Rethinking Latent Redundancy in Behavior Cloning: An Information Bottleneck Approach for Robot Manipulation
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| author | Bai, Shuanghao Zhou, Wanqi Ding, Pengxiang Zhao, Wei Wang, Donglin Chen, Badong |
| author_facet | Bai, Shuanghao Zhou, Wanqi Ding, Pengxiang Zhao, Wei Wang, Donglin Chen, Badong |
| contents | Behavior Cloning (BC) is a widely adopted visual imitation learning method in robot manipulation. Current BC approaches often enhance generalization by leveraging large datasets and incorporating additional visual and textual modalities to capture more diverse information. However, these methods overlook whether the learned representations contain redundant information and lack a solid theoretical foundation to guide the learning process. To address these limitations, we adopt an information-theoretic perspective and introduce mutual information to quantify and mitigate redundancy in latent representations. Building on this, we incorporate the Information Bottleneck (IB) principle into BC, which extends the idea of reducing redundancy by providing a structured framework for compressing irrelevant information while preserving task-relevant features. This work presents the first comprehensive study on redundancy in latent representations across various methods, backbones, and experimental settings, while extending the generalizability of the IB to BC. Extensive experiments and analyses on the CortexBench and LIBERO benchmarks demonstrate significant performance improvements with IB, underscoring the importance of reducing input data redundancy and highlighting its practical value for more practical applications. Project Page: https://baishuanghao.github.io/BC-IB.github.io. |
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| spellingShingle | Rethinking Latent Redundancy in Behavior Cloning: An Information Bottleneck Approach for Robot Manipulation Bai, Shuanghao Zhou, Wanqi Ding, Pengxiang Zhao, Wei Wang, Donglin Chen, Badong Robotics Machine Learning Behavior Cloning (BC) is a widely adopted visual imitation learning method in robot manipulation. Current BC approaches often enhance generalization by leveraging large datasets and incorporating additional visual and textual modalities to capture more diverse information. However, these methods overlook whether the learned representations contain redundant information and lack a solid theoretical foundation to guide the learning process. To address these limitations, we adopt an information-theoretic perspective and introduce mutual information to quantify and mitigate redundancy in latent representations. Building on this, we incorporate the Information Bottleneck (IB) principle into BC, which extends the idea of reducing redundancy by providing a structured framework for compressing irrelevant information while preserving task-relevant features. This work presents the first comprehensive study on redundancy in latent representations across various methods, backbones, and experimental settings, while extending the generalizability of the IB to BC. Extensive experiments and analyses on the CortexBench and LIBERO benchmarks demonstrate significant performance improvements with IB, underscoring the importance of reducing input data redundancy and highlighting its practical value for more practical applications. Project Page: https://baishuanghao.github.io/BC-IB.github.io. |
| title | Rethinking Latent Redundancy in Behavior Cloning: An Information Bottleneck Approach for Robot Manipulation |
| topic | Robotics Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02853 |