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Hong Lu

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ICRA Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Curiosity-Driven Imagination: Discovering Plan Operators and Learning Associated Policies for Open-World Adaptation

Pierrick Lorang
Hong Lu
Matthias Scheutz

Adapting quickly to dynamic, uncertain environments—often called “open worlds” —remains a major challenge in robotics. Traditional Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) approaches struggle to cope with unforeseen changes, are data-inefficient when adapting, and do not leverage world models during learning. We address this issue with a hybrid planning and learning system that integrates two models: a low-level neural network-based model that learns stochastic transitions and drives exploration via an Intrinsic Curiosity Module (ICM), and a high-level symbolic planning model that captures abstract transitions using operators, enabling the agent to plan in an “imaginary” space and generate reward machines. Our evaluation in a robotic manipulation domain with sequential novelty injections demonstrates that our approach converges faster and outperforms state-of-the-art hybrid methods.

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AAAI Conference 2010 Conference Paper

Community-Guided Learning: Exploiting Mobile Sensor Users to Model Human Behavior

Daniel Peebles
Hong Lu
Nicholas Lane
Tanzeem Choudhury
Andrew Campbell

Modeling human behavior requires vast quantities of accurately labeled training data, but for ubiquitous people-aware applications such data is rarely attainable. Even researchers make mistakes when labeling data, and consistent, reliable labels from low-commitment users are rare. In particular, users may give identical labels to activities with characteristically different signatures (e. g. , labeling eating at home or at a restaurant as “dinner”) or may give different labels to the same context (e. g. , “work” vs. “office”). In this scenario, labels are unreliable but nonetheless contain valuable information for classification. To facilitate learning in such unconstrained labeling scenarios, we propose Community-Guided Learning (CGL), a framework that allows existing classifiers to learn robustly from unreliably-labeled user-submitted data. CGL exploits the underlying structure in the data and the unconstrained labels to intelligently group crowd-sourced data. We demonstrate how to use similarity measures to determine when and how to split and merge contributions from different labeled categories and present experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework.

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