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most citedSample-efficient Cross-Entropy Method for Real-time Planning

25 citations · 52 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Mind the Uncertainty: Risk-Aware and Actively Exploring Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Marin Vlastelica, Sebastian Blaes, Cristina Pineri +1

We introduce a simple but effective method for managing risk in model-based reinforcement learning with trajectory sampling that involves probabilistic safety constraints and balan…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Real Robot Challenge 2022: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Offline Data in the Real World

Nico Gürtler, Felix Widmaier, Cansu Sancaktar +21

Experimentation on real robots is demanding in terms of time and costs. For this reason, a large part of the reinforcement learning (RL) community uses simulators to develop and be…

cs.LG2023★ 11 cited

Benchmarking Offline Reinforcement Learning on Real-Robot Hardware

Nico Gürtler, Sebastian Blaes, Pavel Kolev +5

Learning policies from previously recorded data is a promising direction for real-world robotics tasks, as online learning is often infeasible. Dexterous manipulation in particular…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Optimistic Active Exploration of Dynamical Systems

Bhavya Sukhija, Lenart Treven, Cansu Sancaktar +3

Reinforcement learning algorithms commonly seek to optimize policies for solving one particular task. How should we explore an unknown dynamical system such that the estimated mode…

cs.RO2022

Versatile Skill Control via Self-supervised Adversarial Imitation of Unlabeled Mixed Motions

Chenhao Li, Sebastian Blaes, Pavel Kolev +3

Learning diverse skills is one of the main challenges in robotics. To this end, imitation learning approaches have achieved impressive results. These methods require explicitly lab…

cs.RO2022★ 8 cited

Learning Agile Skills via Adversarial Imitation of Rough Partial Demonstrations

Chenhao Li, Marin Vlastelica, Sebastian Blaes +3

Learning agile skills is one of the main challenges in robotics. To this end, reinforcement learning approaches have achieved impressive results. These methods require explicit tas…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Curious Exploration via Structured World Models Yields Zero-Shot Object Manipulation

Cansu Sancaktar, Sebastian Blaes, Georg Martius

It has been a long-standing dream to design artificial agents that explore their environment efficiently via intrinsic motivation, similar to how children perform curious free play…

cs.LG2020★ 25 cited

Sample-efficient Cross-Entropy Method for Real-time Planning

Cristina Pinneri, Shambhuraj Sawant, Sebastian Blaes +4

Trajectory optimizers for model-based reinforcement learning, such as the Cross-Entropy Method (CEM), can yield compelling results even in high-dimensional control tasks and sparse…