which exploits the combination of reinforcement learning (RL) and latent variable generative models. The framework, called GenRL, trains deep policies by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ali Ghadirzadeh , Petra Poklukar , Karol Arndt , Chelsea Finn , Ville Kyrki , Danica Kragic , Mårten Björkman

We study the problem of modeling spatiotemporal trajectories over long time horizons using expert demonstrations. For instance, in sports, agents often choose action sequences with long-term goals in mind, such as achieving a certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Stephan Zheng , Yisong Yue , Patrick Lucey

Reinforcement learning holds the promise of enabling autonomous robots to learn large repertoires of behavioral skills with minimal human intervention. However, robotic applications of reinforcement learning often compromise the autonomy of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Shixiang Gu , Ethan Holly , Timothy Lillicrap , Sergey Levine

Autonomous learning of object manipulation skills can enable robots to acquire rich behavioral repertoires that scale to the variety of objects found in the real world. However, current motion skill learning methods typically restrict the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Sergey Levine , Nolan Wagener , Pieter Abbeel

Language provides a way to break down complex concepts into digestible pieces. Recent works in robot imitation learning use language-conditioned policies that predict actions given visual observations and the high-level task specified in…

Hierarchies of temporally decoupled policies present a promising approach for enabling structured exploration in complex long-term planning problems. To fully achieve this approach an end-to-end training paradigm is needed. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Abdul Rahman Kreidieh , Glen Berseth , Brandon Trabucco , Samyak Parajuli , Sergey Levine , Alexandre M. Bayen

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) enables robots to learn complex behaviors through interaction with the environment. However, due to the unrestricted nature of the learning algorithms, the resulting solutions are often brittle and appear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Oliver Hausdörfer , Alexander von Rohr , Éric Lefort , Angela Schoellig

In this work, we focus on addressing the long-horizon manipulation tasks in densely cluttered scenes. Such tasks require policies to effectively manage severe occlusions among objects and continually produce actions based on visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Hecheng Wang , Lizhe Qi , Bin Fang , Yunquan Sun

With the rise of deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods, many complex robotic manipulation tasks are being solved. However, harnessing the full power of deep learning requires large datasets. Online-RL does not suit itself readily into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Sudhir Pratap Yadav , Rajendra Nagar , Suril V. Shah

When limited by their own morphologies, humans and some species of animals have the remarkable ability to use objects from the environment toward accomplishing otherwise impossible tasks. Robots might similarly unlock a range of additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Ziang Liu , Stephen Tian , Michelle Guo , C. Karen Liu , Jiajun Wu

Humans decompose novel complex tasks into simpler ones to exploit previously learned skills. Analogously, hierarchical reinforcement learning seeks to leverage lower-level policies for simple tasks to solve complex ones. However, because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Ju-Seung Byun , Andrew Perrault

Skills learned through (deep) reinforcement learning often generalizes poorly across domains and re-training is necessary when presented with a new task. We present a framework that combines techniques in \textit{formal methods} with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Xiao Li , Yao Ma , Calin Belta

Guided Policy Search enables robots to learn control policies for complex manipulation tasks efficiently. Therein, the control policies are represented as high-dimensional neural networks which derive robot actions based on states. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Philipp Ennen , Pia Bresenitz , Rene Vossen , Frank Hees

Multi-task reinforcement learning endeavors to accomplish a set of different tasks with a single policy. To enhance data efficiency by sharing parameters across multiple tasks, a common practice segments the network into distinct modules…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jinmin He , Kai Li , Yifan Zang , Haobo Fu , Qiang Fu , Junliang Xing , Jian Cheng

Deep imitation learning requires many expert demonstrations, which can be hard to obtain, especially when many tasks are involved. However, different tasks often share similarities, so learning them jointly can greatly benefit them and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Dafni Antotsiou , Carlo Ciliberto , Tae-Kyun Kim

Although deep reinforcement learning has recently been very successful at learning complex behaviors, it requires a tremendous amount of data to learn a task. One of the fundamental reasons causing this limitation lies in the nature of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zhenshan Bing , Alexander Koch , Xiangtong Yao , Kai Huang , Alois Knoll

Machine learning, artificial intelligence and especially deep learning based approaches are often used to simplify or eliminate the burden of programming industrial robots. Using these approaches robots inherently learn a skill instead of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Sanaz Behbahani , Siddharth Chhatpar , Said Zahrai , Vishakh Duggal , Mohak Sukhwani

In this study, we propose a multitask reinforcement learning algorithm for foundational policy acquisition to generate novel motor skills. \textcolor{\hcolor}{Learning the rich representation of the multitask policy is a challenge in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Satoshi Yamamori , Jun Morimoto

We present a unified framework for multi-task locomotion and manipulation policy learning grounded in a contact-explicit representation. Instead of designing different policies for different tasks, our approach unifies the definition of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shafeef Omar , Majid Khadiv

Imitation learning enables intelligent systems to acquire complex behaviors with minimal supervision. However, existing methods often focus on short-horizon skills, require large datasets, and struggle to solve long-horizon tasks or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Pierrick Lorang , Hong Lu , Johannes Huemer , Patrik Zips , Matthias Scheutz