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X-Imitator: Spatial-Aware Imitation Learning via Bidirectional Action-Pose Interaction

Kai Xiong , Hongjie Fang , Lixin Yang , Cewu Lu
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A bidirectional loop between pose prediction and action generation improves robotic manipulation by enabling mutual refinement.

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The paper seeks to demonstrate that spatial perception and action generation in imitation learning must be handled as interdependent processes rather than decoupled or one-directional ones. Standard approaches limit robot performance on intricate tasks because they lack ongoing feedback between estimating object positions and generating movements. X-Imitator introduces a dual-path architecture where current pose estimates condition future actions and past actions refine pose estimates in a continuous cycle. This setup mirrors human internal forward models of movement planning. When incorporated into existing visuomotor policies, the approach yields higher success rates on complex manipulation benchmarks in both simulation and real settings.

Core claim

We propose X-Imitator, a modular dual-path framework that models spatial perception and action execution as a tightly coupled bidirectional loop. By reciprocally conditioning current pose predictions on past actions and vice versa, the system enables continuous mutual refinement between spatial reasoning and action generation, exactly mimicking human internal forward models. Designed for easy integration into various visuomotor policies, the framework significantly outperforms both vanilla policies and prior methods that use explicit pose guidance across 24 simulated tasks and 3 real-world tasks.

What carries the argument

The bidirectional action-pose interaction loop that allows pose predictions and action generations to condition each other reciprocally for ongoing mutual refinement.

Load-bearing premise

Treating spatial perception and action execution as a tightly coupled bidirectional loop will produce significant performance gains over decoupled or unidirectional baselines on complex manipulation tasks.

What would settle it

Disabling the bidirectional conditioning in the same 24 simulated and 3 real-world task setups and measuring whether success rates drop below the reported levels of the full framework.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of X-Imitator. The framework maintains two interactive branches: an action branch (the policy) and a pose branch with shared visual features. The key innovation is an across-step interaction mechanism: the output from one branch at timestep t serves as an additional conditional input for the other branch at timestep t + 1. framework, while the across-step bidirectional interaction enables coevolut… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Feature fusion in action branch. Left: Add fusion in X-DP3. Right: Concat fusion in X-ACT. The visual feature F vis t is extracted by the perception module of each base method. The pose trajectory feature F pose t is obtained by: MLP on flattened Pt−1 for X-DP3 and X-RISE; self-atten on Pt−1 + cross-atten with F vis t for X-ACT. Bidirectional Action-Pose Interaction. Instead of treating action and pose pre… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of simulated tasks. The first 3 and 4 tasks are from Adroit and Dexart, respectively. The middle 10 tasks with a red robot arm are from MetaWorld, and the last 7 tasks with dual arms are from RoboTwin 2.0. (RQ1) Can X-Imitator improve the performance of various visuomotor poli￾cies by leveraging bidirectional action-pose interaction? (RQ2) Does the bidirectional action-pose interaction mechanism l… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of our X-DP3 against DP3 and its MBA-enhanced version, over each of the 17 simulated tasks from Adroit, Dexart and MetaWorld. The average success rate of each simulated benchmark is reported in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of DP3 variants in the ablation studies. differences illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Ablation study of the conditional trajectory length N which defaults to 8 in all experiments. improvement (1.7%) over DP3, again showing the benefits of introducing bidi￾rectional pose-action interaction for better spatial perception. A longer conditional trajectory can better capture motion patterns and tends to yield better performance (RQ3). To study the effect of tra￾jectory length, we vary N for X-DP3… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Real-world task descriptions. The last column shows the evaluation setup. Toy Truck task, the wheels will roll if the gripper is not aligned properly with the truck body during grasping, and the truck will drop if it is not rotated to align with the narrow white stage. Implementations. After collecting expert demonstrations, FoundationPose [61] is used to estimate the object pose in the first episode frame… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Per-step error curves during inference for the Rotate QRcode task [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_8.png] view at source ↗
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Effectively handling the interplay between spatial perception and action generation remains a critical bottleneck in robotic manipulation. Existing methods typically treat spatial perception and action execution as decoupled or strictly unidirectional processes, fundamentally restricting a robot's ability to master complex manipulation tasks. To address this, we propose X-Imitator, a versatile dual-path framework that models spatial perception and action execution as a tightly coupled bidirectional loop. By reciprocally conditioning current pose predictions on past actions and vice versa, this framework enables continuous mutual refinement between spatial reasoning and action generation. This joint modeling exactly mimics human internal forward models. Designed as a modular architecture, the system can be seamlessly integrated into various visuomotor policies. Extensive experiments across 24 simulated and 3 real-world tasks demonstrate that our framework significantly outperforms both vanilla policies and prior methods utilizing explicit pose guidance. The code will be open sourced.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes X-Imitator, a modular dual-path framework for imitation learning in robotic manipulation. It models spatial perception and action execution as a tightly coupled bidirectional loop in which current pose predictions are reciprocally conditioned on past actions (and vice versa), enabling continuous mutual refinement. The architecture is designed to mimic human internal forward models and can be integrated into various visuomotor policies. Experiments are reported to show significant outperformance over vanilla policies and prior methods that use explicit pose guidance, across 24 simulated and 3 real-world tasks.

