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20202026
most citedRT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale

40 citations · 77 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.RO2026

Memory Without Curation: Learning Multi-Stream Latent Memory for Robot Policies

Yilin Wu, Rutav Shah, Shuaiyi Huang +5

It is widely appreciated that robotic policies require long-term memory to perform complex tasks. However, directly conditioning policies on all past observations leaves policy lea…

cs.RO2025

Demonstrating Multi-Suction Item Picking at Scale via Multi-Modal Learning of Pick Success

Che Wang, Jeroen van Baar, Chaitanya Mitash +6

This work demonstrates how autonomously learning aspects of robotic operation from sparsely-labeled, real-world data of deployed, engineered solutions at industrial scale can provi…

cs.RO2025

ReWiND: Language-Guided Rewards Teach Robot Policies without New Demonstrations

Jiahui Zhang, Yusen Luo, Abrar Anwar +5

We introduce ReWiND, a framework for learning robot manipulation tasks solely from language instructions without per-task demonstrations. Standard reinforcement learning (RL) and i…

cs.LG2023

Value Explicit Pretraining for Learning Transferable Representations

Kiran Lekkala, Henghui Bao, Sumedh A. Sontakke +2

Understanding visual inputs for a given task amidst varied changes is a key challenge posed by visual reinforcement learning agents. We propose \textit{Value Explicit Pretraining}…

cs.RO2023★ 16 cited

Q-Transformer: Scalable Offline Reinforcement Learning via Autoregressive Q-Functions

Yevgen Chebotar, Quan Vuong, Alex Irpan +22

In this work, we present a scalable reinforcement learning method for training multi-task policies from large offline datasets that can leverage both human demonstrations and auton…

cs.AI2023★ 7 cited

RoboCLIP: One Demonstration is Enough to Learn Robot Policies

Sumedh A Sontakke, Jesse Zhang, Sébastien M. R. Arnold +5

Reward specification is a notoriously difficult problem in reinforcement learning, requiring extensive expert supervision to design robust reward functions. Imitation learning (IL)…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Lightweight Learner for Shared Knowledge Lifelong Learning

Yunhao Ge, Yuecheng Li, Di Wu +12

In Lifelong Learning (LL), agents continually learn as they encounter new conditions and tasks. Most current LL is limited to a single agent that learns tasks sequentially. Dedicat…

cs.RO2022★ 40 cited

RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale

Anthony Brohan, Noah Brown, Justice Carbajal +48

By transferring knowledge from large, diverse, task-agnostic datasets, modern machine learning models can solve specific downstream tasks either zero-shot or with small task-specif…

cs.LG2022

Model2Detector: Widening the Information Bottleneck for Out-of-Distribution Detection using a Handful of Gradient Steps

Sumedh A Sontakke, Buvaneswari Ramanan, Laurent Itti +1

Out-of-distribution detection is an important capability that has long eluded vanilla neural networks. Deep Neural networks (DNNs) tend to generate over-confident predictions when…

cs.LG2021

GalilAI: Out-of-Task Distribution Detection using Causal Active Experimentation for Safe Transfer RL

Sumedh A Sontakke, Stephen Iota, Zizhao Hu +3

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a well-studied topic in supervised learning. Extending the successes in supervised learning methods to the reinforcement learning (RL) settin…

cs.AI2021

Video2Skill: Adapting Events in Demonstration Videos to Skills in an Environment using Cyclic MDP Homomorphisms

Sumedh A Sontakke, Sumegh Roychowdhury, Mausoom Sarkar +3

Humans excel at learning long-horizon tasks from demonstrations augmented with textual commentary, as evidenced by the burgeoning popularity of tutorial videos online. Intuitively,…

cs.LG2020★ 8 cited

Causal Curiosity: RL Agents Discovering Self-supervised Experiments for Causal Representation Learning

Sumedh A. Sontakke, Arash Mehrjou, Laurent Itti +1

Animals exhibit an innate ability to learn regularities of the world through interaction. By performing experiments in their environment, they are able to discern the causal factor…

cs.LG2020

SHERLock: Self-Supervised Hierarchical Event Representation Learning

Sumegh Roychowdhury, Sumedh A. Sontakke, Nikaash Puri +5

Temporal event representations are an essential aspect of learning among humans. They allow for succinct encoding of the experiences we have through a variety of sensory inputs. Al…