VLA-Corrector: Lightweight Detect-and-Correct Inference for Adaptive Action Horizon

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VLA-Corrector introduces a lightweight detect-and-correct inference framework that adaptively adjusts action horizons in Vision-Language-Action policies without retraining, improving robustness and efficiency in robot manipulation tasks.

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models have recently achieved strong progress in embodied intelligence. To reduce policy-call frequency while preserving temporal coherence, most generative policies adopt an action chunk mechanism, executing multiple future actions in an open-loop manner under a fixed action horizon. However, this "predict-then-blindly-execute" paradigm sacrifices closed-loop reactivity: in contact-rich physical interactions, even small local perturbations can rapidly amplify within the open-loop blind spot, leading to compounding errors and ultimately task failure. To address this limitation, we propose VLA-Corrector, a lightweight corrective inference framework for action-chunked VLA policies. Without modifying the backbone policy weights, VLA-Corrector introduces a lightweight Latent-space Vision Monitor (LVM) that continuously compares predicted and actual visual feature evolution, enabling online detection of visual dynamics deviations. Once persistent deviation is detected, the system triggers a truncation event, discards the remaining stale actions, and invokes corrective replanning via Online Gradient Guidance (OGG). The detect-and-correct mechanism of VLA-Corrector naturally induces an event-triggered adaptive action horizon: it preserves long-horizon execution when the current chunk remains reliable, and invokes short-horizon corrective replanning when execution begins to drift. In doing so, VLA-Corrector mitigates the trade-off imposed by static horizons between execution robustness and policy-call frequency. It can be integrated into different VLA models without further retraining the VLA backbone, interrupting compounding errors while preserving much of the efficiency benefit of action chunking and substantially improving robustness in long-horizon, contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks.
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Source: https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.01804 We introduce VLA-Corrector, a lightweight detect-and-correct inference framework for action-chunked Vision-Language-Action policies.

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Modern VLA policies often predict and execute action chunks to reduce policy-call frequency and improve temporal smoothness. However, this fixed-horizon execution creates an open-loop blind spot: when an object slips, the robot pose drifts, or the scene changes during execution, the policy may continue executing stale actions before querying the model again.

VLA-Corrector addresses this issue without retraining or modifying the VLA backbone. It adds a lightweight external correction pathway that monitors latent visual dynamics during execution. When the observed visual evolution persistently deviates from the expected one, VLA-Corrector interrupts the current action chunk, discards stale actions, and triggers corrective replanning with Online Gradient Guidance.

This turns a fixed action horizon into an adaptive one: long-horizon execution is preserved when the chunk remains reliable, while short-horizon corrective behavior is activated when execution starts to drift.

Across MetaWorld, LIBERO, and real-world AgileX PiPER experiments, VLA-Corrector improves robustness and success-per-call efficiency across multiple VLA backbones, showing that small inference-time modules can provide meaningful gains for reliable robot manipulation.

Project Page:https://zju-omniai.github.io/vla-corrector/

GitHub:https://github.com/ZJU-OmniAI/vla-corrector

Paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01804

Contact: Yi Pan:[email protected] Wenqi Zhang:[email protected]

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