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arxiv: 2605.22123 · v1 · pith:O6OIB7BKnew · submitted 2026-05-21 · 💻 cs.RO

Beyond Pixels: Learning Invariant Rewards for Real-World Robotics From a Few Demonstrations

Tengye Xu , Yangting Sun , Ziju Shen , Guanqi Chen , Zhen Fu , Chen yizhou , Hua Chen , Jia Pan This is my paper

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keywords invariant rewardsrobot manipulationreinforcement learningfew-shot learningsymbolic rewardsgeneralizationreward learningbehavioral invariants
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The pith

Learning invariant symbolic rewards from few demonstrations enables zero-shot generalization across visual changes in robot manipulation tasks.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to build reward functions for robotics that remain useful when the same task appears with different objects, positions, or camera angles. Rather than memorizing pixel patterns from demonstrations, the approach identifies higher-level behavioral properties that stay fixed despite those visual differences. This is done by pairing a structural way of writing rewards that encodes strategies and constraints without altering the best policies, together with a procedure that extracts the properties from only five examples and without further robot interaction. If the claim holds, one learned reward can support many task variants in real settings and speed up policy training compared to methods that overfit to specific visuals.

Core claim

The paper claims that invariant symbolic reward functions can be learned from as few as five demonstrations by shifting focus to task-level properties that remain constant across visual instantiations. This is realized through two coupled components: a structural reward formulation that encodes task-level strategies and physical constraints while preserving optimal policy invariance, and a hybrid symbolic-numerical procedure that distills these invariants from demonstrations. Experiments show stronger process alignment and policy rollout ranking on eight Meta-World tasks and three Franka tasks, faster downstream learning, and zero-shot transfer in three real-world out-of-distribution tests.

What carries the argument

The structural reward formulation that encodes task-level strategies and physical constraints while preserving optimal policy invariance, coupled with a hybrid symbolic-numerical procedure to distill invariants from demonstrations.

If this is right

  • The method produces stronger process alignment and better policy rollout ranking than baselines on eight Meta-World tasks and three Franka manipulation tasks.
  • Downstream policy learning is accelerated when using the learned reward.
  • A single reward transfers zero-shot to new positions, viewpoints, and objects in real-world experiments without retraining or online interaction.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same invariants could let a robot reuse one reward model for a family of related manipulation problems that differ only in surface appearance.
  • Extending the structural constraints to include additional physical rules might handle tasks with deformable objects or partial observability.
  • If the distillation procedure scales, it could reduce reliance on hand-crafted rewards when deploying robots in unstructured environments.

Load-bearing premise

Task-level properties and the ranking of optimal policies stay the same even when object instances, positions, and viewpoints change substantially.

What would settle it

A demonstration that the learned reward ranks unsuccessful policies higher than successful ones or fails to produce working rollouts under new object, position, or viewpoint conditions beyond the three tested real-world variations.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.22123 by Chen yizhou, Guanqi Chen, Hua Chen, Jia Pan, Tengye Xu, Yangting Sun, Zhen Fu, Ziju Shen.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview. (a) Five demonstrations are used to learn a symbolic [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Framework Overview: (a) Structural Reward Formulation: A pipeline that maps raw visual input to robust reward signals. It comprises a Flow￾Generator for flow generation, a symbolic potential function for progress estimation, and a Potential-Based Reward Shaping-MileStone (PBRS-MS) module to ensure optimal policy invariance and signal stability. (b) Hybrid Symbolic-Numerical Learning: A bi-level optimizatio… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: The flow generation procedure. IV. STRUCTURAL REWARD FORMULATION Rather than learning a reward function end-to-end from images, FLORA encodes the Behavioral and Optimality In￾variance constraints directly into the reward architecture, con￾verting a constrained optimization problem into a tractable unconstrained one. The formulation has three components, as illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Potential collapse under standard PBRS and its resolution by our [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The Hybrid Symbolic-Numerical Learning Pipeline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Representative rollouts and reward curves on the Lever-Pull task under (a) base and (b) viewpoint-OOD settings. Origin denotes the default dense reward [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Meta-World Performance: We report interquartile means of success [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Generalization Performance: We reuse the trained reward models in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Real-world manipulation tasks and OOD variants. (a)–(c) Base tasks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Ablation study on the PBRS-MS module. f) Hybrid Optimization Method: The hybrid optimizer is compared against three reduced variants: LLM reflection alone, Bayesian Optimization alone, and direct selection of the best LLM-generated candidate without further optimization. Each variant is run five times; performance is measured by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
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Designing reward functions that generalize beyond controlled laboratory settings remains a fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning for robotics. In open-world manipulation problems, a single task can appear in numerous variants through different object instances, positions, and camera viewpoints. Recent vision-based reward models tend to memorize specific pixel distributions and fail to generalize beyond their training conditions. To address this, we propose a framework that learns invariant symbolic reward functions from as few as five demonstrations. The insight is to shift from visual feature-fitting to the discovery of behavioral invariants: task-level properties that remain constant across diverse visual instantiations. The framework has two coupled components: a structural reward formulation that encodes task-level strategies and physical constraints while preserving optimal policy invariance, and a hybrid symbolic-numerical procedure that distills these invariants from demonstrations without online interaction. Experiments on eight Meta-World tasks and three Franka manipulation tasks demonstrate that our method achieves stronger process alignment and policy rollout ranking abilities compared to baselines, accelerating downstream policy learning. Three real-world out-of-distribution experiments further show that the same learned reward generalizes zero-shot to position, viewpoint, and object variations, enabling a single reward representation to be reused across diverse task variants in practice.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes a framework to learn invariant symbolic reward functions from as few as five demonstrations for robotic manipulation. It introduces two coupled components: a structural reward formulation encoding task-level strategies and physical constraints while preserving optimal policy invariance, and a hybrid symbolic-numerical distillation procedure that extracts these invariants without online interaction. Experiments on eight Meta-World tasks and three Franka tasks show improved process alignment and rollout ranking over baselines, with three real-world OOD tests demonstrating zero-shot generalization to position, viewpoint, and object variations.

