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In real-world scenarios, human dialogues are multi-round and diverse. Furthermore, human instructions can be unclear and human responses are unrestricted. Interactive robots face difficulties in understanding human intents and generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhe Zhang , Wei Chai , Jiankun Wang

Humans effortlessly "program" one another by communicating goals and desires in natural language. In contrast, humans program robotic behaviours by indicating desired object locations and poses to be achieved, by providing RGB images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung , Adam W. Harley , Liang-Kang Huang , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Reinforcement learning usually uses the feedback rewards of environmental to train agents. But the rewards in the actual environment are sparse, and even some environments will not rewards. Most of the current methods are difficult to get…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Kai Jiang , XiaoLong Qin

The ability to use random objects as tools in a generalizable manner is a missing piece in robots' intelligence today to boost their versatility and problem-solving capabilities. State-of-the-art robotic tool usage methods focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Bohan Wu , Paul de La Sayette , Li Fei-Fei , Roberto Martín-Martín

Soft object manipulation tasks in domestic scenes pose a significant challenge for existing robotic skill learning techniques due to their complex dynamics and variable shape characteristics. Since learning new manipulation skills from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Junjia Liu , Zhihao Li , Wanyu Lin , Sylvain Calinon , Kay Chen Tan , Fei Chen

Humans can steadily and gently grasp unfamiliar objects based on tactile perception. Robots still face challenges in achieving similar performance due to the difficulty of learning accurate grasp-force predictions and force control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Mingxuan Li , Lunwei Zhang , Tiemin Li , Yao Jiang

Reinforcement learning algorithms rely on carefully engineering environment rewards that are extrinsic to the agent. However, annotating each environment with hand-designed, dense rewards is not scalable, motivating the need for developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yuri Burda , Harri Edwards , Deepak Pathak , Amos Storkey , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros

Learning from human feedback is a popular approach to train robots to adapt to user preferences and improve safety. Existing approaches typically consider a single querying (interaction) format when seeking human feedback and do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yashwanthi Anand , Nnamdi Nwagwu , Kevin Sabbe , Naomi T. Fitter , Sandhya Saisubramanian

Short video has witnessed rapid growth in the past few years in e-commerce platforms like Taobao. To ensure the freshness of the content, platforms need to release a large number of new videos every day, making conventional click-through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Sihao Hu , Yi Cao , Yu Gong , Zhao Li , Yazheng Yang , Qingwen Liu , Shouling Ji

The alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is critically dependent on reward models trained on costly human preference data. While recent work explores bypassing this cost with AI feedback, these methods often lack a rigorous theoretical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yi-Chen Li , Tian Xu , Yang Yu , Xuqin Zhang , Xiong-Hui Chen , Zhongxiang Ling , Ningjing Chao , Lei Yuan , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Imitation learning for acquiring generalizable policies often requires a large volume of demonstration data, making the process significantly costly. One promising strategy to address this challenge is to leverage the cognitive and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yutaro Ishida , Takamitsu Matsubara , Takayuki Kanai , Kazuhiro Shintani , Hiroshi Bito

Recent progress on vision-language foundation models have brought significant advancement to building general-purpose robots. By using the pre-trained models to encode the scene and instructions as inputs for decision making, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuying Ge , Annabella Macaluso , Li Erran Li , Ping Luo , Xiaolong Wang

We propose a reinforcement learning based approach to query object localization, for which an agent is trained to localize objects of interest specified by a small exemplary set. We learn a transferable reward signal formulated using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tingfeng Li , Shaobo Han , Martin Renqiang Min , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Robots can learn to imitate humans by inferring what the human is optimizing for. One common framework for this is Bayesian reward learning, where the robot treats the human's demonstrations and corrections as observations of their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Joshua Hoegerman , Dylan P. Losey

Learning from demonstration allows for rapid deployment of robot manipulators to a great many tasks, by relying on a person showing the robot what to do rather than programming it. While this approach provides many opportunities, measuring,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Aran Sena , Matthew J Howard

Video Large Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in video understanding, but the significant computational cost from processing dense frames severely limits their practical application. Existing methods alleviate this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Junpeng Ma , Sashuai Zhou , Guanghao Li , Xin Gao , Yue Cao , Hengyu Zeng , Yuxiang Yan , Zhibin Wang , Jun Song , Bo Zheng , Shanghang Zhang , Jian Pu

When robots learn reward functions using high capacity models that take raw state directly as input, they need to both learn a representation for what matters in the task -- the task ``features" -- as well as how to combine these features…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Andreea Bobu , Yi Liu , Rohin Shah , Daniel S. Brown , Anca D. Dragan

How well do reward functions learned with inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) generalize? We illustrate that state-of-the-art IRL algorithms, which maximize a maximum-entropy objective, learn rewards that overfit to the demonstrations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Andrew Szot , Amy Zhang , Dhruv Batra , Zsolt Kira , Franziska Meier

Diffusion models have recently shown strong potential in language modeling, offering faster generation compared to traditional autoregressive approaches. However, applying supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to diffusion models remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guowei Xu , Wenxin Xu , Jiawang Zhao , Kaisheng Ma

Imitation learning offers a promising framework for enabling robots to acquire diverse skills from human users. However, most imitation learning algorithms assume access to high-quality demonstrations an unrealistic expectation when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Noushad Sojib , Ola Ghattas , Momotaz Begum