USC Learning and Interactive Robot Autonomy Lab (LiraLab) develops algorithms for robot learning, safe and efficient human-robot interaction and multi-agent systems. Our mission is to equip robots, or more generally agents powered with artificial intelligence (AI), with the capabilities that will enable them to intelligently learn, adapt to, and influence the humans and other AI agents. We take a two-step approach to this problem. First, machine learning techniques that we develop enable robots to model the behaviors and goals of the other agents by leveraging different forms of information they leak or explicitly provide. Second, these robots interact with the others to achieve online adaptation by leveraging the learned behaviors and goals while making sure this adaptation is beneficial and sustainable.
Recent News
Check out our YouTube channel for latest talks and supplementary videos for our publications.| Sep 25, 2023: | Our paper titled "DynaMITE-RL: A Dynamic Model for Improved Temporal Meta-Reinforcement Learning" got accepted to the 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). |
| Sep 4, 2024: |
Our 2 papers got accepted to the 2024 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL): - Trajectory Improvement and Reward Learning from Comparative Language Feedback - EXTRACT: Efficient Policy Learning by Extracting Transferable Robot Skills from Offline Data |
| Jun 30, 2024: | Our paper titled "ViSaRL: Visual Reinforcement Learning Guided by Human Saliency" got accepted to the 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). |
| May 2, 2024: |
Our 2 papers got accepted to the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): - RL-VLM-F: Reinforcement Learning from Vision Language Foundation Model Feedback - Coprocessor Actor Critic: A Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach For Adaptive Brain Stimulation |
| Feb 20, 2024: | Our paper titled "Batch Active Learning of Reward Functions from Human Preferences" got accepted to the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI). |
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