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Humans often learn how to perform tasks via imitation: they observe others perform a task, and then very quickly infer the appropriate actions to take based on their observations. While extending this paradigm to autonomous agents is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

In this work, we present Conditional Adversarial Latent Models (CALM), an approach for generating diverse and directable behaviors for user-controlled interactive virtual characters. Using imitation learning, CALM learns a representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Chen Tessler , Yoni Kasten , Yunrong Guo , Shie Mannor , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

Humans are excellent at understanding language and vision to accomplish a wide range of tasks. In contrast, creating general instruction-following embodied agents remains a difficult challenge. Prior work that uses pure language-only models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hao Liu , Lisa Lee , Kimin Lee , Pieter Abbeel

AutoFocus-IL is a simple yet effective method to improve data efficiency and generalization in visual imitation learning by guiding policies to attend to task-relevant features rather than distractors and spurious correlations. Although…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Litian Gong , Fatemeh Bahrani , Yutai Zhou , Amin Banayeeanzade , Jiachen Li , Erdem Bıyık

Imitation learning (IL) has achieved considerable success in solving complex sequential decision-making problems. However, current IL methods mainly assume that the environment for learning policies is the same as the environment for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Siyuan Li , Xun Wang , Rongchang Zuo , Kewu Sun , Lingfei Cui , Jishiyu Ding , Peng Liu , Zhe Ma

Following the impressive capabilities of in-context learning with large transformers, In-Context Imitation Learning (ICIL) is a promising opportunity for robotics. We introduce Instant Policy, which learns new tasks instantly (without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Vitalis Vosylius , Edward Johns

Despite the broad application of deep reinforcement learning (RL), transferring and adapting the policy to unseen but similar environments is still a significant challenge. Recently, the language-conditioned policy is proposed to facilitate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Shaohui Peng , Xing Hu , Rui Zhang , Jiaming Guo , Qi Yi , Ruizhi Chen , Zidong Du , Ling Li , Qi Guo , Yunji Chen

While traditional methods for instruction-following typically assume prior linguistic and perceptual knowledge, many recent works in reinforcement learning (RL) have proposed learning policies end-to-end, typically by training neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 John Kanu , Eadom Dessalene , Xiaomin Lin , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

We tackle the problem of developing humanoid loco-manipulation skills with deep imitation learning. The difficulty of collecting task demonstrations and training policies for humanoids with a high degree of freedom presents substantial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Mingyo Seo , Steve Han , Kyutae Sim , Seung Hyeon Bang , Carlos Gonzalez , Luis Sentis , Yuke Zhu

Predictive models have been at the core of many robotic systems, from quadrotors to walking robots. However, it has been challenging to develop and apply such models to practical robotic manipulation due to high-dimensional sensory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Lucas Manuelli , Yunzhu Li , Pete Florence , Russ Tedrake

Deep generative models have recently shown great promise in imitation learning for motor control. Given enough data, even supervised approaches can do one-shot imitation learning; however, they are vulnerable to cascading failures when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Ziyu Wang , Josh Merel , Scott Reed , Greg Wayne , Nando de Freitas , Nicolas Heess

In this paper, we present \textbf{C}ont\textbf{E}xtual \textbf{I}mitation \textbf{L}earning~(CEIL), a general and broadly applicable algorithm for imitation learning (IL). Inspired by the formulation of hindsight information matching, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jinxin Liu , Li He , Yachen Kang , Zifeng Zhuang , Donglin Wang , Huazhe Xu

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

Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) is a broad family of imitation learning methods designed to mimic expert behaviors from demonstrations. While AIL has shown state-of-the-art performance on imitation learning with only small number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Ruohan Wang , Carlo Ciliberto , Pierluigi Amadori , Yiannis Demiris

Estimating the 6DoF pose of a novel object with a single reference view is challenging due to occlusions, view-point changes, and outliers. A core difficulty lies in finding robust cross-view correspondences, as existing methods often rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuchen Che , Jingtu Wu , Hao Zheng , Asako Kanezaki

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires a learning system to learn new classes while retaining previously learned knowledge. However, in real-world scenarios such as autonomous driving, a system trained on urban roads in sunny weather may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhen-Hao Xie , Yan Wang , Hao Sun , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Da-Wei Zhou

Multi-domain task-incremental learning requires a model to sequentially acquire knowledge across visually diverse domains without forgetting prior tasks, and without access to task identity at inference. Parameter-efficient methods built on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sriram Mandalika

RGB-based imitation learning requires many demonstrations to generalize to unseen objects or scenes, motivating research into intermediate representations to improve generalization for robotic manipulation. Visual foundation models enable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Thomas Lips , Marco Moletta , Michael C. Welle , Danica Kragic , Francis wyffels

In this paper, we propose Conceptual Codebook Learning (CoCoLe), a novel fine-tuning method for vision-language models (VLMs) to address the challenge of improving the generalization capability of VLMs while fine-tuning them on downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yi Zhang , Ke Yu , Siqi Wu , Zhihai He

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) faces a fundamental structural contradiction between the high-discriminability demand and the sparse semantic supervision. This mismatch is particularly acute in highly homogeneous scenarios that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Shukun Jia , Shiyu Hu , Yipei Wang , Ximeng Cheng , Yichao Cao , Xiaobo Lu