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Robot control for tactile feedback-based manipulation can be difficult due to the modeling of physical contacts, partial observability of the environment, and noise in perception and control. This work focuses on solving partial…

Given the laborious difficulty of moving heavy bags of physical currency in the cash center of the bank, there is a large demand for training and deploying safe autonomous systems capable of conducting such tasks in a collaborative…

Machine learning (ML)-based planners have recently gained significant attention. They offer advantages over traditional optimization-based planning algorithms. These advantages include fewer manually selected parameters and faster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hui Zhou , Shaoshuai Shi , Hongsheng Li

Imitation learning has shown great potential for enabling robots to acquire complex manipulation behaviors. However, these algorithms suffer from high sample complexity in long-horizon tasks, where compounding errors accumulate over the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tian Gao , Soroush Nasiriany , Huihan Liu , Quantao Yang , Yuke Zhu

Learning from Interactive Demonstrations has revolutionized the way non-expert humans teach robots. It is enough to kinesthetically move the robot around to teach pick-and-place, dressing, or cleaning policies. However, the main challenge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Giovanni Franzese , Ravi Prakash , Cosimo Della Santina , Jens Kober

Accurately modeling agent behaviors is an important task in self-driving. It is also a task with many symmetries, such as equivariance to the order of agents and objects in the scene or equivariance to arbitrary roto-translations of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Scott Xu , Dian Chen , Kelvin Wong , Chris Zhang , Kion Fallah , Raquel Urtasun

The existing Motion Imitation models typically require expert data obtained through MoCap devices, but the vast amount of training data needed is difficult to acquire, necessitating substantial investments of financial resources, manpower,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Liu Qiyuan

The study of object representations in computer vision has primarily focused on developing representations that are useful for image classification, object detection, or semantic segmentation as downstream tasks. In this work we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Tejas Kulkarni , Ankush Gupta , Catalin Ionescu , Sebastian Borgeaud , Malcolm Reynolds , Andrew Zisserman , Volodymyr Mnih

Randomized controlled trials often do not represent the populations where decisions are made, and covariate shift across studies can invalidate standard IPD meta-analysis and transport estimators. We propose a placebo-anchored transport…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-08 Zilong Wang , Ali Abdeen , Turgay Ayer

Sim-to-real transfer is a powerful paradigm for robotic reinforcement learning. The ability to train policies in simulation enables safe exploration and large-scale data collection quickly at low cost. However, prior works in sim-to-real…

Imitation learning (IL) is a simple and powerful way to use high-quality human driving data, which can be collected at scale, to produce human-like behavior. However, policies based on imitation learning alone often fail to sufficiently…

In Imitation Learning (IL), utilizing suboptimal and heterogeneous demonstrations presents a substantial challenge due to the varied nature of real-world data. However, standard IL algorithms consider these datasets as homogeneous, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Mark Beliaev , Ramtin Pedarsani

Efficiently finding safe and feasible trajectories for mobile objects is a critical field in robotics and computer science. In this paper, we propose SIL-RRT*, a novel learning-based motion planning algorithm that extends the RRT* algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xuzhe Dang , Stefan Edelkamp

While deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has attracted a rapidly growing interest in solving the problem of navigation without global maps, DRL typically leads to a mediocre navigation performance in practice due to the gap between the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Shiwei Lian , Feitian Zhang

A major bottleneck in imitation learning is the requirement of a large number of expert demonstrations, which can be expensive or inaccessible. Learning from supplementary demonstrations without strict quality requirements has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jiangdong Fan , Hongcai He , Paul Weng , Hui Xu , Jie Shao

Understanding the internal mechanisms of GPT-style transformers, particularly their capacity to perform in-context learning (ICL), is critical for advancing AI alignment and interpretability. In-context learning allows transformers to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Samarth Bhargav , Alexander Gu

Learning to solve complex manipulation tasks from visual observations is a dominant challenge for real-world robot learning. Although deep reinforcement learning algorithms have recently demonstrated impressive results in this context, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Eugenio Chisari , Tim Welschehold , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated its superiority on many complex sequential decision-making problems. However, heavy dependence on dense rewards and high sample-complexity impedes the wide adoption of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Zhuangdi Zhu , Kaixiang Lin , Bo Dai , Jiayu Zhou

Imitation learning is a way to teach robots skills that are demonstrated by humans. Transfering skills between these different kinematic structures seems to be straightforward in Cartesian space. Because of the correspondence problem,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Alexander Fabisch

Imitation Learning (IL) is an effective framework to learn visuomotor skills from offline demonstration data. However, IL methods often fail to generalize to new scene configurations not covered by training data. On the other hand, humans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Chen Wang , Rui Wang , Ajay Mandlekar , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese , Danfei Xu