We devise a method that enables meta-learning on long-horizon, sparse-reward tasks, allowing us to solve unseen target tasks with orders of magnitude fewer environment interactions. Specifically, we propose to (1) extract reusable skills and a skill prior from offline datasets, (2) meta-train a high-level policy that learns to efficiently compose learned skills into long-horizon behaviors, and (3) rapidly adapt the meta-trained policy to solve an unseen target task.

We present a framework that learns to synthesize a program, detailing the procedure to solve a task in a flexible and expressive manner, solely from reward signals. To alleviate the difficulty of learning to compose programs to induce the desired agent behavior from scratch, we propose to learn a program embedding space that continuously parameterizes diverse behaviors in an unsupervised manner and then search over the learned program embedding space to yield a program that maximizes the return for a given task.

Task progress is intuitive and readily available task information that can guide an agent closer to the desired goal. Furthermore, a progress estimator can generalize to new situations. From this intuition, we propose a simple yet effective imitation learning from observation method for a goal-directed task using a learned goal proximity function as a task progress estimator, for better generalization to unseen states and goals. We obtain this goal proximity function from expert demonstrations and online agent experience, and then use the learned goal proximity as a dense reward for policy training.

We propose to utilize programs, structured in a formal language, as a precise and expressive way to specify tasks, instead of natural languages which can often be ambiguous. We then devise a modular framework that learns to perform a task specified by a program – as different circumstances give rise to diverse ways to accomplish the task, our framework can perceive which circumstance it is currently under, and instruct a multitask policy accordingly to fulfill each subtask of the overall task.

Model-agnostic meta-learners aim to acquire meta-prior parameters from a distribution of tasks and adapt to novel tasks with few gradient updates. Yet, seeking a common initialization shared across the entire task distribution substantially limits the diversity of the task distributions that they are able to learn from. We propose a multimodal MAML (MMAML) framework, which is able to modulate its meta-learned prior according to the identified mode, allowing more efficient fast adaptation.

We propose feedback adversarial learning (FAL) framework that can improve existing generative adversarial networks by leveraging spatial feedback from the discriminator. We formulate the generation task as a recurrent framework, in which the generator conditions on the discriminator spatial output response and its previous generation to improve generation quality over time - allowing the generator to attend and fix its previous mistakes.

Humans acquire complex skills by exploiting previously learned skills and making transitions between them. To empower machines with this ability, we propose a method that can learn transition policies which effectively connect primitive skills to perform sequential tasks without handcrafted rewards. To efficiently train our transition policies, we introduce proximity predictors which induce rewards gauging proximity to suitable initial states for the next skill.

Model-agnostic meta-learners aim to acquire meta-prior parameters from a distribution of tasks and adapt to novel tasks with few gradient updates. Yet, seeking a common initialization shared across the entire task distribution substantially limits the diversity of the task distributions that they are able to learn from. We propose a multimodal MAML (MMAML) framework, which is able to modulate its meta-learned prior according to the identified mode, allowing more efficient fast adaptation.

We aim to synthesize a target image with an arbitrary camera pose from multipple given source images. We propose an end-to-end trainable framework which consists of a flow prediction module and a pixel generation module to directly leverage information presented in source views as well as hallucinate missing pixels from statistical priors. We introduce a self-learned confidence aggregation mechanism to merge the predictions produced by the two modules given multi-view source images.

Interpreting decision making logic in demonstration videos is key to collaborating with and mimicking humans. To empower machines with this ability, we propose a framework that is able to explicitly synthesize underlying programs from behaviorally diverse and visually complicated demonstration videos. We introduce a summarizer module to improve the network’s ability to integrate multiple demonstrations and employ a multi-task objective to encourage the model to learn meaningful intermediate representations.