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arxiv: 2601.16046 · v2 · submitted 2026-01-22 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.CV

DextER: Language-driven Dexterous Grasp Generation with Embodied Reasoning

Junha Lee , Eunha Park , Minsu Cho This is my paper

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keywords dexterous grasp generationlanguage-driven manipulationembodied reasoningcontact tokensmulti-finger graspingrobotic manipulationintention alignment
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The pith

By first predicting which fingers touch where on an object, language instructions can guide more accurate dexterous grasps.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents DextER, which adds an intermediate step of embodied reasoning to language-driven grasp generation. Instead of mapping task descriptions straight to hand poses, the model first outputs contact tokens that specify which hand links touch specific points on the object surface. These contacts then condition the generation of the full grasp configuration. This approach improves success rates on the DexGYS benchmark to 67.14 percent while raising intention alignment by 96.4 percent over prior methods. The same contact tokens also support steerable control when users specify partial contacts in advance.

Core claim

DextER autoregressively generates embodied contact tokens specifying which finger links contact where on the object surface, followed by grasp tokens encoding the hand configuration. This contact-based reasoning bridges task semantics with physical constraints, achieving 67.14% success rate on DexGYS with 3.83 p.p. improvement over state-of-the-art and 96.4% better intention alignment. Partial contact specification enables steerable generation.

What carries the argument

Autoregressive sequence of embodied contact tokens (specifying hand-link to object-surface contacts) followed by grasp tokens.

If this is right

  • Grasp success rises because contact prediction enforces physical feasibility before pose selection.
  • Intention alignment improves markedly since contacts encode task-specific interaction points.
  • Users gain fine-grained control by supplying partial contact specifications at inference time.
  • The two-stage token sequence separates semantic understanding from kinematic solving.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The contact-token layer could transfer to other language-guided manipulation skills such as tool use or assembly.
  • Real-world deployment would require pairing the method with online object-surface sensing to generate the contact targets.
  • Training data efficiency might increase if contact annotations prove cheaper to collect than full grasp demonstrations.
  • Different hand morphologies could reuse the same contact reasoning stage with only the final grasp-token decoder retrained.

Load-bearing premise

Predicting contacts between specific hand links and object surface points reliably connects language task meaning to workable physical grasps.

What would settle it

On the DexGYS benchmark, a direct-mapping baseline without contact tokens matches or exceeds DextER's success rate and intention-alignment scores.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.16046 by Eunha Park, Junha Lee, Minsu Cho.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: DextER introduces contact-based embodied reasoning for language-driven dexterous grasp generation. Given a 3D object and instruction, DextER autoregressively predicts which finger links contact where on the object surface before generating the final grasp. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance with significant improvement in intention alignment and enables steerable generation where users can gu… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: DextER model architecture. Our model processes 3D point clouds and language instructions to predict dexterous grasping actions for the multi-fingered robotic hand. (Left) The input point clouds and textual grasp descriptions are encoded into tokens using a pretrained point cloud encoder [22] and a text tokenizer [30, 42]. (Middle) The LLM backbone [30, 42] fuses point cloud embeddings with text prompts and… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative results on language-conditioned dexterous grasp generation. Given object point clouds and natural language instructions, DextER generates embodied contact predictions (shown as colored spheres on object surfaces) followed by grasp configurations. The model successfully captures task-specific contact patterns and produces physically plausible grasps that align with language instructions across d… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Prefix-LM attention mask for DextER. Point cloud (PC) tokens use bidirectional attention (full blue blocks in PC rows/columns), whereas the other tokens use causal attention (lower triangular patterns), attending to all preceding point cloud tokens. 6.2. Training We initialize the model from pretrained point cloud encoder and LLM backbone checkpoints, then finetune all compo￾nents end-to-end. The training … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Contact annotation example. 6.3. Dataset Curation Contact annotation. For each grasp in the DexGYS and Dexonomy datasets, we automatically extract contact an￾notations using MuJoCo physics simulation. We load the Shadow Hand and object models into MuJoCo, execute for￾ward kinematics for each grasp pose, and extract the 3D surface positions where each hand link makes contact with the object from the physics… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Prompt template for grasp instruction generation in Dexonomy dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Grasp instruction annotation for the Dexonomy dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative results on DexGYS dataset. 6 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Qualitative results on Dexonomy dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Steerable grasp generation example. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_10.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Language-driven dexterous grasp generation requires the models to understand task semantics, 3D geometry, and complex hand-object interactions. While vision-language models have been applied to this problem, existing approaches directly map observations to grasp parameters without intermediate reasoning about physical interactions. We present DextER, Dexterous Grasp Generation with Embodied Reasoning, which introduces contact-based embodied reasoning for multi-finger manipulation. Our key insight is that predicting which hand links contact where on the object surface provides an embodiment-aware intermediate representation, bridging task semantics with physical constraints. DextER autoregressively generates embodied contact tokens specifying which finger links contact where on the object surface, followed by grasp tokens encoding the hand configuration. On DexGYS, DextER achieves 67.14% success rate, outperforming state-of-the-art by 3.83 p.p. with 96.4% improvement in intention alignment. We also demonstrate steerable generation through partial contact specification, providing fine-grained control over grasp synthesis.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces DextER, a language-driven model for dexterous grasp generation that performs embodied reasoning by autoregressively predicting contact tokens (specifying which hand links contact where on the object surface) before generating grasp tokens for the final hand configuration. On the DexGYS benchmark, DextER reports a 67.14% success rate (3.83 p.p. above prior SOTA) and a 96.4% improvement in intention alignment, while also supporting steerable generation via partial contact specifications.

