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GuidedVLA: Specifying Task-Relevant Factors via Plug-and-Play Action Attention Specialization

Bowen Yang, Chao Jing, Chao Wu, Chenhe Zhang, Cunxin Fan, Haidong Cao, Hongyang Li, Junchi Yan, Qifeng Li, Qingwen Bu, Xian Nie, Xiaosong Jia, Yilin Chai, Yuchen Zhou, Yufeng Li, Yu-Gang Jiang, Zhenjie Yang, Zijian Liang, Zuhao Ge, Zuxuan Wu

GuidedVLA improves robot task success by manually guiding individual attention heads in the action decoder to focus on specific task-relevant factors.

arxiv:2605.12369 v2 · 2026-05-12 · cs.RO

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Across simulation and real-robot experiments, GuidedVLA improves success rates in both in-domain and out-of-domain settings compared to strong VLA baselines.

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Manually defined auxiliary signals can be supplied to individual attention heads so that they capture distinct task-relevant factors without the heads interfering with one another or with the main action objective.

C3one line summary

GuidedVLA improves VLA success rates by manually supervising separate attention heads in the action decoder with auxiliary signals for task-relevant factors.

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arxiv: 2605.12369 · arxiv_version: 2605.12369v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.12369 · pith_short_12: VSKU2LRXA3B6 · pith_short_16: VSKU2LRXA3B6SNP6 · pith_short_8: VSKU2LRX

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