Dwip Dalal

Generalizable VLA Finetuning via Representation Anchoring and Language-Action Alignment

Dwip Dalal, Shivansh Patel, Chahit Jain, Jeonghwan Kim, Utkarsh Mishra, Alex Baratian, et al.

Finetuning a pretrained vision-language model (VLM) on robot demonstrations via behavior cloning (BC) has become the standard recipe for vision-language-action (VLA) policies. However, BC finetuning progressively overwrites the pretrained representations that support visual and s…Read more