Quadrupedal locomotion via Reinforcement Learning (RL) is commonly addressed using the teacher-student paradigm.
Teacher-Aligned Representations via Contrastive Learning (TAR) is proposed to bridge the representation misalignment between the privileged teacher and the student.
TAR achieves robust generalization to Out-of-Distribution (OOD) scenarios, outperforming fully privileged methods.
TAR allows adaptive locomotion and continual fine-tuning in real-world scenarios without requiring privileged states.