Autonomous Improvement of Instruction Following Skills via Foundation Models

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Autores principales: Zhou, Zhiyuan, Atreya, Pranav, Lee, Abraham, Walke, Homer, Mees, Oier, Levine, Sergey
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Publicado: 2024
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author Zhou, Zhiyuan
Atreya, Pranav
Lee, Abraham
Walke, Homer
Mees, Oier
Levine, Sergey
author_facet Zhou, Zhiyuan
Atreya, Pranav
Lee, Abraham
Walke, Homer
Mees, Oier
Levine, Sergey
contents Intelligent instruction-following robots capable of improving from autonomously collected experience have the potential to transform robot learning: instead of collecting costly teleoperated demonstration data, large-scale deployment of fleets of robots can quickly collect larger quantities of autonomous data that can collectively improve their performance. However, autonomous improvement requires solving two key problems: (i) fully automating a scalable data collection procedure that can collect diverse and semantically meaningful robot data and (ii) learning from non-optimal, autonomous data with no human annotations. To this end, we propose a novel approach that addresses these challenges, allowing instruction-following policies to improve from autonomously collected data without human supervision. Our framework leverages vision-language models to collect and evaluate semantically meaningful experiences in new environments, and then utilizes a decomposition of instruction following tasks into (semantic) language-conditioned image generation and (non-semantic) goal reaching, which makes it significantly more practical to improve from this autonomously collected data without any human annotations. We carry out extensive experiments in the real world to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, and find that in a suite of unseen environments, the robot policy can be improved 2x with autonomously collected data. We open-source the code for our semantic autonomous improvement pipeline, as well as our autonomous dataset of 30.5K trajectories collected across five tabletop environments.
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spellingShingle Autonomous Improvement of Instruction Following Skills via Foundation Models
Zhou, Zhiyuan
Atreya, Pranav
Lee, Abraham
Walke, Homer
Mees, Oier
Levine, Sergey
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent instruction-following robots capable of improving from autonomously collected experience have the potential to transform robot learning: instead of collecting costly teleoperated demonstration data, large-scale deployment of fleets of robots can quickly collect larger quantities of autonomous data that can collectively improve their performance. However, autonomous improvement requires solving two key problems: (i) fully automating a scalable data collection procedure that can collect diverse and semantically meaningful robot data and (ii) learning from non-optimal, autonomous data with no human annotations. To this end, we propose a novel approach that addresses these challenges, allowing instruction-following policies to improve from autonomously collected data without human supervision. Our framework leverages vision-language models to collect and evaluate semantically meaningful experiences in new environments, and then utilizes a decomposition of instruction following tasks into (semantic) language-conditioned image generation and (non-semantic) goal reaching, which makes it significantly more practical to improve from this autonomously collected data without any human annotations. We carry out extensive experiments in the real world to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, and find that in a suite of unseen environments, the robot policy can be improved 2x with autonomously collected data. We open-source the code for our semantic autonomous improvement pipeline, as well as our autonomous dataset of 30.5K trajectories collected across five tabletop environments.
title Autonomous Improvement of Instruction Following Skills via Foundation Models
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20635