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most citedDIP-RL: Demonstration-Inferred Preference Learning in Minecraft

1 citations · 3 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.RO2026

Koala Gripper: Co-designing Robotic Grippers and Data-Capture Devices for Scaling Dexterous Manipulation Learning

Amar Hajj-Ahmad, Zubin Kremer Guha, Tim Fofonoff +8

As the demand for larger manipulation datasets grows, handheld robotic gripper data collection and the associated gripper designs become more vital. Current data collection device…

cs.RO2026

Bridging Handheld and Teleoperated Supervision for Contact-Rich Manipulation via State-Gated Experts

Vidullan Surendran, Neehar Peri, David Watkins

Handheld data collection systems, such as the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI), enable scalable data collection across diverse environments but only capture observed actions…

cs.RO2024

Theia: Distilling Diverse Vision Foundation Models for Robot Learning

Jinghuan Shang, Karl Schmeckpeper, Brandon B. May +4

Vision-based robot policy learning, which maps visual inputs to actions, necessitates a holistic understanding of diverse visual tasks beyond single-task needs like classification…

cs.RO2024

A Survey of Robotic Language Grounding: Tradeoffs between Symbols and Embeddings

Vanya Cohen, Jason Xinyu Liu, Raymond Mooney +2

With large language models, robots can understand language more flexibly and more capable than ever before. This survey reviews and situates recent literature into a spectrum with…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

DIP-RL: Demonstration-Inferred Preference Learning in Minecraft

Ellen Novoseller, Vinicius G. Goecks, David Watkins +2

In machine learning for sequential decision-making, an algorithmic agent learns to interact with an environment while receiving feedback in the form of a reward signal. However, in…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

Towards Solving Fuzzy Tasks with Human Feedback: A Retrospective of the MineRL BASALT 2022 Competition

Stephanie Milani, Anssi Kanervisto, Karolis Ramanauskas +27

To facilitate research in the direction of fine-tuning foundation models from human feedback, we held the MineRL BASALT Competition on Fine-Tuning from Human Feedback at NeurIPS 20…

cs.RO2022

Learning Mobile Manipulation

David Watkins

Providing mobile robots with the ability to manipulate objects has, despite decades of research, remained a challenging problem. The problem is approachable in constrained environm…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Combining Learning from Human Feedback and Knowledge Engineering to Solve Hierarchical Tasks in Minecraft

Vinicius G. Goecks, Nicholas Waytowich, David Watkins-Valls +1

Real-world tasks of interest are generally poorly defined by human-readable descriptions and have no pre-defined reward signals unless it is defined by a human designer. Conversely…