English
Related papers

Related papers: Knowledge-Driven Imitation Learning: Enabling Gene…

200 papers

In Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems, a challenging task is sharing the representation of the operational environment, fusing symbolic knowledge and perceptions, between users and robots. With the existing HRI pipelines, users can teach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 E. Bartoli , F. Argenziano , V. Suriani , D. Nardi

It is very useful to integrate human knowledge and experience into traditional neural networks for faster learning speed, fewer training samples and better interpretability. However, due to the obscured and indescribable black box model of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Guangming Shi , Zhongqiang Zhang , Dahua Gao , Xuemei Xie , Yihao Feng , Xinrui Ma , Danhua Liu

Machine learning, notably deep learning, has significantly propelled molecular investigations within the biochemical sphere. Traditionally, modeling for such research has centered around a handful of paradigms. For instance, the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yin Fang , Zhuo Chen , Xiaohui Fan , Ningyu Zhang

This paper comprehensively surveys research trends in imitation learning for contact-rich robotic tasks. Contact-rich tasks, which require complex physical interactions with the environment, represent a central challenge in robotics due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Toshiaki Tsuji , Yasuhiro Kato , Gokhan Solak , Heng Zhang , Tadej Petrič , Francesco Nori , Arash Ajoudani

We aim to enable robot to learn object manipulation by imitation. Given external observations of demonstrations on object manipulations, we believe that two underlying problems to address in learning by imitation is 1) segment a given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhen Zeng , Benjamin Kuipers

Imitation based robot learning has recently gained significant attention in the robotics field due to its theoretical potential for transferability and generalizability. However, it remains notoriously costly, both in terms of hardware and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jiahuan Yan , Zhouyang Hong , Yu Zhao , Yu Tian , Yunxin Liu , Travis Davies , Luhui Hu

In this paper, we consider domain-adaptive imitation learning with visual observation, where an agent in a target domain learns to perform a task by observing expert demonstrations in a source domain. Domain adaptive imitation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Sungho Choi , Seungyul Han , Woojun Kim , Jongseong Chae , Whiyoung Jung , Youngchul Sung

While humans and animals learn incrementally during their lifetimes and exploit their experience to solve new tasks, standard deep reinforcement learning methods specialize to solve only one task at a time. As a result, the information they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Diego Gomez , Nicanor Quijano , Luis Felipe Giraldo

In everyday life collaboration tasks between human operators and robots, the former necessitate simple ways for programming new skills, the latter have to show adaptive capabilities to cope with environmental changes. The joint use of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Rocco Felici , Matteo Saveriano , Loris Roveda , Antonio Paolillo

Recent developments in imitation learning have considerably advanced robotic manipulation. However, current techniques in imitation learning can suffer from poor generalization, limiting performance even under relatively minor domain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yifei Chen , Yuzhe Zhang , Giovanni D'urso , Nicholas Lawrance , Brendan Tidd

Imitation learning allows agents to learn complex behaviors from demonstrations. However, learning a complex vision-based task may require an impractical number of demonstrations. Meta-imitation learning is a promising approach towards…

While visual imitation learning offers one of the most effective ways of learning from visual demonstrations, generalizing from them requires either hundreds of diverse demonstrations, task specific priors, or large, hard-to-train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jyothish Pari , Nur Muhammad Shafiullah , Sridhar Pandian Arunachalam , Lerrel Pinto

Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel on fixed datasets but struggle with incremental and shifting data in real-world scenarios. Continual learning addresses this challenge by allowing models to learn from new data while retaining previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Lu Yu , Zhe Tao , Dipam Goswami , Hantao Yao , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Joost Van de Weijer , Changsheng Xu

Humans can infer concepts from image pairs and apply those in the physical world in a completely different setting, enabling tasks like IKEA assembly from diagrams. If robots could represent and infer high-level concepts, it would…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla , Dianhuan Lin , J. Swaroop Guntupalli , Dileep George

Robots are required to autonomously respond to changing situations. Imitation learning is a promising candidate for achieving generalization performance, and extensive results have been demonstrated in object manipulation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Ayumu Sasagawa , Kazuki Fujimoto , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Imitation learning aims to extract high-performance policies from logged demonstrations of expert behavior. It is common to frame imitation learning as a supervised learning problem in which one fits a function approximator to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mengjiao Yang , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel , Ofir Nachum

A long-standing challenge for a robotic manipulation system operating in real-world scenarios is adapting and generalizing its acquired motor skills to unseen environments. We tackle this challenge employing hybrid skill models that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Iman Nematollahi , Kirill Yankov , Wolfram Burgard , Tim Welschehold

Most prior research in deep imitation learning has predominantly utilized fixed cameras for image input, which constrains task performance to the predefined field of view. However, enabling a robot to actively maneuver its neck can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Koki Nakagawa , Yoshiyuki Ohmura , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Imitation learning has demonstrated strong performance in robotic manipulation by learning from large-scale human demonstrations. While existing models excel at single-task learning, it is observed in practical applications that their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wangtian Shen , Jinming Ma , Mingliang Zhou , Ziyang Meng