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RL-CycleGAN: Reinforcement Learning Aware Simulation-to-Real
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Measured effects reported in the paper
| What was changed | Where | Measured | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| add cycle consistency to GAN image adaptation | GAN · Robot 1 grasping | grasp success: 29% -> 61% | Helped |
| add RL-scene consistency to CycleGAN | CycleGAN · Robot 1 grasping | grasp success: 61% -> 70% | Helped |
| use grasping-specific masking loss for image adaptation | GAN-based simulation-to-real transfer · Robot 1 grasping | grasp success: 29% -> 63% | Helped |
| add RL-CycleGAN-adapted simulation to real off-policy training data | Robot 1 real-data RL training, 5,000 episodes · Robot 1 grasping | grasp success: 15% -> 75% | Helped |
| add RL-CycleGAN-adapted simulation to real off-policy training data | Robot 1 real-data RL training, 580,000 episodes · Robot 1 grasping | grasp success: 87% -> 94% | Helped |
| use RL-CycleGAN to adapt simulated images alongside real data | Robot 2 single-bin centered grasping, 3,000 episodes · Robot 2 single-bin centered grasping | grasp success: 13% -> 72% | Helped |
| use RL-CycleGAN to adapt simulated images alongside real data | Robot 2 single-bin centered grasping, 80,000 episodes · Robot 2 single-bin centered grasping | grasp success: 36% -> 95% | Helped |
| use RL-CycleGAN to adapt simulated images alongside real data | Robot 2 multi-bin randomized-location grasping, 80,000 episodes · Robot 2 multi-bin randomized-location grasping | grasp success: 33% -> 93% | Helped |
| fine-tune with RL-CycleGAN-adapted simulation and 5,000 off-policy episodes instead of RCAN's 28,000 on-policy episodes | Robot 1 grasping · Robot 1 grasping | grasp success: 90% -> 94% | Helped |
| set λRL-real to 0.1 rather than 1.0 (ablation) | RL-CycleGAN with 3,000 Robot 2 episodes · Robot 2 single-bin centered grasping | grasp success: 66% -> 72% | Helped |
| set λRL-real to 2.0 rather than 1.0 (ablation) | RL-CycleGAN with 80,000 Robot 2 episodes · Robot 2 single-bin centered grasping | grasp success: 91% -> 95% | Helped |
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- RealVLG-R1: A Large-Scale Real-World Visual-Language Grounding Benchmark for Robotic Perception and Manipulation (CVPR 2026 · similarity 0.87)
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