ROApr 15

Goal2Skill: Long-Horizon Manipulation with Adaptive Planning and Reflection

arXiv:2604.1394236.61 citationsh-index: 5
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For embodied AI researchers, this work addresses the brittleness of existing VLA policies in long-horizon, memory-dependent tasks by introducing structured memory and closed-loop recovery, resulting in substantial performance gains.

The paper proposes a dual-system framework for long-horizon embodied manipulation that separates high-level semantic reasoning (VLM-based planner) from low-level motor execution (VLA-based controller), achieving a 32.4% average success rate on RMBench tasks compared to 9.8% for the strongest baseline.

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) systems have demonstrated strong capabilities in embodied manipulation. However, most existing VLA policies rely on limited observation windows and end-to-end action prediction, which makes them brittle in long-horizon, memory-dependent tasks with partial observability, occlusions, and multi-stage dependencies. Such tasks require not only precise visuomotor control, but also persistent memory, adaptive task decomposition, and explicit recovery from execution failures. To address these limitations, we propose a dual-system framework for long-horizon embodied manipulation. Our framework explicitly separates high-level semantic reasoning from low-level motor execution. A high-level planner, implemented as a VLM-based agentic module, maintains structured task memory and performs goal decomposition, outcome verification, and error-driven correction. A low-level executor, instantiated as a VLA-based visuomotor controller, carries out each sub-task through diffusion-based action generation conditioned on geometry-preserving filtered observations. Together, the two systems form a closed loop between planning and execution, enabling memory-aware reasoning, adaptive replanning, and robust online recovery. Experiments on representative RMBench tasks show that the proposed framework substantially outperforms representative baselines, achieving a 32.4% average success rate compared with 9.8% for the strongest baseline. Ablation studies further confirm the importance of structured memory and closed-loop recovery for long-horizon manipulation.

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