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One promising approach towards effective robot decision making in complex, long-horizon tasks is to sequence together parameterized skills. We consider a setting where a robot is initially equipped with (1) a library of parameterized…

Diffusion Policy (DP) enables robots to learn complex behaviors by imitating expert demonstrations through action diffusion. However, in practical applications, hardware limitations often degrade data quality, while real-time constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jiahua Ma , Yiran Qin , Yixiong Li , Xuanqi Liao , Yulan Guo , Ruimao Zhang

Recent advances in robot imitation learning have yielded powerful visuomotor policies capable of manipulating a wide variety of objects directly from monocular visual inputs. However, monocular observations inherently lack reliable depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Evans Han , Yunfan Jiang , Yingke Wang , Haoyue Xiao , Huang Huang , Jianwen Xie , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Ruohan Zhang

Generative modeling has recently shown remarkable promise for visuomotor policy learning, enabling flexible and expressive control across diverse embodied AI tasks. However, existing generative policies often struggle with data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jianlei Chang , Ruofeng Mei , Wei Ke , Xiangyu Xu

We apply recent advances in deep generative modeling to the task of imitation learning from biological agents. Specifically, we apply variations of the variational recurrent neural network model to a multi-agent setting where we learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Michael Teng , Tuan Anh Le , Adam Scibior , Frank Wood

In this work, we propose a novel shared autonomy framework to operate articulated robots. We provide strategies to design both the task-oriented hierarchical planning and policy shaping algorithms for efficient human-robot interactions in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ehsan Yousefi , Mo Chen , Inna Sharf

Imitation learning, particularly Diffusion Policies based methods, has recently gained significant traction in embodied AI as a powerful approach to action policy generation. These models efficiently generate action policies by learning to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Haiyong Yu , Yanqiong Jin , Yonghao He , Wei Sui

Multi-step manipulation tasks where robots interact with their environment and must apply process forces based on the perceived situation remain challenging to learn and prone to execution errors. Accurately simulating these tasks is also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Christoph Willibald , Dongheui Lee

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

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) approaches have shown successful results in solving a large variety of complex, structured, long-horizon problems. Nevertheless, a full theoretical understanding of this empirical evidence is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Gianluca Drappo , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

Recently action recognition has received more and more attention for its comprehensive and practical applications in intelligent surveillance and human-computer interaction. However, few-shot action recognition has not been well explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Changzhen Li , Jie Zhang , Shuzhe Wu , Xin Jin , Shiguang Shan

Generating robot motion that fulfills multiple tasks simultaneously is challenging due to the geometric constraints imposed by the robot. In this paper, we propose to solve multi-task problems through learning structured policies from human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 M. Asif Rana , Anqi Li , Dieter Fox , Sonia Chernova , Byron Boots , Nathan Ratliff

Diffusion models excel at short-horizon robot planning, yet scaling them to long-horizon tasks remains challenging due to computational constraints and limited training data. Existing compositional approaches stitch together short segments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yixin Zhang , Yunhao Luo , Utkarsh Aashu Mishra , Woo Chul Shin , Yongxin Chen , Danfei Xu

Learning from expert demonstrations is a promising approach for training robotic manipulation policies from limited data. However, imitation learning algorithms require a number of design choices ranging from the input modality, training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Eugenio Chisari , Nick Heppert , Max Argus , Tim Welschehold , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada

Safe and successful deployment of robots requires not only the ability to generate complex plans but also the capacity to frequently replan and correct execution errors. This paper addresses the challenge of long-horizon trajectory planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zeyu Feng , Hao Luan , Kevin Yuchen Ma , Harold Soh

Reinforcement learning is still struggling with solving long-horizon surgical robot tasks which involve multiple steps over an extended duration of time due to the policy exploration challenge. Recent methods try to tackle this problem by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Tao Huang , Kai Chen , Wang Wei , Jianan Li , Yonghao Long , Qi Dou

In long-term multivariate time series forecasting, effectively capturing both periodic patterns and residual dynamics is essential. To address this within standard deep learning benchmark settings, we propose the Hierarchical Patching Mixer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jung Min Choi , Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Bimanual manipulation tasks typically involve multiple stages which require efficient interactions between two arms, posing step-wise and stage-wise challenges for imitation learning systems. Specifically, failure and delay of one step will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Dongjie Yu , Hang Xu , Yizhou Chen , Yi Ren , Jia Pan

In this study, we propose a multitask reinforcement learning algorithm for foundational policy acquisition to generate novel motor skills. \textcolor{\hcolor}{Learning the rich representation of the multitask policy is a challenge in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Satoshi Yamamori , Jun Morimoto

We present a fast and effective policy framework for robotic manipulation, named Energy Policy, designed for high-frequency robotic tasks and resource-constrained systems. Unlike existing robotic policies, Energy Policy natively predicts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jingkai Jia , Tong Yang , Xueyao Chen , Chenhuan Liu , Wenqiang Zhang