SCAPE: Scenario-Conditioned Simulation-Augmented Policy Evaluation
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arXiv:2608.19425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable performance evaluation is a central bottleneck for deploying robot-learning policies in real-world conditions. Real-world testing is faithful but costly and difficult to scale, whereas simulation-based testing scales easily but is inevitably biased by the sim-to-real gap. Existing simulation-augmented methods combine limited real-world rollouts with abundant simulation proxies, but focus on performance averaged over initial conditions and deployment settings. Such population-level averages obscure scenario-specific variation and provid
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.19425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable performance evaluation is a central bottleneck for deploying robot-learning policies in real-world conditions.
- Real-world testing is faithful but costly and difficult to scale, whereas simulation-based testing scales easily but is inevitably biased by the sim-to-real gap.
- Existing simulation-augmented methods combine limited real-world rollouts with abundant simulation proxies, but focus on performance averaged over initial conditions and deployment settings.
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