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Auteurs principaux: Attarian, Maria, Vyse, Ian, Voelcker, Claas, Gerigk, Jasper, Opryshko, Evgenii, Almasri, Anas, Singh, Sumeet, Du, Yilun, Gilitschenski, Igor
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10282
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author Attarian, Maria
Vyse, Ian
Voelcker, Claas
Gerigk, Jasper
Opryshko, Evgenii
Almasri, Anas
Singh, Sumeet
Du, Yilun
Gilitschenski, Igor
author_facet Attarian, Maria
Vyse, Ian
Voelcker, Claas
Gerigk, Jasper
Opryshko, Evgenii
Almasri, Anas
Singh, Sumeet
Du, Yilun
Gilitschenski, Igor
contents In recent years, Behavior Cloning (BC) has become one of the most prevalent methods for learning manipulation from human demonstrations. Despite their successes, BC policies are often brittle and struggle with precise manipulation. To overcome these issues, we propose UF-OPS, an Update-Free On-Policy Steering method that enables the robot to predict the success likelihood of its actions and adapt its strategy at execution time. We accomplish this by training verifier functions using policy rollout data obtained during an initial evaluation of the policy. These verifiers are subsequently used to steer the base policy toward actions with a higher likelihood of success. Our method improves the performance of black-box diffusion policies, without changing the base parameters, making it lightweight and flexible. We present results from both simulation and real-world data and achieve an average 49% improvement in success rate over the base policy across 5 real tasks.
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spellingShingle Update-Free On-Policy Steering via Verifiers
Attarian, Maria
Vyse, Ian
Voelcker, Claas
Gerigk, Jasper
Opryshko, Evgenii
Almasri, Anas
Singh, Sumeet
Du, Yilun
Gilitschenski, Igor
Robotics
In recent years, Behavior Cloning (BC) has become one of the most prevalent methods for learning manipulation from human demonstrations. Despite their successes, BC policies are often brittle and struggle with precise manipulation. To overcome these issues, we propose UF-OPS, an Update-Free On-Policy Steering method that enables the robot to predict the success likelihood of its actions and adapt its strategy at execution time. We accomplish this by training verifier functions using policy rollout data obtained during an initial evaluation of the policy. These verifiers are subsequently used to steer the base policy toward actions with a higher likelihood of success. Our method improves the performance of black-box diffusion policies, without changing the base parameters, making it lightweight and flexible. We present results from both simulation and real-world data and achieve an average 49% improvement in success rate over the base policy across 5 real tasks.
title Update-Free On-Policy Steering via Verifiers
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10282