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The success of deep learning depends heavily on the availability of large datasets, but in robotic manipulation there are many learning problems for which such datasets do not exist. Collecting these datasets is time-consuming and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Peter Mitrano , Dmitry Berenson

In offline reinforcement learning (RL), an RL agent learns to solve a task using only a fixed dataset of previously collected data. While offline RL has been successful in learning real-world robot control policies, it typically requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Nicholas E. Corrado , Yuxiao Qu , John U. Balis , Adam Labiosa , Josiah P. Hanna

In imitation learning from observation IfO, a learning agent seeks to imitate a demonstrating agent using only observations of the demonstrated behavior without access to the control signals generated by the demonstrator. Recent methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

Imitation learning aims to mimic the behavior of experts without explicit reward signals. Passive imitation learning methods which use static expert datasets typically suffer from compounding error, low sample efficiency, and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Xu-Hui Liu , Feng Xu , Xinyu Zhang , Tianyuan Liu , Shengyi Jiang , Ruifeng Chen , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm in robot manipulation, yet its generalization capability remains constrained by object-specific dependencies in limited expert demonstrations. To address this challenge, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhuochen Miao , Jun Lv , Hongjie Fang , Yang Jin , Cewu Lu

Generalist robot policies are trained on demonstrations collected across a wide variety of robots, scenes, and viewpoints. Yet it remains unclear how to best organize and scale such heterogeneous data so that it genuinely improves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jonathan Yang , Chelsea Finn , Dorsa Sadigh

Imitation learning is a promising approach for learning robot policies with user-provided data. The way demonstrations are provided, i.e., demonstration modality, influences the quality of the data. While existing research shows that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haozhuo Li , Yuchen Cui , Dorsa Sadigh

In imitation learning, robots are supposed to learn from demonstrations of the desired behavior. Most of the work in imitation learning for swarm robotics provides the demonstrations as rollouts of an existing policy. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mattes Kraus , Jonas Kuckling

Imitation learning is a promising paradigm for training robot control policies, but these policies can suffer from distribution shift, where the conditions at evaluation time differ from those in the training data. A popular approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ryan Hoque , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Ken Goldberg , Dieter Fox

While learning from demonstrations is powerful for acquiring visuomotor policies, high-performance imitation without large demonstration datasets remains challenging for tasks requiring precise, long-horizon manipulation. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Lars Ankile , Anthony Simeonov , Idan Shenfeld , Pulkit Agrawal

Because imitation learning relies on human demonstrations in hard-to-simulate settings, the inclusion of force control in this method has resulted in a shortage of training data, even with a simple change in speed. Although the field of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Nozomu Masuya , Hiroshi Sato , Koki Yamane , Takuya Kusume , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Data scaling has revolutionized fields like natural language processing and computer vision, providing models with remarkable generalization capabilities. In this paper, we investigate whether similar data scaling laws exist in robotics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yingdong Hu , Fanqi Lin , Pingyue Sheng , Chuan Wen , Jiacheng You , Yang Gao

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) -- multi-agent systems that combine large language models with external tools and autonomous planning -- are rapidly transitioning from research laboratories into high-stakes domains. Our earlier "Basic"…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Manish Shukla

Reinforcement learning often requires extensive training data. Simulation-to-real transfer offers a promising approach to address this challenge in robotics. While differentiable simulators offer improved sample efficiency through exact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Severin Bochem , Eduardo Gonzalez-Sanchez , Yves Bicker , Gabriele Fadini

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is an intuitive framework allowing non-expert users to easily (re-)program robots. However, the quality and quantity of demonstrations have a great influence on the generalization performances of LfD…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Hakan Girgin , Emmanuel Pignat , Noémie Jaquier , Sylvain Calinon

Visuomotor policies have shown great promise in robotic manipulation but often require substantial amounts of human-collected data for effective performance. A key reason underlying the data demands is their limited spatial generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhengrong Xue , Shuying Deng , Zhenyang Chen , Yixuan Wang , Zhecheng Yuan , Huazhe Xu

We introduce AdaAct, a novel optimization algorithm that adjusts learning rates according to activation variance. Our method enhances the stability of neuron outputs by incorporating neuron-wise adaptivity during the training process, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Hyunseok Seung , Jaewoo Lee , Hyunsuk Ko

Data augmentation plays a pivotal role in enhancing and diversifying training data. Nonetheless, consistently improving model performance in varied learning scenarios, especially those with inherent data biases, remains challenging. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiaoling Zhou , Wei Ye , Zhemg Lee , Rui Xie , Shikun Zhang

The ability to autonomously explore and resolve tasks with minimal human guidance is crucial for the self-development of embodied intelligence. Although reinforcement learning methods can largely ease human effort, it's challenging to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Changxin Huang , Yanbin Chang , Junfan Lin , Junyang Liang , Runhao Zeng , Jianqiang Li

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