NoTVLA: Narrowing of Dense Action Trajectories for Generalizable Robot Manipulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03895v1
• Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:26:55 GMT
• Title: NoTVLA: Narrowing of Dense Action Trajectories for Generalizable Robot Manipulation
• Authors: Zheng Huang, Mingyu Liu, Xiaoyi Lin, Muzhi Zhu, Canyu Zhao, Zongze Du, Xiaoman Li, Yiduo Jia, Hao Zhong, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen,
• Abstract summary: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models confront critical barriers to real-world deployment, most notably catastrophic forgetting.<n>We propose the Narrowing of Trajectory VLA framework: a novel approach that narrows its focus to sparse trajectories.<n>NoTVLA achieves superior performance and generalization compared to pi0 while operating under two critical constraints.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models represent a pivotal advance in embodied intelligence, yet they confront critical barriers to real-world deployment, most notably catastrophic forgetting. This issue stems from their overreliance on continuous action sequences or action chunks, which inadvertently create isolated data silos that disrupt knowledge retention across tasks. To tackle these challenges, we propose the Narrowing of Trajectory VLA (NoTVLA) framework: a novel approach that narrows its focus to sparse trajectories, thereby avoiding the catastrophic forgetting associated with dense trajectory fine-tuning. A key innovation of NoTVLA lies in its trajectory planning strategy: instead of centering on the target object's trajectory, it leverages temporal compression and spatial reasoning pruning specifically for the robot end effector's trajectory. Furthermore, training is conducted using these sparse trajectories rather than dense action trajectories, an optimization that delivers remarkable practical advantages with better performance in zero-shot. In multi-task evaluation scenarios, NoTVLA achieves superior performance and generalization compared to pi0 while operating under two critical constraints: it uses over an order of magnitude less computing power than pi0 and requires no wrist-mounted camera. This design ensures that NoTVLA's operational accuracy closely approximates that of single-task expert models. Crucially, it also preserves the model's inherent language capabilities, enabling zero-shot generalization in specific scenarios, supporting unified model deployment across multiple robot platforms, and fostering a degree of generalization even when perceiving tasks from novel perspectives.

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