A Data-Centric Revisit of Pre-Trained Vision Models for Robot Learning

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Autori principali: Wen, Xin, Zhao, Bingchen, Chen, Yilun, Pang, Jiangmiao, Qi, Xiaojuan
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author Wen, Xin
Zhao, Bingchen
Chen, Yilun
Pang, Jiangmiao
Qi, Xiaojuan
author_facet Wen, Xin
Zhao, Bingchen
Chen, Yilun
Pang, Jiangmiao
Qi, Xiaojuan
contents Pre-trained vision models (PVMs) are fundamental to modern robotics, yet their optimal configuration remains unclear. Through systematic evaluation, we find that while DINO and iBOT outperform MAE across visuomotor control and perception tasks, they struggle when trained on non-(single-)object-centric (NOC) data--a limitation strongly correlated with their diminished ability to learn object-centric representations. This investigation indicates that the ability to form object-centric representations from the non-object-centric robotics dataset is the key to success for PVMs. Motivated by this discovery, we designed SlotMIM, a method that induces object-centric representations by introducing a semantic bottleneck to reduce the number of prototypes to encourage the emergence of objectness as well as cross-view consistency regularization for encouraging multiview invariance. Our experiments encompass pre-training on object-centric, scene-centric, web-crawled, and ego-centric data. Across all settings, our approach learns transferrable representations and achieves significant improvements over prior work in image recognition, scene understanding, and robot learning evaluations. When scaled up with million-scale datasets, our method also demonstrates superior data efficiency and scalability. Our code and models are publicly available at https://github.com/CVMI-Lab/SlotMIM.
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spellingShingle A Data-Centric Revisit of Pre-Trained Vision Models for Robot Learning
Wen, Xin
Zhao, Bingchen
Chen, Yilun
Pang, Jiangmiao
Qi, Xiaojuan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Pre-trained vision models (PVMs) are fundamental to modern robotics, yet their optimal configuration remains unclear. Through systematic evaluation, we find that while DINO and iBOT outperform MAE across visuomotor control and perception tasks, they struggle when trained on non-(single-)object-centric (NOC) data--a limitation strongly correlated with their diminished ability to learn object-centric representations. This investigation indicates that the ability to form object-centric representations from the non-object-centric robotics dataset is the key to success for PVMs. Motivated by this discovery, we designed SlotMIM, a method that induces object-centric representations by introducing a semantic bottleneck to reduce the number of prototypes to encourage the emergence of objectness as well as cross-view consistency regularization for encouraging multiview invariance. Our experiments encompass pre-training on object-centric, scene-centric, web-crawled, and ego-centric data. Across all settings, our approach learns transferrable representations and achieves significant improvements over prior work in image recognition, scene understanding, and robot learning evaluations. When scaled up with million-scale datasets, our method also demonstrates superior data efficiency and scalability. Our code and models are publicly available at https://github.com/CVMI-Lab/SlotMIM.
title A Data-Centric Revisit of Pre-Trained Vision Models for Robot Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06960