通过参数空间向量提升视觉语言动作模型的迁移能力,无需额外计算开销。
CapVector: Learning Transferable Capability Vectors in Parametric Space for Vision-Language-Action Models

- 将辅助目标拆解为能力向量,仅需两次小规模训练即可生成
- 向量融合后性能媲美复杂方法,计算成本显著降低
- 向量可跨模型、跨环境直接复用,适合快速部署
本文提出一种新方法,解决预训练视觉-语言-动作(VLA)模型在标准监督微调(SFT)中表现不佳且适应成本高的问题。现有先进微调方法虽能提升性能并减少收敛步数,但因引入额外损失导致显著计算开销。为此,本文在参数空间中解耦辅助目标SFT的两个目标:增强通用能力与拟合特定任务动作分布。仅需使用两种不同训练策略,在小规模任务集上分别微调出两个模型,其参数差即为由辅助目标提供的能力向量。将该向量与预训练参数合并,形成能力增强的元模型。进一步地,当标准SFT加入轻量级正交正则化损失时,该合并模型性能可媲美复杂基线,同时大幅降低计算开销。内部与外部实验表明,所提能力向量在多种模型上有效且通用,并能无需再训练即迁移到新环境与新机器人本体上。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper proposes a novel approach to address the challenge that pretrained VLA models often fail to effectively improve performance and reduce adaptation costs during standard supervised finetuning (SFT). Some advanced finetuning methods with auxiliary training objectives can improve performance and reduce the number of convergence steps. However, they typically incur significant computational overhead due to the additional losses from auxiliary objectives. To simultaneously achieve the enhanced capabilities of auxiliary training with the simplicity of standard SFT, we decouple the two objectives of auxiliary-objective SFT within the parameter space, namely, enhancing general capabilities and fitting task-specific action distributions. To deliver the goal, we only need to train the model to converge on a small-scale task set using two distinct training strategies, resulting in two finetuned models. The parameters' difference between the two models can then be interpreted as capability vectors provided by auxiliary objectives. These vectors are then merged with pretrained parameters to form a capability-enhanced meta model. Moreover, when standard SFT is augmented with a lightweight orthogonal regularization loss, the merged model attains performance comparable to auxiliary finetuned baselines with reduced computational overhead. Internal and external experiments demonstrate that our capability vectors (1) are effective and versatile across diverse models, (2) can generalize to novel environments and embodiments out of the box.
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