Robotics debate: matching training to test distribution is not the best approach, says researcher
EpisodeYang · x · 2026-11-12
After Russ Tedrake did a point-by-point takedown of Chris Paxton's blog post in a keynote, Episode Yang pushes back on a common robotics misconception: making the training distribution identical to the test distribution is not the best approach — a real debate over distribution design in sim2real and robot learning.
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