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ViDAL advances robot policy learning by grounding continuous action latents in future visual dynamics, offering a plug-in interface that boosts success rates across simulated and real-world dual-arm tasks. This approach directly addresses the gap in existing Vision-Language-Action models regarding the explicit modeling of action-induced scene evolution.
ViDAL: A Visual Dynamics-Grounded Action Latent Space for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2610.08150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a central paradigm for robot policy learning, which predict actions in three forms: raw action chunks, discrete action tokens, or continuous action latents. However, existing action representations primarily model action trajectories, with limited consideration of the visual dynamics induced by these actions. We introduce ViDAL, a Visual Dynamics-grounded Action Latent Space that anchors continuous action latents in the future visual dynamics of the scene. Specifically, ViDAL learns action latent space by training an Action Variational Autoencoder (Action VAE) to reconstruct action chunks while aligning its latent with future scene dynamics. When integrated into downstream robot policies, the proposed Action VAE serves as a plug-in action interface compatible with multiple VLA architectures and enables optional future-video prediction as an additional capability. Empirically, ViDAL outperforms competitive baselines on LIBERO with 98.1% average success, improves a multi-task $\pi_{0.5}$ policy on RoboTwin 2.0 from 54.3% to 65.5% (Clean) and from 33.2% to 43.1% (Random) success rates over 50 dual-arm tasks, and yields 20.0% and 23.4% absolute success-rate gains on real-world single-arm Franka and dual-arm ARX robot platforms.
Abstract:Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a central paradigm for robot policy learning, which predict actions in three forms: raw action chunks, discrete action tokens, or continuous action latents. However, existing action representations primarily model action trajectories, with limited consideration of the visual dynamics induced by these actions. We introduce ViDAL, a Visual Dynamics-grounded Action Latent Space that anchors continuous action latents in the future visual dynamics of the scene. Specifically, ViDAL learns action latent space by training an Action Variational Autoencoder (Action VAE) to reconstruct action chunks while aligning its latent with future scene dynamics. When integrated into downstream robot policies, the proposed Action VAE serves as a plug-in action interface compatible with multiple VLA architectures and enables optional future-video prediction as an additional capability. Empirically, ViDAL outperforms competitive baselines on LIBERO with 98.1% average success, improves a multi-task $\pi_{0.5}$ policy on RoboTwin 2.0 from 54.3% to 65.5% (Clean) and from 33.2% to 43.1% (Random) success rates over 50 dual-arm tasks, and yields 20.0% and 23.4% absolute success-rate gains on real-world single-arm Franka and dual-arm ARX robot platforms.
Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2610.08150 [cs.RO]
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