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20222026
most citedFew-Shot Preference Learning for Human-in-the-Loop RL

15 citations · 51 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.SE2026

Composer 2 Technical Report

Cursor Research, :, Aaron Chan +53

Composer 2 is a specialized model designed for agentic software engineering. The model demonstrates strong long-term planning and coding intelligence while maintaining the ability…

cs.RO2025

Data Retrieval with Importance Weights for Few-Shot Imitation Learning

Amber Xie, Rahul Chand, Dorsa Sadigh +1

While large-scale robot datasets have propelled recent progress in imitation learning, learning from smaller task specific datasets remains critical for deployment in new environme…

cs.RO2025

Scaffolding Dexterous Manipulation with Vision-Language Models

Vincent de Bakker, Joey Hejna, Tyler Ga Wei Lum +6

Dexterous robotic hands are essential for performing complex manipulation tasks, yet remain difficult to train due to the challenges of demonstration collection and high-dimensiona…

cs.RO2025

Efficiently Generating Expressive Quadruped Behaviors via Language-Guided Preference Learning

Jaden Clark, Joey Hejna, Dorsa Sadigh

Expressive robotic behavior is essential for the widespread acceptance of robots in social environments. Recent advancements in learned legged locomotion controllers have enabled m…

cs.RO2025

Robot Data Curation with Mutual Information Estimators

Joey Hejna, Suvir Mirchandani, Ashwin Balakrishna +7

The performance of imitation learning policies often hinges on the datasets with which they are trained. Consequently, investment in data collection for robotics has grown across b…

cs.RO2024

Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners

Yecheng Jason Ma, Joey Hejna, Ayzaan Wahid +15

Predicting temporal progress from visual trajectories is important for intelligent robots that can learn, adapt, and improve. However, learning such progress estimator, or temporal…

cs.RO2024

So You Think You Can Scale Up Autonomous Robot Data Collection?

Suvir Mirchandani, Suneel Belkhale, Joey Hejna +3

A long-standing goal in robot learning is to develop methods for robots to acquire new skills autonomously. While reinforcement learning (RL) comes with the promise of enabling aut…

cs.RO2024★ 4 cited

MotIF: Motion Instruction Fine-tuning

Minyoung Hwang, Joey Hejna, Dorsa Sadigh +1

While success in many robotics tasks can be determined by only observing the final state and how it differs from the initial state - e.g., if an apple is picked up - many tasks req…

cs.RO2024

Re-Mix: Optimizing Data Mixtures for Large Scale Imitation Learning

Joey Hejna, Chethan Bhateja, Yichen Jiang +2

Increasingly large imitation learning datasets are being collected with the goal of training foundation models for robotics. However, despite the fact that data selection has been…

cs.CL2024

PERSONA: A Reproducible Testbed for Pluralistic Alignment

Louis Castricato, Nathan Lile, Rafael Rafailov +2

The rapid advancement of language models (LMs) necessitates robust alignment with diverse user values. However, current preference optimization approaches often fail to capture the…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization in Direct Alignment Algorithms

Rafael Rafailov, Yaswanth Chittepu, Ryan Park +5

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been crucial to the recent success of Large Language Models (LLMs), however, it is often a complex and brittle process. In the…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Aligning Language Models with Demonstrated Feedback

Omar Shaikh, Michelle S. Lam, Joey Hejna +4

Language models are aligned to emulate the collective voice of many, resulting in outputs that align with no one in particular. Steering LLMs away from generic output is possible t…

cs.RO2024★ 8 cited

Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy

Octo Model Team, Dibya Ghosh, Homer Walke +16

Large policies pretrained on diverse robot datasets have the potential to transform robotic learning: instead of training new policies from scratch, such generalist robot policies…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

From to : Your Language Model is Secretly a Q-Function

Rafael Rafailov, Joey Hejna, Ryan Park +1

Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF) has been critical to the success of the latest generation of generative AI models. In response to the complex nature of the classi…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

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.LG2023★ 2 cited

Contrastive Preference Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL

Joey Hejna, Rafael Rafailov, Harshit Sikchi +4

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a popular paradigm for aligning models with human intent. Typically RLHF algorithms operate in two phases: first, u…

cs.LG2023

Improving Long-Horizon Imitation Through Instruction Prediction

Joey Hejna, Pieter Abbeel, Lerrel Pinto

Complex, long-horizon planning and its combinatorial nature pose steep challenges for learning-based agents. Difficulties in such settings are exacerbated in low data regimes where…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Inverse Preference Learning: Preference-based RL without a Reward Function

Joey Hejna, Dorsa Sadigh

Reward functions are difficult to design and often hard to align with human intent. Preference-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms address these problems by learning rewar…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Distance Weighted Supervised Learning for Offline Interaction Data

Joey Hejna, Jensen Gao, Dorsa Sadigh

Sequential decision making algorithms often struggle to leverage different sources of unstructured offline interaction data. Imitation learning (IL) methods based on supervised lea…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Extreme Q-Learning: MaxEnt RL without Entropy

Divyansh Garg, Joey Hejna, Matthieu Geist +1

Modern Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms require estimates of the maximal Q-value, which are difficult to compute in continuous domains with an infinite number of possibl…

cs.RO2022★ 15 cited

Few-Shot Preference Learning for Human-in-the-Loop RL

Joey Hejna, Dorsa Sadigh

While reinforcement learning (RL) has become a more popular approach for robotics, designing sufficiently informative reward functions for complex tasks has proven to be extremely…