Residual-MPPI: Online Policy Customization for Continuous Control

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Main Authors: Wang, Pengcheng, Li, Chenran, Weaver, Catherine, Kawamoto, Kenta, Tomizuka, Masayoshi, Tang, Chen, Zhan, Wei
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author Wang, Pengcheng
Li, Chenran
Weaver, Catherine
Kawamoto, Kenta
Tomizuka, Masayoshi
Tang, Chen
Zhan, Wei
author_facet Wang, Pengcheng
Li, Chenran
Weaver, Catherine
Kawamoto, Kenta
Tomizuka, Masayoshi
Tang, Chen
Zhan, Wei
contents Policies developed through Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL) have shown great potential in continuous control tasks, but real-world applications often require adapting trained policies to unforeseen requirements. While fine-tuning can address such needs, it typically requires additional data and access to the original training metrics and parameters. In contrast, an online planning algorithm, if capable of meeting the additional requirements, can eliminate the necessity for extensive training phases and customize the policy without knowledge of the original training scheme or task. In this work, we propose a generic online planning algorithm for customizing continuous-control policies at the execution time, which we call Residual-MPPI. It can customize a given prior policy on new performance metrics in few-shot and even zero-shot online settings, given access to the prior action distribution alone. Through our experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed Residual-MPPI algorithm can accomplish the few-shot/zero-shot online policy customization task effectively, including customizing the champion-level racing agent, Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy) 1.0, in the challenging car racing scenario, Gran Turismo Sport (GTS) environment. Code for MuJoCo experiments is included in the supplementary and will be open-sourced upon acceptance. Demo videos and code are available on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/residual-mppi.
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spellingShingle Residual-MPPI: Online Policy Customization for Continuous Control
Wang, Pengcheng
Li, Chenran
Weaver, Catherine
Kawamoto, Kenta
Tomizuka, Masayoshi
Tang, Chen
Zhan, Wei
Robotics
Policies developed through Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL) have shown great potential in continuous control tasks, but real-world applications often require adapting trained policies to unforeseen requirements. While fine-tuning can address such needs, it typically requires additional data and access to the original training metrics and parameters. In contrast, an online planning algorithm, if capable of meeting the additional requirements, can eliminate the necessity for extensive training phases and customize the policy without knowledge of the original training scheme or task. In this work, we propose a generic online planning algorithm for customizing continuous-control policies at the execution time, which we call Residual-MPPI. It can customize a given prior policy on new performance metrics in few-shot and even zero-shot online settings, given access to the prior action distribution alone. Through our experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed Residual-MPPI algorithm can accomplish the few-shot/zero-shot online policy customization task effectively, including customizing the champion-level racing agent, Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy) 1.0, in the challenging car racing scenario, Gran Turismo Sport (GTS) environment. Code for MuJoCo experiments is included in the supplementary and will be open-sourced upon acceptance. Demo videos and code are available on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/residual-mppi.
title Residual-MPPI: Online Policy Customization for Continuous Control
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00898