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SmoothVLA: Aligning Vision-Language-Action Models with Physical Constraints via Intrinsic Smoothness Optimization

arXiv – CS AI|Jiashun Li, Xiaoyu Shi, Hong Xie, Mingsheng Shang, Yun Lu|
πŸ€–AI Summary

Researchers introduce SmoothVLA, a new reinforcement learning framework that improves robot control by optimizing both task performance and motion smoothness. The system addresses the trade-off between stability and exploration in Vision-Language-Action models, achieving 13.8% better smoothness than standard RL methods.

Key Takeaways
  • β†’SmoothVLA combines binary task rewards with continuous trajectory smoothness optimization for better robot control.
  • β†’The framework uses intrinsic rewards computed directly from policy rollouts without requiring external environment feedback.
  • β†’Testing on LIBERO benchmark shows 13.8% improvement in smoothness over standard reinforcement learning methods.
  • β†’The approach bridges the gap between supervised fine-tuning's limited generalization and RL's erratic movement patterns.
  • β†’Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is leveraged to establish trajectory smoothness as an explicit optimization prior.
Read Original β†’via arXiv – CS AI
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