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Victoria Dean

4 accepted papers

2024

Hearing Touch: Audio-Visual Pretraining for Contact-Rich Manipulation

ICRA 2024poster

Although pre-training on a large amount of data is beneficial for robot learning, current paradigms only perform large-scale pretraining for visual representations, whereas representations for other modalities are trained from scratch. In contrast to the abundance of visual data, it is unclear what…

Cited by 14SourceScholar
2023

Train Offline, Test Online: A Real Robot Learning Benchmark

ICRA 2023poster

Three challenges limit the progress of robot learning research: robots are expensive (few labs can participate), everyone uses different robots (findings do not generalize across labs), and we lack internet-scale robotics data. We take on these challenges via a new benchmark: Train Offline, Test Onl…

Cited by 20SourcecodeScholar
2021

Interesting Object, Curious Agent: Learning Task-Agnostic Exploration

NeurIPS 2021oral

Common approaches for task-agnostic exploration learn tabula-rasa --the agent assumes isolated environments and no prior knowledge or experience. However, in the real world, agents learn in many environments and always come with prior experiences as they explore new ones. Exploration is a lifelong p…

2020

See, Hear, Explore: Curiosity via Audio-Visual Association

NeurIPS 2020poster

Exploration is one of the core challenges in reinforcement learning. A common formulation of curiosity-driven exploration uses the difference between the real future and the future predicted by a learned model. However, predicting the future is an inherently difficult task which can be ill-posed in…