信頼できる視覚-言語-行動モデルのための行動誤差分布の再形成
Reshaping Action Error Distributions for Reliable Vision-Language-Action Models
連続行動VLAモデルの学習に最小誤差エントロピー(MEE)目的関数を導入し、MSEと組み合わせることで成功率とロバスト性を向上させた研究。
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著者: Shuanghao Bai, Dakai Wang, Cheng Chi, Wanqi Zhou, Jing Lyu, Xiaoguang Zhao, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Lei Xing, Shanghang Zhang, Badong Chen
分類: cs.RO
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In robotic manipulation, vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for learning generalizable and scalable robot policies. Most existing VLA frameworks rely on standard supervised objectives, typically cross-entropy for discrete actions and mean squared error (MSE) for continuous action regression, which impose strong pointwise constraints on individual predictions. In this work, we focus on continuous-action VLA models and move beyond conventional MSE-based regression by reshaping action error distributions during training. Drawing on information-theoretic principles, we introduce Minimum Error Entropy (MEE) into modern VLA architectures and propose a trajectory-level MEE objective, together with two weighted variants, combined with MSE for continuous-action VLA training. We evaluate our approaches across standard, few-shot, and noisy settings on multiple representative VLA architectures, using simulation benchmarks such as LIBERO and SimplerEnv as well as real-world robotic manipulation tasks. Experimental results demonstrate consistent improvements in success rates and robustness across these settings. Under imbalanced data regimes, the gains persist within a well-characterized operating range, while incurring negligible additional training cost and no impact on inference efficiency. We further provide theoretical analyses that explain why MEE-based supervision is effective and characterize its practical range. Project Page: https://cognition2actionlab.github.io/VLA-TMEE.github.io/
