Plan-Seq-Learn: Language Model Guided RL for Solving Long Horizon Robotics Tasks

May 2024

Plan-Seq-Learn: Language Model Guided RL for Solving Long Horizon Robotics Tasks

Authors:

Murtaza Dalal, Tarun Chiruvolu, Devendra Chaplot, and Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Conference Paper
Proceedings of (CoRL) Conference on Robot Learning

Abstract:

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to be capable of performing high-level planning for long-horizon robotics tasks, yet existing methods require access to a pre-defined skill library (e.g. picking, placing, pulling, pushing, navigating). However, LLM planning does not address how to design or learn those behaviors, which remains challenging particularly in long-horizon settings. Furthermore, for many tasks of interest, the robot needs to be able to adjust its behavior in a fine-grained manner, requiring the agent to be capable of modifying low-level control actions. Can we instead use the internet-scale knowledge from LLMs for high-level policies, guiding reinforcement learning (RL) policies to efficiently solve robotic control tasks online without requiring a pre-determined set of skills? In this paper, we propose Plan-Seq-Learn (PSL): a modular approach that uses motion planning to bridge the gap between abstract language and learned low-level control for solving long-horizon robotics tasks from scratch. We demonstrate that PSL achieves state-of-the-art results on over 25 challenging robotics tasks with up to 10 stages. PSL solves long-horizon tasks from raw visual input spanning four benchmarks at success rates of over 85%, out-performing language-based, classical, and end-to-end approaches.
@conference{Dalal-2024-142758,
author = {Murtaza Dalal And Tarun Chiruvolu And Devendra Chaplot And Ruslan Salakhutdinov},
title = {Plan-Seq-Learn: Language Model Guided RL for Solving Long Horizon Robotics Tasks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (CoRL) Conference on Robot Learning},
year = {2024},
month = {May},
}
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