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Dorsa Sadigh

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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
Preprint Sep 2026

One Demonstration, Many Objects: Generalizing Manipulation via Local Contact Geometry

DemoMimic (Dexterous Motion Mimic), a policy that manipulates objects by focusing on their geometry local to the contact points to improve sim-to-real consistency, yielding a single real-world policy that transfers across objects of varying shape, scale, mass, and friction wherever local contact structure is preserved.

Satvik Sharma, Samrat Sahoo, Huang Huang et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1
#robotics Jul 2026

VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control

This work presents VIA (Visual Interface Agent for robot control), a framework that recasts robot control as an agentic task: an off-the-shelf FM-powered agent drives a manipulator through a browser-based 3D interface by taking screenshots, issuing intuitive commands, observing the outcome, and adjusting.

Hengyuan Hu, Priya Sundaresan, Jensen Gao et al. · 4 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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