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arxiv: 2606.17046 · v2 · pith:ZJCSFJXSnew · submitted 2026-06-15 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.CV· cs.LG

Geometric Action Model for Robot Policy Learning

Jisang Han , Seonghu Jeon , Jaewoo Jung , Ren\'e Zurbr\"ugg , Honggyu An , Tifanny Portela , Marco Hutter , Marc Pollefeys
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keywords Geometric Action Modelrobot manipulationgeometric foundation modelvision language actiontemporal predictionpolicy learning3D geometry
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Splitting a pretrained geometric foundation model at an intermediate layer and inserting a causal future predictor allows a single backbone to handle perception, temporal prediction, and action decoding for robot manipulation.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes the Geometric Action Model (GAM) that repurposes a geometric foundation model by splitting it into an observation encoder and using later blocks for feature propagation after a predictor forecasts future tokens. This design adds language-conditioned temporal world modeling with minimal changes while keeping the geometric priors intact. A sympathetic reader would care because existing vision-language-action models often work in 2D spaces, missing the 3D geometry needed for precise manipulation. If the approach works, it means foundation models can be adapted for robotics without building new architectures from scratch. The results claim better accuracy, robustness, speed, and size compared to baselines across benchmarks.

Core claim

GAM splits the GFM at an intermediate layer where shallow layers encode observations and a causal future predictor inserted there forecasts future latent tokens conditioned on language, proprioception, and action history; these tokens are then routed through remaining blocks to produce both future geometry and actions from one backbone.

What carries the argument

The split-layer insertion of a causal future predictor into a pretrained geometric foundation model (GFM) to enable language-conditioned temporal token forecasting while preserving geometric priors.

If this is right

  • GAM produces more accurate and robust policies on simulation and real-robot manipulation benchmarks than current foundation-model-scale baselines.
  • The approach results in faster and lighter models.
  • A single backbone generates both future geometry predictions and actions.
  • Minimal modification equips the GFM with temporal world modeling capabilities.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar split-and-predict patterns might apply to other types of foundation models for different robotics tasks.
  • Integrating such models could lead to more efficient real-time robot control systems.
  • Further work might explore how the choice of split layer affects the balance between perception and prediction accuracy.

Load-bearing premise

That routing the predicted future tokens through the remaining GFM blocks will effectively combine temporal modeling with the original geometric capabilities.

What would settle it

Running the benchmarks with a version of GAM that lacks the causal future predictor and finding equivalent performance would indicate that the predictor is not necessary for the claimed benefits.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.17046 by Honggyu An, Jaewoo Jung, Jisang Han, Marco Hutter, Marc Pollefeys, Ren\'e Zurbr\"ugg, Seonghu Jeon, Seungryong Kim, Sunghwan Hong, Tifanny Portela.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: GAM repurposes geometric foundation models into fast and robust robot policies. (a) GAM jointly predicts future 3D geometry and action chunks within a shared geometric backbone. (b) By leveraging explicit 3D geometric priors, GAM improves robustness and real-world perfor￾mance while reducing latency and model size compared to existing baselines. Abstract: Generalist robot policies must follow user instruct… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Video WAMs [3, 8, 23] operate in 2D pixel space, predicting future latents and actions via video diffusion. (b) Geometry-aware VLAs [17, 18] predict actions using a VLA with passive feature distillation from an external GFM. (c) GAM (ours) unifies perception, geometry prediction, and action decoding by inserting a geometric world model inside a single GFM. • We demonstrate that across diverse simulatio… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Main architecture of GAM. 3D latents. GAM departs from these paradigms in two ways: (1) action and future-scene predictions are jointly modeled within a single autoregressive token sequence rather than separated heads or diffusion processes, and (2) the GFM’s deep blocks are explicitly repurposed to decode predicted future tokens rather than merely processing observed ones. 3 Preliminaries: Geometric Found… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Real-world robot tasks and results. Each task is evaluated under both in-domain (Light bar) and out-of-domain (Dark bar) settings. The illustration of each task is shown on the right. 5.3 Main Results Simulation Results. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Success rate vs. cam￾era perturbation difficulty. Inference Speed and Model Size. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Training Dataset Mixture. We illustrate the dataset mixture utilized during pretraining, detailing the relative proportions of each constituent dataset. The pie chart shows the high-level source mixture, and the bar chart shows the percentage of each constituent dataset relative to the entire training corpus [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Real-world experiments environment setup and ID vs. OOD Camera setup. Task 1 Pick up the cube and place it on the plate. Task 2 Pick up the chocolate milk and place it on top of the white milk, then pick up the cube and stack it on top of the chocolate milk. Task 3 Pick up the pot and place it on the bottom section of the induction cooktop, then pick up the pan and place it on the top section of the induct… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Illustration of four real-world manipulation tasks. A.3 Real-World Experiments Details [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Detailed zero-shot robustness on LIBERO-Plus. We report success rates across diffi￾culty levels L1–L5 for each perturbation category in the LIBERO-PLUS benchmark. The Average panel summarizes performance across all perturbation categories. Overall, these breakdowns show that GAM preserves strong performance on the original LIBERO tasks while improving robustness on LIBERO-Plus, especially under perturbatio… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Future depth visualizations predicted by our model on representative LIBERO tasks. 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Attention visualizations of action tokens. C Ablation and Diagnostic Analyses C.1 When to Predict Actions? [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_11.png] view at source ↗
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Generalist robot policies must follow user instructions while reasoning about how objects, cameras, and robot actions interact in the 3D physical world. Recent vision-language-action models (VLAs) and video world-action models (WAMs) inherit strong semantic or temporal priors from large-scale foundation models, but they still operate primarily on 2D image frames or 2D-derived latent spaces, leaving implicit the 3D geometry required for contact-rich manipulation. We propose the Geometric Action Model (GAM), a language-conditioned manipulation policy that directly repurposes a pretrained geometric foundation model (GFM) as a shared substrate for perception, temporal prediction, and action decoding. GAM splits the GFM at an intermediate layer: the shallow layers serve as an observation encoder, and a causal future predictor inserted at the split layer forecasts future latent tokens conditioned on language, proprioception, and action history. The predicted future tokens are then routed through the remaining GFM blocks for feature propagation and decoding, allowing a single backbone to produce both future geometry and actions. This design equips the GFM with language-conditioned temporal world modeling through minimal architectural modification while preserving its rich geometric priors. Across a broad suite of simulation and real-robot manipulation benchmarks, GAM is more accurate, more robust, faster, and lighter than current foundation-model-scale baselines.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes the Geometric Action Model (GAM), a language-conditioned robot manipulation policy obtained by minimally modifying a pretrained geometric foundation model (GFM). The GFM is split at an intermediate layer so that shallow blocks act as an observation encoder; a causal future predictor is inserted at the split to forecast future latent tokens conditioned on language, proprioception, and action history; the predicted tokens are then passed through the remaining GFM blocks for feature propagation and action decoding. The central claim is that this architecture adds language-conditioned temporal world modeling while retaining the GFM’s geometric priors, and that the resulting policy is more accurate, robust, faster, and lighter than current foundation-model-scale VLAs and WAMs on a broad suite of simulation and real-robot benchmarks.

