PrefPI: Preference-Guided Steering into Out-of-Distribution Behaviors
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arXiv:2609.40165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present PrefPI (Preference-Guided Policy Iteration), an iterative framework for steering pretrained generative robot policies using only relative preferences over self-generated trajectories. Unlike prior preference-learning methods that primarily sharpen modes already represented by the policy, we study steering beyond the initial effective support, where desired behaviors are rarely or never observed under the initial policy. Our key idea is to formulate preference learning as preference-conditioned generative modeling: preferred trajector
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- arXiv:2609.40165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present PrefPI (Preference-Guided Policy Iteration), an iterative framework for steering pretrained generative robot policies using only relative preferences over self-generated trajectories.
- Unlike prior preference-learning methods that primarily sharpen modes already represented by the policy, we study steering beyond the initial effective support, where desired behaviors are rarely or never observed under the initial policy.
- Our key idea is to formulate preference learning as preference-conditioned generative modeling: preferred trajector
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