Significance. If the invariance properties and generalization results hold under scrutiny, the work could meaningfully advance reward learning in robotics by moving beyond pixel-memorization approaches, enabling reusable rewards across visual variants and reducing demonstration requirements for policy learning in open-world settings.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Structural Reward Formulation): The claim that the structural reward encodes task-level properties while preserving optimal policy invariance across visual instantiations (camera parameters, object geometry) is central to the zero-shot OOD transfer results. No derivation, invariance proof, or counterexample analysis is provided to establish that the chosen form remains invariant or optimality-preserving under these changes; if invariance fails for even one variant, the reported real-world generalization does not follow from the construction.
  2. [§5.3] §5.3 (Real-World OOD Experiments): The three real-world experiments report zero-shot transfer, but without access to full error analysis, variance across trials, or explicit checks that the structural form was not post-hoc adjusted to the test variants, it is difficult to confirm that the results support the invariance claim rather than task-specific fitting.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §5] The metrics 'process alignment' and 'policy rollout ranking' are referenced in the abstract and results but lack a concise definition or pointer to their exact computation in the main text; adding this would improve readability.
  2. [Figures 4-6] Figure captions for the real-world setups could more explicitly label the variations (position, viewpoint, object) tested in each OOD case to make the generalization evidence easier to parse.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address the major comments point by point below and outline the revisions we will make to strengthen the presentation of the invariance properties and experimental details.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Structural Reward Formulation): The claim that the structural reward encodes task-level properties while preserving optimal policy invariance across visual instantiations (camera parameters, object geometry) is central to the zero-shot OOD transfer results. No derivation, invariance proof, or counterexample analysis is provided to establish that the chosen form remains invariant or optimality-preserving under these changes; if invariance fails for even one variant, the reported real-world generalization does not follow from the construction.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit derivation would clarify the central claim. The structural reward is defined over a symbolic state space consisting of task predicates (e.g., contact relations, relative goal distances) that are invariant to camera intrinsics, extrinsics, and object geometry by construction; the numerical component is used only for grounding and does not alter the symbolic structure. Because the reward depends solely on these invariant predicates, any policy that is optimal with respect to the original task remains optimal under visual transformations that preserve the symbolic state. We will add a concise derivation of this invariance property together with a short counterexample analysis in the revised Section 3.2. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5.3] §5.3 (Real-World OOD Experiments): The three real-world experiments report zero-shot transfer, but without access to full error analysis, variance across trials, or explicit checks that the structural form was not post-hoc adjusted to the test variants, it is difficult to confirm that the results support the invariance claim rather than task-specific fitting.

    Authors: We acknowledge that additional statistical reporting and clarification on experimental procedure would increase confidence in the results. The real-world trials were performed with a fixed structural reward form determined exclusively from the five training demonstrations; no post-hoc modification occurred. We will expand Section 5.3 to include the complete per-variant success rates, standard deviations across repeated trials, and an explicit statement confirming that the symbolic structure was not adjusted after seeing the OOD test outcomes. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No load-bearing circularity; invariance stated as property of formulation without reduction to inputs

full rationale

The visible abstract and context describe a structural reward formulation that 'encodes task-level strategies and physical constraints while preserving optimal policy invariance' and a hybrid procedure that distills invariants from five demonstrations. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that would reduce a claimed prediction or zero-shot generalization to a fitted input or self-definition by construction. Experimental results on Meta-World, Franka, and real-world OOD cases function as independent benchmarks rather than tautological outputs. This matches the default expectation of no significant circularity for a high-level framework description.

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  • domain assumption Task-level properties remain constant across diverse visual instantiations
    Invoked to justify shifting from pixel distributions to symbolic rewards.

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