Sarvesh Patil
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Sarvesh Patil
@nagababa.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood roboticist!
PhD student @cmurobotics.bsky.social

Interested in Dexterous Manipulation, Democratization of Robots and Sensors, Sample Efficient RL, Soft Robotics, Causality, Multi-Agent Systems.

servo97.github.io
If you are not familiar of the robot-learning/RL papers, and if you have the bandwidth to go through to them, I'm more than happy to share my source papers! Please let me know either ways!
June 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
And that some intervention is still needed for robot learning pipelines to demonstrate respectable ICL?

The 8th thread graph makes me very curious, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this phenomenon!
June 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
i.e. converting robot joints into discrete cosine transforms seems to significantly improve sample efficiency and generalizability.

Why do we see this happen? Is that merely a ephemeral local minima that were stuck into?
June 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
However when SOTA papers use transformers for learning policies and Q functions in RL, the observation seems to be that "Distributional RL works better for offline RL tasks", or Frequency action space tokenization.
June 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hi Daniel, great post!
I'm curious what do you think about continuous control use-cases? From my very quick read over the post (not the paper itself) it seems that ICL emerges as a property of the model being able to handle diversity of continuous variable regression.

1/n
June 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Store it on an old school magnetic HDD!
You only gotta power it on every decade or so to maintain the hardware.
January 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
RL as a refinement tool has been used in dexterous manipulation for some time!
It used to be quite hard to do tabula rasa learning for dexterous manipulation. And still is, for the most part!
December 28, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Hard agree. Although how to reconcile that with when you're writing a paper?

Like what do you think is a reasonable process to pick "baselines"?

I've seen some students get jaded cos reviewers ask them to incl "baselines" with shitty git implementations :(
December 20, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Hi! Can you please add me to the list?
Thanks for making it!
December 16, 2024 at 2:14 PM
🙋‍♂️👋
November 30, 2024 at 2:59 PM