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Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in various domains, yet it often relies on carefully designed programmatic reward functions to guide agent behavior. Designing such reward functions can be challenging and may not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Qi Wang , Mian Wu , Yuyang Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Wenyao Zhang , Haoxiang You , Yunbo Wang , Xin Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zeng

A prominent approach to visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) is to learn an internal state representation using self-supervised methods, which has the potential benefit of improved sample-efficiency and generalization through additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yanjie Ze , Nicklas Hansen , Yinbo Chen , Mohit Jain , Xiaolong Wang

The integration of pre-trained visual representations (PVRs) has significantly advanced visuomotor policy learning. However, effectively leveraging these models remains a challenge. We identify temporal entanglement as a critical, inherent…

Visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods often require extensive amounts of data. As opposed to model-free RL, model-based RL (MBRL) offers a potential solution with efficient data utilization through planning. Additionally, RL lacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Moritz Schneider , Robert Krug , Narunas Vaskevicius , Luigi Palmieri , Joschka Boedecker

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models built upon pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved significant improvements in robotic manipulation. However, current VLAs still suffer from low sample efficiency and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shangchen Miao , Ningya Feng , Jialong Wu , Ye Lin , Xu He , Dong Li , Mingsheng Long

Imitation learning has proven to be a powerful tool for training complex visuomotor policies. However, current methods often require hundreds to thousands of expert demonstrations to handle high-dimensional visual observations. A key reason…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zichen Jeff Cui , Hengkai Pan , Aadhithya Iyer , Siddhant Haldar , Lerrel Pinto

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been a promising solution to many complex decision-making problems. Nevertheless, the notorious weakness in generalization among environments prevent widespread application of DRL agents in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Tong Sang , Hongyao Tang , Yi Ma , Jianye Hao , Yan Zheng , Zhaopeng Meng , Boyan Li , Zhen Wang

Visual Reinforcement Learning is a popular and powerful framework that takes full advantage of the Deep Learning breakthrough. It is known that variations in input domains (e.g., different panorama colors due to seasonal changes) or task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Antonio Pio Ricciardi , Valentino Maiorca , Luca Moschella , Riccardo Marin , Emanuele Rodolà

Learning from previously collected data via behavioral cloning or offline reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful recipe for scaling generalist agents by avoiding the need for expensive online learning. Despite strong generalization in…

While Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents can successfully learn to handle complex tasks, effectively generalizing acquired skills to unfamiliar settings remains a challenge. One of the reasons behind this is the visual encoders used are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yuhan Zhang , Guoqing Ma , Guangfu Hao , Liangxuan Guo , Yang Chen , Shan Yu

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled training action-selection policies, end-to-end, by learning a function which maps image pixels to action outputs. However, it's application to visuomotor robotic policy training has been limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Mårten Björkman , Patric Jensfelt

Learning informative representations from image-based observations is of fundamental concern in deep Reinforcement Learning (RL). However, data-inefficiency remains a significant barrier to this objective. To overcome this obstacle, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Tao Huang , Jiachen Wang , Xiao Chen

In this paper we introduce a fully end-to-end approach for visual tracking in videos that learns to predict the bounding box locations of a target object at every frame. An important insight is that the tracking problem can be considered as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Da Zhang , Hamid Maei , Xin Wang , Yuan-Fang Wang

Understanding visual inputs for a given task amidst varied changes is a key challenge posed by visual reinforcement learning agents. We propose \textit{Value Explicit Pretraining} (VEP), a method that learns generalizable representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kiran Lekkala , Henghui Bao , Sumedh A. Sontakke , Erdem Biyik , Laurent Itti

Pre-training on Internet data has proven to be a key ingredient for broad generalization in many modern ML systems. What would it take to enable such capabilities in robotic reinforcement learning (RL)? Offline RL methods, which learn from…

Classical pixel-based Visual Servoing (VS) approaches offer high accuracy but suffer from a limited convergence area due to optimization nonlinearity. Modern deep learning-based VS methods overcome traditional vision issues but lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Salar Asayesh , Hossein Sheikhi Darani , Mo chen , Mehran Mehrandezh , Kamal Gupta

Visual reinforcement learning (RL) has made significant progress in recent years, but the choice of visual feature extractor remains a crucial design decision. This paper compares the performance of RL algorithms that train a convolutional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Emlyn Williams , Athanasios Polydoros

Visual representation learning hold great promise for robotics, but is severely hampered by the scarcity and homogeneity of robotics datasets. Recent works address this problem by pre-training visual representations on large-scale but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Sudeep Dasari , Mohan Kumar Srirama , Unnat Jain , Abhinav Gupta

Reinforcement learning provides a general framework for flexible decision making and control, but requires extensive data collection for each new task that an agent needs to learn. In other machine learning fields, such as natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Avi Singh , Huihan Liu , Gaoyue Zhou , Albert Yu , Nicholas Rhinehart , Sergey Levine

Deep visuomotor policy learning, which aims to map raw visual observation to action, achieves promising results in control tasks such as robotic manipulation and autonomous driving. However, it requires a huge number of online interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Qihang Zhang , Zhenghao Peng , Bolei Zhou