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Opinion: Towards Unified Expressive Policy Optimization for Robust Robot Learning

2025/11/13 by Huang, Haidong, Song, Haiyue Zhu. Jiayu, Zhao, Xixin +4
#68T05 #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #I.2.8 #I.2.9 #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Robotics (cs.RO)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.10087

Abstract

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (O2O-RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for safe and efficient robotic policy deployment but suffers from two fundamental challenges: limited coverage of multimodal behaviors and distributional shifts during online adaptation. We propose UEPO, a unified generative framework inspired by large language model pretraining and fine-tuning strategies. Our contributions are threefold: (1) a multi-seed dynamics-aware diffusion policy that efficiently captures diverse modalities without training multiple models; (2) a dynamic divergence regularization mechanism that enforces physically meaningful policy diversity; and (3) a diffusion-based data augmentation module that enhances dynamics model generalization. On the D4RL benchmark, UEPO achieves +5.9% absolute improvement over Uni-O4 on locomotion tasks and +12.4% on dexterous manipulation, demonstrating strong generalization and scalability.

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