Track4Action: Distilling World-Centric 3D Tracker into Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2608.03727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action labels tell a vision-language-action (VLA) policy which robot commands to imitate, but not how those commands change the 3D world. The aligned demonstration clip contains this missing supervision because its $K$ frame transitions record the geometry, motion, visibility, and camera change produced during the corresponding $K$ actions. We introduce Track4Action, a framework that distills this realized transition from a frozen world-centric 3D tracker into a current-observation VLA policy. During training, Track4World encodes the clip $V_{t:t+K}$ into a pooled tracker feature. Learnable track queries infer this feature from current VLA hidden states, match it in a shared space, and condition a flow-matching action head through a feature-wise gate. The tracker feature only defines the alignment target, so neither the clip nor the tracker is used at deployment. Track4Action reaches 82.3% on zero-shot LIBERO-Plus, improving the alignment-free variant by 7.6 points and LaMP by 3.0 points. It obtains 80.44% and 81.48% on the clean and randomized RoboTwin 2.0 splits, and 67.5% average success across four physical bimanual tasks, 25.0 points above the alignment-free variant. The gains across simulation and physical tasks support action-aligned 3D tracker features as privileged supervision for tracker-free VLA deployment. Our project page is available at https://wing0night.github.io/track4action-project-page.

Abstract:Action labels tell a vision-language-action (VLA) policy which robot commands to imitate, but not how those commands change the 3D world. The aligned demonstration clip contains this missing supervision because its $K$ frame transitions record the geometry, motion, visibility, and camera change produced during the corresponding $K$ actions. We introduce Track4Action, a framework that distills this realized transition from a frozen world-centric 3D tracker into a current-observation VLA policy. During training, Track4World encodes the clip $V_{t:t+K}$ into a pooled tracker feature. Learnable track queries infer this feature from current VLA hidden states, match it in a shared space, and condition a flow-matching action head through a feature-wise gate. The tracker feature only defines the alignment target, so neither the clip nor the tracker is used at deployment. Track4Action reaches 82.3% on zero-shot LIBERO-Plus, improving the alignment-free variant by 7.6 points and LaMP by 3.0 points. It obtains 80.44% and 81.48% on the clean and randomized RoboTwin 2.0 splits, and 67.5% average success across four physical bimanual tasks, 25.0 points above the alignment-free variant. The gains across simulation and physical tasks support action-aligned 3D tracker features as privileged supervision for tracker-free VLA deployment. Our project page is available at this https URL.

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