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DiVeR: Decision-Critical Verifier Learning for VLA Test-Time Scaling

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Briefings

DiVeR improves VLA test-time scaling by estimating decision criticality from action representation dispersion, allowing selective reweighting of verifier learning. This method reduces reliance on expensive robotic data collection and step-level annotations, achieving consistent task success improvements across LIBERO, RoboCasa, and real-world Franka Research 3 experiments while maintaining negligible inference overhead.

Key points

• DiVeR estimates decision criticality by analyzing the dispersion of sampled action representations rather than using classification-based verifiers.
• The method reweights verifier learning to focus on decision-critical states where action selection has substantial downstream impact.

Context

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies benefit from scaling robot data and model capacity, but progress is limited by high data costs. DiVeR offers an efficient alternative by sampling multiple action candidates and selecting the most promising one at inference time.

Limitations

DiVeR improves task success on LIBERO, RoboCasa, and real-world Franka Research 3 experiments using a Franka Research 3 robot. The study does not specify the exact task metrics used for success measurement, nor does it report the specific number of action candidates sampled or the exact reduction in data collection costs.

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