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REVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 15, 2026 · UTC

A central goal of autonomous reinforcement learning is continuous policy training without external resets. However, existing paradigms largely depend on underlying environmental reversibility, a property absent in real world manipulation, where events such as pushing objects off tables or spilling granular substances cannot be undone. We introduce REVERSAL-BENCH, a benchmark that controls reversibility via a continuous parameter $ρ\in [0, 1]$ and provides a reset oracle, a ground-truth verification mechanism to test state recoverability across eight manipulation settings in five physics engine

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