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“A deceptively simple fix — redefining a robot's starting position as 'zero' at the beginning of each episode — delivers a 15x improvement in task success rates over standard absolute state encoding”
Source→“the overwhelming majority of research aimed at closing this train-test distribution gap has focused on the visual domain... proprioceptive inputs, such as joint positions and velocities, are still frequently fed into neural policies as raw, absolute numeric values”
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