Meta-Controller: Few-Shot Imitation of Unseen Embodiments and Tasks in Continuous Control

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Main Authors: Cho, Seongwoong, Kim, Donggyun, Lee, Jinwoo, Hong, Seunghoon
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Published: 2024
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author Cho, Seongwoong
Kim, Donggyun
Lee, Jinwoo
Hong, Seunghoon
author_facet Cho, Seongwoong
Kim, Donggyun
Lee, Jinwoo
Hong, Seunghoon
contents Generalizing across robot embodiments and tasks is crucial for adaptive robotic systems. Modular policy learning approaches adapt to new embodiments but are limited to specific tasks, while few-shot imitation learning (IL) approaches often focus on a single embodiment. In this paper, we introduce a few-shot behavior cloning framework to simultaneously generalize to unseen embodiments and tasks using a few (\emph{e.g.,} five) reward-free demonstrations. Our framework leverages a joint-level input-output representation to unify the state and action spaces of heterogeneous embodiments and employs a novel structure-motion state encoder that is parameterized to capture both shared knowledge across all embodiments and embodiment-specific knowledge. A matching-based policy network then predicts actions from a few demonstrations, producing an adaptive policy that is robust to over-fitting. Evaluated in the DeepMind Control suite, our framework termed \modelname{} demonstrates superior few-shot generalization to unseen embodiments and tasks over modular policy learning and few-shot IL approaches. Codes are available at \href{https://github.com/SeongwoongCho/meta-controller}{https://github.com/SeongwoongCho/meta-controller}.
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spellingShingle Meta-Controller: Few-Shot Imitation of Unseen Embodiments and Tasks in Continuous Control
Cho, Seongwoong
Kim, Donggyun
Lee, Jinwoo
Hong, Seunghoon
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Generalizing across robot embodiments and tasks is crucial for adaptive robotic systems. Modular policy learning approaches adapt to new embodiments but are limited to specific tasks, while few-shot imitation learning (IL) approaches often focus on a single embodiment. In this paper, we introduce a few-shot behavior cloning framework to simultaneously generalize to unseen embodiments and tasks using a few (\emph{e.g.,} five) reward-free demonstrations. Our framework leverages a joint-level input-output representation to unify the state and action spaces of heterogeneous embodiments and employs a novel structure-motion state encoder that is parameterized to capture both shared knowledge across all embodiments and embodiment-specific knowledge. A matching-based policy network then predicts actions from a few demonstrations, producing an adaptive policy that is robust to over-fitting. Evaluated in the DeepMind Control suite, our framework termed \modelname{} demonstrates superior few-shot generalization to unseen embodiments and tasks over modular policy learning and few-shot IL approaches. Codes are available at \href{https://github.com/SeongwoongCho/meta-controller}{https://github.com/SeongwoongCho/meta-controller}.
title Meta-Controller: Few-Shot Imitation of Unseen Embodiments and Tasks in Continuous Control
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12147