PhysMem: 身体性物理推論のためのテスト時メモリのスケーリング
PhysMem: Scaling Test-Time Memory for Embodied Physical Reasoning
VLMロボットプランナがテスト時に経験から物理法則を学び、仮説を検証してから適用するメモリフレームワークを提案。実世界の操作タスクで成功率が大幅に向上。
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著者: Haoyang Li, Yang You, Hao Su, Leonidas Guibas
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI
原文アブストラクト
Reliable object manipulation requires understanding physical properties that vary across objects and environments. Vision-language model (VLM) planners can reason about friction and stability in general terms; however, they often cannot predict how a specific ball will roll on a particular surface or which stone will provide a stable foundation without direct experience. We present PhysMem, a memory framework that enables VLM robot planners to learn physical principles from interaction at test time, without updating model parameters. The system records experiences, generates candidate hypotheses, and verifies them through targeted interaction before promoting validated knowledge to guide future decisions. A central design choice is verification before application: the system tests hypotheses against new observations rather than applying retrieved experience directly, reducing rigid reliance on prior experience when physical conditions change. We evaluate PhysMem on three real-world manipulation tasks and simulation benchmarks across four VLM backbones. On a controlled brick insertion task, principled abstraction achieves 76% success compared to 23% for direct experience retrieval, and real-world experiments show consistent improvement over 30-minute deployment sessions.
