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arxiv: 2606.00083 · v1 · pith:SNIDUPRCnew · submitted 2026-05-22 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI· cs.RO

From Demonstrations to Rewards: Test-Time Prompt Optimization for VLM Reward Models

Christian Gumbsch , Leonardo Barcellona , Lennard Sch\"unemann , Platon Karageorgis , Andrii Zadaianchuk , Zehao Wang , Sergey Zakharov , Fabien Despinoy
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keywords Demo2RewardVLM reward modelstest-time prompt optimizationrobotic reinforcement learningdemonstration trajectoriesfalse positive reductionreward function learning
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The pith

Test-time optimization of VLM language instructions on a few demonstrations produces more accurate reward signals for robotic reinforcement learning.

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

Vision-language models can act as reward functions by evaluating whether visual observations match language goals, yet their zero-shot outputs frequently include false positives that derail policy learning. The paper introduces Demo2Reward, a procedure that refines the language prompt given to the VLM using three to ten expert demonstration trajectories before any policy training begins. The optimization step is performed once, requires no model parameter updates, and adds no extra compute during subsequent reinforcement learning. When the resulting reward model is used, policies achieve higher success rates across multiple simulated robotic environments and different policy architectures. The same approach also succeeds when transferred to a physical robot, allowing policy learning from demonstrations alone without any hand-designed reward function.

Core claim

Demo2Reward is a test-time adaptation technique to optimize the language instruction of a reward model based on a few demonstrations (3-10 trajectories) to reduce false positives while preserving true positives. Crucially, this requires no additional model training or computation resources during policy learning. We show that Demo2Reward consistently outperforms existing zero- and few-shot VLM reward models across a range of simulated robotic tasks and policy backbones. Finally, we demonstrate that Demo2Reward effectively transfers to a real-world robotic learning scenario, enabling policy learning without manually engineering a reward function.

What carries the argument

Demo2Reward, the test-time procedure that refines the language instruction supplied to the VLM reward model by using a small set of demonstration trajectories.

If this is right

  • Policies learned with Demo2Reward rewards reach higher task success rates than those using standard zero-shot or few-shot VLM rewards across simulated robotic environments.
  • The same optimized rewards support successful policy learning on a physical robot without any manually specified reward function.
  • The method applies to multiple policy architectures without requiring changes to the underlying reinforcement learning algorithm.
  • No additional model training or extra computation occurs during the policy optimization phase itself.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same demonstration-driven prompt refinement could be applied to other VLM-driven systems that produce sequential decisions, such as visual navigation or manipulation planners.
  • If the optimization step proves cheap enough, it could be repeated periodically as new trajectories are collected during training.
  • The approach raises the possibility that small demonstration sets can serve as a lightweight regularizer for any VLM used in decision-making loops.

Load-bearing premise

That refining the language instruction on three to ten demonstration trajectories will reduce false positives on new states and actions without the refined instruction becoming overly specific to the demonstrations themselves.

