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Main Authors: Jin, Yang, Lv, Jun, Yu, Wenye, Fang, Hongjie, Li, Yong-Lu, Lu, Cewu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01396
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author Jin, Yang
Lv, Jun
Yu, Wenye
Fang, Hongjie
Li, Yong-Lu
Lu, Cewu
author_facet Jin, Yang
Lv, Jun
Yu, Wenye
Fang, Hongjie
Li, Yong-Lu
Lu, Cewu
contents Self-improvement requires robotic systems to initially learn from human-provided data and then gradually enhance their capabilities through interaction with the environment. This is similar to how humans improve their skills through continuous practice. However, achieving effective self-improvement is challenging, primarily because robots tend to repeat their existing abilities during interactions, often failing to generate new, valuable data for learning. In this paper, we identify the key to successful self-improvement: modal-level exploration and data selection. By incorporating a modal-level exploration mechanism during policy execution, the robot can produce more diverse and multi-modal interactions. At the same time, we select the most valuable trials and high-quality segments from these interactions for learning. We successfully demonstrate effective robot self-improvement on both simulation benchmarks and real-world experiments. The capability for self-improvement will enable us to develop more robust and high-success-rate robotic control strategies at a lower cost. Our code and experiment scripts are available at https://ericjin2002.github.io/SIME/
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spellingShingle SIME: Enhancing Policy Self-Improvement with Modal-level Exploration
Jin, Yang
Lv, Jun
Yu, Wenye
Fang, Hongjie
Li, Yong-Lu
Lu, Cewu
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Self-improvement requires robotic systems to initially learn from human-provided data and then gradually enhance their capabilities through interaction with the environment. This is similar to how humans improve their skills through continuous practice. However, achieving effective self-improvement is challenging, primarily because robots tend to repeat their existing abilities during interactions, often failing to generate new, valuable data for learning. In this paper, we identify the key to successful self-improvement: modal-level exploration and data selection. By incorporating a modal-level exploration mechanism during policy execution, the robot can produce more diverse and multi-modal interactions. At the same time, we select the most valuable trials and high-quality segments from these interactions for learning. We successfully demonstrate effective robot self-improvement on both simulation benchmarks and real-world experiments. The capability for self-improvement will enable us to develop more robust and high-success-rate robotic control strategies at a lower cost. Our code and experiment scripts are available at https://ericjin2002.github.io/SIME/
title SIME: Enhancing Policy Self-Improvement with Modal-level Exploration
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01396