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Yachen Kang

8 accepted papers

2024

Beyond OOD State Actions: Supported Cross-Domain Offline Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2024technical

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn a policy using only pre-collected and fixed data. Although avoiding the time-consuming online interactions in RL, it poses challenges for out-of-distribution (OOD) state actions and often suffers from data inefficiency for training. Despite many effo…

2024

VGDIFFZERO: Text-To-Image Diffusion Models Can Be Zero-Shot Visual Grounders

ICASSP 2024accepted

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have shown impressive capabilities for generative tasks by leveraging strong vision-language alignment from pre-training. However, most vision-language discriminative tasks require extensive fine-tuning on carefully-labeled datasets to acquire such alignmen…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Beyond Reward: Offline Preference-guided Policy Optimization

ICML 2023poster

This study focuses on the topic of offline preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL), a variant of conventional reinforcement learning that dispenses with the need for online interaction or specification of reward functions. Instead, the agent is provided with fixed offline trajectories and hum…

2023

CEIL: Generalized Contextual Imitation Learning

NeurIPS 2023poster

In this paper, we present ContExtual Imitation Learning (CEIL), a general and broadly applicable algorithm for imitation learning (IL). Inspired by the formulation of hindsight information matching, we derive CEIL by explicitly learning a hindsight embedding function together with a contextual polic…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2023

Design from Policies: Conservative Test-Time Adaptation for Offline Policy Optimization

NeurIPS 2023poster

In this work, we decouple the iterative bi-level offline RL (value estimation and policy extraction) from the offline training phase, forming a non-iterative bi-level paradigm and avoiding the iterative error propagation over two levels. Specifically, this non-iterative paradigm allows us to conduct…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2021

Attributes-Guided and Pure-Visual Attention Alignment for Few-Shot Recognition

AAAI 2021technical

The purpose of few-shot recognition is to recognize novel categories with a limited number of labeled examples in each class. To encourage learning from a supplementary view, recent approaches have introduced auxiliary semantic modalities into effective metric-learning frameworks that aim to learn a…

2021

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Dynamics-Aware Rewards in Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2021poster

Unsupervised reinforcement learning aims to acquire skills without prior goal representations, where an agent automatically explores an open-ended environment to represent goals and learn the goal-conditioned policy. However, this procedure is often time-consuming, limiting the rollout in some poten…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2020

Independent Skill Transfer for Deep Reinforcement Learning

IJCAI 2020poster

Recently, diverse primitive skills have been learned by adopting the entropy as intrinsic reward, which further shows that new practical skills can be produced by combining a variety of primitive skills. This is essentially skill transfer, very useful for learning high-level skills but quite challen…