PROMO: Preference-conditioned Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Robots
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arXiv:2610.01260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quadrupedal locomotion requires balancing conflicting objectives such as command tracking, stability, and energy efficiency, yet conventional reinforcement learning (RL) hardcodes these priorities into a fixed scalar reward at training time. We present PROMO (Preference-Conditioned Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning), a semantic multi-objective approach that makes this trade-off an explicit runtime input to a single locomotion policy. PROMO conditions the policy on deployment facing preferences while keeping embodiment-specific locomotion p
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.01260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quadrupedal locomotion requires balancing conflicting objectives such as command tracking, stability, and energy efficiency, yet conventional reinforcement learning (RL) hardcodes these priorities into a fixed scalar reward at training time.
- We present PROMO (Preference-Conditioned Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning), a semantic multi-objective approach that makes this trade-off an explicit runtime input to a single locomotion policy.
- PROMO conditions the policy on deployment facing preferences while keeping embodiment-specific locomotion p
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