Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future

R Firoozi, J Tucker, S Tian, A Majumdar, J Sun… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We survey applications of pretrained foundation models in robotics. Traditional deep
learning models in robotics are trained on small datasets tailored for specific tasks, which …

Conformal prediction for uncertainty-aware planning with diffusion dynamics model

J Sun, Y Jiang, J Qiu, P Nobel… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Robotic applications often involve working in environments that are uncertain, dynamic, and
partially observable. Recently, diffusion models have been proposed for learning trajectory …

Inverse reinforcement learning as the algorithmic basis for theory of mind: current methods and open problems

J Ruiz-Serra, MS Harré - Algorithms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Theory of mind (ToM) is the psychological construct by which we model another's internal
mental states. Through ToM, we adjust our own behaviour to best suit a social context, and …

Plate: Visually-grounded planning with transformers in procedural tasks

J Sun, DA Huang, B Lu, YH Liu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we study the problem of how to leverage instructional videos to facilitate the
understanding of human decision-making processes, focusing on training a model with the …

Deep generative models for offline policy learning: Tutorial, survey, and perspectives on future directions

J Chen, B Ganguly, Y Xu, Y Mei, T Lan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Deep generative models (DGMs) have demonstrated great success across various domains,
particularly in generating texts, images, and videos using models trained from offline data …

Safe driving via expert guided policy optimization

Z Peng, Q Li, C Liu, B Zhou - Conference on Robot Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
When learning common skills like driving, beginners usually have domain experts standing
by to ensure the safety of the learning process. We formulate such learning scheme under …

Fuzzy centered explainable network for reinforcement learning

L Ou, YC Chang, YK Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The explainability of reinforcement learning (RL) models has received vast amount of
interest as its applications have widened. Most existing explainable RL models focus on …

Learning a decision module by imitating driver's control behaviors

J Huang, S Xie, J Sun, Q Ma, C Liu… - … on Robot Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Autonomous driving systems have a pipeline of perception, decision, planning, and control.
The decision module processes information from the perception module and directs the …

Generative adversarial inverse reinforcement learning with deep deterministic policy gradient

M Zhan, J Fan, J Guo - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although the issue of sparse expert samples at the early stage of training in inverse
reinforcement learning (IRL) is successfully resolved by the introduction of generative …

Discovering generalizable spatial goal representations via graph-based active reward learning

A Netanyahu, T Shu, J Tenenbaum… - … on Machine Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this work, we consider one-shot imitation learning for object rearrangement tasks, where
an AI agent needs to watch a single expert demonstration and learn to perform the same …