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20232026
most citedGrounded Curriculum Learning

3 citations · 6 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.RO2026

LEACL: LLM-Enhanced Automatic Curriculum Learning for Reinforcement Learning in Long-Horizon Manipulation Tasks

Faraz Heravi, James Ouyang, Zifan Xu +3

Long-horizon manipulation tasks pose significant challenges for reinforcement learning due to sparse reward signals and long horizons. Automatic curriculum learning (ACL) has been…

cs.CY2025

The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: A Full-Scale AI Literacy Course Accessible to All

Zifan Xu, Kristen Procko, Michael Munje +4

In Fall 2023, we introduced a new AI Literacy class called The Essentials of AI for Life and Society (CS 109), a one-credit, seminar course consisting mainly of guest lectures, whi…

cs.RO2025

GACL: Grounded Adaptive Curriculum Learning with Active Task and Performance Monitoring

Linji Wang, Zifan Xu, Peter Stone +1

Curriculum learning has emerged as a promising approach for training complex robotics tasks, yet current applications predominantly rely on manually designed curricula, which deman…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: An AI Literacy Course for the University Community

Joydeep Biswas, Don Fussell, Peter Stone +4

We describe the development of a one-credit course to promote AI literacy at The University of Texas at Austin. In response to a call for the rapid deployment of class to serve a b…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

Grounded Curriculum Learning

Linji Wang, Zifan Xu, Peter Stone +1

The high cost of real-world data for robotics Reinforcement Learning (RL) leads to the wide usage of simulators. Despite extensive work on building better dynamics models for simul…

cs.RO2024

Autonomous Ground Navigation in Highly Constrained Spaces: Lessons learned from The 3rd BARN Challenge at ICRA 2024

Xuesu Xiao, Zifan Xu, Aniket Datar +16

The 3rd BARN (Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation) Challenge took place at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024) in Yokohama, Japan and co…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Dexterous Legged Locomotion in Confined 3D Spaces with Reinforcement Learning

Zifan Xu, Amir Hossain Raj, Xuesu Xiao +1

Recent advances of locomotion controllers utilizing deep reinforcement learning (RL) have yielded impressive results in terms of achieving rapid and robust locomotion across challe…

stat.ML2024

Sample Efficient Myopic Exploration Through Multitask Reinforcement Learning with Diverse Tasks

Ziping Xu, Zifan Xu, Runxuan Jiang +2

Multitask Reinforcement Learning (MTRL) approaches have gained increasing attention for its wide applications in many important Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks. However, while re…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

LaRS: Latent Reasoning Skills for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Zifan Xu, Haozhu Wang, Dmitriy Bespalov +3

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is a popular in-context learning (ICL) approach for large language models (LLMs), especially when tackling complex reasoning tasks. Traditional ICL…