What would settle it

If policies trained with the optimized rewards achieve no higher success rates than policies trained with the original unoptimized VLM prompts on the same tasks and backbones, or if false-positive rates remain unchanged on held-out trajectories after optimization.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.00083 by Andrii Zadaianchuk, Christian Gumbsch, Efstratios Gavves, Fabien Despinoy, Lennard Sch\"unemann, Leonardo Barcellona, Platon Karageorgis, Rahaf Aljundi, Sergey Zakharov, Zehao Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Demo2Reward overview: (a) Before policy training, Demo2Reward optimizes a language instruction to improve success predictions of a VLM on a small set of demonstrations. During policy learning, the VLM generates rewards from video observations and the optimized instruction. (b) Ex￾emplary VLM-generated binary rewards with final frames of videos. Without Demo2Reward, VLMs often prematurely detect success, e.… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Reward Misalignment with VLMs: Without guidance, a VLM reward model can easily misjudge rewards. (a) In an example Assemble-Nut sequence the VLM-generated rewards out￾put false positives (rˆt before Demo2Reward, bottom row) before the the task is actually complete (ground-truth reward rt, top row). (b) Training an agent on these flawed rewards causes it to exploit such false positives. The agent collects h… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Instruction optimization: (a) Example reward prediction for PickPlace-Can before (red) and after (purple) Demo2Reward. (b) Objective Oˆ(p) over optimization steps (y-axis in log￾scale). Each gray line shows one of K = 10 independent optimization runs with purple marking the best. Oˆ(p) = 1.01 marks the perfect score with 100% TNR and 100% TPR (λ = 0.01 in Eq. 5). Real Robot We evaluate Demo2Reward on a Fra… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Downstream policy learning in RoboMimic when training with IBRL. Ground-truth rewards (blue) serve as an approximate upper bound. Demo2Reward (purple) clearly outperforms its counterpart without optimization (VLM-SD, red). Shaded areas show standard deviation (5 seeds) 4.2 Instruction Discovery with Demo2Reward We first evaluate language instruction optimization with Demo2Reward on MetaWorld and RoboMimic … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Downstream policy learning in MetaWorld by training an IBRL policy with different reward sources. Demo2Reward (purple) outperforms all VLM-based baselines (10 seeds). models and ground-truth rewards. The setup is challenging, as even with ground-truth rewards the policy peaks around 60-80%. After peak success, the performance slightly declines, likely due to instabilities in sparse reward off-policy learni… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Robustness in MetaWorld: We analyze the robustness of Demo2Reward by (a) applying it to a different RL backbone RLPD and (b) comparing different discovered instructions p with IBRL policy learning. Results are averaged (5 seeds) and smoothed with a sliding window (size = 3). 9 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Real-Robot Results Mean success rates (3 seeds) smoothed (window size 12). Finally, we evaluate real-world scalability by applying Demo2Reward to our Lid-On-Pot task on a physical robot. We train policies using RLPD (Ball et al., 2023), using the RLInf (Zang et al., 2025) implementation for real-world robotics, and compare ground-truth rewards from a manually defined task suc￾cess criterion to zero-shot VL… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Prompt optimization: Example reward prediction for Stick-Pull (a) and AssembleNut-Square (c) before (red) and after (purple) Demo2Reward. Objective Oˆ(p) (Eq. 5) for Stick-Pull (b) and AssembleNut-Square (d) over optimization steps. Each gray line shows one of K = 10 independent optimization runs with the dashed purple marking the best. The y-axis is displayed in log-scale. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/ful… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Ablations of VLM success detector when used for downstream policy learning with IBRL in MetaWorld. We compare full video inputs (Full Video), using only a single, final frame (Final Frame), reasoning descriptions (Descr.), In-Context Learning (ICL), a larger VLM backbone (Qwen32) to our base VLM-SD. Shaded area shows standard deviation (5 seeds). hypothesize that longer contexts increase task complexity fo… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: shows the resulting success rates when training IBRL policies on two representative Meta￾World tasks, Coffee-Push and Box-Close, using these reward variants. None of the ablations achieve consistent task success. We therefore conclude that reward normalization is unlikely to be the primary cause of the observed performance degradation. Instead, the issue may stem from deeper factors, such as limited trans… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Reinforcement learning relies on accurate reward functions, which are often hand-crafted or even unavailable in real-world applications, such as robotics. Recent work has explored the zero-shot reasoning capabilities of pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as reward models. However, without careful prompt engineering, these approaches tend to produce suboptimal rewards, where false positive predictions can severely degrade downstream policy learning. In robotics, limited datasets comprising expert demonstrations are often collected to bootstrap policy learning. This scenario provides an opportunity to optimize a reward model prior policy training. We propose Demo2Reward a test-time adaptation technique to optimize the language instruction of a reward model based on a few demonstrations (3-10 trajectories) to reduce false positives while preserving true positives. Crucially, this requires no additional model training or computation resources during policy learning. We show that Demo2Reward consistently outperforms existing zero- and few-shot VLM reward models across a range of simulated robotic tasks and policy backbones. Finally, we demonstrate that Demo2Reward effectively transfers to a real-world robotic learning scenario, enabling policy learning without manually engineering a reward function.