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Robotic Manipulation Datasets for Offline Compositional Reinforcement Learning

arXiv 2307.07091 ↗First posted 13 Jul 2023cs.LG cs.AI cs.ROcited by 5

On the map: Offline RL and imitation learning from data → Real-world robot offline RL

Abstract (arXiv)

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising direction that allows RL agents to pre-train on large datasets, avoiding the recurrence of expensive data collection. To advance the field, it is crucial to generate large-scale datasets. Compositional RL is particularly appealing for generating such large datasets, since 1)~it permits creating many tasks from few components, 2)~the task structure may enable trained agents to solve new tasks by combining relevant learned components, and 3)~the compositional dimensions provide a notion of task relatedness. This paper provides four offline RL datasets for simulated robotic manipulation created using the 256 tasks from CompoSuite [Mendez at al., 2022a]. Each dataset is collected from an agent with a different degree of performance, and consists of 256 million transitions. We provide training and evaluation settings for assessing an agent's ability to learn compositional task policies. Our benchmarking experiments show that current offline RL methods can learn the training tasks to some extent and that compositional methods outperform non-compositional methods. Yet current methods are unable to extract the compositional structure to generalize to unseen tasks, highlighting a need for future research in offline compositional RL.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Real-world robot offline RL, one of 13 directions in Offline RL and imitation learning from data. Builds on 53 of its 93 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 13 Jul 2023.

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