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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · August 17, 2026
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Teach-and-Grow Learning (TGL) is a proposed agent-centered architecture that uses skill induction and experience memory to reduce retraining burden in robot learning. The preprint reports state-of-the-art LIBERO benchmark performance and controlled studies suggesting skill reuse and agent-directed adaptation, alongside a theoretical 'scaling-law hypothesis'; however, these results remain unreviewed and lack direct comparative effectiveness data against established methods.
Preprint. Robotic agents evaluated on LIBERO benchmark; no human participants or real-world robot deployment described. Intervention: Teach-and-Grow Learning (TGL) architecture: multimodal agent that converts demonstrations into reusable Skill Blocks, grounds and composes blocks in new scenes, selects tools, observes outcomes, and revises routes; maintains Skill Library….
Architecture attains state-of-the-art performance on LIBERO evaluation Controlled studies demonstrate skill induction, persistent reuse, and agent-directed adaptation Proposes Teach-and-Grow scaling-law hypothesis: future-task error and teaching demand approach irreducible floors as power laws in effective reusable experience X
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A novel architecture and conceptual framework for robot learning with preliminary empirical validation on a benchmark, but no comparative effectiveness data, no clinical or real-world deployment outcomes, and no peer review.
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End-to-end vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action models offer an elegant route to general-purpose robotics, but their reliability is bounded by validated physical coverage. When an unfamiliar object, sensor, embodiment, or contact falls outside that coverage and no validated fallback exists, correcting the failure requires new robot data, a policy update, and regression testing. This recurring burden is the retraining tax. Unlike text, embodied data must often be created by operating machines. We present Teach-and-Grow Learning (TGL), an agent-centered architecture for general robot learning. In its general form, a multimodal agent turns a few successful demonstrations into reusable Skill Blocks: closed-loop behaviors for meaningful subgoals. In a new scene, the agent grounds and composes these blocks, selects learned or geometric tools, observes the physical outcome, and revises the route when execution departs from intent. A Skill Library stores executable behavior, while structured Experience Memory carries forward success, failure, and repair. New tasks are acquired without task-specific policy retraining. Our LIBERO evaluation attains state-of-the-art performance; controlled studies expose skill induction, persistent reuse, and agent-directed adaptation. Finally, we propose the Teach-and-Grow scaling-law hypothesis: if X denotes effective reusable experience, future-task error and teaching demand should approach irreducible floors as power laws in X. The architecture therefore treats deployment as a period of continued learning, in which one task can make the next easier.
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