PHASOR: Phase-Anchored Universal Action Representations for Humanoid Embodiments

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Main Authors: Kim, Kihyun, Kim, Chaeyun, Shin, Jongho, Kwon, Taeyoun, Kim, Junghyun, Koo, Mijin, Park, Haon
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author Kim, Kihyun
Kim, Chaeyun
Shin, Jongho
Kwon, Taeyoun
Kim, Junghyun
Koo, Mijin
Park, Haon
author_facet Kim, Kihyun
Kim, Chaeyun
Shin, Jongho
Kwon, Taeyoun
Kim, Junghyun
Koo, Mijin
Park, Haon
contents Learning a good action embedding space is fundamental to scalable robot policy learning, yet existing methods treat action latents as task-specific intermediates rather than first-class representations. The resulting latents are unstructured, embodiment-specific, and weakly tied to motion semantics, limiting interpretability, controllability, and transferability across robots. We position the action embedding space itself as a first-class design target, with downstream policy quality emerging from representation quality. Exploiting motion's intrinsic periodicity, we factorize it into a phase manifold that captures cyclic structure via FFT-parametric coefficients, together with a pose branch that conditions the manifold on non-periodic configuration detail. Combined with motion-semantic distillation, this factorized structure yields a cross-embodiment motion manifold that is interpretable and embodiment-agnostic by design. Anchoring multiple humanoid robots to a shared human-pretrained manifold then produces a unified action embedding space across diverse platforms, achieving strong cross-embodiment retrieval and consistent gains on downstream robot tasks.
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spellingShingle PHASOR: Phase-Anchored Universal Action Representations for Humanoid Embodiments
Kim, Kihyun
Kim, Chaeyun
Shin, Jongho
Kwon, Taeyoun
Kim, Junghyun
Koo, Mijin
Park, Haon
Robotics
Learning a good action embedding space is fundamental to scalable robot policy learning, yet existing methods treat action latents as task-specific intermediates rather than first-class representations. The resulting latents are unstructured, embodiment-specific, and weakly tied to motion semantics, limiting interpretability, controllability, and transferability across robots. We position the action embedding space itself as a first-class design target, with downstream policy quality emerging from representation quality. Exploiting motion's intrinsic periodicity, we factorize it into a phase manifold that captures cyclic structure via FFT-parametric coefficients, together with a pose branch that conditions the manifold on non-periodic configuration detail. Combined with motion-semantic distillation, this factorized structure yields a cross-embodiment motion manifold that is interpretable and embodiment-agnostic by design. Anchoring multiple humanoid robots to a shared human-pretrained manifold then produces a unified action embedding space across diverse platforms, achieving strong cross-embodiment retrieval and consistent gains on downstream robot tasks.
title PHASOR: Phase-Anchored Universal Action Representations for Humanoid Embodiments
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01851