推論を分布として扱う:視覚言語行動モデルのための生成的プラン潜在表現
Reasoning as a Distribution: Generative Plan Latents for Vision-Language-Action Models
VLAモデルの推論状態をプラン上の低次元条件付き分布として表現し、再学習なしにプランのサンプリング・選択・結果による再重み付けを可能にした研究。
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著者: Matteo Cercola, Katie Z Luo, Milan Ganai, John Alora, Simone Formentin, Marco Pavone
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies increasingly reason before acting, but existing reasoning models compress this intermediate decision into a single representation. When several plans are valid, this commitment hides alternatives that could otherwise be selected or revised. We introduce the Generative Plan Latent (GPL), which represents the reasoning state as a low-dimensional conditional distribution over plans, such as which object, grasp, or route to use. This makes the reasoning state addressable: without retraining the VLA, plans can be sampled (coverage), selected on request (steering), and reweighted by deployment outcomes (outcome adaptation). We test all three on SimplerEnv manipulation with $π_0$, and extend the analysis to RoboCasa, LIBERO, and a maze domain. Steering the plan raises the fraction of executions that follow the request from 0.48 to 0.94, while the same guidance on the native action distribution shows no reliable gain. Finally, we show that an explicit plan is most useful when it carries decision information not already determined by the observation.