Interactive Post-Training for Vision-Language-Action Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17016v1
• Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 17:59:45 GMT
• Title: Interactive Post-Training for Vision-Language-Action Models
• Authors: Shuhan Tan, Kairan Dou, Yue Zhao, Philipp Krähenbühl,
• Abstract summary: We introduce RIPT-VLA, a simple and scalable reinforcement-learning-based interactive post-training paradigm.<n> RIPT-VLA fine-tunes pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models using only sparse binary success rewards.<n>With only one demonstration, RIPT-VLA enables an unworkable SFT model to succeed with a 97% success rate within 15 iterations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce RIPT-VLA, a simple and scalable reinforcement-learning-based interactive post-training paradigm that fine-tunes pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models using only sparse binary success rewards. Existing VLA training pipelines rely heavily on offline expert demonstration data and supervised imitation, limiting their ability to adapt to new tasks and environments under low-data regimes. RIPT-VLA addresses this by enabling interactive post-training with a stable policy optimization algorithm based on dynamic rollout sampling and leave-one-out advantage estimation. RIPT-VLA has the following characteristics. First, it applies to various VLA models, resulting in an improvement on the lightweight QueST model by 21.2%, and the 7B OpenVLA-OFT model to an unprecedented 97.5% success rate. Second, it is computationally efficient and data-efficient: with only one demonstration, RIPT-VLA enables an unworkable SFT model (4%) to succeed with a 97% success rate within 15 iterations. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the policy learned by RIPT-VLA generalizes across different tasks and scenarios and is robust to the initial state context. These results highlight RIPT-VLA as a practical and effective paradigm for post-training VLA models through minimal supervision.

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