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One-Shot Imitation from Observing Humans via Domain-Adaptive Meta-Learning [pdf] (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: By practicing on many human and robot demos, a robot learns to copy a new task from one video of someone, despite different cameras, rooms, and bodies. Two robot arms placed, pushed, and picked up objects, with no hand-written rules matching human and robot moves.

Abstract · One-Shot Imitation from Observing Humans via Domain-Adaptive Meta-Learning

Humans and animals are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill just once. We consider the problem of allowing a robot to do the same -- learning from a raw video pixels of a human, even when there is substantial domain shift in the perspective, environment, and embodiment between the robot and the observed human. Prior approaches to this problem have hand-specified how human and robot actions correspond and often relied on explicit human pose detection systems. In this work, we present an approach for one-shot learning from a video of a human by using human and robot demonstration data from a variety of previous tasks to build up prior knowledge through meta-learning. Then, combining this prior knowledge and only a single video demonstration from a human, the robot can perform the task that the human demonstrated. We show experiments on both a PR2 arm and a Sawyer arm, demonstrating that after meta-learning, the robot can learn to place, push, and pick-and-place new objects using just one video of a human performing the manipulation.

Tianhe Yu, Chelsea Finn, Annie Xie, Sudeep Dasari, Tianhao Zhang, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine
arXiv:1802.01557 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.RO · submitted Feb 5, 2018
abstract · pdf · html · First two authors contributed equally. Video available at https://sites.google.com/view/daml

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