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A Humanoid Policy Forgot Selected Motions

ForgetMimic suppressed designated behaviors while preserving the rest of a learned repertoire.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-24-010
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Summary

ForgetMimic suppressed designated behaviors while preserving the rest of a learned repertoire.

ForgetMimic targets selected motions inside reinforcement-learned humanoid policies for removal while trying to preserve other behaviors. Tests on Unitree G1 and H2 robots covered 12 motions including dance, fight and flip sequences; the authors report that designated motions were eliminated without disrupting retained ones. The work addresses controlled forgetting in the tested policies, not a general guarantee that copyrighted or unsafe behavior can always be removed cleanly.

Why it matters

ForgetMimic suppressed designated behaviors while preserving the rest of a learned repertoire.

Limits and context

  • The work addresses controlled forgetting in the tested policies, not a general guarantee that copyrighted or unsafe behavior can always be removed cleanly.

Key claims

  1. ForgetMimic suppressed designated behaviors while preserving the rest of a learned repertoire.

    Qualification: The work addresses controlled forgetting in the tested policies, not a general guarantee that copyrighted or unsafe behavior can always be removed cleanly.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-24-010

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.28378arXiv · primary research

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