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Visual domain randomization in simulated environments is a widely used method to transfer policies trained in simulation to real robots. However, domain randomization and augmentation hamper the training of a policy. As reinforcement…

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Offline zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn agents that optimize unseen reward functions without additional environment interaction. The standard approach to this problem trains task-conditioned policies by sampling task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nazim Bendib , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert , Olivier Sigaud

Transfer in reinforcement learning refers to the notion that generalization should occur not only within a task but also across tasks. We propose a transfer framework for the scenario where the reward function changes between tasks but the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-13 André Barreto , Will Dabney , Rémi Munos , Jonathan J. Hunt , Tom Schaul , Hado van Hasselt , David Silver

Existing zero-shot learning (ZSL) models typically learn a projection function from a feature space to a semantic embedding space (e.g.~attribute space). However, such a projection function is only concerned with predicting the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Elyor Kodirov , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

We present an end-to-end Reinforcement Learning(RL) framework for robotic manipulation tasks, using a robust and efficient keypoints representation. The proposed method learns keypoints from camera images as the state representation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Tianying Wang , En Yen Puang , Marcus Lee , Yan Wu , Wei Jing

Having explored an environment, intelligent agents should be able to transfer their knowledge to most downstream tasks within that environment without additional interactions. Referred to as "zero-shot learning", this ability remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Siddhant Agarwal , Harshit Sikchi , Peter Stone , Amy Zhang

Current reinforcement learning (RL) methods can successfully learn single tasks but often generalize poorly to modest perturbations in task domain or training procedure. In this work, we present a decoupled learning strategy for RL that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Amy Zhang , Harsh Satija , Joelle Pineau

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is typically achieved by resorting to a class semantic embedding space to transfer the knowledge from the seen classes to unseen ones. Capturing the common semantic characteristics between the visual modality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei , Zhang

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning often rely on representation learning and knowledge transfer. In recent years, unsupervised and self-supervised techniques for learning speech representation were developed to foster automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pierre Beckmann , Mikolaj Kegler , Milos Cernak

Transfer in Reinforcement Learning aims to improve learning performance on target tasks using knowledge from experienced source tasks. Successor Representations (SR) and their extension Successor Features (SF) are prominent transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Chris Reinke , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

We introduce Reward-Zero, a general-purpose implicit reward mechanism that transforms natural-language task descriptions into dense, semantically grounded progress signals for reinforcement learning (RL). Reward-Zero serves as a simple yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Heng Zhang , Haddy Alchaer , Arash Ajoudani , Yu She

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to learn models that can recognize unseen image semantics based on the training of data with seen semantics. Recent studies either leverage the global image features or mine discriminative local patch features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 De Cheng , Gerong Wang , Bo Wang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Dingwen Zhang

Reinforcement learning (RL) enables robots to operate in uncertain environments, but standard approaches often struggle with poor generalization to unseen tasks. Context-adaptive meta reinforcement learning addresses these limitations by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Amir M. Soufi Enayati , Homayoun Honari , Homayoun Najjaran

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

As a step towards developing zero-shot task generalization capabilities in reinforcement learning (RL), we introduce a new RL problem where the agent should learn to execute sequences of instructions after learning useful skills that solve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Junhyuk Oh , Satinder Singh , Honglak Lee , Pushmeet Kohli

Standard regression techniques, while powerful, are often constrained by predefined, differentiable loss functions such as mean squared error. These functions may not fully capture the desired behavior of a system, especially when dealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yongchao Huang

Video encoders optimize compression for human perception by minimizing reconstruction error under bit-rate constraints. In many modern applications such as autonomous driving, an overwhelming majority of videos serve as input for AI systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Uri Gadot , Assaf Shocher , Shie Mannor , Gal Chechik , Assaf Hallak

Sample efficiency and risk-awareness are central to the development of practical reinforcement learning (RL) for complex decision-making. The former can be addressed by transfer learning and the latter by optimizing some utility function of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Michael Gimelfarb , André Barreto , Scott Sanner , Chi-Guhn Lee

Pre-trained multilingual language encoders, such as multilingual BERT and XLM-R, show great potential for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer. However, these multilingual encoders do not precisely align words and phrases across languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kuan-Hao Huang , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) presents the challenge of identifying categories not seen during training. This task is crucial in domains where it is costly, prohibited, or simply not feasible to collect training data. ZSL depends on a mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 William Heyden , Habib Ullah , M. Salman Siddiqui , Fadi Al Machot