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Main Authors: Fan, Jingjing, Li, Siyuan, Ren, Botao, Deng, Zhidong
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18556
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author Fan, Jingjing
Li, Siyuan
Ren, Botao
Deng, Zhidong
author_facet Fan, Jingjing
Li, Siyuan
Ren, Botao
Deng, Zhidong
contents Embodied control increasingly requires models to follow compositional language instructions while reasoning over dynamic visual states. However, current vision-language-action policies and world-action models often couple linguistic knowledge with visual computation in a shared backbone or conditioning pathway, leading to modality competition and making knowledge extension dependent on backbone updates. In this paper, we introduce Key-Gram, a conditional-memory framework that separates language-derived world knowledge from visual-state reasoning for embodied control. At its core is a memory module that decomposes an instruction into task-specific key-grams, retrieves static linguistic priors through deterministic hashed lookup, and injects the retrieved entries into selected hidden layers through context-aware gating and lightweight convolutional fusion. This design allows the backbone to devote its main capacity to visual reasoning and action inference, while reusable instruction knowledge is stored in an extensible external memory. The logical memory table can be conveniently partitioned during training and, due to its $O(1)$ lookup pattern, efficiently placed on host memory during inference. Across RoboTwin2.0, LIBERO/LIBERO-Plus, and real-world dual-arm manipulation, Key-Gram consistently improves both $π_{0}$ and $π_{0.5}$ backbones, with average relative gains of $29.5\%/9.9\%$ on RoboTwin2.0, $35.8\%/4.5\%$ on LIBERO-Plus transfer without target-domain fine-tuning, and $15.4\%/8.1\%$ on real-world long-horizon tasks. These results demonstrate that externalized linguistic memory provides an effective and extensible mechanism for improving compositional grounding, transfer, and real-world manipulation.
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spellingShingle Key-Gram: Extensible World Knowledge for Embodied Manipulation
Fan, Jingjing
Li, Siyuan
Ren, Botao
Deng, Zhidong
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Embodied control increasingly requires models to follow compositional language instructions while reasoning over dynamic visual states. However, current vision-language-action policies and world-action models often couple linguistic knowledge with visual computation in a shared backbone or conditioning pathway, leading to modality competition and making knowledge extension dependent on backbone updates. In this paper, we introduce Key-Gram, a conditional-memory framework that separates language-derived world knowledge from visual-state reasoning for embodied control. At its core is a memory module that decomposes an instruction into task-specific key-grams, retrieves static linguistic priors through deterministic hashed lookup, and injects the retrieved entries into selected hidden layers through context-aware gating and lightweight convolutional fusion. This design allows the backbone to devote its main capacity to visual reasoning and action inference, while reusable instruction knowledge is stored in an extensible external memory. The logical memory table can be conveniently partitioned during training and, due to its $O(1)$ lookup pattern, efficiently placed on host memory during inference. Across RoboTwin2.0, LIBERO/LIBERO-Plus, and real-world dual-arm manipulation, Key-Gram consistently improves both $π_{0}$ and $π_{0.5}$ backbones, with average relative gains of $29.5\%/9.9\%$ on RoboTwin2.0, $35.8\%/4.5\%$ on LIBERO-Plus transfer without target-domain fine-tuning, and $15.4\%/8.1\%$ on real-world long-horizon tasks. These results demonstrate that externalized linguistic memory provides an effective and extensible mechanism for improving compositional grounding, transfer, and real-world manipulation.
title Key-Gram: Extensible World Knowledge for Embodied Manipulation
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18556