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The Robot Shortened Its Plan When the Prediction Wobbled

Denoising-path geometry raised real-world success from 53.3% to 74.4% by adapting action-chunk length.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-18-006
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Summary

Denoising-path geometry raised real-world success from 53.3% to 74.4% by adapting action-chunk length.

Vision-language-action policies usually commit to a fixed number of actions per query even though free motion and contact demand different feedback rates. GeoAAC reads geometric variation inside one flow-matching denoising trajectory as a reliability signal and chooses the executable prefix without retraining. Tests with GR00T N1.5 and π0.5 across LIBERO, LIBERO-Pro, RoboCasa365 and physical manipulation improved simulation results by as much as 8.7 percentage points. Average real-world success rose from 53.3% to 74.4% against fixed-horizon baselines.

Why it matters

Denoising-path geometry raised real-world success from 53.3% to 74.4% by adapting action-chunk length.

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Key claims

  1. Denoising-path geometry raised real-world success from 53.3% to 74.4% by adapting action-chunk length.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-18-006

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.20776arXiv · primary research

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