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Justin Lidard

4 accepted papers

2025

Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization

ICLR 2025poster

We introduce Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization, DPPO, an algorithmic framework including best practices for fine-tuning diffusion-based policies (e.g. Diffusion Policy) in continuous control and robot learning tasks using the policy gradient (PG) method from reinforcement learning (RL). PG method…

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2025

Safety with Agency: Human-Centered Safety Filter with Application to AI-Assisted Motorsports

RSS 2025poster

Recent advances in safe autonomy open new opportunities in assisting humans in safety-critical and time-sensitive tasks such as motorsports. However, existing safe control algorithms predominantly focus on fully automated settings and often undermine key requirements in human–AI shared control domai…

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2024

Blending Data-Driven Priors in Dynamic Games

RSS 2024poster

As intelligent robots like autonomous vehicles become increasingly deployed in the presence of people, the extent to which these systems should leverage model-based game-theoretic planners versus data-driven policies for safe, interaction-aware motion planning remains an open question. Existing dyna…

2024

Risk-Calibrated Human-Robot Interaction via Set-Valued Intent Prediction

RSS 2024poster

Tasks where robots must anticipate human intent, such as navigating around a cluttered home or sorting everyday items, are challenging because they exhibit a wide range of valid actions that lead to similar outcomes. Moreover, zero-shot cooperation between human-robot partners is an especially chall…

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