モダリティ・層ごとにドメインシフトを特定して修復するVLM軌道計画
Locating and Repairing Domain Shift in VLM Trajectory Planning
VLM駆動プランナーの都市間ドメインシフトが画像/テキストと言語モデル層の2次元構造を持つことを示し、その箇所だけを選択的に修復するMoLaRxを提案した論文。
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著者: Zhihong Cui, Hengyu Liu, Michael Alexander Riegler, Guandong Xu, Amir Taherkordi, Tor Skeie
分類: cs.CV, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly adopted as end-to-end driving planners, yet they suffer from cross-city domain shift. Existing methods treat this shift as a single quantity addressed by uniform alignment or single-site editing. We challenge this view on two counts: (i) domain shift in VLM trajectory planners is inherently structured across modality and layer, and (ii) a locate-then-repair recipe matched to this structure outperforms every uniform-objective baseline. We analyse domain shift via activation patching and uncover two regularities. (F1) Modality axis. Image and text tokens exhibit distinct shift patterns in each VLM. (F2) Layer axis. The layer-wise shift partition is architecture-dependent and dataset-stable. These findings recast domain shift as a two-dimensional tensor indexed by modality (image vs. text tokens) and layer, motivating a simple principle: locate where shift occurs, and repair only there. We instantiate this principle in MoLaRx (Modality-Layer Repair), a locate-then-repair framework. The Causal Importance Score (CIS) estimates the domain shift as a modality-layer tensor and partitions the layers into functional zones. CIS-Guided Selective Repair (CISR) then applies a matched operator (Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) / low-rank adaptation (LoRA) / freezing) to repair each zone, with the composition adapting automatically to each architecture. We evaluate MoLaRx on three architecturally distinct VLMs (LFM2-VL-1.6B, Qwen2-VL-2B, and PaliGemma2-3B) across two cross-city benchmarks (nuScenes and Argoverse 2). MoLaRx attains the lowest cross-city trajectory-error gap among adaptation methods in all six main-table settings, while using 50-60% fewer trainable parameters and 8.4-10.9 ms lower inference latency. In contrast, uniform MMD-only adaptation collapses in all six settings, highlighting the importance of structure-guided repair.