arXiv:2607. 15880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation Learning aims to learn skills from extensive observations and demonstrations for robots, so it suffers from data scarcity and environment generalization.
By Zhenduo Shang, Xiyao Liu, Bohan Li, Xudong Wang, Teng Ren, Lianqing Liu, Zhi Han
Sim-and-Human Co-training (SimHum) is a method that combines simulation and human demonstration data to train bimanual manipulation policies. It first extracts kinematic priors from simulation and visual priors from human observations, then fine‑tunes on a small real‑robot dataset. With only 80 real‑robot episodes per task, SimHum achieves 62.5% success on out‑of‑distribution scenes across four tabletop tasks, outperforming real‑only training by 53.7% and improving the best single‑source baseline by 35.0% in a matched‑time study.
By Kaipeng Fang, Weiqing Liang, Yuyang Li, Ji Zhang, Pengpeng Zeng, Heng Tao Shen, Jingkuan Song, Lianli Gao
arXiv:2608. 10600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill abstraction---the process of learning reusable and temporally extended behaviors---has emerged as a key paradigm for improving sample efficiency and generalization in robot learning.
By Jusuk Lee, Daesol Cho, Jonghun Shin, Seungyeon Yoo, Jonghae Park, Taekbeom Lee, H. Jin Kim
arXiv:2609.07534v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Contact-rich assembly remains challenging because it requires submillimeter spatial accuracy and reliable interpretation of forces during sus...
By Yuhan Wang, Yurou Chen, Hongye Jiang, Wenzhao Lian
arXiv:2607. 27549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in large-scale imitation learning for robot manipulation has been driven by leveraging datasets across a wide range of robot embodiments.
By Ajay Sridhar, Jensen Gao, Jonathan Yang, Jean Mercat, Suneel Belkhale, Dorsa Sadigh
arXiv:2609.10506v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Action-conditioned latent world models predict future visual representations, enabling zero-shot goal-conditioned robot planning and control. However...
By Nisarga Nilavadi, Ralf R\"omer, Moritz Reuss, Michael Krawez, Tobias J\"ulg, Angela P. Schoellig, Rudolf Lioutikov, Wolfram Burgard
Action-conditioned latent world models predict future visual representations, enabling zero-shot goal-conditioned robot planning and control. However, their predictions for fine-grained spatial and ro...
arXiv:2609.09210v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Teleoperated demonstrations are often multimodal even when the underlying dynamics are nearly deterministic given the executed action. We argue that...
By Jinting Hang, Zhenhui Cai
arXiv:2609.07534v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Contact-rich assembly remains challenging because it requires submillimeter spatial accuracy and reliable interpretation of forces during sustained c...
By Yuhan Wang, Yurou Chen, Hongye Jiang, Wenzhao Lian
Recent progress in large-scale imitation learning for robot manipulation has been driven by leveraging datasets across a wide range of robot embodiments. However, achieving significant cross-embodiment transfer is often still challenging.
The paper introduces Sampling-Guided Policy Search (SGPS), a method that combines sampling-based model‑predictive control with first‑order policy gradients to accelerate visual policy learning for locomotion and manipulation tasks. SGPS starts with behavior cloning from sampled actions and then alternates between sampling‑based refinement and short‑horizon policy updates under varied initial states and dynamics. The approach is demonstrated on simulated Unitree Go2 and G1 robots, learning tasks such as obstacle traversal and bimanual carrying, and the distilled policies transfer zero‑shot to a real Go2 robot using onboard depth perception.
By Yilang Liu, Haoxiang You, Qian Wang, Daniel Rakita, Ian Abraham
arXiv:2606. 30192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sim-to-real transfer remains a major obstacle for reinforcement learning (RL), especially for vision-based control where image observations exacerbate the state-distribution shift between simulation and the real world.
By Hyunwoo Park, Sang-Hyun Lee