arXiv:2602.12691cs.ROcs.AI2026-02被引 4

让视觉语言动作模型在真实世界中更稳定地学习,靠的是精准评估当前动作的好坏。

ALOE: Action-Level Off-Policy Evaluation for Vision-Language-Action Model Post-Training

  • 用分块时序差分与保守值聚合,直接评估当前策略的每一步表现。
  • 在四个真实操作任务中,性能均优于现有方法,尤其在长序列高精度场景下优势明显。
  • 适合做真实环境下的机器人强化学习后训练,尤其关注动作价值精准评估的研究者。

我们研究如何通过人机协同强化学习,在真实环境中提升大型视觉-语言-动作(VLA)系统。核心挑战是:从异构的真实世界经验中学习可靠的值函数,因为值估计是VLA训练的主要信号。实践中,回放缓冲区包含历史策略、在线采样、示范数据和间歇性人工干预产生的轨迹。由于这些轨迹来自不同行为,观测回报与当前策略质量不匹配。以往VLA后训练方法多依赖进度型值信号,反映历史行为平均质量,导致当前策略的学习信号失配。本文提出ALOE,一种离线评估框架,其值函数能直接评估每轮迭代中的当前策略行为。ALOE结合分块时序差分自举与保守值聚合,实现稳定的当前策略评估,并用估计值进行优势加权策略改进。该设计提升了稀疏奖励下关键动作片段的信用分配,支持稳定策略优化。我们在四个真实世界操作任务上评估ALOE:手机打包、衣物折叠、多物体分类和手机组装。在所有任务中,ALOE均优于其他VLA后训练方法,凸显了离线值估计在真实世界VLA后训练中的价值。视频见项目网站 https://rooshy-yang.github.io/aloe。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We study how to improve large foundation vision-language-action (VLA) systems through human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (RL) in real-world environments. A key challenge is learning reliable value functions from heterogeneous real-world experience, as value estimation provides the primary learning signal for VLA training. In practice, replay buffers contain trajectories collected from historical policies, online rollouts, demonstrations, and intermittent human interventions. Because replay buffers mix trajectories generated by different behaviors, the observed returns can be mismatched with the quality of the current policy. Prior VLA post-training methods often rely on progress-style value signals, which reflect the average quality of historical behaviors, leading to mismatched learning signals for the current policy. In this paper, we propose ALOE, an off-policy evaluation framework whose value function directly evaluates current-policy behavior for each iteration. Specifically, ALOE combines chunked temporal-difference bootstrapping and conservative value aggregation to perform stable current-policy evaluation, then uses these estimates for advantage-weighted policy improvement. This design improves credit assignment to critical action chunks under sparse rewards and supports stable policy improvement. We evaluate ALOE on four real-world manipulation tasks encompassing long-horizon and high-precision scenarios: smartphone packing, laundry folding, multi-object sorting, and phone assembly. Across all tasks, ALOE outperforms other VLA post-training methods, highlighting the benefit of off-policy value estimates for real-world VLA post-training. Videos are available at our project website https://rooshy-yang.github.io/aloe.

强化学习视觉语言动作离线评估机器人

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