ChunkTrust: Adapting Execution Horizons for Robot Policies with Action-Expert Evidence

Abstract:Robot foundation policies predict action chunks, but how many actions to execute before replanning depends on the current task phase. We introduce ChunkTrust, which treats the execution horizon as a latent variable inferred from action-expert evidence rather than a fixed hyperparameter. Its training-free Action-aware Horizon Selector (AHS) combines intra-chunk spectral stability of generation traces with inter-chunk continuity between executed history and predicted actions. An online Beta posterior with kernel forgetting tracks horizon preferences across replans. A lightweight Query-based Horizon Adapter (QHA) optionally learns a context-conditioned dense prior from complementary evidence, fused with current evidence and episode-local Beta memory while the base policy remains frozen. Across RoboTwin2.0 and RoboCasa GR1 Tabletop, AHS improves overall task-averaged success for each evaluated base-policy configuration, including gains of +6.80 percentage points on $\pi_{0.5}$ over all 50 RoboTwin2.0 tasks and +9.67 percentage points on Qwen3GR00T in RoboCasa. AHS+QHA raises the gain over Base to +9.44 percentage points on the eight-task $\pi_{0.5}$ evaluation. On four real-world household tasks, AHS improves the equal-task mean normalized process score from 50.4% to 57.5%. Ablations examine the contributions of both evidence terms, temporal memory, and the learned prior. Project page is this https URL

Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2609.39754 [cs.RO]

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