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Conservative Offline Robot Policy Learning via Posterior-Transition Reweighting

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Offline post-training adapts a pretrained robot policy to a target dataset by supervised regression on recorded actions. In practice, robot datasets are heterogeneous: they mix embodiments, camera setups, and demonstrations of varying quality, so many trajectories reflect recovery behavior, inconsistent operator skill, or weakly informative supervision. Uniform post-training gives equal credit to all samples and can therefore average over conflicting or low-attribution data. We propose Posterior-Transition Reweighting (PTR), a reward-free and conservative post-training method that decides how much each training sample should influence the supervised update. For each sample, PTR encodes the observed post-action consequence as a latent target, inserts it into a candidate pool of mismatched targets, and uses a separate transition scorer to estimate a softmax identification posterior over target indices. The posterior-to-uniform ratio defines the PTR score, which is converted into a clipped-and-mixed weight and applied to the original action objective through self-normalized weighted regression. This construction requires no tractable policy likelihood and is compatible with both diffusion and flow-matching action heads. Rather than uniformly trusting all recorded supervision, PTR reallocates credit according to how attributable each sample's post-action consequence is under the current representation, improving conservative offline adaptation to heterogeneous robot data.

Wanpeng Zhang, Hao Luo, Sipeng Zheng, Yicheng Feng, Haiweng Xu, Ziheng Xi, Chaoyi Xu, Haoqi Yuan, Zongqing Lu• 2026

Related benchmarks

TaskDatasetResultRank
Robot ManipulationLIBERO (test)
Average Success Rate97.8
184
Robot ManipulationLIBERO simulation
Average Success Rate97.8
36
Robot ManipulationRoboCasa simulation
Average Success Rate55.6
7
Bimanual CoordinationReal Robot Bimanual Suite
Success Rate66.7
4
Multi-step Sequential ManipulationReal Robot Long-Horizon Suite
Success Rate65
4
Precise Placement and ArrangementReal Robot Spatial Suite
Success Rate78.3
4
Robust ManipulationReal Robot Robust Suite
Success Rate61.7
4
Robot ManipulationRoboCasa (test)
Pick and Place Success Rate38.3
3
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