VLA-Corrector from ZJU & Alibaba DAMO lifts robot success rates while cutting policy calls
机器之心 · wechat · 2026-09-05
- Zhejiang University's OmniAI team and Alibaba DAMO Academy released VLA-Corrector, targeting the open-loop blind spot of action-chunked VLA robots that keep executing stale actions after the scene changes.
- It adds a 40M-parameter lightweight Corrector with a monitor-interrupt-correct bypass: a latent-space vision monitor predicts visual dynamics residuals, a hysteresis-based trigger flushes stale action queues, and Online Gradient Guidance steers the recovery inference.
- Results: π0.5 on MetaWorld improves from 48.70% to 64.35% success (+24pts on VeryHard); SmolVLA rises 61.90%→73.00% while policy calls drop from 19.27 to 15.64; real AgileX PiPER lifts 55.6%→73.3% across 9 tasks, with disturbance recovery jumping 40.0%→68.3%; LIBERO few-shot hits 97.8%.
- Key insight: an event-triggered adaptive horizon—big model proposes plans, small model audits them, execution layer keeps the right to stop.
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