視覚言語行動モデルは自己受容状態をどう使うべきか?
How Should Vision-Language-Action Models Use Proprioceptive State?
VLAモデルにおけるロボットの自己受容状態の入力方法(テキスト、視覚言語プレフィックス、行動エキスパートなど)と履歴長が性能に与える影響を、制御実験で体系的に比較し、設計原則を導出した。
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1. どんなもの?
2. 先行研究と比べてどこがすごい?
3. 技術・手法の肝は?
4. どうやって有効だと検証した?
5. 議論はある?
6. 次に読むべき論文は?
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著者: Yiren Zhao, Ziyang Chen, Ziyang Rao, Pengteng Li, He Zhang, Weiyu Guo, Yandong Guo, Rushi Dai
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models almost universally take robot proprioceptive state as input, yet wire it in incompatible ways -- serialized into text prompts, projected into the vision-language prefix, or fed directly to the action expert -- and almost always as a single current frame. Three questions remain open: (1) whether, and on which tasks, current state actually improves closed-loop control; (2) how much state history helps, and whether its benefit reflects genuine temporal variation rather than added conditioning capacity; and (3) where state should enter the model -- the vision-language backbone or the action-generation module. We answer these questions through controlled experiments on a flow-matching VLA, fixing the backbone, training data, action representation, and evaluation protocol throughout. We implement five representative interfaces -- discrete state prompt, VLM prefix, action prefix, state expert, and feature modulation -- under matched implementation details, and evaluate them on 45 atomic tasks spanning three task families plus 20 composite tasks; we then sweep the state-history length from 1 to 96 frames to examine how historical state information affects model performance. The experiments yield systematic answers to all three questions, distilled into testable design principles for state-aware VLAs.