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Stephen Hart

4 accepted papers

2026

When Life Gives You BC, Make Q-functions: Extracting Q-values from Behavior Cloning for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning

RSS 2026poster

Behavior Cloning (BC) has emerged as a highly effective paradigm for robot learning. However, BC lacks a self-guided mechanism for online improvement after demonstrations have been collected. Existing offline-to-online learning methods often cause policies to replace previously learned good actions …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Equivariant Diffusion Policy

CoRL 2024poster

Recent work has shown diffusion models are an effective approach to learning the multimodal distributions arising from demonstration data in behavior cloning. However, a drawback of this approach is the need to learn a denoising function, which is significantly more complex than learning an explicit…

Cited by 26SourcecodeScholar
2022

Generalized Affordance Templates for Mobile Manipulation

ICRA 2022poster

This paper presents recent advances to the Affordance Template (AT) task description language. Affordance Templates provide standardized, easy-to-use tools for defining robot manipulation tasks that provide a high level of augmented reality capabilities to facilitate human-in-the-loop operation, but…

Cited by 14SourceScholar