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Deliberate Practice: Learning Robot Skills under a Budget
arXiv:2608.13415v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the problem of autonomously learning robot skills under a limited practice budget for sequential tasks. We propose an active skill learnin
arXiv:2608.13415v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the problem of autonomously learning robot skills under a limited practice budget for sequential tasks. We propose an active skill learning algorithm, Deliberate Practice (DP), that computes a provably budget-optimal allocation---practicing skills that maximize expected cumulative reward while being learnable within the budget. DP estimates both the time needed to master skills and the cumulative reward of the task plans that the skills unlock. Computing a budget-optimal allocation is challenging as it requires reasoning about combinatorially many skill plans over a large practice budget. Our key contribution is a bilinear program that can compute this exactly using off-the-shelf solvers. Through simulated and real-world experiments on long-horizon manipulation tasks, we show that our approach allows robots to optimally use limited practice time to acquire useful policies and improve long-horizon planning.
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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-08-14