SVLL: Staged Vision-Language Learning for Physically Grounded Embodied Task Planning

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Hauptverfasser: Yang, Yuyuan, Hong, Junkun, Wang, Hongrong, Cai, Honghao, Ren, Xunpeng, Wang, Ge, Lei, Mingcong, Yan, Shenhao, Yang, Jiahao, Yao, Chengsi, Li, Xi, Zhao, Yiming, Han, Yatong, Ren, Jinke
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author Yang, Yuyuan
Hong, Junkun
Wang, Hongrong
Cai, Honghao
Ren, Xunpeng
Wang, Ge
Lei, Mingcong
Yan, Shenhao
Yang, Jiahao
Yao, Chengsi
Li, Xi
Zhao, Yiming
Han, Yatong
Ren, Jinke
author_facet Yang, Yuyuan
Hong, Junkun
Wang, Hongrong
Cai, Honghao
Ren, Xunpeng
Wang, Ge
Lei, Mingcong
Yan, Shenhao
Yang, Jiahao
Yao, Chengsi
Li, Xi
Zhao, Yiming
Han, Yatong
Ren, Jinke
contents Embodied task planning demands vision-language models to generate action sequences that are both visually grounded and causally coherent over time. However, existing training paradigms face a critical trade-off: joint end-to-end training often leads to premature temporal binding, while standard reinforcement learning methods suffer from optimization instability. To bridge this gap, we present Staged Vision-Language Learning (SVLL), a unified three-stage framework for robust, physically-grounded embodied planning. In the first two stages, SVLL decouples spatial grounding from temporal reasoning, establishing robust visual dependency before introducing sequential action history. In the final stage, we identify a key limitation of standard Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), its purely relative nature -- optimizing only the preference gap between winning and losing trajectories while neglecting absolute likelihood constraints on optimal path, often yields unsafe or hallucinated behaviors. To address this, we further introduce Bias-DPO, a novel alignment objective that injects an inductive bias toward expert trajectories by explicitly maximizing likelihood on ground-truth actions while penalizing overconfident hallucinations. By anchoring the policy to the expert manifold and mitigating causal misalignment, SVLL, powered by Bias-DPO, ensures strict adherence to environmental affordances and effectively suppresses physically impossible shortcuts. Finally, extensive experiments on the interactive AI2-THOR benchmark and real-world robotic deployments demonstrate that SVLL outperforms both state-of-the-art open-source (e.g., Qwen2.5-VL-7B) and closed-source models (e.g., GPT-4o, Gemini-2.0-flash) in task success rate, while significantly reducing physical constraint violations.
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spellingShingle SVLL: Staged Vision-Language Learning for Physically Grounded Embodied Task Planning
Yang, Yuyuan
Hong, Junkun
Wang, Hongrong
Cai, Honghao
Ren, Xunpeng
Wang, Ge
Lei, Mingcong
Yan, Shenhao
Yang, Jiahao
Yao, Chengsi
Li, Xi
Zhao, Yiming
Han, Yatong
Ren, Jinke
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Embodied task planning demands vision-language models to generate action sequences that are both visually grounded and causally coherent over time. However, existing training paradigms face a critical trade-off: joint end-to-end training often leads to premature temporal binding, while standard reinforcement learning methods suffer from optimization instability. To bridge this gap, we present Staged Vision-Language Learning (SVLL), a unified three-stage framework for robust, physically-grounded embodied planning. In the first two stages, SVLL decouples spatial grounding from temporal reasoning, establishing robust visual dependency before introducing sequential action history. In the final stage, we identify a key limitation of standard Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), its purely relative nature -- optimizing only the preference gap between winning and losing trajectories while neglecting absolute likelihood constraints on optimal path, often yields unsafe or hallucinated behaviors. To address this, we further introduce Bias-DPO, a novel alignment objective that injects an inductive bias toward expert trajectories by explicitly maximizing likelihood on ground-truth actions while penalizing overconfident hallucinations. By anchoring the policy to the expert manifold and mitigating causal misalignment, SVLL, powered by Bias-DPO, ensures strict adherence to environmental affordances and effectively suppresses physically impossible shortcuts. Finally, extensive experiments on the interactive AI2-THOR benchmark and real-world robotic deployments demonstrate that SVLL outperforms both state-of-the-art open-source (e.g., Qwen2.5-VL-7B) and closed-source models (e.g., GPT-4o, Gemini-2.0-flash) in task success rate, while significantly reducing physical constraint violations.
title SVLL: Staged Vision-Language Learning for Physically Grounded Embodied Task Planning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11563