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Recently, data augmentation (DA) has emerged as a method for leveraging domain knowledge to inexpensively generate additional data in reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, often yielding substantial improvements in data efficiency. While prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Nicholas E. Corrado , Josiah P. Hanna

Generalization has been a long-standing challenge for reinforcement learning (RL). Visual RL, in particular, can be easily distracted by irrelevant factors in high-dimensional observation space. In this work, we consider robust policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Linxi Fan , Guanzhi Wang , De-An Huang , Zhiding Yu , Li Fei-Fei , Yuke Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Generalization is a pivotal challenge for agents following natural language instructions. To approach this goal, we leverage a vision-language model (VLM) for visual grounding and transfer its vision-language knowledge into reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Haobin Jiang , Zongqing Lu

Offline meta-reinforcement learning (OMRL) proficiently allows an agent to tackle novel tasks while solely relying on a static dataset. For precise and efficient task identification, existing OMRL research suggests learning separate task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Chengxing Jia , Fuxiang Zhang , Yi-Chen Li , Chen-Xiao Gao , Xu-Hui Liu , Lei Yuan , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

This work presents reinforcement learning (RL)-driven data augmentation to improve the generalization of vision-action (VA) models for dexterous grasping. While real-to-sim-to-real frameworks, where a few real demonstrations seed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Atsushi Kanehira , Naoki Wake , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Overfitting in RL has become one of the main obstacles to applications in reinforcement learning(RL). Existing methods do not provide explicit semantic constrain for the feature extractor, hindering the agent from learning a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Haihan Gao , Rui Zhang , Qi Yi , Hantao Yao , Haochen Li , Jiaming Guo , Shaohui Peng , Yunkai Gao , QiCheng Wang , Xing Hu , Yuanbo Wen , Zihao Zhang , Zidong Du , Ling Li , Qi Guo , Yunji Chen

Post-training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models via reinforcement learning (RL) in learned world models has emerged as an effective strategy to adapt to new tasks without costly real-world interactions. However, while using imagined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yucen Wang , Rui Yu , Fengming Zhang , Junjie Lu , Xinyao Qin , Tianxiang Zhang , Kaixin Wang , Li Zhao

We propose a simple data augmentation technique that can be applied to standard model-free reinforcement learning algorithms, enabling robust learning directly from pixels without the need for auxiliary losses or pre-training. The approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ilya Kostrikov , Denis Yarats , Rob Fergus

Deep learning has revolutionized the performance of classification, but meanwhile demands sufficient labeled data for training. Given insufficient data, while many techniques have been developed to help combat overfitting, the challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Xiaofeng Zhang , Zhangyang Wang , Dong Liu , Qing Ling

The performance of image-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents can vary depending on the position of the camera used to capture the images. Training on multiple cameras simultaneously, including a first-person egocentric camera, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mhairi Dunion , Stefano V. Albrecht

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents often fail to generalize to unseen environments (yet semantically similar to trained agents), particularly when they are trained on high-dimensional state spaces, such as images. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Kimin Lee , Kibok Lee , Jinwoo Shin , Honglak Lee

Generalization remains a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. To tackle this challenge, recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models build policies on top of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), seeking to transfer their open-world…

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents can learn to solve complex tasks from visual inputs, but generalizing these learned skills to new environments remains a major challenge in RL application, especially robotics. While data augmentation can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Tien Pham , Xinyun Chi , Khang Nguyen , Manfred Huber , Angelo Cangelosi

The strong performance of large vision-language models (VLMs) trained with reinforcement learning (RL) has motivated similar approaches for fine-tuning vision-language-action (VLA) models in robotics. Many recent works fine-tune VLAs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Andrew Choi , Xinjie Wang , Zhizhong Su , Wei Xu

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization across tasks and embodiments; however, their reliance on large-scale human demonstrations limits their scalability owing to the cost and effort of manual data collection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rushuai Yang , Hangxing Wei , Ran Zhang , Zhiyuan Feng , Xiaoyu Chen , Tong Li , Chuheng Zhang , Li Zhao , Jiang Bian , Xiu Su , Yi Chen

Deep Learning has seen an unprecedented increase in vision applications since the publication of large-scale object recognition datasets and introduction of scalable compute hardware. State-of-the-art methods for most vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Nikita Jaipuria , Xianling Zhang , Rohan Bhasin , Mayar Arafa , Punarjay Chakravarty , Shubham Shrivastava , Sagar Manglani , Vidya N. Murali

This study introduces a novel data augmentation technique, ADLDA, aimed at mitigating the negative impact of data distribution shifts caused by the data augmentation process in computer vision task. ADLDA partitions augmented data into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Haonan Wang

Methods for navigation based on large-scale learning typically treat each episode as a new problem, where the agent is spawned with a clean memory in an unknown environment. While these generalization capabilities to an unknown environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Gianluca Monaci , Rafael S. Rezende , Romain Deffayet , Gabriela Csurka , Guillaume Bono , Hervé Déjean , Stéphane Clinchant , Christian Wolf

Data augmentation (DA) techniques aim to increase data variability, and thus train deep networks with better generalisation. The pioneering AutoAugment automated the search for optimal DA policies with reinforcement learning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Yonggang Li , Guosheng Hu , Yongtao Wang , Timothy Hospedales , Neil M. Robertson , Yongxin Yang