From Noise to Intent: Anchoring Generative VLA Policies with Residual Bridges

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Hauptverfasser: Zhong, Yiming, He, Yaoyu, Yang, Zemin, Tian, Pengfei, Huang, Yifan, Huang, Qingqiu, Zhu, Xinge, Ma, Yuexin
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author Zhong, Yiming
He, Yaoyu
Yang, Zemin
Tian, Pengfei
Huang, Yifan
Huang, Qingqiu
Zhu, Xinge
Ma, Yuexin
author_facet Zhong, Yiming
He, Yaoyu
Yang, Zemin
Tian, Pengfei
Huang, Yifan
Huang, Qingqiu
Zhu, Xinge
Ma, Yuexin
contents Bridging high-level semantic understanding with low-level physical control remains a persistent challenge in embodied intelligence, stemming from the fundamental spatiotemporal scale mismatch between cognition and action. Existing generative VLA policies typically adopt a "Generation-from-Noise" paradigm, which disregards this disparity, leading to representation inefficiency and weak condition alignment during optimization. In this work, we propose ResVLA, an architecture that shifts the paradigm to "Refinement-from-Intent." Recognizing that robotic motion naturally decomposes into global intent and local dynamics, ResVLA utilizes spectral analysis to decouple control into a deterministic low-frequency anchor and a stochastic high-frequency residual. By anchoring the generative process on the predicted intent, our model focuses strictly on refining local dynamics via a residual diffusion bridge. Extensive simulation experiments show that ResVLA achieves competitive performance, strong robustness to language and robot embodiment perturbations, and faster convergence than standard generative baselines. It also demonstrates strong performance in real-world robot experiments.
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spellingShingle From Noise to Intent: Anchoring Generative VLA Policies with Residual Bridges
Zhong, Yiming
He, Yaoyu
Yang, Zemin
Tian, Pengfei
Huang, Yifan
Huang, Qingqiu
Zhu, Xinge
Ma, Yuexin
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Bridging high-level semantic understanding with low-level physical control remains a persistent challenge in embodied intelligence, stemming from the fundamental spatiotemporal scale mismatch between cognition and action. Existing generative VLA policies typically adopt a "Generation-from-Noise" paradigm, which disregards this disparity, leading to representation inefficiency and weak condition alignment during optimization. In this work, we propose ResVLA, an architecture that shifts the paradigm to "Refinement-from-Intent." Recognizing that robotic motion naturally decomposes into global intent and local dynamics, ResVLA utilizes spectral analysis to decouple control into a deterministic low-frequency anchor and a stochastic high-frequency residual. By anchoring the generative process on the predicted intent, our model focuses strictly on refining local dynamics via a residual diffusion bridge. Extensive simulation experiments show that ResVLA achieves competitive performance, strong robustness to language and robot embodiment perturbations, and faster convergence than standard generative baselines. It also demonstrates strong performance in real-world robot experiments.
title From Noise to Intent: Anchoring Generative VLA Policies with Residual Bridges
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21391