Efficient Training of Generalizable Visuomotor Policies via Control-Aware Augmentation

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Hauptverfasser: Zhao, Yinuo, Wu, Kun, Yi, Tianjiao, Xu, Zhiyuan, Ju, Xiaozhu, Che, Zhengping, Liu, Chi Harold, Tang, Jian
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author Zhao, Yinuo
Wu, Kun
Yi, Tianjiao
Xu, Zhiyuan
Ju, Xiaozhu
Che, Zhengping
Liu, Chi Harold
Tang, Jian
author_facet Zhao, Yinuo
Wu, Kun
Yi, Tianjiao
Xu, Zhiyuan
Ju, Xiaozhu
Che, Zhengping
Liu, Chi Harold
Tang, Jian
contents Improving generalization is one key challenge in embodied AI, where obtaining large-scale datasets across diverse scenarios is costly. Traditional weak augmentations, such as cropping and flipping, are insufficient for improving a model's performance in new environments. Existing data augmentation methods often disrupt task-relevant information in images, potentially degrading performance. To overcome these challenges, we introduce EAGLE, an efficient training framework for generalizable visuomotor policies that improves upon existing methods by (1) enhancing generalization by applying augmentation only to control-related regions identified through a self-supervised control-aware mask and (2) improving training stability and efficiency by distilling knowledge from an expert to a visuomotor student policy, which is then deployed to unseen environments without further fine-tuning. Comprehensive experiments on three domains, including the DMControl Generalization Benchmark, the enhanced Robot Manipulation Distraction Benchmark, and a long-sequential drawer-opening task, validate the effectiveness of our method.
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spellingShingle Efficient Training of Generalizable Visuomotor Policies via Control-Aware Augmentation
Zhao, Yinuo
Wu, Kun
Yi, Tianjiao
Xu, Zhiyuan
Ju, Xiaozhu
Che, Zhengping
Liu, Chi Harold
Tang, Jian
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Improving generalization is one key challenge in embodied AI, where obtaining large-scale datasets across diverse scenarios is costly. Traditional weak augmentations, such as cropping and flipping, are insufficient for improving a model's performance in new environments. Existing data augmentation methods often disrupt task-relevant information in images, potentially degrading performance. To overcome these challenges, we introduce EAGLE, an efficient training framework for generalizable visuomotor policies that improves upon existing methods by (1) enhancing generalization by applying augmentation only to control-related regions identified through a self-supervised control-aware mask and (2) improving training stability and efficiency by distilling knowledge from an expert to a visuomotor student policy, which is then deployed to unseen environments without further fine-tuning. Comprehensive experiments on three domains, including the DMControl Generalization Benchmark, the enhanced Robot Manipulation Distraction Benchmark, and a long-sequential drawer-opening task, validate the effectiveness of our method.
title Efficient Training of Generalizable Visuomotor Policies via Control-Aware Augmentation
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09258