Never Stop Learning: The Effectiveness of Fine-Tuning in Robotic Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10190v2
• Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:43:53 GMT
• Title: Never Stop Learning: The Effectiveness of Fine-Tuning in Robotic Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Ryan Julian, Benjamin Swanson, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, and Karol Hausman
• Abstract summary: We show how to adapt vision-based robotic manipulation policies to new variations by fine-tuning via off-policy reinforcement learning. This adaptation uses less than 0.2% of the data necessary to learn the task from scratch. We find that our approach of adapting pre-trained policies leads to substantial performance gains over the course of fine-tuning.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: One of the great promises of robot learning systems is that they will be able to learn from their mistakes and continuously adapt to ever-changing environments. Despite this potential, most of the robot learning systems today are deployed as a fixed policy and they are not being adapted after their deployment. Can we efficiently adapt previously learned behaviors to new environments, objects and percepts in the real world? In this paper, we present a method and empirical evidence towards a robot learning framework that facilitates continuous adaption. In particular, we demonstrate how to adapt vision-based robotic manipulation policies to new variations by fine-tuning via off-policy reinforcement learning, including changes in background, object shape and appearance, lighting conditions, and robot morphology. Further, this adaptation uses less than 0.2% of the data necessary to learn the task from scratch. We find that our approach of adapting pre-trained policies leads to substantial performance gains over the course of fine-tuning, and that pre-training via RL is essential: training from scratch or adapting from supervised ImageNet features are both unsuccessful with such small amounts of data. We also find that these positive results hold in a limited continual learning setting, in which we repeatedly fine-tune a single lineage of policies using data from a succession of new tasks. Our empirical conclusions are consistently supported by experiments on simulated manipulation tasks, and by 52 unique fine-tuning experiments on a real robotic grasping system pre-trained on 580,000 grasps.

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