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arxiv: 2604.07993 · v2 · pith:L3RKWYWFnew · submitted 2026-04-09 · 💻 cs.RO

HEX: Humanoid-Aligned Experts for Cross-Embodiment Whole-Body Manipulation

Shuanghao Bai , Meng Li , Xinyuan Lv , Jiawei Wang , Xinhua Wang , Fei Liao , Chengkai Hou , Langzhe Gu
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Wanqi Zhou Kun Wu Ziluo Ding Zhiyuan Xu Lei Sun Shanghang Zhang Zhengping Che Jian Tang Badong Chen
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keywords humanoid robotswhole-body manipulationcross-embodiment learningvision-language-action modelsmixture of expertsproprioceptive prediction
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HEX uses a humanoid-aligned state representation and mixture-of-experts predictor to achieve coordinated whole-body control on full-sized bipedal robots from multi-embodiment data.

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Most vision-language-action models handle robot body parts independently, which creates instability when controlling high-degree-of-freedom humanoid robots that must coordinate arms, legs, and torso together. HEX introduces a universal state representation matched to humanoid kinematics and trains a Mixture-of-Experts Unified Proprioceptive Predictor on large-scale trajectory data collected across different robot bodies. The system adds lightweight history tokens to track visual context without re-encoding past images and uses a residual-gated fusion step with a flow-matching action head to blend visual-language instructions with predicted proprioceptive dynamics. Real-robot experiments show higher success rates and better generalization than prior methods, especially on tasks that demand quick reactions or many sequential steps.

Core claim

HEX is a state-centric framework that defines a humanoid-aligned universal state representation to support scalable cross-embodiment learning, employs a Mixture-of-Experts Unified Proprioceptive Predictor to capture whole-body coordination and temporal motion dynamics, summarizes past visual observations with lightweight history tokens, and integrates cues via residual-gated fusion with a flow-matching action head, resulting in state-of-the-art success rates on real-world humanoid manipulation tasks.

What carries the argument

Humanoid-aligned universal state representation paired with the Mixture-of-Experts Unified Proprioceptive Predictor that models whole-body coordination and temporal dynamics from multi-embodiment trajectories.

If this is right

  • Whole-body humanoid tasks become more reliable without separate policies for each limb.
  • Training data collected from multiple robot platforms can be reused for new humanoids.
  • Long-horizon and fast-reaction tasks improve because temporal proprioceptive dynamics are explicitly modeled.
  • Inference cost stays low because history tokens replace repeated image encoding.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same state representation might transfer to non-humanoid high-DoF platforms if the kinematic alignment step is generalized.
  • Reducing embodiment-specific retraining could lower the data and compute cost of deploying new robots.
  • Extending the flow-matching head to include force or contact predictions could further stabilize contact-rich manipulation.

Load-bearing premise

A single humanoid-aligned universal state representation combined with large-scale multi-embodiment trajectory data is sufficient to produce stable whole-body coordination across heterogeneous robot embodiments.

