让视觉语言模型生成更安全的机器人行动规划,避免无效或危险动作。
CLAMP: Constrained Decoding for Vision-Language Embodied Planning
- 用场景信息约束模型输出,只允许提到可见物体和可行动作。
- 解码时通过硬掩码剔除非法动作,再用状态预测重估候选动作概率。
- 无需训练即可适配新任务,适合需要高安全性的智能体应用。
具身规划越来越多依赖视觉语言模型(VLM)将指令和视觉观测转化为可执行的动作序列。然而,流畅的计划未必可执行:VLM可能引用未观察到的物体、选择缺乏可用功能的动作,或违反语法与动作约束。本文提出CLAMP,一种多模态约束接地框架,将场景证据转化为冻结VLM规划器的解码期约束。利用初始观测限制对象引用仅限于场景中存在的物体,同时通过符号化动作模型定义状态转移和目标。解码过程中,硬掩码剔除非法的下一步候选,基于隐马尔可夫模型(HMM)的世界状态前瞻模块则根据动作先决条件和目标可达性重新加权剩余可行候选的概率。这使得规划器在保留VLM语言先验的同时,防止不可视、不安全或不可行的候选进入计划。对于未见任务和环境,CLAMP在测试时使用从冻结VLM采样的无标签延续自适应更新HMM。在VLABench、SafeAgentBench和TaPA上的实验表明,场景约束显著提升物体定位准确性和安全性,而剩余失败主要源于感知误差或约束设定不匹配。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Embodied planning increasingly relies on vision-language models (VLMs) to translate instructions and visual observations into executable action sequences. However, fluent plans are not always executable. A VLM may refer to objects that are not visually observed, select actions whose required affordances are unavailable, or violate syntax and action constraints. We introduce CLAMP, a multimodal constraint-grounding framework that turns scene evidence into decoding-time constraints for a frozen VLM planner. CLAMP uses the initial observation to restrict object references to those supported by the scene, while a provided symbolic action model specifies state transitions and goals. During decoding, hard masks eliminate invalid next-token candidates, while a Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based world-state lookahead module reweights the probabilities of the remaining feasible candidates based on action preconditions and goal reachability. This allows the planner to retain the VLM's language prior while preventing visually unsupported, unsafe, or infeasible candidates from entering the plan. For unseen tasks and environments, CLAMP adapts the HMM at test time using label-free continuations sampled from the frozen VLM. Experiments on VLABench, SafeAgentBench, and TaPA show that scene-grounded constraints improve object grounding and safety, while most remaining failures stem from perception errors or misaligned constraint specifications.
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