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SkiP: When to Skip and When to Refine for Efficient Robot Manipulation

Chunjie Chen, Feng Yan, Guanqi Peng, Liang Lin, Lingbo Liu, Mingtong Dai, Xinyu Wu, Yongjie Bai

SkiP lets a single robot policy learn to skip low-information steps by relabeling actions to the next key segment.

arxiv:2605.15536 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.RO · cs.AI · cs.CV

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The resulting Skip Policy (SkiP) dynamically leaps over skip segments and intensively refines actions in key segments, within a single unified network requiring no learned skip planner or hierarchical structure.

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That replacing the behavior cloning target at each timestep in a skip segment with the action at the entrance of the next key segment still produces a policy that can be executed safely and successfully in closed-loop control without additional safety mechanisms or recovery behaviors.

C3one line summary

SkiP introduces action relabeling and Motion Spectrum Keying to skip redundant steps in robot trajectories, cutting executed steps by 15-40% while maintaining success rates across 72 simulated and 3 real tasks.

References

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[1] Sail: Faster-than-demonstration ex- ecution of imitation learning policies 2025

[2] Learning to see and act: Task-aware virtual view exploration for robotic manipulation, 2025 2025

[3] $\pi_0$: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control 2024 · arXiv:2410.24164

[4] RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale 2023 · doi:10.15607/rss.2023.xix.025

[5] Diffusion policy: Visuomotor policy learning via action diffusion,

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arxiv: 2605.15536 · arxiv_version: 2605.15536v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.15536 · pith_short_12: LW2MF4YFBQDL · pith_short_16: LW2MF4YFBQDLCPV3 · pith_short_8: LW2MF4YF

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