Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (HiL-RL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for real-world robotic manipulation, enabling online policy improvement with human guidance. However, current HiL-RL frameworks remain intervention-intensive, relying on frequent human corrections to redirect the policy out of unproductive exploration, which incurs high labor cost and limits real-world scalability. To address this, we propose UniIntervene, an agentic intervention model that detects unproductive exploration and autonomously recovers the policy toward high-value states, taking over the bulk of interventions from human operators. Specifically, UniIntervene first performs future-conditioned action-value estimation, predicting the latent consequence of the current action and evaluating its induced value, which provides a more stable progress signal. Building on this, a temporal value-risk critic aggregates recent value dynamics and triggers intervention when the estimated value exhibits sustained stagnation or degradation. When intervention is required, UniIntervene retrieves a high-value recovery target from a memory of past intervention episodes and produces executable corrective actions through a goal-conditioned recovery policy. In this way, UniIntervene turns intervention from passive human correction into a value-aware recovery process for efficient real-world RL. Extensive experiments on diverse real-world manipulation tasks demonstrate that UniIntervene improves the average success rate by 8.6% while reducing human interventions by 57% relative to state-of-the-art HiL-RL baselines.
翻译:人机协同强化学习(HiL-RL)已成为真实世界机器人操作的有效范式,通过人类指导实现在线策略改进。然而,现有HiL-RL框架仍然依赖密集干预,需要频繁的人工纠偏以引导策略脱离无效探索,这导致高昂人力成本并限制真实场景扩展性。为此,我们提出UniIntervene智能体干预模型,该模型可检测无效探索并自主将策略恢复至高价值状态,从而承担人类操作员的大部分干预工作。具体而言,UniIntervene首先执行未来条件动作价值估计,预测当前动作的潜在后果并评估其诱导价值,从而提供更稳定的进程信号。基于此,时序价值风险评判器聚合近期价值动态,当估计价值呈现持续停滞或衰退时触发干预。当需要干预时,UniIntervene从过往干预事件记忆库中检索高价值恢复目标,并通过目标条件恢复策略生成可执行修正动作。通过这种方式,UniIntervene将干预从被动人工纠偏转变为面向高效真实世界强化学习的价值感知恢复过程。在多种真实世界操作任务上的大量实验表明,相较于现有最优HiL-RL基线方法,UniIntervene在将人类干预减少57%的同时将平均成功率提升8.6%。