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Supervised Mixture-of-Experts for Surgical Grasping and Retraction

Lorenzo Mazza , Ariel Rodriguez , Rayan Younis , Martin Lelis , Ortrun Hellig , Chenpan Li , Sebastian Bodenstedt , Martin Wagner
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keywords mixture of expertssurgical roboticsimitation learninggrasping and retractionstereo endoscopic imagesaction chunking transformerrobotic surgeryzero-shot transfer
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The pith

Adding a supervised mixture-of-experts architecture to a base imitation policy enables reliable surgical grasping and retraction from under 150 stereo demonstrations.

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

This paper demonstrates that a supervised Mixture-of-Experts model layered onto an existing policy like the Action Chunking Transformer can solve phase-structured surgical tasks such as bowel grasping and retraction. Using only stereo endoscopic images and fewer than 150 demonstrations, the approach succeeds where general vision-language-action models fail completely and where standard ACT performs only moderately. The MoE version delivers higher success rates under normal conditions and greater robustness when conditions change, such as different grasp locations, lower light, or partial blockages, while also working from new camera angles and on real tissue samples without retraining.

Core claim

We present a supervised Mixture-of-Experts architecture for phase-structured surgical manipulation tasks that can be added on top of any autonomous policy. Equipped with this architecture, a lightweight action decoder policy like ACT learns complex, long-horizon manipulation from less than 150 demonstrations using solely stereo endoscopic images. Generalist Vision Language Action models fail to acquire the task, standard ACT achieves moderate success, but the supervised MoE significantly boosts performance with higher success rates and superior robustness in out-of-distribution scenarios including novel grasp locations, reduced illumination, and partial occlusions. It generalizes to unseen测试

What carries the argument

The supervised Mixture-of-Experts architecture that decomposes the phase-structured manipulation task based on visual cues from stereo images.

Load-bearing premise

That the natural phases in the grasping and retraction task provide enough structure for the supervised experts to learn distinct sub-behaviors from stereo images alone.

What would settle it

Running the same experiments with the MoE-augmented policy and finding no improvement in success rates or robustness over plain ACT on the bowel retraction task.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.21971 by Ariel Rodriguez, Chenpan Li, Lorenzo Mazza, Martin Lelis, Martin Wagner, Ortrun Hellig, Rayan Younis, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Stefanie Speidel.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Phantom, Ex Vivo and In Vivo Porcine Bowel Grasping and Retraction, policy roll-outs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Experimental setup using the OpenHELP open-body [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Policy architecture: ACT is extended with a MoE block. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Roll-outs of our policy trained on the random-viewpoint [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Ablation on the amount of training data demonstrations [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Confusion matrix of the MoE gating network on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Top: trajectories of ACT and our ACT + MoE decoder [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: AblationCAM heatmaps: the policy vision encoder focuses first on the robot instrument (top left), then on the surgeon [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative examples of two roll-outs of MoE-ACT [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
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Imitation learning has achieved remarkable success in robotic manipulation, yet its application to surgical robotics remains challenging due to data scarcity, constrained workspaces, and the need for an exceptional level of safety and predictability. We present a supervised Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture designed for phase-structured surgical manipulation tasks, which can be added on top of any autonomous policy. Unlike prior surgical robot learning approaches that rely on multi-camera setups or thousands of demonstrations, we show that a lightweight action decoder policy like Action Chunking Transformer (ACT) can learn complex, long-horizon manipulation from less than 150 demonstrations using solely stereo endoscopic images, when equipped with our architecture. We evaluate our approach on the collaborative surgical task of bowel grasping and retraction, where a robot assistant interprets visual cues from a human surgeon, executes targeted grasping on deformable tissue, and performs sustained retraction. Our results show that generalist Vision Language Action models fail to acquire the task entirely, even under standard in-distribution conditions. Furthermore, while standard ACT achieves moderate success in-distribution, adopting a supervised MoE architecture significantly boosts its performance, yielding higher success rates in-distribution and demonstrating superior robustness in out-of-distribution scenarios, including novel grasp locations, reduced illumination, and partial occlusions. Notably, it generalizes to unseen testing viewpoints and also transfers zero-shot to ex vivo porcine tissue without additional training, offering a promising pathway toward in vivo deployment. To support this statement, we present qualitative preliminary results of policy roll-outs during in vivo porcine surgery.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes a supervised Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that augments base imitation-learning policies such as the Action Chunking Transformer (ACT) for phase-structured surgical tasks, specifically collaborative bowel grasping and retraction. It claims that the addition enables successful learning of complex, long-horizon manipulation from fewer than 150 stereo endoscopic demonstrations alone, without multi-camera setups or thousands of examples. Generalist vision-language-action models are reported to fail entirely, while standard ACT achieves only moderate in-distribution success; the MoE variant is stated to deliver higher success rates, superior robustness under out-of-distribution conditions (novel grasp locations, reduced illumination, partial occlusions), generalization to unseen viewpoints, and zero-shot transfer to ex-vivo porcine tissue. Support is provided via qualitative policy roll-outs during in-vivo porcine surgery.

