Targeted subtask reinforcement learning improves long-horizon robot manipulation

PARTS trains residual corrections only at recurring bottlenecks, substantially increasing full-task success with limited robot practice and human resetting.

Top University
Sichang Su · Benjamin Yang · Zhiyun Deng · Boyuan Liang · Yip Fun Yeung · Zelin Wang · +1 more

UT Austin · Autel US · UC Berkeley

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Su et al.

The authors first had humans identify bottlenecks in long-horizon manipulation tasks.

Why this paper

From UC Berkeley and 2 others · Part of Credit Assignment in Agentic RL, now 17 papers

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PARTS fine-tunes a frozen pretrained policy with residual RL on targeted bottleneck subtasks, using learned selectors and success verifiers to improve long-horizon manipulation with minimal human intervention.

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