LIBERO-Occ: Evaluating and Improving Vision-Language-Action Models under Scene-Induced Occlusion via Viewpoint Imagination

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10862v2
• Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:25:39 GMT
• Title: LIBERO-Occ: Evaluating and Improving Vision-Language-Action Models under Scene-Induced Occlusion via Viewpoint Imagination
• Abstract summary: textbfViewpoint Imagination (VIM) generates a complementary view from an occluded primary observation and conditions action prediction on both observed and imagined evidence.<n>VIM improves robustness across task suites, occlusion types, and severity levels without requiring additional cameras at deployment time.
• Score: 66.06027569507403
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong performance on standard manipulation benchmarks, but most evaluations assume that task-relevant objects are fully visible. This assumption often fails in realistic settings, where occlusion makes manipulation partially observable. In this paper, we study \textit{scene-induced occlusion} as a fundamental challenge for VLA models and introduce \textbf{LIBERO-Occ}, an occlusion-oriented extension of LIBERO. Experiments show that state-of-the-art VLAs suffer substantial performance degradation under occlusion. To address this issue, we propose \textbf{Viewpoint Imagination (VIM)}, which generates a complementary view from an occluded primary observation and conditions action prediction on both observed and imagined evidence. VIM improves robustness across task suites, occlusion types, and severity levels without requiring additional cameras at deployment time, suggesting that viewpoint imagination is an promising mechanism for perception completion in partially observable manipulation. Our benchmark and corresponding code are available at: \href{https://github.com/litsh/Libero-Occ}{https://github.com/litsh/Libero-Occ}.

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