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ARM: Advantage Reward Modeling for Long-Horizon Manipulation

Hua Chen, Minzhao Zhu, Qirui Hu, Weixin Mao, Yiming Mao, Yinhao Li, Zihan Lan, Zixi Yu

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keywords advantage reward modelinglong-horizon manipulationrobotic manipulationreinforcement learningreward modelingtri-state labelingoffline RLtowel folding
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Advantage Reward Modeling uses simple relative labels to guide long-horizon robot policies without dense rewards.

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The paper proposes Advantage Reward Modeling to solve credit assignment problems in long-horizon robotic manipulation where rewards are sparse and behaviors can reverse course. Rather than forcing humans to assign numerical progress scores, it asks annotators only to mark each step as moving the task forward, backward, or staying the same. These three labels train a model that then automatically supplies advantage estimates for both complete demonstrations and partial data gathered during interactive collection. The estimates are fed into offline reinforcement learning to reweight actions, down-weighting poor choices and producing more stable policies. On a demanding towel-folding task the resulting controller reaches 99.4 percent success while requiring almost no human oversight once the initial labels are collected.

Core claim

We propose Advantage Reward Modeling (ARM), a framework that shifts from hard-to-quantify absolute progress to estimating relative advantage. We introduce a cost-effective tri-state labeling strategy -- Progressive, Regressive, and Stagnant -- that reduces human cognitive overhead while ensuring high cross-annotator consistency. By training on these intuitive signals, ARM enables automated progress annotation for both complete demonstrations and fragmented DAgger-style data. Integrating ARM into an offline RL pipeline allows for adaptive action-reward reweighting, effectively filtering suboptimal samples. Our approach achieves a 99.4% success rate on a challenging long-horizon towel-folding,

What carries the argument

Tri-state labeling strategy (Progressive, Regressive, Stagnant) that supplies relative advantage signals for training a reward model used in offline RL reweighting.

Load-bearing premise

The three intuitive labels supply enough unbiased signal to estimate advantage accurately on both full demonstrations and partial interactive data without introducing systematic credit-assignment errors.

What would settle it

A controlled test in which reward models trained on tri-state labels produce advantage estimates that fail to improve policy success rates over unweighted baselines on the same towel-folding task or on a new long-horizon manipulation benchmark.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.03037 by Hua Chen, Minzhao Zhu, Qirui Hu, Weixin Mao, Yiming Mao, Yinhao Li, Zihan Lan, Zixi Yu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of our proposed framework. The system consists of three main components: (1) The Advantage Reward Model (ARM) with its MIMO-based Temporal Transformer, supervised by a lightweight tri-state labeling strategy; (2) An automated pipeline for global progress reconstruction; and (3) The Advantage-Weighted Behavior Cloning (AW-BC) algorithm, which optimizes the policy using length-invariant relative gai… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison between MISO and MIMO architec￾tures. MISO stands for Multi-Input Single-Output, and MIMO stands for Multi-Input Multi-Output. tri-state labeling scheme that categorizes state transitions into progressive, regressive, or stagnant states, providing a cost-effective and task-agnostic training signal. (B) Global Progress Reconstruction: An automated pipeline that synthesizes the discrete interval g… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of the tri-state labeling strategy applied to a demonstration episode. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Overview of the long-horizon towel-folding task. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison of progress reconstruction. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Hardware setup for real-world experiments. The sys￾tem features a 6-DoF bimanual robot configuration controlled via an AgileX master-slave teleoperation interface. It is equipped with a global base camera and two wrist-mounted cameras to capture comprehensive visual observations alongside the 14-dimensional proprioceptive data. Observation and Action Space. To provide rich multi￾modal representations for b… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Visualization of ARM Inference Results. The left pan￾els show the third-person view of the bimanual towel-folding task at t = 69s and t = 70s. The right panels display the correspond￾ing progress curves: predicted progress Ppred (blue) and ground truth Pgt (green). ARM accurately captures the non-monotonic progress “dip” caused by a regressive adjustment, with the Multi￾frame Advantage head correctly outpu… view at source ↗
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Long-horizon robotic manipulation remains challenging for reinforcement learning (RL) because sparse rewards provide limited guidance for credit assignment. Practical policy improvement thus relies on richer intermediate supervision, such as dense progress rewards, which are costly to obtain and ill-suited to non-monotonic behaviors such as backtracking and recovery. To address this, we propose Advantage Reward Modeling (ARM), a framework that shifts from hard-to-quantify absolute progress to estimating relative advantage. We introduce a cost-effective tri-state labeling strategy -- Progressive, Regressive, and Stagnant -- that reduces human cognitive overhead while ensuring high cross-annotator consistency. By training on these intuitive signals, ARM enables automated progress annotation for both complete demonstrations and fragmented DAgger-style data. Integrating ARM into an offline RL pipeline allows for adaptive action-reward reweighting, effectively filtering suboptimal samples. Our approach achieves a 99.4% success rate on a challenging long-horizon towel-folding task, demonstrating improved stability and data efficiency over current VLA baselines with near-zero human intervention during policy training.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes Advantage Reward Modeling (ARM) to improve credit assignment in long-horizon robotic manipulation under sparse rewards. Instead of dense absolute progress signals, ARM uses a tri-state labeling scheme (Progressive, Regressive, Stagnant) to estimate relative advantage. These labels train an annotator that automatically labels both complete demonstrations and fragmented DAgger-style trajectories; the resulting advantage estimates are integrated into an offline RL pipeline for adaptive action reweighting. The method is evaluated on a towel-folding task, where it reports a 99.4% success rate together with gains in stability and data efficiency over VLA baselines and near-zero human intervention during policy training.

