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We propose a decentralized reinforcement learning solution for multi-agent shepherding of non-cohesive targets using policy-gradient methods. Our architecture integrates target-selection with target-driving through Proximal Policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Stefano Covone , Italo Napolitano , Francesco De Lellis , Mario di Bernardo

Dexterous manipulation with contact-rich interactions is crucial for advanced robotics. While recent diffusion-based planning approaches show promise for simple manipulation tasks, they often produce unrealistic ghost states (e.g., the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Yixiao Wang , Tianxing Chen , Wenqi Shao , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ping Luo , Mingyu Ding

The use of deep neural networks as function approximators has led to striking progress for reinforcement learning algorithms and applications. Yet the knowledge we have on decision boundary geometry and the loss landscape of neural policies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Ezgi Korkmaz

Recently, Vision-Language-Action models (VLA) have advanced robot imitation learning, but high data collection costs and limited demonstrations hinder generalization and current imitation learning methods struggle in out-of-distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shichao Fan , Quantao Yang , Yajie Liu , Kun Wu , Zhengping Che , Qingjie Liu , Min Wan

Recent studies have shown the great potential of diffusion models in improving reinforcement learning (RL) by modeling complex policies, expressing a high degree of multi-modality, and efficiently handling high-dimensional continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Huiyun Jiang , Zhuang Yang

Reinforcement learning in discrete-continuous hybrid action spaces presents fundamental challenges for robotic manipulation, where high-level task decisions and low-level joint-space execution must be jointly optimized. Existing approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Thanh-Tuan Tran , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

Abstraction has been widely studied as a way to improve the efficiency and generalization of reinforcement learning algorithms. In this paper, we study abstraction in the continuous-control setting. We extend the definition of MDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari , Rosie Zhao , Prakash Panangaden , David Meger , Doina Precup

Multitask learning poses significant challenges due to the highly multimodal and diverse nature of robot action distributions. However, effectively fitting policies to these complex task distributions is often difficult, and existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chaoqi Liu , Haonan Chen , Sigmund H. Høeg , Shaoxiong Yao , Yunzhu Li , Kris Hauser , Yilun Du

In robotics, diffusion models can capture multi-modal trajectories from demonstrations, making them a transformative approach in imitation learning. However, achieving optimal performance following this regiment requires a large-scale…

Finding different solutions to the same problem is a key aspect of intelligence associated with creativity and adaptation to novel situations. In reinforcement learning, a set of diverse policies can be useful for exploration, transfer,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Tom Zahavy , Brendan O'Donoghue , Andre Barreto , Volodymyr Mnih , Sebastian Flennerhag , Satinder Singh

The state-of-the-art multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods have provided promising solutions to a variety of complex problems. Yet, these methods all assume that agents perform synchronized primitive-action executions so that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yuchen Xiao

Large-scale multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) presents significant challenges in several areas. As systems grow in complexity with a multitude of autonomous agents operating simultaneously, efficient and collision-free coordination becomes…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Huijie Tang , Federico Berto , Zihan Ma , Chuanbo Hua , Kyuree Ahn , Jinkyoo Park

Human-level contact-rich manipulation relies on the distinct roles of two key modalities: vision provides spatially rich but temporally slow global context, while force sensing captures rapid, high-frequency local contact dynamics.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Wendi Chen , Han Xue , Yi Wang , Fangyuan Zhou , Jun Lv , Yang Jin , Shirun Tang , Chuan Wen , Cewu Lu

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning often assumes a fixed execution team, yet many decentralized systems must operate with varying numbers of active agents during deployment. We study this setting under episodic roster variation:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ahmet Onur Akman , Rafał Kucharski

Learning to navigate in dynamic and complex open-world environments is a critical yet challenging capability for autonomous robots. Existing approaches often rely on cascaded modular frameworks, which require extensive hyperparameter tuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Wenzhe Cai , Jiaqi Peng , Yuqiang Yang , Yujian Zhang , Meng Wei , Hanqing Wang , Yilun Chen , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang

In order to collaborate efficiently with unknown partners in cooperative control settings, adaptation of the partners based on online experience is required. The rather general and widely applicable control setting, where each cooperation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Florian Köpf , Samuel Tesfazgi , Michael Flad , Sören Hohmann

Numerous real-world control problems involve dynamics and objectives affected by unobservable hidden parameters, ranging from autonomous driving to robotic manipulation, which cause performance degradation during sim-to-real transfer. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Morgan Byrd , Jackson Crandell , Mili Das , Jessica Inman , Robert Wright , Sehoon Ha

This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 12 different tasks from 4…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Cheng Chi , Zhenjia Xu , Siyuan Feng , Eric Cousineau , Yilun Du , Benjamin Burchfiel , Russ Tedrake , Shuran Song

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based motion planning has recently shown the potential to outperform traditional approaches from autonomous navigation to robot manipulation. In this work, we focus on a motion planning task for an evasive target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zixuan Wu , Sean Ye , Manisha Natarajan , Matthew C. Gombolay

Increasing interest in integrating advanced robotics within manufacturing has spurred a renewed concentration in developing real-time scheduling solutions to coordinate human-robot collaboration in this environment. Traditionally, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zheyuan Wang , Matthew Gombolay