Iterative Compositional Data Generation for Robot Control

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Main Authors: Pham, Anh-Quan, Hussing, Marcel, Patankar, Shubhankar P., Bassett, Dani S., Mendez-Mendez, Jorge, Eaton, Eric
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Published: 2025
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author Pham, Anh-Quan
Hussing, Marcel
Patankar, Shubhankar P.
Bassett, Dani S.
Mendez-Mendez, Jorge
Eaton, Eric
author_facet Pham, Anh-Quan
Hussing, Marcel
Patankar, Shubhankar P.
Bassett, Dani S.
Mendez-Mendez, Jorge
Eaton, Eric
contents Collecting robotic manipulation data is expensive, making it impractical to acquire demonstrations for the combinatorially large space of tasks that arise in multi-object, multi-robot, and multi-environment settings. While recent generative models can synthesize useful data for individual tasks, they do not exploit the compositional structure of robotic domains and struggle to generalize to unseen task combinations. We propose a semantic compositional diffusion transformer that factorizes transitions into robot-, object-, obstacle-, and objective-specific components and learns their interactions through attention. Once trained on a limited subset of tasks, we show that our model can zero-shot generate high-quality transitions from which we can learn control policies for unseen task combinations. Then, we introduce an iterative self-improvement procedure in which synthetic data is validated via offline reinforcement learning and incorporated into subsequent training rounds. Our approach substantially improves zero-shot performance over monolithic and hard-coded compositional baselines, ultimately solving nearly all held-out tasks and demonstrating the emergence of meaningful compositional structure in the learned representations.
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spellingShingle Iterative Compositional Data Generation for Robot Control
Pham, Anh-Quan
Hussing, Marcel
Patankar, Shubhankar P.
Bassett, Dani S.
Mendez-Mendez, Jorge
Eaton, Eric
Robotics
Machine Learning
Collecting robotic manipulation data is expensive, making it impractical to acquire demonstrations for the combinatorially large space of tasks that arise in multi-object, multi-robot, and multi-environment settings. While recent generative models can synthesize useful data for individual tasks, they do not exploit the compositional structure of robotic domains and struggle to generalize to unseen task combinations. We propose a semantic compositional diffusion transformer that factorizes transitions into robot-, object-, obstacle-, and objective-specific components and learns their interactions through attention. Once trained on a limited subset of tasks, we show that our model can zero-shot generate high-quality transitions from which we can learn control policies for unseen task combinations. Then, we introduce an iterative self-improvement procedure in which synthetic data is validated via offline reinforcement learning and incorporated into subsequent training rounds. Our approach substantially improves zero-shot performance over monolithic and hard-coded compositional baselines, ultimately solving nearly all held-out tasks and demonstrating the emergence of meaningful compositional structure in the learned representations.
title Iterative Compositional Data Generation for Robot Control
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10891