Significance. If the empirical claims are supported by detailed quantitative results, ablations, and statistical validation, the work could meaningfully advance visuomotor policy design by showing that bidirectional coupling between spatial reasoning and action generation yields measurable gains on complex manipulation tasks. The modular design and commitment to open-sourcing code are strengths that would support reproducibility and follow-on research.

major comments (2)
  1. [§5 (Experiments)] §5 (Experiments) and associated tables: the central claim of outperformance on 24 simulated and 3 real tasks is asserted without reported means, standard deviations, statistical significance tests, or ablation studies comparing the bidirectional loop against unidirectional or decoupled baselines. This absence prevents assessment of whether the performance gains are robust or attributable to the proposed interaction mechanism.
  2. [§3 (Method)] §3 (Method), bidirectional conditioning description: the reciprocal conditioning between pose prediction and action generation is presented qualitatively without explicit equations, network diagrams, or loss formulations defining how past actions are encoded to condition current pose estimates (and vice versa). This makes the claim that the loop 'exactly mimics human internal forward models' difficult to verify or reproduce.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that the framework 'significantly outperforms' prior methods would be strengthened by naming the specific metrics (e.g., success rate, trajectory error) and the most competitive baselines used.
  2. [§3 (Method)] Notation: ensure consistent use of symbols for pose and action variables across the method and experiment sections to avoid ambiguity when describing the bidirectional paths.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to strengthen the empirical reporting and methodological formalization.

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  1. Referee: [§5 (Experiments)] §5 (Experiments) and associated tables: the central claim of outperformance on 24 simulated and 3 real tasks is asserted without reported means, standard deviations, statistical significance tests, or ablation studies comparing the bidirectional loop against unidirectional or decoupled baselines. This absence prevents assessment of whether the performance gains are robust or attributable to the proposed interaction mechanism.

    Authors: We agree that more rigorous statistical reporting and targeted ablations are needed to substantiate the claims. In the revised manuscript, we will report means and standard deviations across multiple random seeds for all 24 simulated and 3 real-world tasks. We will add statistical significance tests (e.g., paired t-tests or Wilcoxon signed-rank tests with p-values) and include ablation studies that directly compare the full bidirectional loop against unidirectional conditioning and decoupled pose-action baselines. These changes will clarify the contribution of the interaction mechanism. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3 (Method)] §3 (Method), bidirectional conditioning description: the reciprocal conditioning between pose prediction and action generation is presented qualitatively without explicit equations, network diagrams, or loss formulations defining how past actions are encoded to condition current pose estimates (and vice versa). This makes the claim that the loop 'exactly mimics human internal forward models' difficult to verify or reproduce.

    Authors: We acknowledge that a more formal presentation would improve verifiability. We will update Section 3 with explicit equations describing the bidirectional conditioning (including action-to-pose and pose-to-action pathways), a detailed network diagram, and the joint loss formulation. We will also revise the phrasing from 'exactly mimics' to 'inspired by' human internal forward models and add relevant neuroscience citations to support the analogy without overstating equivalence. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper presents X-Imitator as a modular dual-path neural architecture for bidirectional conditioning between pose prediction and action generation in imitation learning. No equations, parameter fits, or first-principles derivations are described that could reduce to their own inputs by construction. The central contribution is an empirical claim of outperformance on 27 tasks, resting on architectural description and experimental results rather than any self-referential mathematical step. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for any derivation.

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