What would settle it

An experiment in which HEX is trained on the given multi-embodiment dataset and then tested on a new humanoid embodiment or a long-horizon task where its success rate falls below that of a baseline that treats body parts independently.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.07993 by Badong Chen, Chengkai Hou, Fei Liao, Jian Tang, Jiawei Wang, Kun Wu, Langzhe Gu, Lei Sun, Meng Li, Shanghang Zhang, Shuanghao Bai, Wanqi Zhou, Xinhua Wang, Xinyuan Lv, Zhengping Che, Zhiyuan Xu, Ziluo Ding.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of HEX. (a) HEX is, to the best of our knowledge, the first whole-body VLA framework for full-sized bipedal humanoid robots, pretrained on diverse cross-embodiment humanoid trajectory data. (b) HEX combines a high-level VLA module with a low-level whole-body controller for coordinated action generation and balance-preserving execution. (c) We evaluate HEX on Tienkung 2.0 and Tienkung 3.0 across wh… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed high-level VLA policy in HEX. Given a language instruction L, the current visual observation Vt, and a history query token Qt, the VLM encodes visual-language context together with lightweight temporal review cues summarized in a history cache. In parallel, humanoid-aligned proprioceptive states are organized into structured part-aware tokens and processed by a MoE-based Unified Pr… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Left and middle: Unified Proprioceptive Predictor (UPP). Morphology-based proprioceptive states are first mapped into canonical body-part tokens and augmented with learnable future query tokens. These spatio-temporal tokens are processed by a shared transformer backbone sandwiched by morphology-aware MoE adaptation modules, yielding future proprioceptive latents Hp . The middle panel details the morphology… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Real-Robot teleoperation data collection Setup. Baselines. To ensure a fair comparison of high-level VLA policies, we use the same RL-based low-level controller for balance control across all methods, thereby isolating the contribution of the high-level policy. All models are provided with the same input information, while the use of state inputs follows each model’s original setting. We compare HEX with t… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Generalization tasks. Two distribution-shift variants for each of four seen tasks: Pose Mimic, Pouring, Box Carry, and Kneel Pick. task, outperforming the baselines by a clear margin. Notably, on the final Place Box stage, HEX surpasses the strongest baseline by around 15%, indicating its superior ability to sustain stable execution and reduce cascading errors over long-horizon whole-body manipulation. 4.3… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Generalization results across unseen task variants. For Pose Mimic, we consider Pose Mimic Fast, which increases the speed of human pose switching, and Pose Mimic Intervention, where an additional person in the background continuously performs distracting poses. A total of 18 trials are conducted, including 5 trials each for the V-, L-, and A-shaped poses, and 3 trials for the return-hand pose. For Pouring… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Ablation study. (a) Effect of pretraining. Left: state loss. Right: action loss together with success-rate comparisons at different training stages. Pretraining improves optimization. (b) Effect of key model components. Performance improves consistently as the history cache, UPP, and MoE design are progressively introduced, and the full HEX achieves the best success rates on both Pouring and Box Conveying.… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Failure analysis across different methods and tasks. Each Sankey diagram shows how failed trials are distributed across task stages and fine-grained error types, with flow width proportional to the number of failures. MoE Routing Pattern [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of MoE routing patterns before and after the transformer blocks during a long-horizon box conveyance task. Left: routing before the transformer blocks. Right: routing after the transformer blocks. The heatmaps show the selected expert ID for each body part over time, together with representative frames and subtask boundaries. Compared with the largely static routing before the transformer blocks… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Latency–accuracy comparison on a single NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU, where bubble size indicates the number of model parameters. 5 Conclusion We presented HEX, a framework for humanoid whole-body manipulation that addresses a key limitation of existing VLA-style approaches: they often do not explicitly model how different body parts interact under shared balance and posture. HEX tackles this problem through a hum… view at source ↗
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Humans achieve complex manipulation through coordinated whole-body control, whereas most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models treat robot body parts largely independently, making high-DoF humanoid control challenging and often unstable. We present HEX, a state-centric framework for coordinated manipulation on full-sized bipedal humanoid robots. HEX introduces a humanoid-aligned universal state representation for scalable learning across heterogeneous embodiments, and incorporates a Mixture-of-Experts Unified Proprioceptive Predictor to model whole-body coordination and temporal motion dynamics from large-scale multi-embodiment trajectory data. To efficiently capture temporal visual context, HEX uses lightweight history tokens to summarize past observations, avoiding repeated encoding of historical images during inference. It further employs a residual-gated fusion mechanism with a flow-matching action head to adaptively integrate visual-language cues with proprioceptive dynamics for action generation. Experiments on real-world humanoid manipulation tasks show that HEX achieves state-of-the-art performance in task success rate and generalization, particularly in fast-reaction and long-horizon scenarios.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces HEX, a state-centric framework for whole-body manipulation on full-sized bipedal humanoid robots. It proposes a humanoid-aligned universal state representation to enable scalable cross-embodiment learning, a Mixture-of-Experts Unified Proprioceptive Predictor trained on large-scale multi-embodiment trajectories to capture coordination and temporal dynamics, lightweight history tokens to summarize visual context without repeated encoding, and a residual-gated fusion mechanism paired with a flow-matching action head. The central claim is that these components yield state-of-the-art task success rates and generalization on real-world humanoid tasks, with particular gains in fast-reaction and long-horizon scenarios.

