TUCO: Curating Simulation Demonstrations for Sim-to-Real Robot Policy Co-Training

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Simulation demonstrations can supplement scarce real-world data for robot policy co-training. However, the value of using data curation to actively select these demonstrations for sim-to-real co-training remains underexplored. Existing curation methods also lack a unified criterion for measuring trajectory-level utility and set-level coverage from closed-loop target behavior. To address these gaps, we present the first systematic study of data curation for sim-to-real robot policy co-training and propose Trajectory-level Utility and set-level Coverage Optimization (TUCO). TUCO uses influence functions to trace how each source demonstration affects target-domain scoring rollouts. Our key insight is that these effects can be decomposed into an overall contribution to target return and variation across rollouts, providing a common closed-loop basis for measuring trajectory utility and set coverage. We further propose a performance-aligned subset optimizer that combines these measures in a unified curation objective to reduce redundancy and select complementary demonstrations. Extensive experiments on RoboMimic and OmniReset establish the value of active simulation data curation for sim-to-real policy co-training and show that TUCO achieves state-of-the-art performance across single-simulator, sim-to-sim, and sim-to-real settings.