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    Sim-To-Real via Sim-To-Sim: Data-Efficient Robotic Grasping via Randomized-To-Canonical Adaptation Networks by James, Stephen, Wohlhart, Paul, Kalakrishnan, Mrinal, Kalashnikov, Dmitry, Irpan, Alex, Ibarz, Julian, Levine, Sergey, Hadsell, Raia, Bousmalis, Konstantinos

    “…Real world data, especially in the domain of robotics, is notoriously costly to collect. One way to circumvent this can be to leverage the power of simulation…”
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    RL-CycleGAN: Reinforcement Learning Aware Simulation-to-Real by Rao, Kanishka, Harris, Chris, Irpan, Alex, Levine, Sergey, Ibarz, Julian, Khansari, Mohi

    “…Deep neural network based reinforcement learning (RL) can learn appropriate visual representations for complex tasks like vision-based robotic grasping without…”
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    Using Simulation and Domain Adaptation to Improve Efficiency of Deep Robotic Grasping by Bousmalis, Konstantinos, Irpan, Alex, Wohlhart, Paul, Bai, Yunfei, Kelcey, Matthew, Kalakrishnan, Mrinal, Downs, Laura, Ibarz, Julian, Pastor, Peter, Konolige, Kurt, Levine, Sergey, Vanhoucke, Vincent

    “…Instrumenting and collecting annotated visual grasping datasets to train modern machine learning algorithms can be extremely time-consuming and expensive. An…”
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    The Principle of Unchanged Optimality in Reinforcement Learning Generalization by Irpan, Alex, Song, Xingyou

    Published 01-06-2019
    “…Several recent papers have examined generalization in reinforcement learning (RL), by proposing new environments or ways to add noise to existing environments,…”
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    STEER: Flexible Robotic Manipulation via Dense Language Grounding by Smith, Laura, Irpan, Alex, Arenas, Montserrat Gonzalez, Kirmani, Sean, Kalashnikov, Dmitry, Shah, Dhruv, Xiao, Ted

    Published 05-11-2024
    “…The complexity of the real world demands robotic systems that can intelligently adapt to unseen situations. We present STEER, a robot learning framework that…”
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    Meta-Learning Requires Meta-Augmentation by Rajendran, Janarthanan, Irpan, Alex, Jang, Eric

    Published 10-07-2020
    “…Meta-learning algorithms aim to learn two components: a model that predicts targets for a task, and a base learner that quickly updates that model when given…”
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    Stop Regressing: Training Value Functions via Classification for Scalable Deep RL by Farebrother, Jesse, Orbay, Jordi, Vuong, Quan, Taïga, Adrien Ali, Chebotar, Yevgen, Xiao, Ted, Irpan, Alex, Levine, Sergey, Castro, Pablo Samuel, Faust, Aleksandra, Kumar, Aviral, Agarwal, Rishabh

    Published 06-03-2024
    “…Value functions are a central component of deep reinforcement learning (RL). These functions, parameterized by neural networks, are trained using a mean…”
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    BC-Z: Zero-Shot Task Generalization with Robotic Imitation Learning by Jang, Eric, Irpan, Alex, Khansari, Mohi, Kappler, Daniel, Ebert, Frederik, Lynch, Corey, Levine, Sergey, Finn, Chelsea

    Published 04-02-2022
    “…Conference on Robot Learning (pp. 991-1002). 2022 Jan 11 In this paper, we study the problem of enabling a vision-based robotic manipulation system to…”
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    RL-CycleGAN: Reinforcement Learning Aware Simulation-To-Real by Rao, Kanishka, Harris, Chris, Irpan, Alex, Levine, Sergey, Ibarz, Julian, Khansari, Mohi

    Published 16-06-2020
    “…Deep neural network based reinforcement learning (RL) can learn appropriate visual representations for complex tasks like vision-based robotic grasping without…”
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    Noise Contrastive Priors for Functional Uncertainty by Hafner, Danijar, Tran, Dustin, Lillicrap, Timothy, Irpan, Alex, Davidson, James

    Published 24-07-2018
    “…Obtaining reliable uncertainty estimates of neural network predictions is a long standing challenge. Bayesian neural networks have been proposed as a solution,…”
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    AW-Opt: Learning Robotic Skills with Imitation and Reinforcement at Scale by Lu, Yao, Hausman, Karol, Chebotar, Yevgen, Yan, Mengyuan, Jang, Eric, Herzog, Alexander, Xiao, Ted, Irpan, Alex, Khansari, Mohi, Kalashnikov, Dmitry, Levine, Sergey

    Published 09-11-2021
    “…Robotic skills can be learned via imitation learning (IL) using user-provided demonstrations, or via reinforcement learning (RL) using large amountsof…”
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    Actionable Models: Unsupervised Offline Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Skills by Chebotar, Yevgen, Hausman, Karol, Lu, Yao, Xiao, Ted, Kalashnikov, Dmitry, Varley, Jake, Irpan, Alex, Eysenbach, Benjamin, Julian, Ryan, Finn, Chelsea, Levine, Sergey

    Published 15-04-2021
    “…We consider the problem of learning useful robotic skills from previously collected offline data without access to manually specified rewards or additional…”
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    Off-Policy Evaluation via Off-Policy Classification by Irpan, Alex, Rao, Kanishka, Bousmalis, Konstantinos, Harris, Chris, Ibarz, Julian, Levine, Sergey

    Published 04-06-2019
    “…In this work, we consider the problem of model selection for deep reinforcement learning (RL) in real-world environments. Typically, the performance of deep RL…”
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    Learning Hierarchical Information Flow with Recurrent Neural Modules by Hafner, Danijar, Irpan, Alex, Davidson, James, Heess, Nicolas

    Published 18-06-2017
    “…We propose ThalNet, a deep learning model inspired by neocortical communication via the thalamus. Our model consists of recurrent neural modules that send…”
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    Sim-to-Real via Sim-to-Sim: Data-efficient Robotic Grasping via Randomized-to-Canonical Adaptation Networks by James, Stephen, Wohlhart, Paul, Kalakrishnan, Mrinal, Kalashnikov, Dmitry, Irpan, Alex, Ibarz, Julian, Levine, Sergey, Hadsell, Raia, Bousmalis, Konstantinos

    Published 18-12-2018
    “…Real world data, especially in the domain of robotics, is notoriously costly to collect. One way to circumvent this can be to leverage the power of simulation…”
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    Can Deep Reinforcement Learning Solve Erdos-Selfridge-Spencer Games? by Raghu, Maithra, Irpan, Alex, Andreas, Jacob, Kleinberg, Robert, Le, Quoc V, Kleinberg, Jon

    Published 07-11-2017
    “…Deep reinforcement learning has achieved many recent successes, but our understanding of its strengths and limitations is hampered by the lack of rich…”
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