CoDA: Co-Evolution of Data Engines and Action Policies

Tianjiao Yu, Zhilin Ou, Yifan Shen et al.1 min readarXivOct 15, 2026

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Generative simulation can automate robot environment construction, but physically valid environments are not necessarily useful for training. The challenge is to identify environments that address a policy's failures and supervision that helps it overcome them. We introduce CoDA, a framework in which a simulation data engine and an action policy co-evolve through a shared heter

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This paper introduces a novel co-evolutionary framework for training robot policies, addressing the critical challenge of generating useful, rather than just physically valid, simulation environments. It offers a method to automatically identify and address policy failures, leading to more robust and efficient robot training.

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Skills to learn

Designing co-evolutionary algorithms for agent trainingImplementing vision-language critics for policy diagnosisDeveloping generative simulation environments for roboticsApplying staged potential functions for dense reward shapingIntegrating heterogeneous memory systems for learning agents

Interview questions

Explain the concept of co-evolution in the context of data engines and action policies, and how CoDA leverages it to improve robot training.
How does the vision-language critic contribute to identifying policy failures and generating effective training programs in CoDA?
Design a system architecture for CoDA, detailing the components, data flow, and how the heterogeneous memory facilitates co-evolution and learning.

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