activity
20202026
most citedEnd-to-End Pixel-Based Deep Active Inference for Body Perception and Action

57 citations · 64 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

A Deep Dive into Scaling RL for Code Generation with Synthetic Data and Curricula

Cansu Sancaktar, David Zhang, Gabriel Synnaeve +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for improving large language models beyond supervised fine-tuning, yet sustaining performance gains at scale remains…

cs.LG2026

GASP: Guided Asymmetric Self-Play For Coding LLMs

Swadesh Jana, Cansu Sancaktar, Tomáš Daniš +3

Asymmetric self-play has emerged as a promising paradigm for post-training large language models, where a teacher continually generates questions for a student to solve at the edge…

cs.RO2025

Hybrid Training for Vision-Language-Action Models

Pietro Mazzaglia, Cansu Sancaktar, Markus Peschl +1

Using Large Language Models to produce intermediate thoughts, a.k.a. Chain-of-thought (CoT), before providing an answer has been a successful recipe for solving complex language ta…

cs.LG2025

Offline vs. Online Learning in Model-based RL: Lessons for Data Collection Strategies

Jiaqi Chen, Ji Shi, Cansu Sancaktar +2

Data collection is crucial for learning robust world models in model-based reinforcement learning. The most prevalent strategies are to actively collect trajectories by interacting…

cs.AI2025

SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models

Cansu Sancaktar, Christian Gumbsch, Andrii Zadaianchuk +2

Exploration is a cornerstone of reinforcement learning (RL). Intrinsic motivation attempts to decouple exploration from external, task-based rewards. However, established approache…

cs.LG2023

Regularity as Intrinsic Reward for Free Play

Cansu Sancaktar, Justus Piater, Georg Martius

We propose regularity as a novel reward signal for intrinsically-motivated reinforcement learning. Taking inspiration from child development, we postulate that striving for structu…

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★ 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.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.CV2020★ 57 cited

End-to-End Pixel-Based Deep Active Inference for Body Perception and Action

Cansu Sancaktar, Marcel van Gerven, Pablo Lanillos

We present a pixel-based deep active inference algorithm (PixelAI) inspired by human body perception and action. Our algorithm combines the free-energy principle from neuroscience,…