想像による回復:推論時カウンターファクチュアル再調整による視覚言語行動モデルの復旧
Imagining Recovery: Inference-Time Counterfactual Realignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
視覚言語行動モデルがオンラインの外乱(目標変更や物理的摂動)に直面した際、失敗データや再学習なしに、推論時に「もしも」の継続を想像してロボットと環境を最小限に再調整する訓練不要の回復フレームワークを提案した。
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著者: Yanyan Zhang, Disheng Liu, Kai Ye, Chaoda Song, Xinpeng Li, Mohsen Hariri, Vikash Singh, Yu Yin, Vipin Chaudhary
分類: cs.RO, cs.CV
原文アブストラクト
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have improved the flexibility and generality of robotic manipulation, yet they remain fragile to online disruptions, such as changes in task goal, scene configuration, or robot state. Existing recovery methods often require failure data, policy retraining, or external corrective agents, introducing additional data requirements and execution risks. We propose Counterfactual Realignment (CoRe), a training-free framework that recovers a frozen VLA at inference time without failure data. Upon detecting a deviation, CoRe imagines how the policy would continue toward the current goal from a recent viable state, using synthesized observations in place of physical execution, and then minimally realigns the robot and scene to rejoin this imagined continuation before returning control to the policy. Recovery is therefore planned without physical trial-and-error, preserves completed task progress, and handles both mid-episode instruction changes and physical perturbations in a unified manner. Extensive experiments across multiple simulators, VLA backbones, and real-world settings show that CoRe improves success rates by up to 85.0 percentage points to near-nominal levels while reducing physical restorations by 42.2%, without policy fine-tuning or failure-specific recovery training.