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Demo2Reward, a test-time adaptation method that optimizes the language instruction prompt of a pre-trained VLM reward model using 3-10 expert demonstration trajectories. The goal is to reduce false-positive rewards while preserving true positives for downstream robotic RL, without any additional model training. The manuscript claims consistent outperformance versus existing zero-shot and few-shot VLM reward baselines across simulated robotic tasks and multiple policy backbones, plus successful transfer to a real-world robotic scenario that enables policy learning without hand-engineered rewards.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold with adequate controls, the work would be significant for robotic RL: it offers a practical, training-free way to adapt powerful VLMs into reward models using the small demonstration sets already collected for policy bootstrapping. This could lower the barrier to deploying VLM-based rewards in domains where manual reward design is difficult. The absence of extra compute during policy learning is a clear practical advantage.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the central claim of 'consistent outperformance' and 'effective transfer' to real-world robotics is stated without any quantitative metrics, tables, error bars, or baseline implementation details visible in the abstract; the load-bearing empirical result therefore cannot be assessed for magnitude or statistical reliability from the provided summary.
  2. [§3, §4.2] §3 (Method) and §4.2 (Generalization analysis): the core assumption that prompt optimization on 3-10 trajectories will reliably lower false-positive rate on unseen states/actions without overfitting to demo-specific visual or kinematic regularities is load-bearing for all downstream claims, yet the manuscript provides no explicit test (e.g., false-positive rates on held-out negative samples drawn from a broader state distribution or ablation on prompt-search procedure) that would falsify this risk.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for the optimized prompt and the exact objective used during test-time search should be formalized with an equation or pseudocode for reproducibility.
  2. [§4] Figure captions and axis labels in the experimental plots should explicitly state the number of random seeds and whether shaded regions represent standard error or standard deviation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to strengthen the presentation of empirical results and generalization analysis.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the central claim of 'consistent outperformance' and 'effective transfer' to real-world robotics is stated without any quantitative metrics, tables, error bars, or baseline implementation details visible in the abstract; the load-bearing empirical result therefore cannot be assessed for magnitude or statistical reliability from the provided summary.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from including key quantitative results. In the revision we will add specific metrics (e.g., mean success rates with standard deviations across tasks and baselines) and a brief reference to the tables in §4 so that the magnitude and reliability of the claimed improvements can be assessed directly from the abstract. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3, §4.2] §3 (Method) and §4.2 (Generalization analysis): the core assumption that prompt optimization on 3-10 trajectories will reliably lower false-positive rate on unseen states/actions without overfitting to demo-specific visual or kinematic regularities is load-bearing for all downstream claims, yet the manuscript provides no explicit test (e.g., false-positive rates on held-out negative samples drawn from a broader state distribution or ablation on prompt-search procedure) that would falsify this risk.

    Authors: Section 4.2 already evaluates policy learning on states and tasks outside the demonstration distribution and reports improved downstream performance, which provides indirect evidence against overfitting. Nevertheless, we acknowledge that an explicit false-positive-rate evaluation on held-out negatives and an ablation of the prompt-search procedure would make the claim more robust. We will add both analyses in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical test-time adaptation without derivations or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper describes an empirical technique (Demo2Reward) for optimizing VLM prompts on 3-10 demonstration trajectories to improve reward signals. No equations, parameter fits, uniqueness theorems, or derivation chains appear in the abstract or method outline. Claims rest on reported outperformance across simulated tasks, policy backbones, and real-robot transfer, which are external benchmarks rather than reductions to the method's own inputs by construction. This matches the default expectation of a non-circular empirical paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Only the abstract is available; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are described. The approach implicitly relies on the zero-shot reasoning capabilities of pre-trained VLMs as a domain assumption from prior literature.

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