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GRASP: Global-Local Representation Alignment and Spatial-Physical Grounding for Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
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arXiv:2610.23123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that directly regress joint-space actions avoid the deployment-time cost of inverse kinematics. However, their training objectives remain misaligned with task success, as joint-space losses ignore the unequal physical consequences of joint errors and visual conditioning lacks explicit focus on hand-object interaction regions. To address these issues, we propose a training-phase prior injection framework for fine-grained bimanual manipulation. First, a physics-grounded flow-matching loss maps the implicit clean-action estimate at every noise level through differentiable forward kinematics (FK) and supervises the resulting Tool Center Point (TCP) pose and inter-arm relative pose, with a bounded noise-level weighting that compensates gradient decay. Second, we introduce a global prediction query group distilled from a frozen DINOv3 teacher through future-frame feature prediction, together with a local interaction query supervised by Grounding DINO at the attention level. Both teachers are removed at inference, and the deployment pipeline is that of a standard joint-space flow policy, adding only the learned query pathway. Simulation and real-robot experiments on long-horizon bimanual tasks show that the two priors are complementary across different deployment settings. The full model excels in in-distribution deployment, while the distilled query branch is preferable under strong visual randomization.
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