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Dexterity from Supervised Play

Botao He, Yiming Dou, Yiannis Aloimonos, Jitendra Malik +2 more

Published

Oct 15, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

67/100 (Medium)

Extraction confidence

70% (Moderate)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Oct 15, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper has useful evaluation signal, but protocol completeness is partial; pair it with related papers before deciding implementation strategy.

Use this for comparison and orientation, not as your only source.

Best use

Secondary protocol comparison source

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
67/100
Moderate-confidence candidate

Useful as a secondary reference; validate protocol details against neighboring papers.

Abstract

How can robots autonomously collect the contact-rich experience needed to learn dexterous manipulation? We present DSP: Dexterity from supervised play, a framework in which a robot learns a play policy from minutes of human play through behavior cloning, then deploys it autonomously to collect hours of interaction data to train a world model. During inference, the same play policy then guides model-predictive control (MPC) by proposing candidate action sequences for evaluation under the learned world model. To accelerate inference, we also introduce a method for distilling a closed-loop, goal-conditioned policy through self-play within the learned world model. We evaluate this framework on underactuated pushing and any-to-any in-hand pose reorientation with a multifingered hand, in simulation and real world. In real world experiment, our method outperforms hindsight behavior cloning by 69.6% in success rate and achieves comparable success to reinforcement learning with 490 times less interaction data. These results demonstrate that supervised play can autonomously collect interaction data, guide model-based planning, and enable policy learning without any task-specific demonstrations or sim-to-real transfer.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

strong

Demonstrations

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"These results demonstrate that supervised play can autonomously collect interaction data, guide model-based planning, and enable policy learning without any task-specific demonstrations or sim-to-real transfer."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Simulation Env

Includes extracted eval setup.

"How can robots autonomously collect the contact-rich experience needed to learn dexterous manipulation?"

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"How can robots autonomously collect the contact-rich experience needed to learn dexterous manipulation?"

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"How can robots autonomously collect the contact-rich experience needed to learn dexterous manipulation?"

Reported Metrics

strong

Success rate

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"In real world experiment, our method outperforms hindsight behavior cloning by 69.6% in success rate and achieves comparable success to reinforcement learning with 490 times less interaction data."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

success rate
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Demonstrations
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Simulation Env
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Moderate
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Research brief

Metadata summary

How can robots autonomously collect the contact-rich experience needed to learn dexterous manipulation?

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • How can robots autonomously collect the contact-rich experience needed to learn dexterous manipulation?
  • We present DSP: Dexterity from supervised play, a framework in which a robot learns a play policy from minutes of human play through behavior cloning, then deploys it autonomously to collect hours of interaction data to train a world model.
  • During inference, the same play policy then guides model-predictive control (MPC) by proposing candidate action sequences for evaluation under the learned world model.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Simulation environment) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • We present DSP: Dexterity from supervised play, a framework in which a robot learns a play policy from minutes of human play through behavior cloning, then deploys it autonomously to collect hours of interaction data to train a world model.
  • During inference, the same play policy then guides model-predictive control (MPC) by proposing candidate action sequences for evaluation under the learned world model.
  • We evaluate this framework on underactuated pushing and any-to-any in-hand pose reorientation with a multifingered hand, in simulation and real world.

Why it matters for eval

  • We present DSP: Dexterity from supervised play, a framework in which a robot learns a play policy from minutes of human play through behavior cloning, then deploys it autonomously to collect hours of interaction data to train a world model.
  • During inference, the same play policy then guides model-predictive control (MPC) by proposing candidate action sequences for evaluation under the learned world model.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Demonstrations

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Simulation Env

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: success rate