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Embodied Interpretability: Linking Causal Understanding to Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models

Abdulqader Dhafer, Hanxin Zhang, Hongbiao Dong, Mingshuo Xu, Shigang Yue, Zhou Daniel Hao

Interventional attribution reveals when vision-language-action models depend on spurious features rather than true causes.

arxiv:2605.00321 v2 · 2026-05-01 · cs.RO

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Experiments across diverse manipulation tasks indicate that NMR predicts generalization behavior and that ISS yields more faithful explanations than existing interpretability methods.

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That the interventional masking procedure yields unbiased estimates of causal influence on actions and that action prediction error serves as a valid proxy for causal influence under the characterized conditions.

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Interventional attribution via ISS and NMR diagnoses causal misalignment in VLA policies and predicts their generalization performance across manipulation tasks.

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arxiv: 2605.00321 · arxiv_version: 2605.00321v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.00321 · pith_short_12: E6XBFBWFCQUW · pith_short_16: E6XBFBWFCQUWDNKR · pith_short_8: E6XBFBWF

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