フローマッチングVLAにおける実行ホライズンとサンプリング深度の結合
Coupling Execution Horizon and Sampling Depth in Flow-Matching VLA Policies
フローマッチング型VLAでは粗い数値積分が開ループ実行時に精度をむしろ向上させることを発見し、ホライズンとソルバー深度を連動させることで学習不要かつ低遅延でタスク成功率を高めた。
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著者: Jiabing Yang, Yuan Xu, Yixiang Chen, Qisen Ma, Peiyan Li, Kai Wang, Chenhang Cui, Tao Yu, Zichen Wen, Wen Ye, Bowen Fang, Ziheng He, Xiangnan Wu, Yingda Li, Yan Huang, Liang Wang
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Flow-matching Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generate expressive continuous trajectories for robotic manipulation, yet balancing real-time responsiveness with execution stability remains a persistent challenge. Standard deployment workflows typically treat numerical solver depth and execution horizon as decoupled choices. The horizon amortizes inference latency, while solver depth is kept high to preserve integration fidelity. In this paper, we reveal a fundamental compute-execution coupling in flow-matching VLAs governed by a systematic sign reversal. While coarse numerical integration degrades precision under rapid replanning, it markedly improves task performance under extended open-loop commitment. Geometrically, numerical truncation contracts lateral action dispersion around an invariant trajectory centroid, serving as an implicit regularizer that suppresses compounding open-loop drift. Across LIBERO, RoboTwin 2.0, and real-world Franka manipulation on representative VLA backbones including $π_0$, $π_{0.5}$, and GR00T, exploiting this joint coupling consistently achieves superior task success while drastically lowering inference latency, entirely training-free and without architectural modifications. These findings establish numerical sampling depth as an operational variance regulator, shifting its role from a static precision budget to an active deployment knob in robot learning. Project page: https://jiabingyang01.github.io/Horizon-Depth-VLA/