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This work develops new algorithms with rigorous efficiency guarantees for infinite horizon imitation learning (IL) with linear function approximation without restrictive coherence assumptions. We begin with the minimax formulation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Luca Viano , Angeliki Kamoutsi , Gergely Neu , Igor Krawczuk , Volkan Cevher

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

Achieving stable and robust perceptive locomotion for bipedal robots in unstructured outdoor environments remains a critical challenge due to complex terrain geometry and susceptibility to external disturbances. In this work, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haokai Su , Haoxiang Luo , Shunpeng Yang , Kaiwen Jiang , Wei Zhang , Hua Chen

Imitation Learning (IL) is an effective learning paradigm exploiting the interactions between agents and environments. It does not require explicit reward signals and instead tries to recover desired policies using expert demonstrations. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yang Liu , Yongzhe Chang , Shilei Jiang , Xueqian Wang , Bin Liang , Bo Yuan

Stable locomotion in precipitous environments is an essential task for quadruped robots, requiring the ability to resist various external disturbances. Recent neural policies enhance robustness against disturbances by learning to resist…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Junfeng Long , Wenye Yu , Quanyi Li , Zirui Wang , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Imitation learning from human demonstrations can teach robots complex manipulation skills, but is time-consuming and labor intensive. In contrast, Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) systems are automated and excel at solving long-horizon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Danfei Xu , Dieter Fox

We present a low-cost legged mobile manipulation system that solves long-horizon real-world tasks, trained by reinforcement learning purely in simulation. This system is made possible by 1) a hierarchical design of a high-level policy for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Haichao Zhang , Haonan Yu , Le Zhao , Andrew Choi , Qinxun Bai , Break Yang , Wei Xu

This paper introduces a novel approach for modeling the dynamics of soft robots, utilizing a differentiable filter architecture. The proposed approach enables end-to-end training to learn system dynamics, noise characteristics, and temporal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiao Liu , Shuhei Ikemoto , Yuhei Yoshimitsu , Heni Ben Amor

Imitation learning is a promising approach for learning robot policies with user-provided data. The way demonstrations are provided, i.e., demonstration modality, influences the quality of the data. While existing research shows that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haozhuo Li , Yuchen Cui , Dorsa Sadigh

Quadruped-based mobile manipulation presents significant challenges in robotics due to the diversity of required skills, the extended task horizon, and partial observability. After presenting a multi-stage pick-and-place task as a succinct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Haichao Zhang , Haonan Yu , Le Zhao , Andrew Choi , Qinxun Bai , Yiqing Yang , Wei Xu

Visuomotor imitation learning policies enable robots to efficiently acquire manipulation skills from visual demonstrations. However, as scene complexity and visual distractions increase, policies that perform well in simple settings often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuhang Dong , Haizhou Ge , Yupei Zeng , Jiangning Zhang , Beiwen Tian , Hongrui Zhu , Yufei Jia , Ruixiang Wang , Zhucun Xue , Guyue Zhou , Longhua Ma , Guanzhong Tian

This paper investigates humanoid whole-body dexterous manipulation, where the efficient collection of high-quality demonstration data remains a central bottleneck. Existing teleoperation systems often suffer from limited portability,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Liang Heng , Yihe Tang , Jiajun Xu , Henghui Bao , Di Huang , Yue Wang

Imitation learning (IL) enables agents to acquire skills directly from expert demonstrations, providing a compelling alternative to reinforcement learning. However, prior online IL approaches struggle with complex tasks characterized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Shangzhe Li , Zhiao Huang , Hao Su

Recent advances in imitation learning, particularly using generative modelling techniques like diffusion, have enabled policies to capture complex multi-modal action distributions. However, these methods often require large datasets and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Krishan Rana , Robert Lee , David Pershouse , Niko Suenderhauf

Recent data-driven methods leveraging deep reinforcement learning have been an effective paradigm for developing controllers that enable physically simulated characters to produce natural human-like behaviors. However, these data-driven…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jiashun Wang , Yifeng Jiang , Haotian Zhang , Chen Tessler , Davis Rempe , Jessica Hodgins , Xue Bin Peng

We have seen much recent progress in rigid object manipulation, but interaction with deformable objects has notably lagged behind. Due to the large configuration space of deformable objects, solutions using traditional modelling approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Jan Matas , Stephen James , Andrew J. Davison

In contrast to quadruped robots that can navigate diverse terrains using a "blind" policy, humanoid robots require accurate perception for stable locomotion due to their high degrees of freedom and inherently unstable morphology. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Junfeng Long , Junli Ren , Moji Shi , Zirui Wang , Tao Huang , Ping Luo , Jiangmiao Pang

Learning long-horizon robotic manipulation requires jointly achieving expressive behavior modeling, real-time inference, and stable execution, which remains challenging for existing generative policies. Diffusion-based approaches offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wu Songwei , Jiang Zhiduo , Sun Wandong , Xie Guanghu , Zhao Rui , Liu Hong , Liu Yang

Enabling humanoid robots to perform long-horizon mobile manipulation planning in real-world environments based on embodied perception and comprehension abilities has been a longstanding challenge. With the recent rise of large language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Fangyuan Wang , Shipeng Lyu , Peng Zhou , Anqing Duan , Guodong Guo , David Navarro-Alarcon

Coordinating the motion of robots with high degrees of freedom (DoF) to grasp objects gives rise to many challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel imitation learning approach to learn a policy that directly predicts 23 DoF grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Martin Matak , Karl Van Wyk , Tucker Hermans