From imitation to refinement–residual rl for precise visual assembly

LL Ankile, A Simeonov, I Shenfeld… - … 2024 Workshop on …, 2024 - openreview.net
Recent advances in behavior cloning (BC), like action-chunking and diffusion, have led to
impressive progress. Still, imitation alone remains insufficient for tasks requiring reliable and …

Good Data Is All Imitation Learning Needs

A Samadi, K Koufos, K Debattista, M Dianati - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we address the limitations of traditional teacher-student models, imitation
learning, and behaviour cloning in the context of Autonomous/Automated Driving Systems …

Auginsert: Learning robust visual-force policies via data augmentation for object assembly tasks

R Diaz, A Imdieke, V Veeriah, K Desingh - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.14968, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper primarily focuses on learning robust visual-force policies in the context of high-
precision object assembly tasks. Specifically, we focus on the contact phase of the assembly …

From Imitation to Refinement--Residual RL for Precise Assembly

L Ankile, A Simeonov, I Shenfeld, M Torne… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in behavior cloning (BC), like action-chunking and diffusion, have led to
impressive progress. Still, imitation alone remains insufficient for tasks requiring reliable and …

Learning from Demonstration with Implicit Nonlinear Dynamics Models

PD Fagan, S Ramamoorthy - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.18768, 2024 - arxiv.org
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a useful paradigm for training policies that solve tasks
involving complex motions, such as those encountered in robotic manipulation. In practice …

Sample-Efficient Behavior Cloning Using General Domain Knowledge

F Zhu, J Oh, R Simmons - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.16546, 2025 - arxiv.org
Behavior cloning has shown success in many sequential decision-making tasks by learning
from expert demonstrations, yet they can be very sample inefficient and fail to generalize to …