Chong-Hao Sima

PerturBot: Breaking Shortcut Priors in Vision-Language-Action Models with Perturbative Training

A vision--language--action (VLA) policy can complete complex tasks while ignoring the evidence that should determine its actions. An object held near the wrist camera can displace the instructed target. Language and action show the same pattern: a familiar noun can trigger the operation it was paired with in training e...