Transfer learning in robotics: An upcoming breakthrough? A review of promises and challenges

N Jaquier, MC Welle, A Gams, K Yao… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Transfer learning is a conceptually-enticing paradigm in pursuit of truly intelligent embodied
agents. The core concept—reusing prior knowledge to learn in and from novel situations—is …

LgTS: Dynamic Task Sampling using LLM-generated sub-goals for Reinforcement Learning Agents

Y Shukla, W Gao, V Sarathy, A Velasquez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advancements in reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLM) has
promoted their usage in problems that require high-level planning for robots and artificial …

Automaton-guided curriculum generation for reinforcement learning agents

Y Shukla, A Kulkarni, R Wright, A Velasquez… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Despite advances in Reinforcement Learning, many sequential decision making
tasks remain prohibitively expensive and impractical to learn. Recently, approaches that …

Logical Specifications-guided Dynamic Task Sampling for Reinforcement Learning Agents

Y Shukla, T Burman, AN Kulkarni, R Wright… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has made significant strides in enabling artificial agents to
learn diverse behaviors. However, learning an effective policy often requires a large number …

Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for USVs Using Cross-Domain Deep Reinforcement Learning and Neural Network Model Predictive Controller

J Li, J Chavez-Galaviz, K Azizzadenesheli… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This work presents a framework that allows Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) to avoid
dynamic obstacles through initial training on an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) and …

Scaling up multi-agent reinforcement learning: An extensive survey on scalability issues

D Liu, F Ren, J Yan, G Su, W Gu, S Kato - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-agent learning has made significant strides in recent years. Benefiting from deep
learning, multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) has transcended traditional …

A Framework for Few-Shot Policy Transfer through Observation Mapping and Behavior Cloning

Y Shukla, B Kesari, S Goel, R Wright… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite recent progress in Reinforcement Learning for robotics applications, many tasks
remain prohibitively difficult to solve because of the expensive interaction cost. Transfer …

[PDF][PDF] An Object-Oriented Approach for Generating Low-Fidelity Environments for Curriculum Schema Transfer

Y Shukla, K Loar, R Wright, J Sinapov - Scaling Robot Learning …, 2022 - yshukla.com
Advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have enabled robots to learn a wide range of
behaviors. Despite this, scaling the magnitude of learned behaviors to complex sequential …

[PDF][PDF] A Framework for Curriculum Schema Transfer From Low-Fidelity to High-Fidelity Environments

Y Shukla, J Sinpov - 3rd Workshop on Closing the Reality Gap in …, 2022 - yshukla.com
Emergence of Deep Neural Networks in Reinforcement Learning (RL) have enabled robots
to learn a wide range of behaviors. Despite these advances, in many tasks, the number of …