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Large-scale generative language and vision-language models (LLMs and VLMs) excel in few-shot learning but require high-quality demonstrations. We propose In-Context Abstraction Learning (ICAL), enabling VLM agents to transform suboptimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Gabriel Sarch , Lawrence Jang , Michael J. Tarr , William W. Cohen , Kenneth Marino , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Weakly-Supervised Dense Video Captioning aims to localize and describe events in videos trained only on caption annotations, without temporal boundaries. Prior work introduced an implicit supervision paradigm based on Gaussian masking and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ye-Chan Kim , SeungJu Cha , Si-Woo Kim , Minju Jeon , Hyungee Kim , Dong-Jin Kim

Hierarchical Imitation Learning (HIL) is a promising approach for tackling long-horizon decision-making tasks. While it is a challenging task due to the lack of detailed supervisory labels for sub-goal learning, and reliance on hundreds to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Chengyang Gu , Yuxin Pan , Haotian Bai , Hui Xiong , Yize Chen

Imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL) each offer distinct advantages for robotics policy learning: IL provides stable learning from demonstrations, and RL promotes generalization through exploration. While existing robot…

Imitation learning (IL) has shown great success in learning complex robot manipulation tasks. However, there remains a need for practical safety methods to justify widespread deployment. In particular, it is important to certify that a…

In-Context Learning (ICL) combined with pre-trained large language models has achieved promising results on various NLP tasks. However, ICL requires high-quality annotated demonstrations which might not be available in real-world scenarios.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Dawei Li , Yaxuan Li , Dheeraj Mekala , Shuyao Li , Yulin wang , Xueqi Wang , William Hogan , Jingbo Shang

Compared to traditional imitation learning methods such as DAgger and DART, intervention-based imitation offers a more convenient and sample efficient data collection process to users. In this paper, we introduce Reinforced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Rom Parnichkun , Matthew N. Dailey , Atsushi Yamashita

Conditional imitation learning (CIL) trains deep neural networks, in an end-to-end manner, to mimic human driving. This approach has demonstrated suitable vehicle control when following roads, avoiding obstacles, or taking specific turns at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Hesham M. Eraqi , Mohamed N. Moustafa , Jens Honer

Real-world tasks such as garment manipulation and table rearrangement demand robots to perform generalizable, highly precise, and long-horizon actions. Although imitation learning has proven to be an effective approach for teaching robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Shengjie Wang , Jiacheng You , Yihang Hu , Jiongye Li , Yang Gao

Continual learning remains constrained by the need for repeated retraining, high computational costs, and the persistent challenge of forgetting. These factors significantly limit the applicability of continuous learning in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shishir Muralidhara , Didier Stricker , René Schuster

Imitation learning (IL) algorithms have shown promising results for robots to learn skills from expert demonstrations. However, they need multi-task demonstrations to be provided at once for acquiring diverse skills, which is difficult in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Chongkai Gao , Haichuan Gao , Shangqi Guo , Tianren Zhang , Feng Chen

While robot learning has demonstrated promising results for enabling robots to automatically acquire new skills, a critical challenge in deploying learning-based systems is scale: acquiring enough data for the robot to effectively…

We introduce Correspondence-Oriented Imitation Learning (COIL), a conditional policy learning framework for visuomotor control with a flexible task representation in 3D. At the core of our approach, each task is defined by the intended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yunhao Cao , Zubin Bhaumik , Jessie Jia , Xingyi He , Kuan Fang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress, yet their large scale often renders them impractical for resource-constrained environments. This paper introduces Unified Reinforcement and Imitation Learning (RIL), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Byung-Kwan Lee , Ryo Hachiuma , Yong Man Ro , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Yueh-Hua Wu

Learning visuomotor policies for agile quadrotor flight presents significant difficulties, primarily from inefficient policy exploration caused by high-dimensional visual inputs and the need for precise and low-latency control. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Jiaxu Xing , Angel Romero , Leonard Bauersfeld , Davide Scaramuzza

In this paper, we explore how we can build upon the data and models of Internet images and use them to adapt to robot vision without requiring any extra labels. We present a framework called Self-supervised Embodied Active Learning (SEAL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Devendra Singh Chaplot , Murtaza Dalal , Saurabh Gupta , Jitendra Malik , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Recent work has shown that, while large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong word translation or bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) capabilities in few-shot setups, they still cannot match the performance of 'traditional' mapping-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yaoyiran Li , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

One-shot Imitation Learning~(OSIL) aims to imbue AI agents with the ability to learn a new task from a single demonstration. To supervise the learning, OSIL typically requires a prohibitively large number of paired expert demonstrations --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Philipp Wu , Kourosh Hakhamaneshi , Yuqing Du , Igor Mordatch , Aravind Rajeswaran , Pieter Abbeel

Policy learning under action constraints plays a central role in ensuring safe behaviors in various robot control and resource allocation applications. In this paper, we study a new problem setting termed Action-Constrained Imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Chia-Han Yeh , Tse-Sheng Nan , Risto Vuorio , Wei Hung , Hung-Yen Wu , Shao-Hua Sun , Ping-Chun Hsieh

Learning robust navigation policies remains a core challenge in robotics. Offline imitation learning suffers from distribution shift and compounding errors at rollout, while reinforcement learning requires reward engineering and learns…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xiaofei Wei , Chun Gu , Li Zhang