Alejandro Escontrela

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Alejandro Escontrela
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Video Prediction Models as Rewards for Reinforcement Learning

Using advances in generative modeling to learn reward functions from unlabeled videos.


Barkour: Benchmarking animal-level agility with quadruped robots

We introduce the Barkour agility benchmark for quadruped robots, along with a Transformer-based generalist locomotion policy


DayDreamer: World Models for Physical Robot Learning

Hyper data-efficient robot learning with world models


Learning a Diffusion Model Policy from Rewards via Q-Score Matching

Learning diffusion model policies for off-policy reinforcement learning.


Adversarial Motion Priors Make Good Substitutes for Complex Reward Functions

Using motion priors to learn energy-efficient and natural robot locomotion strategies


Learning to Walk on Complex Terrains with Vision

Examining the role of vision in robot locomotion


Autonomously Untangling Long Cables

Sliding and Grasping for Tangle Manipulation (SGTM)


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