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LUCID: Latent-Skill Unified Control via Imagined Dynamics for Long-Horizon Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

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arXiv:2608.07746 (cs)
[Submitted on 7 Aug 2026]

Title:LUCID: Latent-Skill Unified Control via Imagined Dynamics for Long-Horizon Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

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Abstract:Long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation requires composing versatile whole-body skills and reliable high-level decision making. Existing methods often coordinate pretrained skills with scripted planners, finite-state machines or task-specific model-free policies, restricting their ability to handle complex task sequences. To address this limitation, we propose \textbf{LUCID}, a hierarchical model-based reinforcement learning framework that plans over reusable skills through imagined rollouts of a learned dynamics model. LUCID first trains a structured latent-conditioned low-level policy via adversarial imitation and then freezes it while jointly learning a high-level policy and macro-dynamics world model. The world model predicts the temporally extended state transitions induced by latent decisions, enabling high-level policy optimization through imagined rollouts. We evaluate our framework across various simulated multi-object rearrangement scenarios. Experimental results show that LUCID improves the full-task success and partial-completion rates compared to prior baseline methods, demonstrating its effectiveness in complex sequential loco-manipulation tasks.
Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
Cite as: arXiv:2608.07746 [cs.LG]
  (or arXiv:2608.07746v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.07746
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From: Cheng Guo [view email]
[v1] Fri, 7 Aug 2026 20:26:34 UTC (12,256 KB)
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