Significance. If the empirical claims and the generalization of the tri-state labels hold, ARM would offer a practical route to scaling offline RL for non-monotonic manipulation tasks by lowering labeling cost and mitigating credit-assignment errors that arise with absolute progress rewards. The automated handling of DAgger fragments is potentially valuable for real-world data collection pipelines.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Tri-state labeling): The definition of Progressive/Regressive/Stagnant labels is given for complete demonstrations, yet the text asserts that the same model automatically annotates fragmented DAgger rollouts. No quantitative comparison of label distributions or credit-assignment accuracy between the two data regimes is reported, leaving open the possibility that locally regressive recovery actions in towel folding receive negative advantage and are down-weighted.
  2. [§4.2] §4.2 (Experimental results): The 99.4% success rate is presented without the number of evaluation trials, standard deviation across seeds, statistical tests against baselines, or ablation results that isolate the contribution of the advantage reweighting step versus the underlying VLA policy.
  3. [§4.3] §4.3 (Ablations): No ablation is shown that measures the effect of replacing the tri-state advantage model with a binary success/failure label or with a learned dense progress reward, making it impossible to assess whether the claimed stability and data-efficiency gains are attributable to the proposed labeling strategy.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.1] The notation for advantage estimation (e.g., how the tri-state probabilities are converted into scalar rewards) is introduced in prose without an accompanying equation; adding a compact definition would improve clarity.
  2. [Figure 3] Figure 3 (labeling interface) would benefit from an explicit example of a non-monotonic recovery sequence and its assigned tri-state labels.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each of the major comments point by point below, and we will incorporate the suggested changes in the revised version.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Tri-state labeling): The definition of Progressive/Regressive/Stagnant labels is given for complete demonstrations, yet the text asserts that the same model automatically annotates fragmented DAgger rollouts. No quantitative comparison of label distributions or credit-assignment accuracy between the two data regimes is reported, leaving open the possibility that locally regressive recovery actions in towel folding receive negative advantage and are down-weighted.

    Authors: We agree that a quantitative comparison between the two data regimes would strengthen the presentation. In the revised manuscript, we will add a new subsection or figure in §3.2 that reports the label distributions (percentages of Progressive, Regressive, Stagnant) for both complete demonstrations and DAgger fragments. We will also include qualitative examples showing how recovery actions in towel folding are labeled as Progressive when they contribute to task progress. This should clarify that the model does not indiscriminately assign negative advantage to useful recovery behaviors. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (Experimental results): The 99.4% success rate is presented without the number of evaluation trials, standard deviation across seeds, statistical tests against baselines, or ablation results that isolate the contribution of the advantage reweighting step versus the underlying VLA policy.

    Authors: We will revise §4.2 to include the missing details: specifically, we will report that the 99.4% success rate is based on 100 evaluation trials, provide standard deviations computed over 5 independent random seeds, and include statistical significance tests (e.g., Wilcoxon signed-rank test) comparing ARM to the VLA baselines. Additionally, we will add an ablation that compares the full ARM pipeline against the VLA policy without the advantage reweighting step to isolate its contribution. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.3] §4.3 (Ablations): No ablation is shown that measures the effect of replacing the tri-state advantage model with a binary success/failure label or with a learned dense progress reward, making it impossible to assess whether the claimed stability and data-efficiency gains are attributable to the proposed labeling strategy.

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of these additional ablations. In the revised §4.3, we will include experiments replacing the tri-state model with (i) a binary success/failure label and (ii) a learned dense progress reward model. We will report the resulting success rates, stability (variance in performance), and data efficiency metrics for each variant, allowing readers to directly assess the benefits of the tri-state advantage modeling approach. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: advantage modeling reduces to standard supervised labeling plus offline RL reweighting

full rationale

The paper presents ARM as a tri-state labeling scheme (Progressive/Regressive/Stagnant) applied to demonstrations, followed by training a model to annotate new fragments and reweighting actions in an offline RL pipeline. No equations are supplied that define the advantage estimator in terms of itself or that rename a fitted parameter as a prediction. The tri-state labels are human-provided inputs; the subsequent model is a conventional supervised predictor whose outputs are then used for reweighting. No self-citation chain, uniqueness theorem, or ansatz smuggling is invoked in the supplied text to close the derivation. The framework therefore remains non-circular; any performance claims rest on empirical validation rather than definitional equivalence.

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axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Tri-state labels accurately reflect relative advantage for credit assignment
    The framework assumes human-provided Progressive/Regressive/Stagnant labels supply a reliable training signal for the reward model.

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    Each stage appears exactly once and in logical order

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    Uniform or near-uniform segmentation should be avoided unless the video genuinely supports it

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    MM:SS” format; the first stage starts at “00:00

    Timestamps must be in “MM:SS” format; the first stage starts at “00:00”. # Step 1 -- Textual Timeline First, write a detailed textual timeline with approximate timestamps. For each stage, include its name, approximate start and end time, and the visual event that defines the boundary. # Step 2 -- Structured Output Then output only valid JSON consistent wi...

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