Significance. If the empirical claims are substantiated with quantitative metrics, this work could be significant for data-efficient imitation learning in surgical robotics. It suggests that a lightweight, supervised MoE layer can exploit task phase structure and stereo visual cues to achieve strong in-distribution performance, OOD robustness, and zero-shot tissue transfer without the large datasets or hardware typically required, potentially lowering barriers to safe autonomous assistance in constrained clinical environments.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claims of 'significantly boosts its performance, yielding higher success rates in-distribution' and 'superior robustness in out-of-distribution scenarios' are presented without any numerical success rates, standard deviations, statistical tests, ablation results, or error analysis. This absence is load-bearing because the entire argument rests on comparative empirical performance that cannot be assessed from the given text.
  2. [Evaluation] Evaluation / Results: The manuscript relies on 'qualitative preliminary results of policy roll-outs' for the in-vivo porcine surgery claim and provides no quantitative metrics, trial counts, success criteria, or failure-mode analysis for either the in-distribution, OOD, or zero-shot ex-vivo transfer experiments. Without these, the generalization and transfer assertions cannot be verified.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The description of the supervised MoE gating and expert specialization would benefit from a short clarifying sentence on how supervision signals are generated and applied, even if full architectural details appear later.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We agree that quantitative metrics, trial counts, success criteria, and statistical analysis are necessary to substantiate the empirical claims and will incorporate them throughout the revised manuscript, including an updated abstract and expanded evaluation section. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claims of 'significantly boosts its performance, yielding higher success rates in-distribution' and 'superior robustness in out-of-distribution scenarios' are presented without any numerical success rates, standard deviations, statistical tests, ablation results, or error analysis. This absence is load-bearing because the entire argument rests on comparative empirical performance that cannot be assessed from the given text.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract must include concrete numerical values to allow assessment of the claims. In the revision we will report specific success rates (with standard deviations) for MoE-augmented ACT versus baseline ACT and generalist VLAs under in-distribution conditions, plus quantitative OOD robustness metrics across the tested perturbations. We will also reference the corresponding ablation studies and error analysis from the results section. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Evaluation] Evaluation / Results: The manuscript relies on 'qualitative preliminary results of policy roll-outs' for the in-vivo porcine surgery claim and provides no quantitative metrics, trial counts, success criteria, or failure-mode analysis for either the in-distribution, OOD, or zero-shot ex-vivo transfer experiments. Without these, the generalization and transfer assertions cannot be verified.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current version presents only qualitative roll-outs for the in-vivo porcine experiments and lacks explicit quantitative metrics for the other settings. We will revise the evaluation section to define success criteria (e.g., successful grasp followed by sustained retraction without tissue damage for a minimum duration), report trial counts and success rates for in-distribution, OOD (novel grasp locations, illumination, occlusions), unseen-viewpoint generalization, and zero-shot ex-vivo transfer, and include a failure-mode analysis. Where in-vivo data remain preliminary, we will clearly label them as such while adding all available quantitative summaries. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper reports empirical results from policy roll-outs comparing a supervised MoE-augmented ACT baseline against plain ACT and generalist VLAs on a bowel grasping/retraction task. Success rates, OOD robustness, viewpoint generalization, and zero-shot ex-vivo transfer are measured directly from experiments using <150 stereo demonstrations; no equations, derivations, fitted-parameter predictions, or self-referential definitions appear in the architecture description or evaluation. The central claim that the MoE improves decomposition via phase structure and stereo cues is presented as an observed outcome rather than a reduction to prior inputs by construction, rendering the derivation chain self-contained and non-circular.

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Abstract-only review yields no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the architecture is presented as an additive module without stated assumptions beyond standard imitation learning setup.

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