学习任务还是学习验证器?重新审视具身自我改进中的评判标准暴露
Learning the Task or Learning the Verifier? Rethinking Criteria Exposure in Embodied Self-Improvement
Wenbo Huang, Jianxin Bi, Shunyu Yang, Ruiyang Si, Rui Ni, Qiang Wang, Shulong Jiang, Yintianrun Zhang 等 13 位作者
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作者通过受控实验质疑具身自我改进智能体在基准测试中暴露成功评判标准(Criteria Exposure)的做法,指出其可能诱导代码过拟合验证器而非真正完成任务。
cs.AI · cs.RO
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Self-improving embodied agents are increasingly being developed and compared on robot simulation benchmarks. Several recent works expose the benchmark's success criteria to the learning agent, a practice we call Criteria Exposure (CE). These criteria, originally written to verify policies trained by imitation learning, often demand more than the corresponding language instructions, so a score from such a verifier may not faithfully reflect whether the instructed task was completed, especially for robot-control programs written by an agent. As embodied coding agents report ever higher benchmark scores, a natural question arises: when a coding agent is exposed to the benchmark's criteria, does it generate code that better performs the instructed task, or code that simply overfits to the verification criteria? We conduct controlled experiments with a self-improving agent with and without CE, and find that with CE the agent quickly produces code with a higher success rate under the given criteria, but this advantage disappears when the criteria are changed slightly without departing from the original instructions. More importantly, the skills the agent develops under CE transfer poorly across tasks. We further propose instruction-faithful criteria and show that they better reflect the performance of agent-generated programs.