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Learning Adaptable Dexterous Skills via Hybrid Dexterous Mimicking

Yuxuan Kuang, Jiashun Wang, Yixuan Sun, Yufei Ye, Sungjae Park, Umar Iqbal, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Shubham Tulsiani · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.28628 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

Abstract

Dexterous multi-finger hands hold promise to unlock diverse skills like functional grasps, in-hand reorientation, and dynamic handover that the human-designed world assumes, yet existing learning recipes force a trade-off. Goal-reaching reinforcement learning generalizes to arbitrary object poses but, lacking any human prior, converges to unnatural and unreliable finger strategies; motion tracking reproduces human-like behavior from a single clip but cannot deviate from it. We present AdaDex, a goal-conditioned RL framework that turns a single hand-object trajectory of a few seconds---from mocap data or HOI reconstruction from in-the-wild RGB(D) video---into an adaptable dexterous skill. At the core of AdaDex is Hybrid Dexterous Mimicking: a shared policy is trained on two populations of massively parallel environments: motion tracking environments trained with dense motion tracking objective, which instill the human prior from human motion; and generalization environments with noised initial states and goals and a sparse object-success reward, which force the skill to work far off the reference. From seconds of human motion per skill, the resulting policies can learn diverse adaptable dexterous skills, such as functional grasping, object reposing, in-hand reorientation with finger gaiting, and dynamic behaviors like throw-and-catch. Our method outperforms baselines in terms of generalization and functionality, and we demonstrate transfer across simulators and to the real world. Project page: https://yuxuank.com/AdaDex/.

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Topics: Generalization, Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Reinforcement learning, Trajectory, Motion (physics)

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