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Flow-matching-based policies have recently emerged as a promising approach for learning-based robot manipulation, offering significant acceleration in action sampling compared to diffusion-based policies. However, conventional flow-matching…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xuanran Zhai , Qianyou Zhao , Qiaojun Yu , Ce Hao

Variational continual learning (VCL) is a turn-key learning algorithm that has state-of-the-art performance among the best continual learning models. In our work, we explore an extension of the generalized variational continual learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Fan Yang

Video Frame Interpolation aims to recover realistic missing frames between observed frames, generating a high-frame-rate video from a low-frame-rate video. However, without additional guidance, the large motion between frames makes this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jingxi Chen , Brandon Y. Feng , Haoming Cai , Tianfu Wang , Levi Burner , Dehao Yuan , Cornelia Fermuller , Christopher A. Metzler , Yiannis Aloimonos

Imitation learning (IL) aims to learn a policy from expert demonstrations that minimizes the discrepancy between the learner and expert behaviors. Various imitation learning algorithms have been proposed with different pre-determined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xin Zhang , Yanhua Li , Ziming Zhang , Zhi-Li Zhang

Model-based imitation learning (MBIL) is a popular reinforcement learning method that improves sample efficiency on high-dimension input sources, such as images and videos. Following the convention of MBIL research, existing algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shenghua Wan , Yucen Wang , Minghao Shao , Ruying Chen , De-Chuan Zhan

The goal of imitation learning is to mimic expert behavior from demonstrations, without access to an explicit reward signal. A popular class of approach infers the (unknown) reward function via inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) followed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Carl Qi , Pieter Abbeel , Aditya Grover

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a well-known FL variant that enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data. Existing VFL approaches focus on overlapping samples among different parties, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yaopei Zeng , Lei Liu , Shaoguo Liu , Hongjian Dou , Baoyuan Wu , Li Liu

We propose Generative Predecessor Models for Imitation Learning (GPRIL), a novel imitation learning algorithm that matches the state-action distribution to the distribution observed in expert demonstrations, using generative models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Yannick Schroecker , Mel Vecerik , Jonathan Scholz

Deep learning has shown great potential in image and video compression tasks. However, it brings bit savings at the cost of significant increases in coding complexity, which limits its potential for implementation within practical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Luka Murn , Saverio Blasi , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor , Marta Mrak

We introduce quantile filtered imitation learning (QFIL), a novel policy improvement operator designed for offline reinforcement learning. QFIL performs policy improvement by running imitation learning on a filtered version of the offline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 David Brandfonbrener , William F. Whitney , Rajesh Ranganath , Joan Bruna

Accurate beam prediction is essential for mitigating signalling overhead and latency in integrated sensing and communication-enabled massive multi-input multi-output systems. With the aid of multimodal learning, the prediction accuracy can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Zijian Zheng , Wenqiang Yi , Hyundong Shin , Arumugam Nallanathan

We study Imitation Learning (IL) from Observations alone (ILFO) in large-scale MDPs. While most IL algorithms rely on an expert to directly provide actions to the learner, in this setting the expert only supplies sequences of observations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Wen Sun , Anirudh Vemula , Byron Boots , J. Andrew Bagnell

Consider learning an imitation policy on the basis of demonstrated behavior from multiple environments, with an eye towards deployment in an unseen environment. Since the observable features from each setting may be different, directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-06 Ioana Bica , Daniel Jarrett , Mihaela van der Schaar

Imitation learning (IL) has achieved considerable success in solving complex sequential decision-making problems. However, current IL methods mainly assume that the environment for learning policies is the same as the environment for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Siyuan Li , Xun Wang , Rongchang Zuo , Kewu Sun , Lingfei Cui , Jishiyu Ding , Peng Liu , Zhe Ma

Invariance learning methods aim to learn invariant features in the hope that they generalize under distributional shifts. Although many tasks are naturally characterized by continuous domains, current invariance learning techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yong Lin , Fan Zhou , Lu Tan , Lintao Ma , Jiameng Liu , Yansu He , Yuan Yuan , Yu Liu , James Zhang , Yujiu Yang , Hao Wang

Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide a promising paradigm for scalable robotic manipulation, yet their reliance on success-only behavioral cloning leaves them brittle; lacking corrective training signals, minor execution errors…

This paper introduces a novel perspective about error in machine learning and proposes inverse feature learning (IFL) as a representation learning approach that learns a set of high-level features based on the representation of error for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Behzad Ghazanfari , Fatemeh Afghah

Often times in imitation learning (IL), the environment we collect expert demonstrations in and the environment we want to deploy our learned policy in aren't exactly the same (e.g. demonstrations collected in simulation but deployment in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Silvia Sapora , Gokul Swamy , Chris Lu , Yee Whye Teh , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster

We address the problem of imitation learning with multi-modal demonstrations. Instead of attempting to learn all modes, we argue that in many tasks it is sufficient to imitate any one of them. We show that the state-of-the-art methods such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Liyiming Ke , Sanjiban Choudhury , Matt Barnes , Wen Sun , Gilwoo Lee , Siddhartha Srinivasa

Visual imitation learning (VIL) provides an efficient and intuitive strategy for robotic systems to acquire novel skills. Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in vision and language…