視覚・言語・行動を分離した効率的なマルチタスクロボット方策
Decoupling Vision, Language, and Action for Efficient Multi-Task Robot Policies
VLMを使わず視覚エンコーダ・言語エンコーダ・行動ヘッドを分離した方策を構築し、同等の成功率を保ちつつ推論速度と省エネ性を大幅に改善した。
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著者: Xiatao Sun, Chen Liang, Ziyao Zeng, Qian Wang, Haoyang Zhang, Yue Sun, Qiucheng Li, Daniel Rakita
分類: cs.RO
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models attach an action module to a Vision-Language Model (VLM) with billions of parameters and pay for that backbone at every control step. For a low-level manipulation policy, this cost may be unnecessary: the VLM supplies vision and language embeddings, and recent standalone vision encoders and encoder-only language models now match or exceed large VLMs on visual embedding and language understanding benchmarks. We study this question with a controlled experiment. Holding the demonstrations, the training budget, the tasks, and the measurement platform fixed, we vary the vision encoder, the language encoder, and the action head of a decoupled policy and compare against seven VLA baselines. The study yields the Decoupled Embodiment Model (DEM), which pairs a fine-tuned DINOv3 encoder and a frozen NeoBERT encoder with a MeanFlow head that generates each action chunk in a single forward pass. On 18 simulated manipulation tasks with held-out language paraphrases and randomized scenes, and on three real-robot tasks, DEM achieves observed success comparable to state-of-the-art VLM-backbone policies under our evaluation protocol, while running at eight to seventeen times their inference frequency and drawing six to fifteen times less energy per inference. Within this task scope, modern decoupled components offer a better success--latency--energy trade-off.