Paper

Learning from Fleet Experience: A Collective Learning Paradigm for Robots

Failed rollout contexts retrieve similar successful segments from fleet logs, and those actions are prioritized to fine-tune a shared policy without new expert actions.

arXiv ↗Oct 19, 2026

  • robotics
  • imitation learning
  • manipulation
  • distributed training
Full pipeline diagram showing collection, encoding, retrieval, and prioritized fine-tuning method stages
Full pipeline diagram showing collection, encoding, retrieval, and prioritized fine-tuning method stages

What it is

Robots improve a shared manipulation policy from fleet execution logs by retrieving successful peer trajectories near failure contexts, avoiding new expert corrections. Instead of relying on teleoperated corrections, failed executions query a shared buffer of successful fleet trajectories; retrieved segments are upweighted as supervision to fine-tune one shared policy asynchronously.

Key results

  • Phone packaging: 79.2% to 98.3% success with 96 robots
  • Across 5 tasks: 93.3-99.2% success over 120 eval trials per task
  • Removing failure-guided retrieval drops phone packaging from 86.7% to 64.2%

Shared autonomous experience can materially improve deployed robot reliability without scaling expert corrective supervision.

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