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The Action Tokens Preserved Which Motion Was Nearer

ActionPiece reached 94.8% on LIBERO and 68.8% on unseen LIBERO-Plus under one shared policy setup.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-17-009
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Summary

ActionPiece reached 94.8% on LIBERO and 68.8% on unseen LIBERO-Plus under one shared policy setup.

Low reconstruction error can hide whether compressed robot actions preserve the physically meaningful order among nearby motions. ActionPiece adds physical rank consistency, supervising near-far relationships in the encoder, quantized features and codeword assignments. Under the same Qwen3-VL-4B training setup, it reported 94.8% on LIBERO, 68.8% on unseen LIBERO-Plus, 71.9% on SimplerEnv and 51.5% across VLA-Arena L0–L2. Ablations attribute gains to the paired ranking objectives, making relational fidelity a complement to pointwise token error.

Why it matters

ActionPiece reached 94.8% on LIBERO and 68.8% on unseen LIBERO-Plus under one shared policy setup.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. ActionPiece reached 94.8% on LIBERO and 68.8% on unseen LIBERO-Plus under one shared policy setup.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-17-009

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.18487arXiv · primary research

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