A Recipe for Physical Action Model Training
Shaojiang Wang, Geer Yang
原文摘要
Choosing robot model capacity and demonstration budgets also requires decisions about data composition, representation, optimization, and deployment. We connect these decisions through a common conditional-distribution target. Nested learning oracles give exact risk accounting; local information geometry, conditional mutual information, and empirical convergence provide conditional training prescriptions. Known-target numerical checks expose capacity-data coupling, representation-induced mixture mismatch, and an example where deployment KL increases while negative log-likelihood decreases. An analysis of 206 public PushT trajectories evaluates fixed-feature information-design criteria without fitting a policy. Under asymmetric evaluation targets, the selected allocations reduce this criterion by 4.5-6.2% relative to target matching; balanced targets show no benefit. These results clarify which quantities can support training recommendations and when an apparently favorable predictive metric has a different interpretation.
cs.LG