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Chelsea Finn

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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Mulligan: Performance-Guided Data Collection for Efficient On-Robot Learning

Learning from human demonstrations is a reliable way to teach robots new tasks, but the gains from each additional demonstration shrink as the policy improves. Continued improvement can instead come from supervised deployment, where an operator places the objects and intervenes when the policy fails. We ask how to maxi...

Lars Ankile, Perry Dong, R. Bhowmik et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Policies

This work instantiates Real-Time EXPO-FT, an RL framework for finetuning real-time VLA policies that meets the real-time control requirements of dynamic real-world manipulation, demonstrating rapid, sample-efficient adaptation to challenging real-world dynamics.

Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, D. Sadigh et al. · 1 citation
Jul 2026

Do You Really Need to Pretrain Q-Functions for Online RL Fine-Tuning?

This paper systematically study whether pretraining the Q-function actually helps when fine-tuning on top of a pretrained base policy, and proposes Initialization via Policy Ensemble (IPE), a simple method that trains multiple diverse policies and uses their pooled rollouts to bootstrap the Q-function learning in onlin...

Perry Dong, Ronnie Polonsky, Dorsa Sadigh et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Q-Learning With World Models

This work proposes QWM, a framework that leverages world models to perform test-time search over imagined trajectories on top of Q-learning to select high-value actions during both online rollouts and evaluation, and significantly outperforms strong prior state-of-the-art methods on both sample efficiency and performan...

Perry Dong, Yue-Ru Jia, Chelsea Finn et al. · 2 citations

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