Refinery: Active Fine-tuning and Deployment-time Optimization for Contact-Rich Policies
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| author | Tang, Bingjie Akinola, Iretiayo Xu, Jie Wen, Bowen Fox, Dieter Sukhatme, Gaurav S. Ramos, Fabio Gupta, Abhishek Narang, Yashraj |
| author_facet | Tang, Bingjie Akinola, Iretiayo Xu, Jie Wen, Bowen Fox, Dieter Sukhatme, Gaurav S. Ramos, Fabio Gupta, Abhishek Narang, Yashraj |
| contents | Simulation-based learning has enabled policies for precise, contact-rich tasks (e.g., robotic assembly) to reach high success rates (~80%) under high levels of observation noise and control error. Although such performance may be sufficient for research applications, it falls short of industry standards and makes policy chaining exceptionally brittle. A key limitation is the high variance in individual policy performance across diverse initial conditions. We introduce Refinery, an effective framework that bridges this performance gap, robustifying policy performance across initial conditions. We propose Bayesian Optimization-guided fine-tuning to improve individual policies, and Gaussian Mixture Model-based sampling during deployment to select initializations that maximize execution success. Using Refinery, we improve mean success rates by 10.98% over state-of-the-art methods in simulation-based learning for robotic assembly, reaching 91.51% in simulation and comparable performance in the real world. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these fine-tuned policies can be chained to accomplish long-horizon, multi-part assembly$\unicode{x2013}$successfully assembling up to 8 parts without requiring explicit multi-step training. |
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| spellingShingle | Refinery: Active Fine-tuning and Deployment-time Optimization for Contact-Rich Policies Tang, Bingjie Akinola, Iretiayo Xu, Jie Wen, Bowen Fox, Dieter Sukhatme, Gaurav S. Ramos, Fabio Gupta, Abhishek Narang, Yashraj Robotics Simulation-based learning has enabled policies for precise, contact-rich tasks (e.g., robotic assembly) to reach high success rates (~80%) under high levels of observation noise and control error. Although such performance may be sufficient for research applications, it falls short of industry standards and makes policy chaining exceptionally brittle. A key limitation is the high variance in individual policy performance across diverse initial conditions. We introduce Refinery, an effective framework that bridges this performance gap, robustifying policy performance across initial conditions. We propose Bayesian Optimization-guided fine-tuning to improve individual policies, and Gaussian Mixture Model-based sampling during deployment to select initializations that maximize execution success. Using Refinery, we improve mean success rates by 10.98% over state-of-the-art methods in simulation-based learning for robotic assembly, reaching 91.51% in simulation and comparable performance in the real world. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these fine-tuned policies can be chained to accomplish long-horizon, multi-part assembly$\unicode{x2013}$successfully assembling up to 8 parts without requiring explicit multi-step training. |
| title | Refinery: Active Fine-tuning and Deployment-time Optimization for Contact-Rich Policies |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11019 |