NVSPolicy: Adaptive Novel-View Synthesis for Generalizable Language-Conditioned Policy Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10359v1
• Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 14:51:14 GMT
• Title: NVSPolicy: Adaptive Novel-View Synthesis for Generalizable Language-Conditioned Policy Learning
• Authors: Le Shi, Yifei Shi, Xin Xu, Tenglong Liu, Junhua Xi, Chengyuan Chen,
• Abstract summary: We introduce NVSPolicy, a generalizable language-conditioned policy learning method that couples an adaptive novel-view synthesis module with a hierarchical policy network.<n>We show that NVSPolicy achieves an average success rate of 90.4% across all tasks, greatly outperforming the recent methods.<n>In addition, we evaluate NVSPolicy on a real-world robotic platform to demonstrate its practical applicability.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in deep generative models demonstrate unprecedented zero-shot generalization capabilities, offering great potential for robot manipulation in unstructured environments. Given a partial observation of a scene, deep generative models could generate the unseen regions and therefore provide more context, which enhances the capability of robots to generalize across unseen environments. However, due to the visual artifacts in generated images and inefficient integration of multi-modal features in policy learning, this direction remains an open challenge. We introduce NVSPolicy, a generalizable language-conditioned policy learning method that couples an adaptive novel-view synthesis module with a hierarchical policy network. Given an input image, NVSPolicy dynamically selects an informative viewpoint and synthesizes an adaptive novel-view image to enrich the visual context. To mitigate the impact of the imperfect synthesized images, we adopt a cycle-consistent VAE mechanism that disentangles the visual features into the semantic feature and the remaining feature. The two features are then fed into the hierarchical policy network respectively: the semantic feature informs the high-level meta-skill selection, and the remaining feature guides low-level action estimation. Moreover, we propose several practical mechanisms to make the proposed method efficient. Extensive experiments on CALVIN demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our method. Specifically, it achieves an average success rate of 90.4\% across all tasks, greatly outperforming the recent methods. Ablation studies confirm the significance of our adaptive novel-view synthesis paradigm. In addition, we evaluate NVSPolicy on a real-world robotic platform to demonstrate its practical applicability.

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