arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

Learning to Act While Waiting: RL Finetuning of Generalist Robot Policies Under Inference Latency

The paper introduces ARLI, a latency‑aware framework that enables reinforcement learning fine‑tuning of large generalist robot policies despite inference delays. ARLI combines asynchronous inference with state augmentations—incorporating committed actions and mid‑inference observations—to restore near‑Markovian dynamics and maintain reactivity. Experiments on simulated and real‑world manipulation tasks show that ARLI allows effective policy improvement under latency, outperforming standard RL even in no‑latency scenarios.

By Brian Zhu (Siemens), Momen Khalil (Siemens), E Harrison (UC Berkeley), Emanuele Poggi (Siemens), Philipp Schmitt (Siemens), Bernd Kast (Siemens), Philine Meister (Siemens), Pranav Atreya (UC Berkeley), Qiyang Li (UC Berkeley), Finn Ferchau (Siemens), Cesar Colmenero (Siemens), Yash Shahapurkar (Siemens), Gokul Narayanan (Siemens), Melih Erdogan (Siemens), Kai Wurm (Siemens), Georg von Wichert (Siemens), Oier Mees (Microsoft, ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley), Eugen Solowjow (Siemens), Andrew Wagenmaker (UC Berkeley), Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Merging model-based control with multi-agent reinforcement learning for multi-agent cooperative teaming strategies

arXiv:2606. 06011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we propose a framework that combines multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with model-based control to achieve safe, dynamically feasible actions in cooperative multi-agent tasks.

By Christian Llanes, Spencer W. Jensen, Samuel Coogan