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Generalize and Guide: Decomposing Rewards for Few-Shot Inverse Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 17760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) provides a powerful framework for learning from demonstrations.

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Jul 20

Generalize and Guide: Decomposing Rewards for Few-Shot Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) provides a powerful framework for learning from demonstrations. However, real-world tasks often exhibit substantial natural variations (e.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards

arXiv:2606. 02194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for dexterous manipulation.

By Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Ingmar Posner, Jan Peters

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 25

Consistent Zero-Shot Imitation with Contrastive Goal Inference

arXiv:2510. 17059v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Zero-shot imitation learning requires an agent to reproduce expert behavior from a single demonstration without additional environment interaction or gradient updates at test time.

By Kathryn Wantlin, Chongyi Zheng, Benjamin Eysenbach

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arXiv AI

Jul 7

Rational Inverse Reasoning: Few-Shot Imitation by Inferring Intent through Planning

arXiv:2508. 08983v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humans can learn a new manipulation task from one or two demonstrations and then perform it in a new room, with new objects, under new constraints.

By Ben Zandonati, Tom\'as Lozano-P\'erez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Retrieve, Don't Retrain: Extending Vision Language Action Models to New Tasks at Test Time

arXiv:2606. 15631v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extending a vision-language-action (VLA) policy to a new task typically requires task-specific teleoperated demonstrations and per-task fine-tuning, making adaptation costly in both data collection and compute.

By Jeongeun Park, Juhan Park, Taekyung Kim, Sungjoon Choi, Dongyoon Han, Sangdoo Yun

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arXiv Machine Learning

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Adaptation of Generalist Robot Policies with Minimal Data

arXiv:2608. 11363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal in robot learning is to move beyond task-specific human data collection toward robots that improve through autonomous interaction.

By Shreyas Kowshik, Sreyas Venkataraman, Leo Wang, Niharika Pant, Max Simchowitz, Aviral Kumar

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arXiv AI

Jul 20

SLAC: Safe and Efficient Real-Robot Reinforcement Learning via Unsupervised Simulation Pre-Training

arXiv:2506. 04147v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators.

By Jiaheng Hu, Peter Stone, Roberto Mart\'in-Mart\'in

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Reinforcement Learning-Guided Retrieval with Soft Fusion for Robust Multimodal Imitation Learning under Missing Modalities

arXiv:2606. 15514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic systems perceive the world through multiple input modalities -- including visual camera streams and natural language instructions -- and must select appropriate actions based on these signals.

By Hassan Ismkhan, Hamid Bouchahcia

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arXiv AI

Jun 11

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Discrete-Time Gaussian Process Mixtures for Robot Policy Learning

arXiv:2505. 03296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Mixture of Discrete-time Gaussian Processes (MiDiGap), a novel approach for flexible policy representation and imitation learning in robot manipulation.

By Jan Ole von Hartz, Adrian R\"ofer, Joschka Boedecker, Abhinav Valada

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arXiv AI

Jul 10

Multi-Modal, Multi-Environment Machine Teaching for Robust Reward Learning

arXiv:2607. 08647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous agents are increasingly deployed across diverse operational contexts, aligning their behavior with human intent demands reward functions that remain robust to such changes rather than overfitting to any single environment.

By Ali Larian, Qian Lin, Chang Zong Wu, Daniel S. Brown

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arXiv AI

Jul 7

Simple-to-Complex Structured Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Learning

arXiv:2607. 04591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation by integrating visual perception, language understanding, and robot action generation.

By Xinchuan Qiu, Yi Yu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

DemoDiffusion: One-Shot Human Imitation using pre-trained Diffusion Policy

arXiv:2506. 20668v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a single human demonstration, without requiring task-specific training or paired human-robot data.

By Sungjae Park, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Shubham Tulsiani

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