BORA: Bridging Offline Reinforcement Learning and Online Residual Adaptation for Real-World Dexterous VLA Models

arXiv:2605.30226v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies provide strong behavioral priors for dexterous manipulation, yet adapting them on real robots remains challenging because high-DoF contact failures are difficult for humans to correct and online interaction is expensive. We present BORA, an offline-to-online reinforcement learning system that integrates an action-conditioned critic into a consistency-policy VLA and reuses the learned critic for frozen-base residual adaptation. To obtain executable corrective data, BORA combines wearable arm--hand teleoperation with a demonstration-guided local policy that translates coarse human intent into coordinated, embodiment-specific finger motions for contact-rich skills. Online robot rollouts and human corrections are mixed with offline data to update only a lightweight residual actor, avoiding full-model fine-tuning. We evaluate BORA on six real-world tasks using single-arm and bimanual platforms equipped with two dexterous-hand models. With only 20 online trajectories per task, BORA improves average success from 60.8% to 82.5% on standard objects and from 52% to 70% on held-out objects, while policy assistance substantially improves intervention reliability in bimanual twisting. These results demonstrate a practical route from executable human correction to efficient real-robot VLA adaptation.

Abstract:Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies provide strong behavioral priors for dexterous manipulation, yet adapting them on real robots remains challenging because high-DoF contact failures are difficult for humans to correct and online interaction is expensive. We present BORA, an offline-to-online reinforcement learning system that integrates an action-conditioned critic into a consistency-policy VLA and reuses the learned critic for frozen-base residual adaptation. To obtain executable corrective data, BORA combines wearable arm--hand teleoperation with a demonstration-guided local policy that translates coarse human intent into coordinated, embodiment-specific finger motions for contact-rich skills. Online robot rollouts and human corrections are mixed with offline data to update only a lightweight residual actor, avoiding full-model fine-tuning. We evaluate BORA on six real-world tasks using single-arm and bimanual platforms equipped with two dexterous-hand models. With only 20 online trajectories per task, BORA improves average success from 60.8% to 82.5% on standard objects and from 52% to 70% on held-out objects, while policy assistance substantially improves intervention reliability in bimanual twisting. These results demonstrate a practical route from executable human correction to efficient real-robot VLA adaptation.

Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2605.30226 [cs.RO]

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