arXiv AI By Yi Li (TU Darmstadt), Alexandre Chapin (LIRIS), Liming Chen (LIRIS), Jan Peters (TU Darmstadt), Alap Kshirsagar (IIT Delhi, ADU)

More Structure, Not More Capacity: Object-Centric Representations for Visuomotor Imitation Learning

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