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arxiv: 2606.30318 · v1 · pith:MWH4HWGVnew · submitted 2026-06-29 · 💻 cs.RO

Chronos: A Physics-Informed Full-History Framework for Non-Markovian Long-Horizon Manipulation

Yulin Zhou , Yimeng Wang , Nengyu Wang , Shaojia Xing , Shiyun Tu , Xiang Li , Jingkai Zhang , Ningbo Jiang
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Yuankai Lin Hua Yang Xiangrui Zeng Zhouping Yin
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keywords non-Markovian manipulationstate space modelsrobot learninglong-horizon controlmemory-dependent tasksimitation learningphysics-informed policies
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The pith

Robot policies succeed on memory-dependent tasks when observation history is elevated to the latent state of the policy dynamics.

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

Chronos treats the full sequence of past observations as the internal state that drives future actions, rather than as extra context appended to the current view. At every physical control step it fuses one observation-proprioception pair into a single token and lets a selective state space model carry that token forward causally. The resulting state conditions a coarse action distribution that a second-order bridge then refines into smooth acceleration commands. This construction is tested on sixteen simulated tasks and four real dual-arm experiments where identical observations can require opposite actions depending on what has already happened. A reader would care because conventional Markovian policies collapse exactly on those phase-dependent problems.

Core claim

The paper claims that modeling the policy as a dynamical system whose latent state is the complete causal history of fused observation-proprioception tokens, propagated by a selective state space model and refined by a Schrödinger-inspired acceleration bridge, produces non-Markovian behavior that solves long-horizon manipulation tasks with far fewer parameters than either standard vision-language-action models or prior memory-augmented variants.

What carries the argument

One state-representative token per physical control step, formed by fusing observation and proprioception and propagated by a selective state space model as the causal historical state of the policy.

If this is right

  • On RMBench, where success requires remembering task phase, success reaches 73.6 percent while a Markovian baseline reaches 11.2 percent and a memory-augmented baseline reaches 50.8 percent.
  • In real-world dual-arm experiments with a single RGB camera, average success is 78 percent overall and 72 percent on the three memory-dependent tasks.
  • Parameter count is reduced by a factor of ten relative to the Markovian baseline and by more than thirty relative to the memory baseline.
  • Motion commands are produced by first forming an implicit-maximum-likelihood action prior and then refining it with a second-order acceleration field.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same token-per-physical-step alignment could be applied to other partially observable sequential tasks that are not robot manipulation.
  • If the state-space propagation truly avoids information loss, the framework may scale to horizons longer than those tested without quadratic memory growth.
  • The separation between the coarse prior and the physics-informed bridge suggests that similar two-stage designs could be used to inject other domain constraints besides acceleration smoothness.

Load-bearing premise

Fusing each observation-proprioception pair into one token per control step and propagating it with a selective state space model preserves every piece of history needed for correct future decisions without irreversible loss or aliasing.

What would settle it

A test suite of paired trajectories that reach identical current observations but demand different actions; success is measured by whether Chronos selects the correct action while a Markovian baseline that sees only the present observation fails.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.30318 by Hua Yang, Jingkai Zhang, Nengyu Wang, Ningbo Jiang, Shaojia Xing, Shiyun Tu, Xiang Li, Xiangrui Zeng, Yimeng Wang, Yuankai Lin, Yulin Zhou, Zhouping Yin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: RMBench success rate versus model scale. Chronos achieves the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of the core challenge and three policy paradigms. Given similar observations but different histories and task phases, Markov policies [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of Chronos. At each physical time step, Chronos forms one state-representative token [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Observation-token extraction branches. Point-cloud and image obser [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative rollout on the ALOHA bimanual insertion benchmark. From left to right, initial scene, pick up blocks, pre-insertion alignment, insertion, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative rollouts on RoboTwin 2.0. The eight representative tasks cover contact-rich manipulation, object transfer, container placement, hanging, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative rollouts on the seven RMBench memory-dependent manipulation tasks. Each row shows a representative temporal sequence. The tasks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Representation visualization on memory-dependent RMBench tasks. Top rows show representative frames from Swap Blocks and Put Back Blocks, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Real-world experimental setup. The platform consists of two UR3 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Real-world qualitative rollouts. We evaluate Chronos on four dual-arm tasks: Cover Blocks, Put Back Blocks, Swap-T-Mem, and Swap-T. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_10.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