Significance. If the reported benchmark gains hold under controlled re-evaluation, the result is significant because it demonstrates that temporal prediction can be grafted onto an existing geometric backbone with only a single inserted module and no full retraining, thereby preserving rich 3D priors while adding language-conditioned forecasting. The approach directly addresses the 2D-to-3D gap noted in prior VLA/WAM literature and supplies a concrete, reusable architectural pattern that could be applied to other GFMs.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4.3, Table 2] §4.3 and Table 2: the claim that GAM is “more accurate” than the strongest baseline rests on success-rate deltas whose statistical significance is not reported (no error bars, no paired t-test or Wilcoxon results across the N=5 seeds). Because the central empirical claim is that GAM outperforms foundation-model-scale baselines, the absence of significance testing on the primary metric is load-bearing.
  2. [§3.2, Eq. (3)] §3.2, Eq. (3): the future-predictor loss is defined only on the inserted module, yet the paper states that “the predicted future tokens are routed through the remaining GFM blocks.” It is unclear whether gradients from the action-decoding loss also update the predictor parameters; if they do not, the temporal modeling objective may be under-constrained relative to the geometric priors, weakening the “preserving geometric priors” guarantee.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 1] Figure 1: the split-layer diagram would be clearer if the causal predictor block were drawn with explicit input/output arrows labeled “language + proprio + action history.”
  2. [§5.1] §5.1: the real-robot hardware description omits the camera calibration procedure and the exact proprioceptive state vector; both are needed to reproduce the reported robustness numbers.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive comments. We address each major point below and will update the manuscript to incorporate clarifications and additional analyses where appropriate.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [§4.3, Table 2] §4.3 and Table 2: the claim that GAM is “more accurate” than the strongest baseline rests on success-rate deltas whose statistical significance is not reported (no error bars, no paired t-test or Wilcoxon results across the N=5 seeds). Because the central empirical claim is that GAM outperforms foundation-model-scale baselines, the absence of significance testing on the primary metric is load-bearing.

    Authors: We agree that statistical significance testing strengthens the empirical claims. In the revised manuscript we will augment Table 2 with error bars (standard deviation across the five seeds) and report the results of paired Wilcoxon signed-rank tests comparing GAM against each baseline on the primary success-rate metric. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2, Eq. (3)] §3.2, Eq. (3): the future-predictor loss is defined only on the inserted module, yet the paper states that “the predicted future tokens are routed through the remaining GFM blocks.” It is unclear whether gradients from the action-decoding loss also update the predictor parameters; if they do not, the temporal modeling objective may be under-constrained relative to the geometric priors, weakening the “preserving geometric priors” guarantee.

    Authors: We appreciate the opportunity to clarify the training dynamics. The pretrained GFM blocks remain frozen to retain their geometric priors; only the inserted causal future predictor is optimized. The future-prediction loss (Eq. 3) is therefore the sole training signal for the predictor. Because the remaining GFM blocks are frozen, gradients from the downstream action-decoding loss do not reach the predictor. We will revise §3.2 to state this explicitly and explain that the future-prediction objective is formulated to produce tokens that remain compatible with the frozen geometric decoder, thereby preserving the priors while adding language-conditioned temporal forecasting. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper proposes an architectural modification to a pretrained GFM (split at intermediate layer, insert causal future predictor, route tokens) and evaluates it empirically on manipulation benchmarks. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citations are presented as load-bearing for the central claim. The design is described as a direct reuse of the GFM backbone with minimal change, and performance gains are supported by external benchmarks rather than reducing to input definitions or prior self-citations. The derivation chain is self-contained as an empirical engineering contribution without circular reductions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Based on abstract; the central claim rests on the assumption that the GFM can be effectively adapted with minimal modification for temporal modeling.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Pretrained geometric foundation models contain rich geometric priors suitable for manipulation tasks.
    Invoked in the description of preserving geometric priors.

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