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A Deployed Robot Kept Learning Without Gradients

CFAM stores verified near-out-of-distribution experience as one-shot competence capsules while freezing its slower learned core.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-07-016
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Summary

CFAM stores verified near-out-of-distribution experience as one-shot competence capsules while freezing its slower learned core.

Across five embodiments, the authors report matching a standard policy's operating point with 40 percent of the prior training data. Autonomous near-OOD capture improved action success by 13.9 points, while sequential simulation showed less backward loss than LoRA. Open-world novelty remains outside scope.

Why it matters

CFAM stores verified near-out-of-distribution experience as one-shot competence capsules while freezing its slower learned core.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. CFAM stores verified near-out-of-distribution experience as one-shot competence capsules while freezing its slower learned core.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-07-018

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.04552arXiv · primary research

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