The paper introduces a compositional continual learning benchmark for world models in robot manipulation, designed to isolate knowledge reuse from learning speed and capacity. Tasks are curated to combine previously seen action and perception components, allowing analysis of how different modalities affect reuse. Experiments show that modular world models better balance reuse and forgetting than conventional methods, yet none fully solve the challenge, highlighting the need for models explicitly built to reuse knowledge without forgetting.
By Haoyu Zhou, Joe Watson, Anson Lei, Ingmar Posner
arXiv:2601.22475v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Building a generalist robot policy requires continuously integrating new skills while preserving previously acquired behaviors. Directly optimizing...
By Qijun He, Yuxuan Li, Mingqi Yuan, Xiaoquan Sun, Wen-Tse Chen, Jeff Schneider, Jiayu Chen
The paper proposes a method to train efficient multi‑task manipulation policies by distilling knowledge from single‑task Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) experts. Instead of training separate models for each task, the authors transfer the experts’ learned velocity fields into a shared policy, combining this distillation signal with the original CFM objective. Experiments on RLBench demonstrate that this approach improves multi‑task performance while keeping the model size fixed, avoiding the need for larger capacity or performance drops seen with naive concatenated training.
By Shreya Deshmukh, Imen Mahdi, Nick Heppert, Abhinav Valada
arXiv:2606. 03598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved remarkable success in language-conditioned robotic manipulation.
By Ziyang Chen, Shaoguang Wang, Weiyu Guo, Qianyi Cai, He Zhang, Pengteng Li, Yiren Zhao, Yandong Guo
arXiv:2608. 19589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained Vision-Language-Action models provide a strong foundation for robot learning, but sequentially adapting them to diverse skills can perturb the representations and velocity mappings used by previous skills, leading to catastrophic forgetting.
By Jiaqi Wang, Zhou Fang, Qiongfeng Shi, Yi Zhou
arXiv:2608. 05970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied visuomotor models, including Diffusion Policy (DP) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have demonstrated promising performance on robotic manipulation benchmarks.
By Changyuan Wang, Chubin Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Runhao Li, Angyuan Ma, Ke Chao, Yinan Liang, Xiuwei Xu, Ziwei Wang, Yansong Tang, Jiwen Lu