Can Tabular Foundation Models Guide Exploration in Robot Policy Learning?
Policy optimization in high-dimensional continuous control for robotics remains a challenging problem. Predominant methods are inherently local and often require extensive tuning and carefully chosen initial guesses for good performance, whereas more global and less initialization-sensitive search methods typically incur high rollout costs. We propose TFM-S3, a tabular hybrid local-global method for improving global exploration in robot policy learning with limited rollout cost. We interleave high-frequency local updates with intermittent rounds of global search. In each search round, we construct a dynamically updated low-dimensional policy subspace via SVD and perform iterative surrogat...
| Authors | Buqing Ou, Frederike Dümbgen |
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| Primary category | cs.RO |
| Published | 30 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 30 April 2026 |
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