CogACT: A Foundational Vision-Language-Action Model for Synergizing Cognition and Action in Robotic Manipulation

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Main Authors: Li, Qixiu, Liang, Yaobo, Wang, Zeyu, Luo, Lin, Chen, Xi, Liao, Mozheng, Wei, Fangyun, Deng, Yu, Xu, Sicheng, Zhang, Yizhong, Wang, Xiaofan, Liu, Bei, Fu, Jianlong, Bao, Jianmin, Chen, Dong, Shi, Yuanchun, Yang, Jiaolong, Guo, Baining
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author Li, Qixiu
Liang, Yaobo
Wang, Zeyu
Luo, Lin
Chen, Xi
Liao, Mozheng
Wei, Fangyun
Deng, Yu
Xu, Sicheng
Zhang, Yizhong
Wang, Xiaofan
Liu, Bei
Fu, Jianlong
Bao, Jianmin
Chen, Dong
Shi, Yuanchun
Yang, Jiaolong
Guo, Baining
author_facet Li, Qixiu
Liang, Yaobo
Wang, Zeyu
Luo, Lin
Chen, Xi
Liao, Mozheng
Wei, Fangyun
Deng, Yu
Xu, Sicheng
Zhang, Yizhong
Wang, Xiaofan
Liu, Bei
Fu, Jianlong
Bao, Jianmin
Chen, Dong
Shi, Yuanchun
Yang, Jiaolong
Guo, Baining
contents The advancement of large Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has significantly improved robotic manipulation in terms of language-guided task execution and generalization to unseen scenarios. While existing VLAs adapted from pretrained large Vision-Language-Models (VLM) have demonstrated promising generalizability, their task performance is still unsatisfactory as indicated by the low tasks success rates in different environments. In this paper, we present a new advanced VLA architecture derived from VLM. Unlike previous works that directly repurpose VLM for action prediction by simple action quantization, we propose a omponentized VLA architecture that has a specialized action module conditioned on VLM output. We systematically study the design of the action module and demonstrates the strong performance enhancement with diffusion action transformers for action sequence modeling, as well as their favorable scaling behaviors. We also conduct comprehensive experiments and ablation studies to evaluate the efficacy of our models with varied designs. The evaluation on 5 robot embodiments in simulation and real work shows that our model not only significantly surpasses existing VLAs in task performance and but also exhibits remarkable adaptation to new robots and generalization to unseen objects and backgrounds. It exceeds the average success rates of OpenVLA which has similar model size (7B) with ours by over 35% in simulated evaluation and 55% in real robot experiments. It also outperforms the large RT-2-X model (55B) by 18% absolute success rates in simulation. Code and models can be found on our project page (https://cogact.github.io/).
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spellingShingle CogACT: A Foundational Vision-Language-Action Model for Synergizing Cognition and Action in Robotic Manipulation
Li, Qixiu
Liang, Yaobo
Wang, Zeyu
Luo, Lin
Chen, Xi
Liao, Mozheng
Wei, Fangyun
Deng, Yu
Xu, Sicheng
Zhang, Yizhong
Wang, Xiaofan
Liu, Bei
Fu, Jianlong
Bao, Jianmin
Chen, Dong
Shi, Yuanchun
Yang, Jiaolong
Guo, Baining
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
The advancement of large Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has significantly improved robotic manipulation in terms of language-guided task execution and generalization to unseen scenarios. While existing VLAs adapted from pretrained large Vision-Language-Models (VLM) have demonstrated promising generalizability, their task performance is still unsatisfactory as indicated by the low tasks success rates in different environments. In this paper, we present a new advanced VLA architecture derived from VLM. Unlike previous works that directly repurpose VLM for action prediction by simple action quantization, we propose a omponentized VLA architecture that has a specialized action module conditioned on VLM output. We systematically study the design of the action module and demonstrates the strong performance enhancement with diffusion action transformers for action sequence modeling, as well as their favorable scaling behaviors. We also conduct comprehensive experiments and ablation studies to evaluate the efficacy of our models with varied designs. The evaluation on 5 robot embodiments in simulation and real work shows that our model not only significantly surpasses existing VLAs in task performance and but also exhibits remarkable adaptation to new robots and generalization to unseen objects and backgrounds. It exceeds the average success rates of OpenVLA which has similar model size (7B) with ours by over 35% in simulated evaluation and 55% in real robot experiments. It also outperforms the large RT-2-X model (55B) by 18% absolute success rates in simulation. Code and models can be found on our project page (https://cogact.github.io/).
title CogACT: A Foundational Vision-Language-Action Model for Synergizing Cognition and Action in Robotic Manipulation
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19650