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Modeling complex spatiotemporal dynamical systems, such as the reaction-diffusion processes, have largely relied on partial differential equations (PDEs). However, due to insufficient prior knowledge on some under-explored dynamical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chengping Rao , Pu Ren , Qi Wang , Oral Buyukozturk , Hao Sun , Yang Liu

In-context imitation learning enables robots to adapt to new tasks from a small number of demonstrations without additional training. However, existing approaches typically condition only on state-action trajectories and lack explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Toan Nguyen , Weiduo Yuan , Songlin Wei , Hui Li , Daniel Seita , Yue Wang

This article introduces an imitation learning method for learning maximum entropy policies that comply with constraints demonstrated by expert trajectories executing a task. The formulation of the method takes advantage of results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 George Papadopoulos , George A. Vouros

We present a scalable framework for cross-embodiment humanoid robot control by learning a shared latent representation that unifies motion across humans and diverse humanoid platforms, including single-arm, dual-arm, and legged humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yashuai Yan , Dongheui Lee

In-context imitation learning (ICIL) enables robots to learn tasks from prompts consisting of just a handful of demonstrations. By eliminating the need for parameter updates at deployment time, this paradigm supports few-shot adaptation to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Youngju Yoo , Jiaheng Hu , Yifeng Zhu , Bo Liu , Qiang Liu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Peter Stone

Data attribution and valuation are critical for understanding data-model synergy for Large Language Models (LLMs), yet existing gradient-based methods suffer from scalability challenges on LLMs. Inspired by human cognition, where decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yide Ran , Jianwen Xie , Minghui Wang , Wenjin Zheng , Denghui Zhang , Chuan Li , Zhaozhuo Xu

In the field of autonomous robots, reinforcement learning (RL) is an increasingly used method to solve the task of dynamic obstacle avoidance for mobile robots, autonomous ships, and drones. A common practice to train those agents is to use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Fabian Hart , Ostap Okhrin

Imitation learning holds tremendous promise in learning policies efficiently for complex decision making problems. Current state-of-the-art algorithms often use inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), where given a set of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Siddhant Haldar , Vaibhav Mathur , Denis Yarats , Lerrel Pinto

Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have largely been propelled by scaling. In Robotics, scaling is hindered by the lack of access to massive robot datasets. We advocate using realistic physical simulation as a means to…

A key challenge in robot manipulation lies in developing policy models with strong spatial understanding, the ability to reason about 3D geometry, object relations, and robot embodiment. Existing methods often fall short: 3D point cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xuewu Lin , Tianwei Lin , Lichao Huang , Hongyu Xie , Yiwei Jin , Keyu Li , Zhizhong Su

Unseen shifts in environment dynamics, driven by hidden parameters such as friction or gravity, create a challenge for maintaining safety. We address this challenge by proposing Adaptive Shielding, a framework for safe reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Minjae Kwon , Tyler Ingebrand , Ufuk Topcu , Lu Feng

High-dimensional observations and unknown dynamics are major challenges when applying optimal control to many real-world decision making tasks. The Learning Controllable Embedding (LCE) framework addresses these challenges by embedding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Rui Shu , Tung Nguyen , Yinlam Chow , Tuan Pham , Khoat Than , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Stefano Ermon , Hung H. Bui

Visual imitation learning provides a framework for learning complex manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations. However, current interfaces for imitation such as kinesthetic teaching or teleoperation prohibitively restrict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Sarah Young , Dhiraj Gandhi , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta , Pieter Abbeel , Lerrel Pinto

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but further improving them still relies heavily on large-scale human-constructed supervision for post-training. Such supervision is costly to obtain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chaoran Xu , Yingmao Miao , Pengfei Zhang , Hao Dou , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu

Imitation learning can reproduce policies by observing experts, which poses a problem regarding policy privacy. Policies, such as human, or policies on deployed robots, can all be cloned without consent from the owners. How can we protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Albert Zhan , Stas Tiomkin , Pieter Abbeel

The light and soft characteristics of Buoyancy Assisted Lightweight Legged Unit (BALLU) robots have a great potential to provide intrinsically safe interactions in environments involving humans, unlike many heavy and rigid robots. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Nitish Sontakke , Hosik Chae , Sangjoon Lee , Tianle Huang , Dennis W. Hong , Sehoon Ha

Large-scale training have propelled significant progress in various sub-fields of AI such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, building robot learning systems at a comparable scale remains challenging. To develop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhao Mandi , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Vincent Moens , Shuran Song , Aravind Rajeswaran , Vikash Kumar

We propose an imitation learning system for autonomous driving in urban traffic with interactions. We train a Behavioral Cloning~(BC) policy to imitate driving behavior collected from the real urban traffic, and apply the data aggregation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Zhao-Heng Yin , Chenran Li , Liting Sun , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

Imitation Learning has provided a promising approach to learning complex robot behaviors from expert demonstrations. However, learned policies can make errors that lead to safety violations, which limits their deployment in safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Le Qiu , Yusuf Umut Ciftci , Somil Bansal

Developing robust walking controllers for bipedal robots is a challenging endeavor. Traditional model-based locomotion controllers require simplifying assumptions and careful modelling; any small errors can result in unstable control. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhongyu Li , Xuxin Cheng , Xue Bin Peng , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Glen Berseth , Koushil Sreenath