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Learning from unstructured and uncurated data has become the dominant paradigm for generative approaches in language and vision. Such unstructured and unguided behavior data, commonly known as play, is also easier to collect in robotics but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Lili Chen , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

Learning STRIPS action models from action traces alone is a challenging problem as it involves learning the domain predicates as well. In this work, a novel approach is introduced which, like the well-known LOCM systems, is scalable, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jonas Gösgens , Niklas Jansen , Hector Geffner

Learning abstract state representations and knowledge is crucial for long-horizon robot planning. We present InterPreT, an LLM-powered framework for robots to learn symbolic predicates from language feedback of human non-experts during…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Muzhi Han , Yifeng Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu , Yuke Zhu

This paper presents a novel approach to generalizing robot manipulation skills by combining a sampling-based task-and-motion planner with an offline reinforcement learning algorithm. Starting with a small library of scripted primitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Shin Watanabe , Geir Horn , Jim Tørresen , Kai Olav Ellefsen

In this work, we propose a zero-shot learning method to effectively model knowledge transfer between classes via jointly learning visually consistent word vectors and label embedding model in an end-to-end manner. The main idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Berkan Demirel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

End-to-end learning is emerging as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation, but its effectiveness is limited by data scarcity and the heterogeneity of action spaces across robot embodiments. In particular, diverse action spaces across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Erik Bauer , Elvis Nava , Robert K. Katzschmann

We study the problem of learning a good set of policies, so that when combined together, they can solve a wide variety of unseen reinforcement learning tasks with no or very little new data. Specifically, we consider the framework of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Safa Alver , Doina Precup

The goal of offline reinforcement learning is to learn a policy from a fixed dataset, without further interactions with the environment. This setting will be an increasingly more important paradigm for real-world applications of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Wenxuan Zhou , Sujay Bajracharya , David Held

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects of novel classes without any training samples of specific classes, which is achieved by exploiting the semantic information and auxiliary datasets. Recently most ZSL approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Huajie Jiang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Generalizing skill policies to novel conditions remains a key challenge in robot learning. Imitation learning methods, while data-efficient, are largely confined to the training region and consistently fail on input data outside it, leading…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Serdar Bahar , Fatih Dogangun , Matteo Saveriano , Yukie Nagai , Emre Ugur

Diffusion-based models for robotic control, including vision-language-action (VLA) and vision-action (VA) policies, have demonstrated significant capabilities. Yet their advancement is constrained by the high cost of acquiring large-scale…

This paper presents a learning from demonstration approach to programming safe, autonomous behaviors for uncommon driving scenarios. Simulation is used to re-create a targeted driving situation, one containing a road-side hazard creating a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Priyam Parashar , Akansel Cosgun , Alireza Nakhaei , Kikuo Fujimura

Many dynamic decision problems, such as robotic control, involve a series of tasks, many of which are unknown at training time. Typical approaches for these problems, such as multi-task and meta reinforcement learning, do not generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Luise Ge , Michael Lanier , Anindya Sarkar , Bengisu Guresti , Chongjie Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Endowed with higher levels of autonomy, robots are required to perform increasingly complex manipulation tasks. Learning from demonstration is arising as a promising paradigm for transferring skills to robots. It allows to implicitly learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Miguel Arduengo , Adrià Colomé , Joan Lobo-Prat , Luis Sentis , Carme Torras

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a popular method of reproducing and generalizing robot skills from human-provided demonstrations. In this paper, we propose a novel optimization-based LfD method that encodes demonstrations as elastic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Brendan Hertel , Matthew Pelland , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh

Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Learning from demonstration allows robots to acquire complex skills from human demonstrations, but conventional approaches often require large datasets and fail to generalize across coordinate transformations. In this paper, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zewen Yang , Xiaobing Dai , Dongfa Zhang , Yu Li , Ziyang Meng , Bingkun Huang , Hamid Sadeghian , Sami Haddadin

Parts represent a basic unit of geometric and semantic similarity across different objects. We argue that part knowledge should be composable beyond the observed object classes. Towards this, we present 3D Compositional Zero-shot Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Evin Pınar Örnek , Yongqin Xian , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

In real-world sequential decision making tasks like autonomous driving, robotics, and healthcare, learning from observed state-action trajectories is critical for tasks like imitation, classification, and clustering. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Zichang Ge , Changyu Chen , Arunesh Sinha , Pradeep Varakantham

We study instruction following in multi-task reinforcement learning, where an agent must zero-shot execute novel tasks not seen during training. In this setting, linear temporal logic (LTL) has recently been adopted as a powerful framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mathias Jackermeier , Mattia Giuri , Jacques Cloete , Alessandro Abate