SToLa: Self-Adaptive Touch-Language Framework with Tactile Commonsense Reasoning in Open-Ended Scenarios

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Main Authors: Cheng, Ning, Xu, Jinan, Chen, Jialing, Fang, Bin, Han, Wenjuan
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Published: 2025
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author Cheng, Ning
Xu, Jinan
Chen, Jialing
Fang, Bin
Han, Wenjuan
author_facet Cheng, Ning
Xu, Jinan
Chen, Jialing
Fang, Bin
Han, Wenjuan
contents This paper explores the challenges of integrating tactile sensing into intelligent systems for multimodal reasoning, particularly in enabling commonsense reasoning about the open-ended physical world. We identify two key challenges: modality discrepancy, where existing large touch-language models often treat touch as a mere sub-modality of language, and open-ended tactile data scarcity, where current datasets lack the diversity, open-endness and complexity needed for reasoning. To overcome these challenges, we introduce SToLa, a Self-Adaptive Touch-Language framework. SToLa utilizes Mixture of Experts (MoE) to dynamically process, unify, and manage tactile and language modalities, capturing their unique characteristics. Crucially, we also present a comprehensive tactile commonsense reasoning dataset and benchmark featuring free-form questions and responses, 8 physical properties, 4 interactive characteristics, and diverse commonsense knowledge. Experiments show SToLa exhibits competitive performance compared to existing models on the PhysiCLeAR benchmark and self-constructed datasets, proving the effectiveness of the Mixture of Experts architecture in multimodal management and the performance advantages for open-scenario tactile commonsense reasoning tasks.
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spellingShingle SToLa: Self-Adaptive Touch-Language Framework with Tactile Commonsense Reasoning in Open-Ended Scenarios
Cheng, Ning
Xu, Jinan
Chen, Jialing
Fang, Bin
Han, Wenjuan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper explores the challenges of integrating tactile sensing into intelligent systems for multimodal reasoning, particularly in enabling commonsense reasoning about the open-ended physical world. We identify two key challenges: modality discrepancy, where existing large touch-language models often treat touch as a mere sub-modality of language, and open-ended tactile data scarcity, where current datasets lack the diversity, open-endness and complexity needed for reasoning. To overcome these challenges, we introduce SToLa, a Self-Adaptive Touch-Language framework. SToLa utilizes Mixture of Experts (MoE) to dynamically process, unify, and manage tactile and language modalities, capturing their unique characteristics. Crucially, we also present a comprehensive tactile commonsense reasoning dataset and benchmark featuring free-form questions and responses, 8 physical properties, 4 interactive characteristics, and diverse commonsense knowledge. Experiments show SToLa exhibits competitive performance compared to existing models on the PhysiCLeAR benchmark and self-constructed datasets, proving the effectiveness of the Mixture of Experts architecture in multimodal management and the performance advantages for open-scenario tactile commonsense reasoning tasks.
title SToLa: Self-Adaptive Touch-Language Framework with Tactile Commonsense Reasoning in Open-Ended Scenarios
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04201