Language-Conditioned Representations and Mixture-of-Experts Policy for Robust Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation

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Main Authors: Zhang, Xiucheng, Jiang, Yang, Qing, Hongwei, Bai, Jiashuo
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author Zhang, Xiucheng
Jiang, Yang
Qing, Hongwei
Bai, Jiashuo
author_facet Zhang, Xiucheng
Jiang, Yang
Qing, Hongwei
Bai, Jiashuo
contents Perceptual ambiguity and task conflict limit multitask robotic manipulation via imitation learning. We propose a framework combining a Language-Conditioned Visual Representation (LCVR) module and a Language-conditioned Mixture-ofExperts Density Policy (LMoE-DP). LCVR resolves perceptual ambiguities by grounding visual features with language instructions, enabling differentiation between visually similar tasks. To mitigate task conflict, LMoE-DP uses a sparse expert architecture to specialize in distinct, multimodal action distributions, stabilized by gradient modulation. On real-robot benchmarks, LCVR boosts Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT) and Diffusion Policy (DP) success rates by 33.75% and 25%, respectively. The full framework achieves a 79% average success, outperforming the advanced baseline by 21%. Our work shows that combining semantic grounding and expert specialization enables robust, efficient multi-task manipulation
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spellingShingle Language-Conditioned Representations and Mixture-of-Experts Policy for Robust Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
Zhang, Xiucheng
Jiang, Yang
Qing, Hongwei
Bai, Jiashuo
Robotics
Machine Learning
Perceptual ambiguity and task conflict limit multitask robotic manipulation via imitation learning. We propose a framework combining a Language-Conditioned Visual Representation (LCVR) module and a Language-conditioned Mixture-ofExperts Density Policy (LMoE-DP). LCVR resolves perceptual ambiguities by grounding visual features with language instructions, enabling differentiation between visually similar tasks. To mitigate task conflict, LMoE-DP uses a sparse expert architecture to specialize in distinct, multimodal action distributions, stabilized by gradient modulation. On real-robot benchmarks, LCVR boosts Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT) and Diffusion Policy (DP) success rates by 33.75% and 25%, respectively. The full framework achieves a 79% average success, outperforming the advanced baseline by 21%. Our work shows that combining semantic grounding and expert specialization enables robust, efficient multi-task manipulation
title Language-Conditioned Representations and Mixture-of-Experts Policy for Robust Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24055