用视觉语言模型直接生成策略反馈,无需人工设计奖励函数。
Policy Learning from Large Vision-Language Model Feedback without Reward Modeling
- 用大模型判断视觉轨迹片段的优劣,生成偏好标签
- 在MetaWorld上性能媲美甚至超越现有最优方法
- 适合缺乏奖励设计能力的机器人应用开发者
离线强化学习为使用预先收集的次优数据集训练机器人代理提供了强大框架,避免了昂贵、耗时且可能危险的在线交互。这在安全关键的实际应用中尤为重要,因为在线数据收集成本高且不切实际。然而,现有的离线RL算法通常需要带奖励标签的数据,而奖励函数的设计本身成本高、耗时长且需要大量领域专业知识。本文提出PLARE,一种新方法,利用大规模视觉-语言模型(VLM)提供指导信号。与依赖手动设计奖励函数不同,PLARE根据语言任务描述,向VLM查询成对视觉轨迹片段的偏好标签,并使用监督对比偏好学习目标直接从这些偏好标签训练策略,无需学习显式奖励模型。在MetaWorld上的机器人操作任务上,通过大量实验,PLARE的表现达到或超过现有最先进的基于VLM的奖励生成方法。此外,我们还在物理机器人上验证了PLARE在真实世界操作任务中的有效性,进一步证明其实际应用价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Offline reinforcement learning (RL) provides a powerful framework for training robotic agents using pre-collected, suboptimal datasets, eliminating the need for costly, time-consuming, and potentially hazardous online interactions. This is particularly useful in safety-critical real-world applications, where online data collection is expensive and impractical. However, existing offline RL algorithms typically require reward labeled data, which introduces an additional bottleneck: reward function design is itself costly, labor-intensive, and requires significant domain expertise. In this paper, we introduce PLARE, a novel approach that leverages large vision-language models (VLMs) to provide guidance signals for agent training. Instead of relying on manually designed reward functions, PLARE queries a VLM for preference labels on pairs of visual trajectory segments based on a language task description. The policy is then trained directly from these preference labels using a supervised contrastive preference learning objective, bypassing the need to learn explicit reward models. Through extensive experiments on robotic manipulation tasks from the MetaWorld, PLARE achieves performance on par with or surpassing existing state-of-the-art VLM-based reward generation methods. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of PLARE in real-world manipulation tasks with a physical robot, further validating its practical applicability.
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