mulligan Paper ↗

Data-Efficient Robot Learning
in Deployment

Jane E. Doe1
1 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Mulligan steers supervised collection toward the initial states where a robot fails. We combine targeted corrections and demonstrations with a value function that learns from every rollout, including failures.

Marker and holder placement ranges on the robot table
Insert marker
Nut and peg placement ranges on the robot table
Thread nut
Cable and clip placement ranges on the robot table
Route cable

Across three real tasks, the full method improves final success by 14–34 percentage points over HG-DAgger at matched supervised collection budgets.