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This arXiv preprint proposes a model-based reinforcement learning method that trains a policy using a chunk-wise world model, generating multi-step rollouts in one forward pass rather than recurrently. That aims to reduce compounding prediction errors, inference latency, and the instability of backpropagation through time. Its claims rest on 19 HumanoidBench tasks and a real-world quadruped bipedal walking test, so readers should weigh how well simulation gains transfer to hardware.
Chunk-wise Model-based Policy Optimization
arXiv:2610.14564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model-based reinforcement learning has shown superior sample efficiency by leveraging the learned latent dynamics either in the form of derivative-free planning/imagined rollout training or dynamics gradient-based policy updates. While these approaches achieve comparatively fast learning, they all suffer, to varying degrees, from issues of recurrent compounding errors, high inference-time latency, and instability in backward propagation through time (BPTT). In this work, we propose a model-based RL approach that uses the chunk world model as a differentiable training-time evaluator to optimize the chunk actor without recurrent model invocation. Through the collaborative chunk-wise prediction of the world model and policy, we can generate H-step hypothetical rollouts in a single forward pass and directly optimize value expansion, avoiding the costly and unstable BPTT. We evaluate our method on 19 challenging high-dimensional humanoid tasks from HumanoidBench and deploy our method to the real-world for quadruped bipedal walking. Project Website: https://song-wx.github.io/cmpo.github.io/
Abstract:Model-based reinforcement learning has shown superior sample efficiency by leveraging the learned latent dynamics either in the form of derivative-free planning/imagined rollout training or dynamics gradient-based policy updates. While these approaches achieve comparatively fast learning, they all suffer, to varying degrees, from issues of recurrent compounding errors, high inference-time latency, and instability in backward propagation through time (BPTT). In this work, we propose a model-based RL approach that uses the chunk world model as a differentiable training-time evaluator to optimize the chunk actor without recurrent model invocation. Through the collaborative chunk-wise prediction of the world model and policy, we can generate H-step hypothetical rollouts in a single forward pass and directly optimize value expansion, avoiding the costly and unstable BPTT. We evaluate our method on 19 challenging high-dimensional humanoid tasks from HumanoidBench and deploy our method to the real-world for quadruped bipedal walking. Project Website: this https URL
Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2610.14564 [cs.RO]
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