arXiv AI By Chenwei Wang, Dianye Huang, Match W. L. Ko, Chenjia Bai, Zhongliang Jiang

ReWeight: Leveraging Human Data for VLA Post-Training via Demonstration Retrieval and Sample Weighting

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arXiv AI
3d ago

Synthesizing Dexterous Robot Demonstrations from Human Videos via Virtual Try-On

The paper introduces RoboTryOn, a method that transforms human egocentric videos into synthetic demonstrations for robots by virtually swapping the human with a target robot while preserving task, objects, and background. It uses autoregressive keyframe translation guided by human hand skeletons and an inverse dynamics model to generate action labels for policy learning. Experiments on various humanoid robots show that policies trained on these synthetic videos achieve up to 60% success on new tasks, matching teleoperated demonstration performance at roughly one‑third the cost.

By Seungyong Lee, Suhyeok Jang, Minyoung Kim, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Is Diversity All You Need for Scalable Robotic Manipulation?

arXiv:2507. 06219v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data scaling has driven remarkable success in foundation models for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV), yet the principles of effective data scaling in robotic manipulation remain insufficiently understood.

By Modi Shi, Li Chen, Jin Chen, Yuxiang Lu, Chiming Liu, Guanghui Ren, Ping Luo, Di Huang, Maoqing Yao, Hongyang Li
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Hierarchical Skill Retrieval for Data-Efficient Adaptation of Vision-Language-Action Models

The paper introduces Hierarchical Skill Retrieval (HSR), a framework that decomposes a target manipulation task into candidate skill sequences and evaluates each plan for semantic plausibility and skill reliability. HSR combines subtask-level language retrieval with behavior-feature reranking to select demonstrations that are both relevant and compatible with the target task, followed by a two-stage pretraining and finetuning pipeline for policy adaptation. Experiments on the LIBERO benchmark and real-world robot tasks show that HSR improves average success rates by 10.3% and 21.3% over the strongest baseline, demonstrating the effectiveness of structured skill-level retrieval for data-efficient Vision‑Language‑Action adaptation.

By Haoran Hao, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeff Schneider, Jeffrey Ichnowski