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20142010s
Pieter Abbeel
Preeminent roboticist and machine learning researcher focusing on robot learning.
Organizations
UC BerkeleyOpenAICovariant
Major Achievements
- •Pioneered apprenticeship learning (inverse reinforcement learning) allowing robots to learn by watching human demonstrations.
- •Co-founded Covariant, applying advanced AI to commercial industrial robotics.
- •His lab played a central role in the rapid popularization of diffusion models.
Key Papers
- Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain, Pieter Abbeel · NeurIPS 2020
- End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
Sergey Levine et al. · Journal of Machine Learning Research · 2015