arXiv AI

Deliberate Practice: Learning Robot Skills under a Budget

arXiv:2608. 13415v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the problem of autonomously learning robot skills under a limited practice budget for sequential tasks.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

HARBOR: A Harness Framework for Agentic Robot Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 08610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a powerful paradigm for robot learning, particularly in sim-to-real settings, but its broader adoption remains limited by the engineering pipeline surrounding the algorithms.

By Zechu Li, Yufeng Jin, Xiaoyang Liu, Puze Liu, Vignesh Prasad, Carlo D'Eramo, Georgia Chalvatzaki
arXiv AI
Jul 2

ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics

arXiv:2607. 00272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional robot programming is challenging: it requires orchestrating multimodal perception, managing physical contact dynamics, and handling diverse configurations and execution failures.

By Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou, Letian Fu, Wenli Xiao, Ajay Mandlekar, Yinzhen Xu, Guanya Shi, Ken Goldberg, Ang Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Guanzhi Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 8

Neuro-Symbolic Learning for Long-Horizon Task Planning Under Complex Logical Constraints

arXiv:2606. 06877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task planning often suffers from severe efficiency bottlenecks when robots must reason over long-horizon action sequences under complex logical constraints, including object affordances, spatial relationships, and sequential action dependencies.

By Qiwei Du, Zitong Zhan, Shaoshu Su, Bowen Li, Yi Du, Zhipeng Zhao, Taimeng Fu, Sebastian Scherer, Jiaoyang Li, Chen Wang
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
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Freeform Preference Learning for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2606. 32027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reward design remains a central bottleneck for autonomous robot policy improvement, especially in long-horizon manipulation tasks where sparse success labels provide too little signal and binary preferences collapse many competing notions of quality into one ambiguous signal.

By Marcel Torne, Anubha Mahajan, Abhijnya Bhat, Chelsea Finn