Significance. If the empirical results hold, the work would address a genuine limitation in current VLA models by moving beyond independent body-part control toward coordinated high-DoF humanoid behavior. The combination of a universal state representation with MoE proprioceptive modeling could offer a practical route to cross-embodiment transfer, which remains an open challenge in robotics. The absence of any quantitative metrics, baselines, or ablations in the manuscript, however, prevents assessment of whether these architectural choices deliver the claimed coordination and generalization benefits.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The assertion of state-of-the-art performance in task success rate and generalization is presented without any numerical results, baseline comparisons, error bars, dataset sizes, or ablation studies. This omission is load-bearing because the paper's primary contribution is framed as an empirical advance over independent-part VLA baselines; without verifiable evidence, the effectiveness of the humanoid-aligned state representation and MoE predictor cannot be evaluated.
  2. [Method] Method (universal state representation and MoE predictor): The manuscript describes the humanoid-aligned universal state representation and Mixture-of-Experts Unified Proprioceptive Predictor as enabling stable whole-body coordination across heterogeneous embodiments, yet provides no explicit alignment mechanism, invariance argument, or analysis of how differing kinematics, joint limits, and sensor frames are reconciled without embodiment-specific adapters. This is central to the cross-embodiment claim; if the representation does not implicitly achieve the required alignment, the reported gains in fast-reaction and long-horizon tasks would not follow.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would be clearer if it briefly indicated the number of real-world tasks, robot platforms, and trajectory hours used in training and evaluation.
  2. [Method] Notation for the residual-gated fusion and flow-matching action head could be introduced with a short equation or diagram to improve readability for readers unfamiliar with the specific implementation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive review. We appreciate the recognition of the potential impact of our state-centric approach for coordinated humanoid manipulation and the identification of areas where the presentation can be strengthened. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that directly respond to the concerns.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The assertion of state-of-the-art performance in task success rate and generalization is presented without any numerical results, baseline comparisons, error bars, dataset sizes, or ablation studies. This omission is load-bearing because the paper's primary contribution is framed as an empirical advance over independent-part VLA baselines; without verifiable evidence, the effectiveness of the humanoid-aligned state representation and MoE predictor cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including concrete quantitative results. The manuscript body reports extensive real-world experiments with baselines, ablations, success rates, and generalization metrics; however, we will revise the abstract to explicitly state key numerical outcomes (including task success rates, improvements over baselines, dataset sizes, and evaluation details) so that the empirical claims are immediately verifiable. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method (universal state representation and MoE predictor): The manuscript describes the humanoid-aligned universal state representation and Mixture-of-Experts Unified Proprioceptive Predictor as enabling stable whole-body coordination across heterogeneous embodiments, yet provides no explicit alignment mechanism, invariance argument, or analysis of how differing kinematics, joint limits, and sensor frames are reconciled without embodiment-specific adapters. This is central to the cross-embodiment claim; if the representation does not implicitly achieve the required alignment, the reported gains in fast-reaction and long-horizon tasks would not follow.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this point. The alignment is realized by mapping embodiment-specific proprioception to a canonical humanoid kinematic model through forward kinematics, joint-angle normalization, and sensor-frame calibration, allowing the MoE predictor to operate on a shared representation trained across multi-embodiment trajectories. We acknowledge that the current text would benefit from greater explicitness. In the revision we will add a dedicated paragraph in the Method section that formalizes the state-mapping procedure, provides an invariance argument grounded in the training data distribution, and analyzes robustness to kinematic and sensor variations. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces HEX as a new state-centric framework featuring a humanoid-aligned universal state representation and a Mixture-of-Experts Unified Proprioceptive Predictor trained on multi-embodiment trajectory data. Performance claims are explicitly tied to real-world experiments demonstrating SOTA task success rates and generalization, rather than any derivation that reduces by construction to fitted parameters or self-referential definitions. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are presented in the abstract or method sketch that equate outputs to inputs via self-definition or self-citation chains. The central inductive bias (cross-embodiment coordination via the universal representation) is treated as a modeling choice whose effectiveness is tested externally through hardware trials, satisfying the criteria for a self-contained empirical contribution without load-bearing circular steps.

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