VLA表現からのタスク進捗の解読
Decoding Task Progress from VLA Representations
視覚言語行動モデル(VLA)の内部表現からタスク進捗が線形に読み取れることを発見し、それを用いたラベル不要のOOD検出器を提案した。
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著者: Atiksh Bhardwaj, Edward Weiyi Duan, Prithwish Dan, Wei-Chiu Ma, Preston Culbertson
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Vision-language-action models (VLAs) are moving rapidly towards deployment as general-purpose manipulation policies, but we currently lack basic tools for understanding what these models represent internally or for monitoring them at runtime. Leveraging ideas from mechanistic interpretability, we probe the residual stream of $π_{0.5}$ and find that task progress, the normalized time remaining in a trajectory, is linearly readable from the activations. We find that this signal is present in the pretrained PaliGemma backbone prior to training on any robot-specific data. A single linear probe generalizes to unseen tasks and varies under language counterfactuals when trained on multi-prompt data, but does not enable meaningful steering of the policy. These properties make the signal directly useful for instrumenting deployed VLAs. We use the probe as a simple label-free OOD detector, which detects stalled task progress, and find it competitive with state-of-the-art methods. Our results suggest that VLAs have rich, linearly readable internal representations of semantic quantities like task progress, and that learning to read these signals offers a lightweight, interpretable path toward monitoring deployed visuomotor policies.