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We present a generative predictive control (GPC) framework that amortizes sampling-based Model Predictive Control (SPC) by bootstrapping it with conditional flow-matching models trained on SPC control sequences collected in simulation.…

We focus on developing efficient and reliable policy optimization strategies for robot learning with real-world data. In recent years, policy gradient methods have emerged as a promising paradigm for training control policies in simulation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tyler Westenbroek , Jacob Levy , David Fridovich-Keil

Integration of reinforcement learning and imitation learning is an important problem that has been studied for a long time in the field of intelligent robotics. Reinforcement learning optimizes policies to maximize the cumulative reward,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Akira Kinose , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Generative design (GD) methods aim to automatically generate a wide variety of designs that satisfy functional or aesthetic design requirements. However, research to date generally lacks considerations of manufacturability of the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Zhichao Wang , Xiaoliang Yan , Shreyes Melkote , David Rosen

This work considers the sample and computational complexity of obtaining an $\epsilon$-optimal policy in a discounted Markov Decision Process (MDP), given only access to a generative model. In this work, we study the effectiveness of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Alekh Agarwal , Sham Kakade , Lin F. Yang

Large, general-purpose robotic policies trained on diverse demonstration datasets have been shown to be remarkably effective both for controlling a variety of robots in a range of different scenes, and for acquiring broad repertoires of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mitsuhiko Nakamoto , Oier Mees , Aviral Kumar , Sergey Levine

We present a simple and intuitive approach for interactive control of physically simulated characters. Our work builds upon generative adversarial networks (GAN) and reinforcement learning, and introduces an imitation learning framework…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Pei Xu , Ioannis Karamouzas

Flow-based generative models have shown an excellent ability to explicitly learn the probability density function of data via a sequence of invertible transformations. Yet, learning attentions in generative flows remains understudied, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Zhiwu Huang , Suryansh Kumar , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

We introduce Masked Trajectory Models (MTM) as a generic abstraction for sequential decision making. MTM takes a trajectory, such as a state-action sequence, and aims to reconstruct the trajectory conditioned on random subsets of the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Philipp Wu , Arjun Majumdar , Kevin Stone , Yixin Lin , Igor Mordatch , Pieter Abbeel , Aravind Rajeswaran

Humans can imagine goal states during planning and perform actions to match those goals. In this work, we propose Imagination Policy, a novel multi-task key-frame policy network for solving high-precision pick and place tasks. Instead of…

The ability to predict future visual observations conditioned on past observations and motor commands can enable embodied agents to plan solutions to a variety of tasks in complex environments. This work shows that we can create good video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Agrim Gupta , Stephen Tian , Yunzhi Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Li Fei-Fei

Adaptable models could greatly benefit robotic agents operating in the real world, allowing them to deal with novel and varying conditions. While approaches such as Bayesian inference are well-studied frameworks for adapting models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Orr Krupnik , Elisei Shafer , Tom Jurgenson , Aviv Tamar

Generating interaction-centric videos, such as those depicting humans or robots interacting with objects, is crucial for embodied intelligence, as they provide rich and diverse visual priors for robot learning, manipulation policy training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Gen Li , Bo Zhao , Jianfei Yang , Laura Sevilla-Lara

Given a Markov decision process (MDP), we seek to learn representations for a range of policies to facilitate behavior steering at test time. As policies of an MDP are uniquely determined by their occupancy measures, we propose modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Beiming Li , Sergio Rozada , Alejandro Ribeiro

Multi-objective Markov decision processes are sequential decision-making problems that involve multiple conflicting reward functions that cannot be optimized simultaneously without a compromise. This type of problems cannot be solved by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Sherif Abdelfattah , Kathryn Merrick , Jiankun Hu

Recent advances in diffusion models bring new vitality to visual content creation. However, current text-to-video generation models still face significant challenges such as high training costs, substantial data requirements, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sicong Feng , Jielong Yang , Li Peng

We present Generative Predictive Control (GPC), an inference-time method for improving pretrained behavior-cloning policies without retraining. GPC augments a frozen diffusion policy at deployment with an action-conditioned world model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Han Qi , Haocheng Yin , Aris Zhu , Yilun Du , Heng Yang

Robotic manipulation of unseen objects via natural language commands remains challenging. Language driven robotic grasping (LDRG) predicts stable grasp poses from natural language queries and RGB-D images. We propose MapleGrasp, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Vineet Bhat , Naman Patel , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami

We select policies for large Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with compact first-order representations. We find policies that generalize well as the number of objects in the domain grows, potentially without bound. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Sung Wook Yoon , Alan Fern , Robert Givan

Deep generative models (DGMs) are effective on learning multilayered representations of complex data and performing inference of input data by exploring the generative ability. However, it is relatively insufficient to empower the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang