Align-Then-stEer:統一潜在ガイダンスによる視覚-言語-行動モデルの適応
Align-Then-stEer: Adapting the Vision-Language Action Models through Unified Latent Guidance
VLAモデルを下流タスクに適応させる際、事前学習との行動分布のずれを統一潜在空間でのアライメントと生成過程のガイダンスで解消し、少ないデータで効率的に微調整する手法を提案。
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著者: Yang Zhang, Chenwei Wang, Ouyang Lu, Yuan Zhao, Yunfei Ge, Zhenglong Sun, Xiu Li, Chi Zhang, Chenjia Bai, Xuelong Li
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI
原文アブストラクト
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on large, diverse datasets show remarkable potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation. However, a primary bottleneck remains in adapting these models to downstream tasks, especially when the robot's embodiment or the task itself differs from the pre-training data. This discrepancy leads to a significant mismatch in action distributions, demanding extensive data and compute for effective fine-tuning. To address this challenge, we introduce \textbf{Align-Then-stEer (\texttt{ATE})}, a novel, data-efficient, and plug-and-play adaptation framework. \texttt{ATE} first aligns disparate action spaces by constructing a unified latent space, where a variational autoencoder constrained by reverse KL divergence embeds adaptation actions into modes of the pre-training action latent distribution. Subsequently, it steers the diffusion- or flow-based VLA's generation process during fine-tuning via a guidance mechanism that pushes the model's output distribution towards the target domain. We conduct extensive experiments on cross-embodiment and cross-task manipulation in both simulation and real world. Compared to direct fine-tuning of representative VLAs, our method improves the average multi-task success rate by up to \textbf{9.8\%} in simulation and achieves a striking \textbf{32\% success rate gain} in a real-world cross-embodiment setting. Our work presents a general and lightweight solution that greatly enhances the practicality of deploying VLA models to new robotic platforms and tasks.
