VLMimic: Vision Language Models are Visual Imitation Learner for Fine-grained Actions

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Main Authors: Chen, Guanyan, Wang, Meiling, Cui, Te, Mu, Yao, Lu, Haoyang, Zhou, Tianxing, Peng, Zicai, Hu, Mengxiao, Li, Haizhou, Li, Yuan, Yang, Yi, Yue, Yufeng
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author Chen, Guanyan
Wang, Meiling
Cui, Te
Mu, Yao
Lu, Haoyang
Zhou, Tianxing
Peng, Zicai
Hu, Mengxiao
Li, Haizhou
Li, Yuan
Yang, Yi
Yue, Yufeng
author_facet Chen, Guanyan
Wang, Meiling
Cui, Te
Mu, Yao
Lu, Haoyang
Zhou, Tianxing
Peng, Zicai
Hu, Mengxiao
Li, Haizhou
Li, Yuan
Yang, Yi
Yue, Yufeng
contents Visual imitation learning (VIL) provides an efficient and intuitive strategy for robotic systems to acquire novel skills. Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in vision and language reasoning capabilities for VIL tasks. Despite the progress, current VIL methods naively employ VLMs to learn high-level plans from human videos, relying on pre-defined motion primitives for executing physical interactions, which remains a major bottleneck. In this work, we present VLMimic, a novel paradigm that harnesses VLMs to directly learn even fine-grained action levels, only given a limited number of human videos. Specifically, VLMimic first grounds object-centric movements from human videos, and learns skills using hierarchical constraint representations, facilitating the derivation of skills with fine-grained action levels from limited human videos. These skills are refined and updated through an iterative comparison strategy, enabling efficient adaptation to unseen environments. Our extensive experiments exhibit that our VLMimic, using only 5 human videos, yields significant improvements of over 27% and 21% in RLBench and real-world manipulation tasks, and surpasses baselines by over 37% in long-horizon tasks.
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spellingShingle VLMimic: Vision Language Models are Visual Imitation Learner for Fine-grained Actions
Chen, Guanyan
Wang, Meiling
Cui, Te
Mu, Yao
Lu, Haoyang
Zhou, Tianxing
Peng, Zicai
Hu, Mengxiao
Li, Haizhou
Li, Yuan
Yang, Yi
Yue, Yufeng
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Visual imitation learning (VIL) provides an efficient and intuitive strategy for robotic systems to acquire novel skills. Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in vision and language reasoning capabilities for VIL tasks. Despite the progress, current VIL methods naively employ VLMs to learn high-level plans from human videos, relying on pre-defined motion primitives for executing physical interactions, which remains a major bottleneck. In this work, we present VLMimic, a novel paradigm that harnesses VLMs to directly learn even fine-grained action levels, only given a limited number of human videos. Specifically, VLMimic first grounds object-centric movements from human videos, and learns skills using hierarchical constraint representations, facilitating the derivation of skills with fine-grained action levels from limited human videos. These skills are refined and updated through an iterative comparison strategy, enabling efficient adaptation to unseen environments. Our extensive experiments exhibit that our VLMimic, using only 5 human videos, yields significant improvements of over 27% and 21% in RLBench and real-world manipulation tasks, and surpasses baselines by over 37% in long-horizon tasks.
title VLMimic: Vision Language Models are Visual Imitation Learner for Fine-grained Actions
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20927