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Main Authors: Wang, Puyue, Hu, Jiawei, Gao, Yan, Wang, Junyan, Zhang, Yu, Dobbie, Gillian, Gu, Tao, Johal, Wafa, Dang, Ting, Jia, Hong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04412
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  • Humanoid robots can suffer significant performance drops under small changes in dynamics, task specifications, or environment setup. We propose HoRD, a two-stage learning framework for robust humanoid control under domain shift. First, we train a high-performance teacher policy via history-conditioned reinforcement learning, where the policy infers latent dynamics context from recent state--action trajectories to adapt online to diverse randomized dynamics. Second, we perform online distillation to transfer the teacher's robust control capabilities into a transformer-based student policy that operates on sparse root-relative 3D joint keypoint trajectories. By combining history-conditioned adaptation with online distillation, HoRD enables a single policy to adapt zero-shot to unseen domains without per-domain retraining. Extensive experiments show HoRD outperforms strong baselines in robustness and transfer, especially under unseen domains and external perturbations. Code and project page are available at https://tonywang-0517.github.io/hord/.