Catherine Weaver

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
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Planning, search and constraint satisfaction · 50% Reinforcement learning · 50%

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Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Planning, search and constraint satisfaction › planning
online planning
0.912025
Residual-MPPI: Online Policy Customization for Continuous Control · ICLR 2025

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residual policy learning · 0.9model predictive path integral control · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Residual-MPPI: Online Policy Customization for Continuous Control
abstract
Policies developed through Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL) have shown great potential in continuous control tasks, but real-world applications often require adapting trained policies to unforeseen requirements. While fine-tuning can address such needs, it typically requires additional data and access to the original training metrics and parameters. In contrast, an online planning algorithm, if capable of meeting the additional requirements, can eliminate the necessity for extensive training phases and customize the policy without knowledge of the original training scheme or task. In this work, we propose a generic online planning algorithm for customizing continuous-control policies at the execution time, which we call Residual-MPPI. It can customize a given prior policy on new performance metrics in few-shot and even zero-shot online settings, given access to the prior action distribution alone. Through our experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed Residual-MPPI algorithm can accomplish the few-shot/zero-shot online policy customization task effectively, including customizing the champion-level racing agent, Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy) 1.0, in the challenging car racing scenario, Gran Turismo Sport (GTS) environment. Code for MuJoCo experiments is included in the supplementary and will be open-sourced upon acceptance. Demo videos are available on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/residual-mppi.
Pengcheng Wang 0004, Chenran Li, Catherine Weaver, Kenta Kawamoto, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chen Tang 0001
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