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Publications (10)

cs.RO2025

Rapidly Adapting Policies to the Real World via Simulation-Guided Fine-Tuning

Patrick Yin, Tyler Westenbroek, Simran Bagaria +4

Robot learning requires a considerable amount of high-quality data to realize the promise of generalization. However, large data sets are costly to collect in the real world. Physi…

cs.RO2024

ASID: Active Exploration for System Identification in Robotic Manipulation

Marius Memmel, Andrew Wagenmaker, Chuning Zhu +3

Model-free control strategies such as reinforcement learning have shown the ability to learn control strategies without requiring an accurate model or simulator of the world. While…

cs.RO2025

DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset

Alexander Khazatsky, Karl Pertsch, Suraj Nair +98

The creation of large, diverse, high-quality robot manipulation datasets is an important stepping stone on the path toward more capable and robust robotic manipulation policies. Ho…

cs.RO2026

Simulation Distillation: Pretraining World Models in Simulation for Rapid Real-World Adaptation

Jacob Levy, Tyler Westenbroek, Kevin Huang +6

Robot learning requires adaptation methods that improve reliably from limited, mixed-quality interaction data. This is especially challenging in long-horizon, contact-rich tasks, w…

cs.LG2022

Bisimulation Makes Analogies in Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

Philippe Hansen-Estruch, Amy Zhang, Ashvin Nair +2

Building generalizable goal-conditioned agents from rich observations is a key to reinforcement learning (RL) solving real world problems. Traditionally in goal-conditioned RL, an…

cs.LG2025

Stabilizing Contrastive RL: Techniques for Robotic Goal Reaching from Offline Data

Chongyi Zheng, Benjamin Eysenbach, Homer Walke +4

Robotic systems that rely primarily on self-supervised learning have the potential to decrease the amount of human annotation and engineering effort required to learn control strat…