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Robot task planning from high-level instructions is an important step towards deploying fully autonomous robot systems in the service sector. Three key aspects of robot task planning present challenges yet to be resolved simultaneously,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Weixiao Zhan , Qiyue Dong , Eduardo Sebastián , Nikolay Atanasov

This paper presents LEMURS, an algorithm for learning scalable multi-robot control policies from cooperative task demonstrations. We propose a port-Hamiltonian description of the multi-robot system to exploit universal physical constraints…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Eduardo Sebastian , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagues

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained popularity in task planning for long-horizon manipulation tasks. To enhance the validity of LLM-generated plans, visual demonstrations and online videos have been widely employed to guide the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kejia Chen , Zheng Shen , Yue Zhang , Lingyun Chen , Fan Wu , Zhenshan Bing , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

The convergence of embodied agents and large language models (LLMs) has brought significant advancements to embodied instruction following. Particularly, the strong reasoning capabilities of LLMs make it possible for robots to perform…

In recent years, pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable efficiency in achieving an inference-time few-shot learning capability known as in-context learning. However, existing literature has highlighted the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Xinyi Wang , Wanrong Zhu , Michael Saxon , Mark Steyvers , William Yang Wang

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across numerous tasks by using a diverse array of adaptation strategies. However, optimally selecting a model and adaptation strategy under resource constraints is challenging and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jiayu Wang , Aws Albarghouthi , Frederic Sala

The performance of learned robot visuomotor policies is heavily dependent on the size and quality of the training dataset. Although large-scale robot and human datasets are increasingly available, embodiment gaps and mismatched action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiqi Wang , Mrinal Verghese , Jeff Schneider

Visual imitation learning enables robotic agents to acquire skills by observing expert demonstration videos. In the one-shot setting, the agent generates a policy after observing a single expert demonstration without additional fine-tuning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Yann LeCun , Farshad Khorrami

We introduce Language Feedback Models (LFMs) that identify desirable behaviour - actions that help achieve tasks specified in the instruction - for imitation learning in instruction following. To train LFMs, we obtain feedback from Large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Victor Zhong , Dipendra Misra , Xingdi Yuan , Marc-Alexandre Côté

Most research on lifelong learning applies to images or games, but not language. We present LAMOL, a simple yet effective method for lifelong language learning (LLL) based on language modeling. LAMOL replays pseudo-samples of previous tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Fan-Keng Sun , Cheng-Hao Ho , Hung-Yi Lee

Zero-shot imitation learning algorithms hold the promise of reproducing unseen behavior from as little as a single demonstration at test time. Existing practical approaches view the expert demonstration as a sequence of goals, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Thomas Rupf , Marco Bagatella , Nico Gürtler , Jonas Frey , Georg Martius

World models have demonstrated impressive performance on robotic learning tasks. Many such tasks inherently demand multimodal reasoning; for example, filling a bottle with water will lead to visual information alone being ambiguous or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Fan Zhang , Michael Gienger

Long-horizon contact-rich tasks are challenging to learn with reinforcement learning, due to ineffective exploration of high-dimensional state spaces with sparse rewards. The learning process often gets stuck in local optimum and demands…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Yucheng Xu , Zhaole Sun , Elle Miller , Daniel Layeghi , Michael Mistry

Language-conditioned robot behavior plays a vital role in executing complex tasks by associating human commands or instructions with perception and actions. The ability to compose long-horizon tasks based on unconstrained language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhaoxun Ju , Chao Yang , Hongbo Wang , Yu Qiao , Fuchun Sun

Recent video generation models demonstrate remarkable ability to capture complex physical interactions and scene evolution over time. To leverage their spatiotemporal priors, robotics works have adapted video models for policy learning but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Moo Jin Kim , Yihuai Gao , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yen-Chen Lin , Yunhao Ge , Grace Lam , Percy Liang , Shuran Song , Ming-Yu Liu , Chelsea Finn , Jinwei Gu

Learning robot policies using imitation learning requires collecting large amounts of costly action-labeled expert demonstrations, which fundamentally limits the scale of training data. A promising approach to address this bottleneck is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Liang , Pavel Czempin , Matthew Hong , Yutai Zhou , Erdem Biyik , Stephen Tu

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

We describe a latent approach that learns to detect actions in long sequences given training videos with only whole-video class labels. Our approach makes use of two innovations to attention-modeling in weakly-supervised learning. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Phuc Xuan Nguyen , Deva Ramanan , Charless C. Fowlkes

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

The rapid growth of scientific machine learning (SciML) has accelerated discovery across diverse domains, yet designing effective SciML models remains a challenging task. In practice, building such models often requires substantial prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Shouwei Gao , Xu Zheng , Dongsheng Luo , Sheng Di , Wenqian Dong