publications

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2025

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    Motion Planning Diffusion: Learning and Adapting Robot Motion Planning With Diffusion Models
    João Carvalho, An T. Le, Piotr Kicki, Dorothea Koert, and Jan Peters
    IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2025
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    Model Tensor Planning
    An Thai Le, Khai Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, João Carvalho, and Jan Peters
    Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2025
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    Global Tensor Motion Planning
    An T. Le, Kay Pompetzki, João Carvalho, Joe Watson, Julen Urain, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2025

2024

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    Grasp Diffusion Network: Learning Grasp Generators from Partial Point Clouds with Diffusion Models in SO(3)xR3
    João Carvalho, An T. Le, Philipp Jahr, Qiao Sun, Julen Urain, and 2 more authors
    CoRR, 2024
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    ActionFlow: Equivariant, Accurate, and Efficient Policies with Spatially Symmetric Flow Matching
    Niklas Funk, Julen Urain, Joao Carvalho, Vignesh Prasad, Georgia Chalvatzaki, and 1 more author
    CoRR, 2024

2023

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    Motion Planning Diffusion: Learning and Planning of Robot Motions with Diffusion Models
    João Carvalho, An T. Le, Mark Baierl, Dorothea Koert, and Jan Peters
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS, 2023
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    Diminishing Return of Value Expansion Methods in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
    Daniel Palenicek, Michael Lutter, Joao Carvalho, and Jan Peters
    In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2023, Kigali, Rwanda, May 1-5, 2023, 2023

2022

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    Adapting Object-Centric Probabilistic Movement Primitives with Residual Reinforcement Learning
    João Carvalho, Dorothea Koert, Marek Daniv, and Jan Peters
    In 21st IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2022, Ginowan, Japan, November 28-30, 2022, 2022
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    Conditioned Score-Based Models for Learning Collision-Free Trajectory Generation
    João Carvalho, Mark Baierl, Julen Urain, and Jan Peters
    In NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Score-Based Methods, 2022
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    Batch Reinforcement Learning With a Nonparametric Off-Policy Policy Gradient
    Samuele Tosatto, João Carvalho, and Jan Peters
    IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 2022

2021

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    An Empirical Analysis of Measure-Valued Derivatives for Policy Gradients
    João Carvalho, Davide Tateo, Fabio Muratore, and Jan Peters
    In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2021, Shenzhen, China, July 18-22, 2021, 2021

2020

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    A Nonparametric Off-Policy Policy Gradient
    Samuele Tosatto, João Carvalho, Hany Abdulsamad, and Jan Peters
    In The 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, AISTATS 2020, 26-28 August 2020, Online [Palermo, Sicily, Italy], 2020