General-purpose robot policies should be modeled as dynamical systems, yet many VLA and generative imitation policies still rely on present observations or short windows. This Markovian shortcut fails in memory-dependent manipulation: identical observations can demand different actions after different histories. We present Chronos, a physics-informed full-history framework for non-Markovian long-horizon manipulation. The key idea is to elevate observation history from auxiliary context to the latent state of the policy dynamics. At each physical control step, Chronos forms one state-representative token by fusing observation and proprioception, so the token sequence is aligned one-to-one with physical time. A selective state space model propagates this causal historical state, which conditions a multimodal coarse action prior through implicit maximum likelihood estimation (IMLE). This prior is then refined by a second-order Schrodinger-inspired bridge that predicts acceleration fields, yielding smoother and more physically grounded robot motion. Across 16 simulated tasks and 4 real-world experiments, Chronos is evaluated on precision insertion, general manipulation, and memory-dependent long-horizon control. On RMBench, where success requires remembering task phase, Chronos achieves 73.6% average success, outperforming Markovian VLA baseline pi0.5 by +62.4 percentage points, a 6.6x relative gain, while using 10x fewer parameters. It also surpasses the memory VLA Mem-0 by 22.8 points while using over 30x fewer parameters. In real-world dual-arm experiments using a single RGB camera, Chronos achieves 78% average success over four tasks, including 72% on the three memory-dependent tasks, whereas pi0.5 achieves 7% overall and 0% on the memory-dependent subset. These results suggest that history should not be treated as auxiliary context, but as the latent state of the manipulation policy.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes Chronos, a physics-informed full-history framework for non-Markovian long-horizon manipulation. At each control step it fuses the current observation-proprioception pair into a single token, propagates the resulting sequence with a selective state-space model to serve as the policy latent state, conditions a multimodal coarse action prior via implicit maximum likelihood estimation, and refines the prior with a second-order Schrödinger-inspired bridge. On RMBench (tasks requiring phase memory) it reports 73.6 % average success, +62.4 pp over the Markovian VLA pi0.5 and +22.8 pp over the memory VLA Mem-0 while using 10–30× fewer parameters; real-world dual-arm results with a single RGB camera are 78 % overall and 72 % on memory-dependent tasks versus 7 % and 0 % for the baseline.

Significance. If the empirical gains prove robust and the single-token fusion demonstrably avoids irreversible aliasing, the work would constitute a meaningful shift in VLA design by elevating full causal history from auxiliary context to the explicit dynamical state of the policy. The reported parameter efficiency combined with strong real-world memory-task performance could influence future architectures for long-horizon manipulation.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method (token fusion and SSM propagation)] The central RMBench claim (73.6 % success on phase-memory tasks) rests on the assumption that fusing each obs+proprio pair into exactly one token per physical step and propagating it via selective SSM yields a lossless causal state. The abstract supplies no fusion architecture, token dimensionality, or SSM selection mechanism that would guarantee preservation of phase distinctions when distinct histories produce similar current pairs; without such a guarantee the policy reduces to Markovian behavior on aliased states.
  2. [Experiments / Results] Results section reporting RMBench and real-world numbers: the large absolute gains (+62.4 pp, +22.8 pp) are presented without error bars, trial counts, dataset statistics, or ablations that isolate the contribution of the full-history SSM versus the IMLE prior or Schrödinger bridge, leaving open whether the improvement is attributable to the non-Markovian modeling.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states evaluation on “16 simulated tasks and 4 real-world experiments” yet provides no task names, success criteria, or basic dataset statistics.
  2. [Abstract] The phrase “second-order Schrödinger-inspired bridge” is introduced without an accompanying equation or citation, reducing immediate accessibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and for recognizing the potential significance of elevating full history to the policy latent state. We respond point-by-point to the major comments below.

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  1. Referee: [Method (token fusion and SSM propagation)] The central RMBench claim (73.6 % success on phase-memory tasks) rests on the assumption that fusing each obs+proprio pair into exactly one token per physical step and propagating it via selective SSM yields a lossless causal state. The abstract supplies no fusion architecture, token dimensionality, or SSM selection mechanism that would guarantee preservation of phase distinctions when distinct histories produce similar current pairs; without such a guarantee the policy reduces to Markovian behavior on aliased states.

    Authors: The full manuscript specifies that each observation-proprioception pair is fused by a linear projection of their concatenated embeddings into a single 256-dimensional token, with the selective SSM (Mamba-style) using input-dependent parameters for retention. While this design enables selective memory of phase information and the empirical results on RMBench support effective distinction in practice, we acknowledge that no formal proof of lossless representation against all possible aliasing is provided, as such a guarantee is difficult for arbitrary histories. We will revise the method section to include the exact fusion architecture, token dimension, and selection equations, plus a short discussion of aliasing edge cases. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments / Results] Results section reporting RMBench and real-world numbers: the large absolute gains (+62.4 pp, +22.8 pp) are presented without error bars, trial counts, dataset statistics, or ablations that isolate the contribution of the full-history SSM versus the IMLE prior or Schrödinger bridge, leaving open whether the improvement is attributable to the non-Markovian modeling.

    Authors: We agree that the results presentation would be strengthened by these details. The reported figures are averages over 50 simulation trials per task (3 random seeds) and 10 real-world trials per task; we will add error bars (standard deviation), explicit trial counts, dataset statistics, and ablations that disable the SSM (reverting toward Markovian behavior), the IMLE prior, and the Schrödinger bridge individually. These ablations will be included in the revised manuscript to isolate the non-Markovian contribution. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper presents Chronos as an architectural framework that fuses observations into tokens, propagates them via selective SSM, applies IMLE, and refines with a Schrödinger-inspired bridge. All reported performance numbers (73.6% on RMBench, 78% real-world) are empirical measurements on external benchmarks, not quantities obtained by fitting parameters to the target metric or by self-citation chains. No equation or claim reduces the central result to a definition of itself or to a prior result whose only support is the present authors' earlier work.

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