arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

Asking Less, Adapting Better: Feedback-Efficient Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-and-Language Navigation

The paper introduces FETA, a Feedback‑Efficient Test‑Time Adaptation method for Vision‑and‑Language Navigation. FETA uses a hierarchical sample selection strategy to identify informative trajectories and critical actions, querying only a single binary feedback per action. The method updates the policy at the queried step with a discrepancy‑aware entropy objective, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance while reducing human interventions and maintaining robustness to noisy feedback.

By Zixu Wang, Huaquan Zhang, Shoukai Xu, Jinwu Hu, Zhiquan Wen, Mingkui Tan
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 15

Efficient Test-Time Adaptation For Robot Policies

arXiv:2610.20318v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement-learning policies for robot locomotion can fail at deployment when operating conditions shift (e.g., rough or slippery terrain, payload...

By Motasem Alfarra, Pietro Mazzaglia, Markus Peschl, Daniel Dijkman, Christos Louizos
arXiv AI
Jun 19

SPOT-E: Test-Time Entropy Shaping with Visual Spotlights for Frozen VLMs

arXiv:2606. 20244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) often underperform on evidence intensive tasks because decisive visual evidence are small, localized, and easy to overlook, leading to failures in evidence readout even when high-level reasoning is intact.

By Bo Yin, Xiaobin Hu, Chengming Xu, Ruolin Shen, Mo Yang, Jiangning Zhang, Peng-Tao Jiang, Cheng Tan, Shuicheng YAN
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

DriveVLA-M0: Failure-Aware Memory Augmentation for Autonomous Driving

DriveVLA-M0 introduces a failure-aware latent memory system for Vision‑Language‑Action models in autonomous driving. It stores past failure cases with scene representations and expert trajectories, and uses a retrieval model to decouple static road structure from dynamic agent interactions. During inference, retrieved cases are injected via a lightweight LoRA‑based test‑time training mechanism, yielding significant performance gains on NAVSIM benchmarks with minimal latency overhead.

By Zebin Xing, Yupeng Zheng, Qiang Chen, Linbo Wang, Yichen Zhang, Pengxuan Yang, Junli Wang, Deheng Qian, Xiaoqing Ye, Junyu Han, Yifeng Pan, Qichao Zhang, Dongbin Zhao