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Black-box correction of deployed robot policies with world-model planningExpert

Back on Track: Deployment-time Policy Improvement via World Model Planning

Colton Crosby, Hao Wang, Mac Schwager, Somil BansalStanford University; University of Southern California

Robot AI models are increasingly sold as closed systems that buyers cannot retrain. This Stanford preprint wraps such a model with a small watchdog and planner that step in only when a task stalls, lifting pi0.5 from 72.6% to 81.5% on a perturbed benchmark and a real Franka arm from 40% to 60% on a lunchbox task.

Imitation LearningVLAWorld Models
Physical IntelligenceFranka Robotics
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Manipulation · 91VLA · 62Navigation · 52General robotics · 41Robot learning · 32Simulation · 24Perception · 23Humanoid · 19Locomotion · 15Safety · 13Aerial · 4World Action Models · 5World-action model · 3Aerial manipulation · 3Dexterous manipulation · 3Sim-to-Real Manipulation · 3Social Navigation · 3

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