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New ARC method boosts robot foundation model performance without more data

Researchers have developed a new method called ARC, which enhances the zero-shot task performance of robot foundation models (RFMs) without requiring additional robot demonstrations or extensive training. ARC utilizes reasoning traces that explain the causal structure and rationale behind a robot's next action. These traces can be automatically generated from existing demonstrations, allowing for the creation of datasets like ARC-Trace-DROID from DROID. State-of-the-art vision-language agents (VLAs) and other models have been adapted to use these traces, leading to significant performance improvements on benchmarks such as RoboLab-120 and MolmoSpaces, and a notable increase in task success on real robots. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient development of robot foundation models, reducing the need for extensive data collection and computational resources.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Gokul Puthumanaillam, Tao Sun, Elie Aljalbout, Moritz Reuss, Zhaoshuo Li, Fabio Ramos, Ankit Goyal, Jenai Xuning Yang ·

    ARC: A Reasoning Recipe for Robot Foundation Models

    arXiv:2610.12386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The prevailing approach to improving robot foundation models (RFMs) relies on larger models, more robot demonstrations, and costly training at scale. We show that there exists an effective and efficient complementary approach: the…