4 papers
Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL
Joseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Nicolas Mansard +1
World models offer a promising avenue for more faithfully capturing complex dynamics, including contacts and non-rigidity, as well as complex sensory information, such as visual pe…
WorldPlanner: Monte Carlo Tree Search and MPC with Action-Conditioned Visual World Models
R. Khorrambakht, Joaquim Ortiz-Haro, Joseph Amigo +4
Robots must understand their environment from raw sensory inputs and reason about the consequences of their actions in it to solve complex tasks. Behavior Cloning (BC) leverages ta…
An Introduction to Zero-Order Optimization Techniques for Robotics
Armand Jordana, Jianghan Zhang, Joseph Amigo +1
Zero-order optimization techniques are becoming increasingly popular in robotics due to their ability to handle non-differentiable functions and escape local minima. These advantag…
First Order Model-Based RL through Decoupled Backpropagation
Joseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Elliot Chane-Sane +2
There is growing interest in reinforcement learning (RL) methods that leverage the simulator's derivatives to improve learning efficiency. While early gradient-based approaches hav…