When Life Gives You BC, Make Q-functions: Extracting Q-values from Behavior Cloning for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning

Lakshita Dodeja, Ondrej Biza, Shivam Vats, Stephen Hart, Stefanie Tellex, Robin Walters

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Source: arXiv cs.AI