Lili Chen

I'm a Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Deepak Pathak. My research is graciously supported by the Department of Defense NDSEG Fellowship.

Previously, I received my B.A. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. I was an undergraduate researcher at the Robot Learning Lab, where I was advised by Pieter Abbeel and Kimin Lee. After graduating, I spent some time working on large language models at Cohere.

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I’m broadly interested in machine learning and robotics. I hope to build intelligent agents that can generalize to a wide range of real-world scenarios.

We present a language-conditioned diffusion model which can learn visuomotor policies from language-annotated play data.

We train a visual affordance model on human videos to estimate how a human is likely to interact with objects and deploy this model in robotic control tasks.

We propose to replace traditional offline RL algorithms with a simple transformer model trained on sequences of returns, states, and actions with an autoregressive prediction loss.

We tackle exploration for high-dimensional observation spaces using a k-NN state entropy estimator in the low-dimensional representation space of a randomly intialized CNN.

We present a compute- and memory-efficient modification of off-policy visual RL methods by freezing lower layers of CNN encoders and storing low-dimensional embeddings.

We demonstrate usage of RBMs to solve NP-Hard problems efficiently by mapping the RBM onto a reconfigurable FPGA.

I hope to improve the accessibility of computer science education, at all levels.

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