Robotics training debate: sim distillation vs. human behavior cloning
KyleMorgenstein · x · 2026-08-26
Kyle Morgenstein argues that distillation from single-task policies trained in simulation differs fundamentally from large-scale behavior cloning (BC) with human data, as single-task policies cannot scale the way BC + human data does. Chris Offner questions if multi-expert distillation represents a single policy performing multiple skills, noting that "athletic intelligence" remains capped at mimicking human motions or myopic MPC-like lookahead, failing to scale to other morphologies.
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