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X-Loco represents a significant methodological advance in robotic control by successfully distilling multiple specialist policies into a single vision-based agent capable of complex locomotion tasks. This framework effectively resolves conflicting objectives like fall recovery and terrain traversal without relying on reference motions, marking a key step toward generalist humanoid autonomy. The approach demonstrates that dynamic selection of expert sub-policies can enhance learning efficiency across diverse physical dynamics.
X-Loco: Towards Generalist Humanoid Locomotion Control via Synergetic Policy Distillation
arXiv:2603.03733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent advances have demonstrated strong performance in individual humanoid skills such as upright locomotion, fall recovery and whole-body coordination, learning a single policy that masters all these skills remains challenging due to the diverse dynamics and conflicting control objectives involved. To address this, we introduce X-Loco, a framework for training a vision-based generalist humanoid locomotion policy. X-Loco trains multiple oracle specialist policies and adopts a synergetic policy distillation with a case-adaptive specialist selection mechanism, which dynamically leverages multiple specialist policies to guide a vision-based student policy. This design enables the student to acquire a broad spectrum of locomotion skills, ranging from fall recovery to terrain traversal and whole-body coordination skills. To the best of our knowledge, X-Loco is the first framework to demonstrate vision-based humanoid locomotion that jointly integrates upright locomotion, whole-body coordination and fall recovery, while operating solely under velocity commands without relying on reference motions. Experimental results show that X-Loco achieves superior performance, demonstrated by tasks such as fall recovery and terrain traversal. Ablation studies further highlight that our framework effectively leverages specialist expertise and enhances learning efficiency.
Abstract:While recent advances have demonstrated strong performance in individual humanoid skills such as upright locomotion, fall recovery and whole-body coordination, learning a single policy that masters all these skills remains challenging due to the diverse dynamics and conflicting control objectives involved. To address this, we introduce X-Loco, a framework for training a vision-based generalist humanoid locomotion policy. X-Loco trains multiple oracle specialist policies and adopts a synergetic policy distillation with a case-adaptive specialist selection mechanism, which dynamically leverages multiple specialist policies to guide a vision-based student policy. This design enables the student to acquire a broad spectrum of locomotion skills, ranging from fall recovery to terrain traversal and whole-body coordination skills. To the best of our knowledge, X-Loco is the first framework to demonstrate vision-based humanoid locomotion that jointly integrates upright locomotion, whole-body coordination and fall recovery, while operating solely under velocity commands without relying on reference motions. Experimental results show that X-Loco achieves superior performance, demonstrated by tasks such as fall recovery and terrain traversal. Ablation studies further highlight that our framework effectively leverages specialist expertise and enhances learning efficiency.
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Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2603.03733 [cs.RO]
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