让视觉语言模型更聪明地规划机器人操作,提升成功率并加快推理速度。
Seeing Farther and Smarter: Value-Guided Multi-Path Reflection for VLM Policy Optimization
- 分离状态评估与动作生成,用目标距离减少量显式建模动作优势
- 通过多路径搜索聚合未来回报,提升决策鲁棒性,成功率达89.2%
- 仅在置信度低时触发反思,减少56.5%推理时间,适合复杂长程任务
解决复杂的长周期机器人操作任务需要深入理解物理交互、推演长期后果并进行精确高层规划。视觉语言模型(VLM)为此提供了通用的感知-推理-执行框架。然而,以往依赖反射规划引导VLM修正动作的方法存在显著局限:依赖噪声预测中低效且不准确的隐式状态值学习,仅评估单一贪婪未来,且推理延迟高。为此,我们提出一种新型测试时计算框架,将状态评估与动作生成解耦,提供更直接、细粒度的监督信号。方法显式建模动作计划的优势,以目标距离减少量量化,并使用可扩展的评判器估计。为应对单轨迹评估的随机性,采用束搜索探索多条未来路径,并在解码时聚合其期望长期回报,实现更鲁棒的动作生成。此外,引入轻量级置信度触发机制,当直接预测可靠时提前退出,仅在必要时调用反思。在多样、未见的多阶段机器人操作任务上,实验显示成功率比现有最优基线提升24.6%,推理时间减少56.5%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Solving complex, long-horizon robotic manipulation tasks requires a deep understanding of physical interactions, reasoning about their long-term consequences, and precise high-level planning. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer a general perceive-reason-act framework for this goal. However, previous approaches using reflective planning to guide VLMs in correcting actions encounter significant limitations. These methods rely on inefficient and often inaccurate implicit learning of state-values from noisy foresight predictions, evaluate only a single greedy future, and suffer from substantial inference latency. To address these limitations, we propose a novel test-time computation framework that decouples state evaluation from action generation. This provides a more direct and fine-grained supervisory signal for robust decision-making. Our method explicitly models the advantage of an action plan, quantified by its reduction in distance to the goal, and uses a scalable critic to estimate. To address the stochastic nature of single-trajectory evaluation, we employ beam search to explore multiple future paths and aggregate them during decoding to model their expected long-term returns, leading to more robust action generation. Additionally, we introduce a lightweight, confidence-based trigger that allows for early exit when direct predictions are reliable, invoking reflection only when necessary. Extensive experiments on diverse, unseen multi-stage robotic manipulation tasks demonstrate a 24.6% improvement in success rate over state-of-the-art baselines, while significantly reducing inference time by 56.5%.
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