no code implementations • ICON 2021 • Deepali Jain, Malaya Dutta Borah, Anupam Biswas
The search for an appropriate sentence embedding that can enable an effective scoring mechanism has been the focus of several research works in this domain.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2023 • Isabel Leal, Krzysztof Choromanski, Deepali Jain, Avinava Dubey, Jake Varley, Michael Ryoo, Yao Lu, Frederick Liu, Vikas Sindhwani, Quan Vuong, Tamas Sarlos, Ken Oslund, Karol Hausman, Kanishka Rao
We present Self-Adaptive Robust Attention for Robotics Transformers (SARA-RT): a new paradigm for addressing the emerging challenge of scaling up Robotics Transformers (RT) for on-robot deployment.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2023 • David B. D'Ambrosio, Jonathan Abelian, Saminda Abeyruwan, Michael Ahn, Alex Bewley, Justin Boyd, Krzysztof Choromanski, Omar Cortes, Erwin Coumans, Tianli Ding, Wenbo Gao, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Navdeep Jaitly, Deepali Jain, Juhana Kangaspunta, Satoshi Kataoka, Gus Kouretas, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Corey Lynch, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Q. Moore, Thinh Nguyen, Ken Oslund, Barney J Reed, Krista Reymann, Pannag R. Sanketi, Anish Shankar, Pierre Sermanet, Vikas Sindhwani, Avi Singh, Vincent Vanhoucke, Grace Vesom, Peng Xu
We present a deep-dive into a real-world robotic learning system that, in previous work, was shown to be capable of hundreds of table tennis rallies with a human and has the ability to precisely return the ball to desired targets.
no code implementations • 24 May 2023 • Ken Caluwaerts, Atil Iscen, J. Chase Kew, Wenhao Yu, Tingnan Zhang, Daniel Freeman, Kuang-Huei Lee, Lisa Lee, Stefano Saliceti, Vincent Zhuang, Nathan Batchelor, Steven Bohez, Federico Casarini, Jose Enrique Chen, Omar Cortes, Erwin Coumans, Adil Dostmohamed, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, Alejandro Escontrela, Erik Frey, Roland Hafner, Deepali Jain, Bauyrjan Jyenis, Yuheng Kuang, Edward Lee, Linda Luu, Ofir Nachum, Ken Oslund, Jason Powell, Diego Reyes, Francesco Romano, Feresteh Sadeghi, Ron Sloat, Baruch Tabanpour, Daniel Zheng, Michael Neunert, Raia Hadsell, Nicolas Heess, Francesco Nori, Jeff Seto, Carolina Parada, Vikas Sindhwani, Vincent Vanhoucke, Jie Tan
In the second approach, we distill the specialist skills into a Transformer-based generalist locomotion policy, named Locomotion-Transformer, that can handle various terrains and adjust the robot's gait based on the perceived environment and robot states.
1 code implementation • 2 Feb 2023 • Krzysztof Choromanski, Arijit Sehanobish, Han Lin, Yunfan Zhao, Eli Berger, Tetiana Parshakova, Alvin Pan, David Watkins, Tianyi Zhang, Valerii Likhosherstov, Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Avinava Dubey, Deepali Jain, Tamas Sarlos, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Adrian Weller
We present two new classes of algorithms for efficient field integration on graphs encoding point clouds.
no code implementations • 2 Aug 2022 • Yunfan Zhao, Qingkai Pan, Krzysztof Choromanski, Deepali Jain, Vikas Sindhwani
We present a new class of structured reinforcement learning policy-architectures, Implicit Two-Tower (ITT) policies, where the actions are chosen based on the attention scores of their learnable latent representations with those of the input states.
1 code implementation • ICLR 2022 • Krzysztof Choromanski, Haoxian Chen, Han Lin, Yuanzhe Ma, Arijit Sehanobish, Deepali Jain, Michael S Ryoo, Jake Varley, Andy Zeng, Valerii Likhosherstov, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Vikas Sindhwani, Adrian Weller
We propose a new class of random feature methods for linearizing softmax and Gaussian kernels called hybrid random features (HRFs) that automatically adapt the quality of kernel estimation to provide most accurate approximation in the defined regions of interest.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2021 • Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Deepali Jain, Wenhao Yu, Xingyou Song, Jack Parker-Holder, Tingnan Zhang, Valerii Likhosherstov, Aldo Pacchiano, Anirban Santara, Yunhao Tang, Jie Tan, Adrian Weller
There has recently been significant interest in training reinforcement learning (RL) agents in vision-based environments.
2 code implementations • 19 Jan 2021 • Xingyou Song, Krzysztof Choromanski, Jack Parker-Holder, Yunhao Tang, Qiuyi Zhang, Daiyi Peng, Deepali Jain, Wenbo Gao, Aldo Pacchiano, Tamas Sarlos, Yuxiang Yang
In this paper, we approach the problem of optimizing blackbox functions over large hybrid search spaces consisting of both combinatorial and continuous parameters.
no code implementations • 28 Dec 2020 • Alberto Camacho, Jacob Varley, Deepali Jain, Atil Iscen, Dmitry Kalashnikov
In this work we augment a Deep Q-Learning agent with a Reward Machine (DQRM) to increase speed of learning vision-based policies for robot tasks, and overcome some of the limitations of DQN that prevent it from converging to good-quality policies.
no code implementations • 23 Nov 2020 • Deepali Jain, Atil Iscen, Ken Caluwaerts
We show that hierarchical policies can concurrently learn to locomote and navigate in these environments, and show they are more efficient than non-hierarchical neural network policies.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2020 • Atanu R. Sinha, Deepali Jain, Nikhil Sheoran, Sopan Khosla, Reshmi Sasidharan
To overcome these deficiencies we extract proxy ratings from clickstream data, typically collected for every customer's online interactions, by developing an approach based on Reinforcement Learning (RL).
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Xingyou Song, Krzysztof Choromanski, Jack Parker-Holder, Yunhao Tang, Wenbo Gao, Aldo Pacchiano, Tamas Sarlos, Deepali Jain, Yuxiang Yang
We present a neural architecture search algorithm to construct compact reinforcement learning (RL) policies, by combining ENAS and ES in a highly scalable and intuitive way.
no code implementations • 10 Jul 2019 • Xingyou Song, Krzysztof Choromanski, Jack Parker-Holder, Yunhao Tang, Wenbo Gao, Aldo Pacchiano, Tamas Sarlos, Deepali Jain, Yuxiang Yang
We present a neural architecture search algorithm to construct compact reinforcement learning (RL) policies, by combining ENAS and ES in a highly scalable and intuitive way.
no code implementations • 22 May 2019 • Deepali Jain, Atil Iscen, Ken Caluwaerts
We test our framework on a path-following task for a dynamic quadruped robot and we show that steering behaviors automatically emerge in the latent command space as low-level skills are needed for this task.
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1
no code implementations • 7 Mar 2019 • Krzysztof Choromanski, Aldo Pacchiano, Jack Parker-Holder, Yunhao Tang, Deepali Jain, Yuxiang Yang, Atil Iscen, Jasmine Hsu, Vikas Sindhwani
Interest in derivative-free optimization (DFO) and "evolutionary strategies" (ES) has recently surged in the Reinforcement Learning (RL) community, with growing evidence that they can match state of the art methods for policy optimization problems in Robotics.