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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has shown impressive performance on domains with visual inputs, in particular various games. However, the agent is usually trained on a fixed environment, e.g. a fixed number of levels. A growing mass of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Chang Ye , Ahmed Khalifa , Philip Bontrager , Julian Togelius

Learning robust and generalizable manipulation skills from demonstrations remains a key challenge in robotics, with broad applications in industrial automation and service robotics. While recent imitation learning methods have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yu Ren , Yang Cong , Ronghan Chen , Jiahao Long

Large language models often struggle with zero-shot generalization, and several modular approaches have been proposed to address this challenge. Yet, we hypothesize that a key limitation remains: the entanglement of general knowledge and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mohammadtaha Bagherifard , Sahar Rajabi , Ali Edalat , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh

Recently, vision-language model (VLM) agents have shown promising progress in open-world tasks, where successful task completion often requires multiple turns of visual perception and action execution. However, existing methods still rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Xiongbin Wu , Zhihao Luo , Shanzhe Lei , Lechao Zhang , Xuhong Wang , Jie Yang , Zhonglong Zheng , Yuanjie Zheng , Xin Tan , Wei Liu

The growing demand for surveillance in public spaces presents significant challenges due to the shortage of human resources. Current AI-based video surveillance systems heavily rely on core computer vision models that require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Joao Pereira , Vasco Lopes , David Semedo , Joao Neves

In this work, we investigate Active Vision Reinforcement Learning (ActiveVision-RL), where an embodied agent simultaneously learns action policy for the task while also controlling its visual observations in partially observable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jinghuan Shang , Michael S. Ryoo

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) faces two critical bottlenecks distinct from single-agent RL: credit assignment in cooperative tasks and partial observability of environmental states. We propose LERO, a framework integrating Large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yuan Wei , Xiaohan Shan , Jianmin Li

We propose a general formulation for addressing reinforcement learning (RL) problems in settings with observational data. That is, we consider the problem of learning good policies solely from historical data in which unobserved factors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Chaochao Lu , Bernhard Schölkopf , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Attribute-based Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) has revolutionized the ability of models to recognize new classes not seen during training. However, with the advancement of large-scale models, the expectations have risen. Beyond merely achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Dubing Chen , Chenyi Jiang , Haofeng Zhang

Recent advances in generalist robot manipulation leverage pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and large-scale robot demonstrations to tackle diverse tasks in a zero-shot manner. A key challenge remains: scaling high-quality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alexander Spiridonov , Jan-Nico Zaech , Nikolay Nikolov , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

We propose a novel Generalized Zero-Shot learning (GZSL) method that is agnostic to both unseen images and unseen semantic vectors during training. Prior works in this context propose to map high-dimensional visual features to the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Imitation by observation is an approach for learning from expert demonstrations that lack action information, such as videos. Recent approaches to this problem can be placed into two broad categories: training dynamics models that aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ashley D. Edwards , Charles L. Isbell

In Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL), unseen categories (for which no visual data are available at training time) can be predicted by leveraging their class embeddings (e.g., a list of attributes describing them) together with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Federico Marmoreo , Julio Ivan Davila Carrazco , Vittorio Murino , Jacopo Cavazza

Any-shot image classification allows to recognize novel classes with only a few or even zero samples. For the task of zero-shot learning, visual attributes have been shown to play an important role, while in the few-shot regime, the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Wenjia Xu , Yongqin Xian , Jiuniu Wang , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Deploying deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in real-world inventory management presents challenges, including dynamic environments and uncertain problem parameters, e.g. demand and lead time distributions. These challenges highlight a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tarkan Temizöz , Christina Imdahl , Remco Dijkman , Douniel Lamghari-Idrissi , Willem van Jaarsveld

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has shown promise in discrete action spaces by eliminating value function dependencies through group-based advantage estimation. However, its application to continuous control remains unexplored,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Rajat Khanda , Mohammad Baqar , Sambuddha Chakrabarti , Satyasaran Changdar

Simulation provides a safe and efficient way to generate useful data for learning complex robotic tasks. However, matching simulation and real-world dynamics can be quite challenging, especially for systems that have a large number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Visak Kumar , Sehoon Ha , C. Karen Liu

Robots equipped with rich sensing modalities (e.g., RGB-D cameras) performing long-horizon tasks motivate the need for policies that are highly memory-efficient. State-of-the-art approaches for controlling robots often use memory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Meghan Booker , Anirudha Majumdar

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot action recognition by learning to associate video embeddings with class embeddings. However, a significant challenge arises when relying solely on action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yehna Kim , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Manipulating objects is a hallmark of human intelligence, and an important task in domains such as robotics. In principle, Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a general approach to learn object manipulation. In practice, however, domains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Dan Haramati , Tal Daniel , Aviv Tamar