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Meta-learning algorithms are able to learn a new task using previously learned knowledge, but they often require a large number of meta-training tasks which may not be readily available. To address this issue, we propose a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Xiantong Zhen , Fan Wang , Ling Wang , Cees G. M. Snoek

Few-shot class-incremental learning is crucial for developing scalable and adaptive intelligent systems, as it enables models to acquire new classes with minimal annotated data while safeguarding the previously accumulated knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Cuiwei Liu , Siang Xu , Huaijun Qiu , Jing Zhang , Zhi Liu , Liang Zhao

Few-shot meta-learning methods consider the problem of learning new tasks from a small, fixed number of examples, by meta-learning across static data from a set of previous tasks. However, in many real world settings, it is more natural to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Tianhe Yu , Xinyang Geng , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Unsupervised reinforcement learning (RL) aims at pre-training agents that can solve a wide range of downstream tasks in complex environments. Despite recent advancements, existing approaches suffer from several limitations: they may require…

In recent literature, few-shot classification has predominantly been defined by the N-way k-shot meta-learning problem. Models designed for this purpose are usually trained to excel on standard benchmarks following a restricted setup,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Constance Ferragu , Philomene Chagniot , Vincent Coyette

Enabling robots to learn novel visuomotor skills in a data-efficient manner remains an unsolved problem with myriad challenges. A popular paradigm for tackling this problem is through leveraging large unlabeled datasets that have many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Maximilian Du , Suraj Nair , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

Learning real-world robotic manipulation is challenging, particularly when limited demonstrations are available. Existing methods for few-shot manipulation often rely on simulation-augmented data or pre-built modules like grasping and pose…

In this work we propose a novel end-to-end imitation learning approach which combines natural language, vision, and motion information to produce an abstract representation of a task, which in turn is used to synthesize specific motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Simon Stepputtis , Joseph Campbell , Mariano Phielipp , Chitta Baral , Heni Ben Amor

Imitation learning trains control policies by mimicking pre-recorded expert demonstrations. In partially observable settings, imitation policies must rely on observation histories, but many seemingly paradoxical results show better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chuan Wen , Jierui Lin , Jianing Qian , Yang Gao , Dinesh Jayaraman

Motion planning and control are crucial components of robotics applications like automated driving. Here, spatio-temporal hard constraints like system dynamics and safety boundaries (e.g., obstacles) restrict the robot's motions. Direct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Christopher Diehl , Janis Adamek , Martin Krüger , Frank Hoffmann , Torsten Bertram

In task-based few-shot learning paradigms, it is commonly assumed that different tasks are independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.). However, in real-world scenarios, the distribution encountered in few-shot learning can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiajun Chen , Hongpeng Yin , Yifu Yang

Imitation learning is a widely used approach for training agents to replicate expert behavior in complex decision-making tasks. However, existing methods often struggle with compounding errors and limited generalization, due to the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Haldun Balim , Yang Hu , Yuyang Zhang , Na Li

Target-driven visual navigation is a challenging problem that requires a robot to find the goal using only visual inputs. Many researchers have demonstrated promising results using deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) on various robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Qian Luo , Maks Sorokin , Sehoon Ha

Many few-shot learning approaches have been designed under the meta-learning framework, which learns from a variety of learning tasks and generalizes to new tasks. These meta-learning approaches achieve the expected performance in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Yongchun Zhu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Xiangliang Zhang , Zhiyuan Qi , Zhiping Shi , Juan Cao , Qing He

Imitation learning (IL) algorithms typically distill experience into parametric behavior policies to mimic expert demonstrations. However, with limited demonstrations, existing methods often struggle to generate accurate actions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yuying Zhang , Wenyan Yang , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki , Joni Pajarinen

Imitation learning aims to extract high-performance policies from logged demonstrations of expert behavior. It is common to frame imitation learning as a supervised learning problem in which one fits a function approximator to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mengjiao Yang , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel , Ofir Nachum

This work developed a meta-learning approach that adapts the control policy on the fly to different changing conditions for robust locomotion. The proposed method constantly updates the interaction model, samples feasible sequences of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Timothée Anne , Jack Wilkinson , Zhibin Li

While vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced generalist robotic learning, cross-embodiment transfer remains challenging due to kinematic heterogeneity and the high cost of collecting sufficient real-world demonstrations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Heng Zhi , Wentao Tan , Lei Zhu , Fengling Li , Jingjing Li , Guoli Yang , Heng Tao Shen

In few-shot imitation learning (FSIL), using behavioral cloning (BC) to solve unseen tasks with few expert demonstrations becomes a popular research direction. The following capabilities are essential in robotics applications: (1) Behaving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jia-Fong Yeh , Chi-Ming Chung , Hung-Ting Su , Yi-Ting Chen , Winston H. Hsu

Learning with limited data is a key challenge for visual recognition. Many few-shot learning methods address this challenge by learning an instance embedding function from seen classes and apply the function to instances from unseen classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Han-Jia Ye , Hexiang Hu , De-Chuan Zhan , Fei Sha