RoboGPT-R1: New Framework Combines Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning to Improve Robot Task Planning
Researchers have developed RoboGPT-R1, a two-stage fine-tuning framework that uses supervised learning followed by reinforcement learning to improve robots' ability to plan and execute complex manipulation tasks. The approach addresses limitations in existing vision-language models by enhancing physical understanding and reasoning capabilities through a rule-based reward function. The framework demonstrates significant performance improvements on robotic benchmarks, outperforming larger models like GPT-4o-mini by over 20%.
RoboGPT-R1 is a novel framework designed to enhance embodied AI agents' reasoning and planning capabilities for long-horizon robotic manipulation tasks. The system employs a two-stage approach: first using supervised fine-tuning on expert demonstration sequences to establish foundational knowledge, then applying reinforcement learning with a rule-based reward function to address visual-spatial understanding and action sequence consistency. Built on the Qwen2.5-VL-3B model, RoboGPT-R1 achieves 21.33% higher performance than the larger GPT-4o-mini model and 20.33% improvement over comparable approaches using the larger Qwen2.5-VL-7B variant on the EmbodiedBench benchmark. The research addresses a critical gap in current large language and vision-language models, which struggle with complex real-world robotic tasks despite their general capabilities. This work suggests that targeted fine-tuning strategies can enable smaller models to outperform larger ones in specialized robotic planning domains.
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The paper does not discuss computational costs or inference time comparisons between RoboGPT-R1 and baseline models, which would be relevant for practical deployment. Additionally, the generalization of the approach to robotic systems beyond the tested benchmark and real-world deployment challenges are not addressed in the abstract.
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- arXiv cs.AICenter
RoboGPT-R1: Enhancing Robot Task Planning with Reinforcement Learning
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