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As autonomous driving systems being deployed to millions of vehicles, there is a pressing need of improving the system's scalability, safety and reducing the engineering cost. A realistic, scalable, and practical simulator of the driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yihan Hu , Siqi Chai , Zhening Yang , Jingyu Qian , Kun Li , Wenxin Shao , Haichao Zhang , Wei Xu , Qiang Liu

We formulate a method to co-optimize power system capacity planning decisions and policy investments that shape electricity load patterns. To this end, we leverage a gradient-based solution technique that enables the efficient solution of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Robert Mieth

Learned dynamics models combined with both planning and policy learning algorithms have shown promise in enabling artificial agents to learn to perform many diverse tasks with limited supervision. However, one of the fundamental challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Suraj Nair , Silvio Savarese , Chelsea Finn

Imitation learning is promising for robotic manipulation, but \emph{precise insertion} in the real world remains difficult due to contact-rich dynamics, tight clearances, and limited demonstrations. Many existing visuomotor policies depend…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Han Sun , Sheng Liu , Yizhao Wang , Zhenning Zhou , Shuai Wang , Haibo Yang , Jingyuan Sun , Qixin Cao

This paper presents a cloud-based learning model predictive controller that integrates three interacting components: a set of agents, which must learn to perform a finite set of tasks with the minimum possible local cost; a coordinator,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Paula Chanfreut , José María Maestre , Eduardo F. Camacho , Francesco Borrelli

In this work, we propose a novel method for generating 3D point clouds that leverage properties of hyper networks. Contrary to the existing methods that learn only the representation of a 3D object, our approach simultaneously finds a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Przemysław Spurek , Sebastian Winczowski , Jacek Tabor , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński

We consider deterministic finite-horizon optimal control problems with a fixed initial state. We introduce an on-line policy iteration method, which, starting from a given policy, however obtained, generates a sequence of cost-improving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yuchao Li , Fei Chen , Yingke Li , Chuchu Fan , Dimitri Bertsekas

Collecting large amounts of real-world interaction data to train general robotic policies is often prohibitively expensive, thus motivating the use of simulation data. However, existing methods for data generation have generally focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Lirui Wang , Yiyang Ling , Zhecheng Yuan , Mohit Shridhar , Chen Bao , Yuzhe Qin , Bailin Wang , Huazhe Xu , Xiaolong Wang

Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) excels in various domains but lacks generalizability and interpretability. On the other hand, programmatic RL methods (Trivedi et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2023) reformulate RL tasks as synthesizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Yu-An Lin , Chen-Tao Lee , Guan-Ting Liu , Pu-Jen Cheng , Shao-Hua Sun

Generating collision-free motion in dynamic, partially observable environments is a fundamental challenge for robotic manipulators. Classical motion planners can compute globally optimal trajectories but require full environment knowledge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiahui Yang , Jason Jingzhou Liu , Yulong Li , Youssef Khaky , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak

Point clouds are rich geometric data structures, where their three dimensional structure offers an excellent domain for understanding the representation learning and generative modeling in 3D space. In this work, we aim to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lingjie Kong , Pankaj Rajak , Siamak Shakeri

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been shown effective to generate combinatorial objects with desired properties. We here propose a new GFlowNet training framework, with policy-dependent rewards, that bridges keeping flow balance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Puhua Niu , Shili Wu , Mingzhou Fan , Xiaoning Qian

Imitation learning has driven the development of generalist policies capable of autonomously solving multiple tasks. However, when a pretrained policy makes errors during deployment, there are limited mechanisms for users to correct its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yanwei Wang

Efficient planning in high-dimensional spaces, such as those involving deformable objects, requires computationally tractable yet sufficiently expressive dynamics models. This paper introduces a method that automatically generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Alex LaGrassa , Zixuan Huang , Dmitry Berenson , Oliver Kroemer

In order to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, intelligent robots need to carry out high-level, abstract planning and reasoning in conjunction with motion planning. However, abstract models are typically lossy and plans or policies computed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Naman Shah , Deepak Kala Vasudevan , Kislay Kumar , Pranav Kamojjhala , Siddharth Srivastava

Diffusion policies have shown to be very efficient at learning complex, multi-modal behaviors for robotic manipulation. However, errors in generated action sequences can compound over time which can potentially lead to failure. Some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zixing Wang , Devesh K. Jha , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Diego Romeres

We consider a pursuit-evasion game [11] played between two agents, 'Blue' (the pursuer) and 'Red' (the evader), over $T$ time steps. Red aims to attack Blue's territory. Blue's objective is to intercept Red by time $T$ and thereby limit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Shiva Navabi , Osonde A. Osoba

Agents are a special kind of AI-based software in that they interact in complex environments and have increased potential for emergent behaviour. Explaining such emergent behaviour is key to deploying trustworthy AI, but the increasing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Victor Gimenez-Abalos , Sergio Alvarez-Napagao , Adrian Tormos , Ulises Cortés , Javier Vázquez-Salceda

Manipulation policies deployed in uncontrolled real-world scenarios are faced with great in-category geometric diversity of everyday objects. In order to function robustly under such variations, policies need to work in a category-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yirui Wang , Xiuwei Xu , Angyuan Ma , Bingyao Yu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Point cloud synthesis, i.e. the generation of novel point clouds from an input distribution, remains a challenging task, for which numerous complex machine learning models have been devised. We develop a novel method that encodes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ernst Röell , Bastian Rieck