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Learning from human demonstrations (behavior cloning) is a cornerstone of robot learning. However, most behavior cloning algorithms require a large number of demonstrations to learn a task, especially for general tasks that have a large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Abraham George , Amir Barati Farimani

A robot operating in unstructured environments must be able to discriminate between different grasping styles depending on the prospective manipulation task. Having a system that allows learning from remote non-expert demonstrations can…

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We propose a model-free deep reinforcement learning method that leverages a small amount of demonstration data to assist a reinforcement learning agent. We apply this approach to robotic manipulation tasks and train end-to-end visuomotor…

Data scaling has revolutionized fields like natural language processing and computer vision, providing models with remarkable generalization capabilities. In this paper, we investigate whether similar data scaling laws exist in robotics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yingdong Hu , Fanqi Lin , Pingyue Sheng , Chuan Wen , Jiacheng You , Yang Gao

Word spotting is a popular tool for supporting the first exploration of historic, handwritten document collections. Today, the best performing methods rely on machine learning techniques, which require a high amount of annotated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Fabian Wolf , Gernot A. Fink

Requiring multiple demonstrations of a task plan presents a burden to end-users of robots. However, robustly executing tasks plans from a single end-user demonstration is an ongoing challenge in robotics. We address the problem of one-shot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Angel Daruna , Lakshmi Nair , Weiyu Liu , Sonia Chernova

We propose a novel approach for instance segmen- tation given an image of homogeneous object clus- ter (HOC). Our learning approach is one-shot be- cause a single video of an object instance is cap- tured and it requires no human…

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Humans are adept at learning new tasks by watching a few instructional videos. On the other hand, robots that learn new actions either require a lot of effort through trial and error, or use expert demonstrations that are challenging to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Vladimír Petrík , Makarand Tapaswi , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic

Robotic grasping traditionally relies on object features or shape information for learning new or applying already learned grasps. We argue however that such a strong reliance on object geometric information renders grasping and grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Philipp Zech , Justus Piater

We propose a simple yet a novel approach to improve completion in domain modeling activities. Our approach exploits the power of large language models by using few-shot prompt learning without the need to train or fine-tune those models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Meriem Ben Chaaben , Lola Burgueño , Houari Sahraoui

Imitation learning is a data-driven approach to acquiring skills that relies on expert demonstrations to learn a policy that maps observations to actions. When performing demonstrations, experts are not always consistent and might…

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We propose a method that can perform one-class classification given only a small number of examples from the target class and none from the others. We formulate the learning of meaningful features for one-class classification as a…

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This paper investigates how to utilize different forms of human interaction to safely train autonomous systems in real-time by learning from both human demonstrations and interventions. We implement two components of the Cycle-of-Learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Vinicius G. Goecks , Gregory M. Gremillion , Vernon J. Lawhern , John Valasek , Nicholas R. Waytowich

The ability to successfully grasp objects is crucial in robotics, as it enables several interactive downstream applications. To this end, most approaches either compute the full 6D pose for the object of interest or learn to predict a set…

Humans are remarkably efficient at learning tasks from demonstrations, but today's imitation learning methods for robot manipulation often require hundreds or thousands of demonstrations per task. We investigate two fundamental priors for…

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Programming robots to perform complex tasks is often difficult and time consuming, requiring expert knowledge and skills in robot software and sometimes hardware. Imitation learning is a method for training robots to perform tasks by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 John Bateman , Andy M. Tyrrell , Jihong Zhu

The high cost of acquiring and annotating samples has made the `few-shot' learning problem of prime importance. Existing works mainly focus on improving performance on clean data and overlook robustness concerns on the data perturbed with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ruchit Rawal , Inder Khatri , Anirban Chakraborty

Imitation learning is a promising approach to help robots acquire dexterous manipulation capabilities without the need for a carefully-designed reward or a significant computational effort. However, existing imitation learning approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Abhineet Jain , Jack Kolb , J. M. Abbess , Harish Ravichandar