Few-Shot In-Context Imitation Learning via Implicit Graph Alignment

Consider the following problem: given a few demonstrations of a task across a few different objects, how can a robot learn to perform that same task on new, previously unseen objects? This is challenging because the large variety of objects within a class makes it difficult to infer the task-relevan...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-10
Main Authors: Vosylius, Vitalis, Johns, Edward
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alignment
Context
Graph representations
Graphical representations
Learning
Robots
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Summary:Consider the following problem: given a few demonstrations of a task across a few different objects, how can a robot learn to perform that same task on new, previously unseen objects? This is challenging because the large variety of objects within a class makes it difficult to infer the task-relevant relationship between the new objects and the objects in the demonstrations. We address this by formulating imitation learning as a conditional alignment problem between graph representations of objects. Consequently, we show that this conditioning allows for in-context learning, where a robot can perform a task on a set of new objects immediately after the demonstrations, without any prior knowledge about the object class or any further training. In our experiments, we explore and validate our design choices, and we show that our method is highly effective for few-shot learning of several real-world, everyday tasks, whilst outperforming baselines. Videos are available on our project webpage at https://www.robot-learning.uk/implicit-graph-alignment.
ISSN:2331-8422