Accelerating Visual Policy Learning with Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control
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arXiv:2609.20575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning visual policies for locomotion and manipulation requires coordinating contact with the environment and can incur substantial computation and GPU memory costs. First-order policy gradients (FoPG) reduce training cost through differentiable simulation, but local optimization can converge to unintended contact patterns. To address this shortfall, we propose Sampling-Guided Policy Search (SGPS), which couples recurring action-target refinement by sampling-based model-predictive control with first-order policy optimization. Behavior cloning
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- arXiv:2609.20575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning visual policies for locomotion and manipulation requires coordinating contact with the environment and can incur substantial computation and GPU memory costs.
- First-order policy gradients (FoPG) reduce training cost through differentiable simulation, but local optimization can converge to unintended contact patterns.
- To address this shortfall, we propose Sampling-Guided Policy Search (SGPS), which couples recurring action-target refinement by sampling-based model-predictive control with first-order policy optimization.
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