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Generalist robot policies, trained on large and diverse datasets, have demonstrated the ability to generalize across a wide spectrum of behaviors, enabling a single policy to act in varied real-world environments. However, they still fall…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yajat Yadav , Zhiyuan Zhou , Andrew Wagenmaker , Karl Pertsch , Sergey Levine

Learning a policy with great generalization to unseen environments remains challenging but critical in visual reinforcement learning. Despite the success of augmentation combination in the supervised learning generalization, naively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Siao Liu , Zhaoyu Chen , Yang Liu , Yuzheng Wang , Dingkang Yang , Zhile Zhao , Ziqing Zhou , Xie Yi , Wei Li , Wenqiang Zhang , Zhongxue Gan

Automated data augmentation has shown superior performance in image recognition. Existing works search for dataset-level augmentation policies without considering individual sample variations, which are likely to be sub-optimal. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Fengwei Zhou , Jiawei Li , Chuanlong Xie , Fei Chen , Lanqing Hong , Rui Sun , Zhenguo Li

Automating the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in diverse scenarios has gained much attention in recent years. However, teaching UAVs to fly in challenging environments remains an unsolved problem, mainly due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Matthias Müller , Vincent Casser , Neil Smith , Dominik L. Michels , Bernard Ghanem

We tackle the problem of learning robotic sensorimotor control policies that can generalize to visually diverse and unseen environments. Achieving broad generalization typically requires large datasets, which are difficult to obtain for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Avi Singh , Larry Yang , Sergey Levine

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have sparked great research interests owing to their exceptional content-reasoning and instruction-following capabilities. To effectively instruct an MLLM, in addition to conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jiacheng Zhang , Yang Jiao , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Continual learning (CL) remains a significant challenge for deep neural networks, as it is prone to forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature, such as experience rehearsal,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Prashant Bhat , Bharath Renjith , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Data augmentation is a key element for training accurate models by reducing overfitting and improving generalization. For image classification, the most popular data augmentation techniques range from simple photometric and geometrical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Avery Ma , Nikita Dvornik , Ran Zhang , Leila Pishdad , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Afsaneh Fazly

The generalization gap in reinforcement learning (RL) has been a significant obstacle that prevents the RL agent from learning general skills and adapting to varying environments. Increasing the generalization capacity of the RL systems can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Hanping Zhang , Yuhong Guo

Reasoning from diverse observations is a fundamental capability for generalist robot policies to operate in a wide range of environments. Despite recent advancements, many large-scale robotic policies still remain sensitive to key sources…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jonathan Yang , Chelsea Finn , Dorsa Sadigh

Visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents trained on limited views face significant challenges in generalizing their learned abilities to unseen views. This inherent difficulty is known as the problem of $\textit{view generalization}$. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Sizhe Yang , Yanjie Ze , Huazhe Xu

Behavior cloning has shown promise for robot manipulation, but real-world demonstrations are costly to acquire at scale. While simulated data offers a scalable alternative, particularly with advances in automated demonstration generation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shuo Cheng , Liqian Ma , Zhenyang Chen , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Danfei Xu

Training vision-based manipulation policies that are robust across diverse visual environments remains an important and unresolved challenge in robot learning. Current approaches often sidestep the problem by relying on invariant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sumeet Batra , Gaurav Sukhatme

The robustness of visual navigation policies trained through imitation often hinges on the augmentation of the training image-action pairs. Traditionally, this has been done by collecting data from multiple cameras, by using standard data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Dhruv Sharma , Alihusein Kuwajerwala , Florian Shkurti

Learning-based methods have improved locomotion skills of quadruped robots through deep reinforcement learning. However, the sim-to-real gap and low sample efficiency still limit the skill transfer. To address this issue, we propose an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Haojie Shi , Tingguang Li , Qingxu Zhu , Jiapeng Sheng , Lei Han , Max Q. -H. Meng

Masked image modeling is a promising self-supervised learning method for visual data. It is typically built upon image patches with random masks, which largely ignores the variation of information density between them. The question is: Is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Haijian Chen , Wendong Zhang , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

Prevailing 2D-centric visuomotor policies exhibit a pronounced deficiency in novel view generalization, as their reliance on static observations hinders consistent action mapping across unseen views. In response, we introduce GenSplat, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Sen Wang , Huaiyi Dong , Jingyi Tian , Jiayi Li , Zhuo Yang , Tongtong Cao , Anlin Chen , Shuang Wu , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou

Q-learning algorithms are appealing for real-world applications due to their data-efficiency, but they are very prone to overfitting and training instabilities when trained from visual observations. Prior work, namely SVEA, finds that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Abdulaziz Almuzairee , Nicklas Hansen , Henrik I. Christensen

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents trained in a limited set of environments tend to suffer overfitting and fail to generalize to unseen testing environments. To improve their generalizability, data augmentation approaches (e.g. cutout…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Kaixin Wang , Bingyi Kang , Jie Shao , Jiashi Feng

We study the problem of learning a generalizable action policy for an intelligent agent to actively approach an object of interest in an indoor environment solely from its visual inputs. While scene-driven or recognition-driven visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Xin Ye , Zhe Lin , Joon-Young Lee , Jianming Zhang , Shibin Zheng , Yezhou Yang