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Main Authors: Yuan, Mingqi, Yu, Tao, Song, Haolin, Li, Bo, Jin, Xin, Chen, Hua, Zeng, Wenjun
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13093
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author Yuan, Mingqi
Yu, Tao
Song, Haolin
Li, Bo
Jin, Xin
Chen, Hua
Zeng, Wenjun
author_facet Yuan, Mingqi
Yu, Tao
Song, Haolin
Li, Bo
Jin, Xin
Chen, Hua
Zeng, Wenjun
contents Achieving efficient and robust whole-body control (WBC) is essential for enabling humanoid robots to perform complex tasks in dynamic environments. Despite the success of reinforcement learning (RL) in this domain, its sample inefficiency remains a significant challenge due to the intricate dynamics and partial observability of humanoid robots. To address this limitation, we propose PvP, a Proprioceptive-Privileged contrastive learning framework that leverages the intrinsic complementarity between proprioceptive and privileged states. PvP learns compact and task-relevant latent representations without requiring hand-crafted data augmentations, enabling faster and more stable policy learning. To support systematic evaluation, we develop SRL4Humanoid, the first unified and modular framework that provides high-quality implementations of representative state representation learning (SRL) methods for humanoid robot learning. Extensive experiments on the LimX Oli robot across velocity tracking and motion imitation tasks demonstrate that PvP significantly improves sample efficiency and final performance compared to baseline SRL methods. Our study further provides practical insights into integrating SRL with RL for humanoid WBC, offering valuable guidance for data-efficient humanoid robot learning.
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spellingShingle PvP: Data-Efficient Humanoid Robot Learning with Proprioceptive-Privileged Contrastive Representations
Yuan, Mingqi
Yu, Tao
Song, Haolin
Li, Bo
Jin, Xin
Chen, Hua
Zeng, Wenjun
Robotics
Machine Learning
Achieving efficient and robust whole-body control (WBC) is essential for enabling humanoid robots to perform complex tasks in dynamic environments. Despite the success of reinforcement learning (RL) in this domain, its sample inefficiency remains a significant challenge due to the intricate dynamics and partial observability of humanoid robots. To address this limitation, we propose PvP, a Proprioceptive-Privileged contrastive learning framework that leverages the intrinsic complementarity between proprioceptive and privileged states. PvP learns compact and task-relevant latent representations without requiring hand-crafted data augmentations, enabling faster and more stable policy learning. To support systematic evaluation, we develop SRL4Humanoid, the first unified and modular framework that provides high-quality implementations of representative state representation learning (SRL) methods for humanoid robot learning. Extensive experiments on the LimX Oli robot across velocity tracking and motion imitation tasks demonstrate that PvP significantly improves sample efficiency and final performance compared to baseline SRL methods. Our study further provides practical insights into integrating SRL with RL for humanoid WBC, offering valuable guidance for data-efficient humanoid robot learning.
title PvP: Data-Efficient Humanoid Robot Learning with Proprioceptive-Privileged Contrastive Representations
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13093