Visual action rehearsal helps language models control robot manipulation

A multi-agent harness lets vision-language models preview, revise, and visually correct robot actions before and during execution.

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Yehang Zhang · Haojian Huang · Yifan Chang · Jianchong Su · Bohan Zhou · Yingjie Xu · +10 more

HKUST(GZ) · CUHK · Knowin AI

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A visual action workspace lets general-purpose VLMs rehearse, revise, and correct robot actions, achieving 75.6% average success on LIBERO-Pro.

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World Action Agent gives a visual workspace for directly piloting robots with basic tools. It centers views on contact points, previews proposed actions before execution, and supports visual correction of residual positioning errors.

The system reached 75.6% average success on LIBERO-Pro using skills evolved only from LIBERO-90, compared with 72.0% for ASPIRE. Those skills also transferred to robosuite without further learning. Separately, training Qwen3.5-9B on interaction traces increased its out-of-domain success from 1.7% to 43.3%.

The interesting claim is that changing the VLM's interaction interface, rather than training a dedicated action model, can preserve general reasoning while providing executable, revisable robot control.

How it works

stage by stage
WORLD ACTION AGENTselected vieweditableproposalrevised actionresulting viewpositionadjustmentSelect contact views: near points of contactSelect contactviewsnear points of contactPropose action: editable visual proposalPropose actioneditable visualproposalRehearse and revise: preview before executionRehearse andrevisepreview beforeexecutionExecute move: using basic control toolsExecute moveusing basic control toolsCorrect in view: adjust positioning errorsCorrect in viewadjust positioning errors
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