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5 papers

cs.RO2026

Robometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory Comparisons

Anthony Liang, Yigit Korkmaz, Jiahui Zhang +14

General-purpose robot reward models are typically trained to predict absolute task progress from expert demonstrations, providing only local, frame-level supervision. While effecti…

cs.RO2026

When a Robot is More Capable than a Human: Learning from Constrained Demonstrators

Xinhu Li, Ayush Jain, Zhaojing Yang +2

Learning from demonstrations enables experts to teach robots complex tasks using interfaces such as kinesthetic teaching, joystick control, and sim-to-real transfer. However, these…

cs.AI2026

Causally Robust Reward Learning from Reason-Augmented Preference Feedback

Minjune Hwang, Yigit Korkmaz, Daniel Seita +1

Preference-based reward learning is widely used for shaping agent behavior to match a user's preference, yet its sparse binary feedback makes it especially vulnerable to causal con…

cs.LG2025

Actor-Free Continuous Control via Structurally Maximizable Q-Functions

Yigit Korkmaz, Urvi Bhuwania, Ayush Jain +1

Value-based algorithms are a cornerstone of off-policy reinforcement learning due to their simplicity and training stability. However, their use has traditionally been restricted t…

cs.RO2025

MILE: Model-based Intervention Learning

Yigit Korkmaz, Erdem Bıyık

Imitation learning techniques have been shown to be highly effective in real-world control scenarios, such as robotics. However, these approaches not only suffer from compounding e…