Significance. If the central claim holds under rigorous validation, the work offers a concrete intermediate representation that could bridge high-level task semantics with low-level physical constraints in dexterous manipulation, potentially improving controllability and alignment over direct mapping approaches.

major comments (2)
  1. [Results] Results section: no ablation is reported that removes the embodied contact token prediction stage (or replaces it with direct grasp-token prediction) while holding all other components fixed, leaving the load-bearing contribution of the contact tokens to the 3.83 p.p. success-rate gain untested.
  2. [Methods] Methods: the manuscript provides no quantitative check (e.g., penetration metrics or force-closure scores) that the autoregressively predicted contact tokens satisfy non-penetration or stability constraints before grasp decoding, which is required to confirm the claimed bridge from semantics to feasible configurations.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and results: dataset statistics, error bars, and training details are not reported, making it difficult to assess the reliability of the 67.14% success rate and 96.4% alignment figures.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will revise the paper to incorporate the suggested analyses.

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  1. Referee: [Results] Results section: no ablation is reported that removes the embodied contact token prediction stage (or replaces it with direct grasp-token prediction) while holding all other components fixed, leaving the load-bearing contribution of the contact tokens to the 3.83 p.p. success-rate gain untested.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit ablation isolating the contribution of the autoregressive contact token stage is necessary to substantiate its role in the reported gains. In the revised manuscript we will add this ablation: a controlled variant that bypasses contact token prediction and directly decodes grasp tokens from the same language and visual inputs, with all other architectural and training elements held fixed. We will report the resulting success rate, intention alignment, and any degradation relative to the full DextER model. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methods] Methods: the manuscript provides no quantitative check (e.g., penetration metrics or force-closure scores) that the autoregressively predicted contact tokens satisfy non-penetration or stability constraints before grasp decoding, which is required to confirm the claimed bridge from semantics to feasible configurations.

    Authors: We acknowledge that direct quantitative validation of the intermediate contact tokens was omitted. In the revised Methods and Results sections we will include penetration-depth statistics (maximum signed distance of hand-link vertices into the object mesh) and, where computable, force-closure quality scores evaluated on the predicted contact configurations prior to grasp decoding. These metrics will be reported both in aggregate and conditioned on language intent to demonstrate that the contact tokens already respect physical feasibility. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; derivation is a standard autoregressive model evaluated on external benchmark data.

full rationale

The paper presents DextER as an autoregressive sequence model that generates contact tokens followed by grasp tokens. The 67.14% success rate and 96.4% intention-alignment improvement are reported as empirical outcomes on the DexGYS dataset, not as quantities derived from or equivalent to fitted parameters or self-referential definitions. No equations appear that would make the output reduce to the input by construction, and the intermediate contact representation is motivated as a design choice rather than proven via a uniqueness theorem or self-citation chain. The central performance claims rest on held-out evaluation rather than internal redefinition, making the derivation self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that contact prediction is an effective bridge; no free parameters or invented physical entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Predicting hand-link contacts on the object surface provides an embodiment-aware intermediate representation that improves grasp synthesis
    This is stated as the key insight in the abstract.
invented entities (1)
  • Embodied contact tokens no independent evidence
    purpose: Autoregressive tokens specifying which finger links contact where on the object surface
    Introduced as the first stage of generation; no independent evidence outside the model is provided.

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