RT-H: Action Hierarchies Using Language

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Autores principales: Belkhale, Suneel, Ding, Tianli, Xiao, Ted, Sermanet, Pierre, Vuong, Quon, Tompson, Jonathan, Chebotar, Yevgen, Dwibedi, Debidatta, Sadigh, Dorsa
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Publicado: 2024
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author Belkhale, Suneel
Ding, Tianli
Xiao, Ted
Sermanet, Pierre
Vuong, Quon
Tompson, Jonathan
Chebotar, Yevgen
Dwibedi, Debidatta
Sadigh, Dorsa
author_facet Belkhale, Suneel
Ding, Tianli
Xiao, Ted
Sermanet, Pierre
Vuong, Quon
Tompson, Jonathan
Chebotar, Yevgen
Dwibedi, Debidatta
Sadigh, Dorsa
contents Language provides a way to break down complex concepts into digestible pieces. Recent works in robot imitation learning use language-conditioned policies that predict actions given visual observations and the high-level task specified in language. These methods leverage the structure of natural language to share data between semantically similar tasks (e.g., "pick coke can" and "pick an apple") in multi-task datasets. However, as tasks become more semantically diverse (e.g., "pick coke can" and "pour cup"), sharing data between tasks becomes harder, so learning to map high-level tasks to actions requires much more demonstration data. To bridge tasks and actions, our insight is to teach the robot the language of actions, describing low-level motions with more fine-grained phrases like "move arm forward". Predicting these language motions as an intermediate step between tasks and actions forces the policy to learn the shared structure of low-level motions across seemingly disparate tasks. Furthermore, a policy that is conditioned on language motions can easily be corrected during execution through human-specified language motions. This enables a new paradigm for flexible policies that can learn from human intervention in language. Our method RT-H builds an action hierarchy using language motions: it first learns to predict language motions, and conditioned on this and the high-level task, it predicts actions, using visual context at all stages. We show that RT-H leverages this language-action hierarchy to learn policies that are more robust and flexible by effectively tapping into multi-task datasets. We show that these policies not only allow for responding to language interventions, but can also learn from such interventions and outperform methods that learn from teleoperated interventions. Our website and videos are found at https://rt-hierarchy.github.io.
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spellingShingle RT-H: Action Hierarchies Using Language
Belkhale, Suneel
Ding, Tianli
Xiao, Ted
Sermanet, Pierre
Vuong, Quon
Tompson, Jonathan
Chebotar, Yevgen
Dwibedi, Debidatta
Sadigh, Dorsa
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Language provides a way to break down complex concepts into digestible pieces. Recent works in robot imitation learning use language-conditioned policies that predict actions given visual observations and the high-level task specified in language. These methods leverage the structure of natural language to share data between semantically similar tasks (e.g., "pick coke can" and "pick an apple") in multi-task datasets. However, as tasks become more semantically diverse (e.g., "pick coke can" and "pour cup"), sharing data between tasks becomes harder, so learning to map high-level tasks to actions requires much more demonstration data. To bridge tasks and actions, our insight is to teach the robot the language of actions, describing low-level motions with more fine-grained phrases like "move arm forward". Predicting these language motions as an intermediate step between tasks and actions forces the policy to learn the shared structure of low-level motions across seemingly disparate tasks. Furthermore, a policy that is conditioned on language motions can easily be corrected during execution through human-specified language motions. This enables a new paradigm for flexible policies that can learn from human intervention in language. Our method RT-H builds an action hierarchy using language motions: it first learns to predict language motions, and conditioned on this and the high-level task, it predicts actions, using visual context at all stages. We show that RT-H leverages this language-action hierarchy to learn policies that are more robust and flexible by effectively tapping into multi-task datasets. We show that these policies not only allow for responding to language interventions, but can also learn from such interventions and outperform methods that learn from teleoperated interventions. Our website and videos are found at https://rt-hierarchy.github.io.
title RT-H: Action Hierarchies Using Language
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01823