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Yutai Zhou

4 accepted papers

2026

AutoFocus-IL: VLM-Based Saliency Maps for Data-Efficient Visual Imitation Learning without Extra Human Annotations

ICRA 2026poster

We present AutoFocus-IL, a simple yet effective method to improve data efficiency and generalization in visual imitation learning by guiding policies to attend to task-relevant features rather than distractors and spurious correlations. Saliency regularization has emerged as a promising way to achie…

2025

GABRIL: Gaze-Based Regularization for Mitigating Causal Confusion in Imitation Learning

IROS 2025

Imitation Learning (IL) is a widely adopted approach which enables agents to learn from human expert demonstrations by framing the task as a supervised learning problem. However, IL often suffers from causal confusion, where agents misinterpret spurious correlations as causal relationships, leading

Cited by 4SourceScholar
2022

Learning Emergent Discrete Message Communication for Cooperative Reinforcement Learning

ICRA 2022poster

Communication is an important factor that en-ables agents to work cooperatively in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) contexts. Prior work used continuous message communication whose high representational capacity comes at the expense of interpretability. Allowing agents to learn their own di…

Cited by 19SourceScholar
2021

Evaluation of Human-AI Teams for Learned and Rule-Based Agents in Hanabi

NeurIPS 2021poster

Deep reinforcement learning has generated superhuman AI in competitive games such as Go and StarCraft. Can similar learning techniques create a superior AI teammate for human-machine collaborative games? Will humans prefer AI teammates that improve objective team performance or those that improve su…

Cited by 74SourcePDFScholar