arXiv:2607.01721cs.RO2026-07

用视觉语言模型自动构建奖励,让机器人学会更符合人类意图的动作。

CoRe: Combined Rewards with Vision-Language Model Feedback for Preference-Aligned Reinforcement Learning

论文配图:CoRe: Combined Rewards with Vision-Language Model Feedback for Preference-Aligned Reinforcement Learning
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  • 将奖励拆分为任务明确的显式奖励和从观察中学习的隐式奖励。
  • 在10个仿真和5个真实机器人任务中,比现有方法更高效地学到好策略。
  • 无需人工标注,自动利用视觉语言模型生成偏好反馈优化行为。

奖励设计仍是强化学习中的核心挑战。手工设计的奖励难以定义且易导致次优策略,而基于偏好的学习奖励则存在效率低、训练不稳定的问题。受认知科学中人类学习双重机制启发,我们提出将奖励分解为两类互补成分:基于任务知识显式设计的正式奖励(FR),以及从观察中学习以捕捉隐含与细微偏好的残差奖励(RR)。基于此,我们提出CoRe框架,通过视觉语言模型(VLM)反馈融合FR与RR,实现无需人工参与的偏好对齐策略。贡献包括:(1) 提出正式奖励模块(FRM),利用VLM迭代设计并优化FR,支持训练过程中策略持续改进;(2) 提出残差奖励模块(RRM),通过VLM生成视频级偏好标签,学习补充FR的细微奖励,确保与人类意图对齐。通过FRM与RRM的协同,CoRe实现了高效且偏好对齐的可靠奖励自动构建。大量实验表明,在10个仿真机器人操作任务和5个真实世界任务中,CoRe在策略学习效果与效率上均优于现有方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reward design remains a central challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). Hand-crafted rewards are often difficult to specify and may lead to suboptimal policies, while learned rewards from preferences can suffer from inefficiency and unstable training. Inspired by the dual nature of human learning explored in cognitive science, we decompose rewards into two complementary components: Formal Rewards (FR), explicitly designed based on task knowledge, and Residual Rewards (RR), learned from observations to capture implicit and nuanced preferences. Based on this decomposition, we propose CoRe, a hybrid framework that integrates FR and RR with vision-language models (VLMs) feedback to achieve preference-aligned policies without human involvement. Our contributions are twofold: (1) We propose a Formal Reward Module (FRM) that leverages VLMs to iteratively design and optimize FR based on task knowledge and preference feedback, enabling the continual improvement of policy during training; (2) We introduce a Residual Reward Module (RRM) that learns RR from video-level preference by employing VLMs to generate preference labels and capturing nuanced rewards that complement FR, ensuring alignment with human intent. Through the synergy of FRM and RRM, CoRe enables the automatic construction of reliable rewards that are efficient and preference-aligned. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CoRe outperforms existing approaches in terms of policy learning effectiveness and efficiency on ten robotic manipulation tasks in simulation and five real-worlds. Videos can be found on our project website: https://core-2026.github.io/

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