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arxiv: 2412.15109 · v1 · pith:ORE7X65Unew · submitted 2024-12-19 · 💻 cs.RO

Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models are Scalable Learners for Robotic Manipulation

Yang Tian , Sizhe Yang , Jia Zeng , Ping Wang , Dahua Lin , Hao Dong , Jiangmiao Pang This is my paper

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keywords robotic manipulationinverse dynamicspredictive modelsvision-action loopend-to-end trainingtransformer policiespolicy learning
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Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models condition action prediction on forecasted visual states to create more scalable robotic manipulation learners.

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

The paper proposes Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models as an end-to-end method that predicts robot actions from the model's own forecasted future visual states instead of treating vision pre-training and action learning separately. This closes the loop between the two and allows pre-training on large robotic datasets such as DROID followed by adaptation with small amounts of real-world data. The resulting Transformer model named Seer is shown to outperform prior separate or non-predictive approaches on standard benchmarks and physical robot tasks. The authors argue the synergy between accurate visual forecasting and action prediction is what makes the learner more scalable.

Core claim

Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models use inverse dynamics to map forecasted visual states directly to actions and are trained end-to-end, so that large-scale pre-training on datasets like DROID produces visual forecasts accurate enough to support reliable action prediction after fine-tuning on limited real-world data.

What carries the argument

Predictive Inverse Dynamics Model (PIDM), an inverse-dynamics predictor whose inputs include the robot's own forecasted visual states rather than only current observations.

If this is right

  • The model reaches 13 percent higher success on the LIBERO-LONG benchmark than previous methods.
  • It reaches 21 percent higher success on the CALVIN ABC-D benchmark and sets a new state of the art with average episode length 4.28.
  • Real-world task success improves by 43 percent under high-intensity disturbances and novel conditions after minimal fine-tuning.
  • The same pre-train then fine-tune recipe yields superior generalization to new objects, lighting, and environments.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same conditioning of actions on self-generated visual forecasts could be tested in non-manipulation sequential tasks such as navigation or assembly planning.
  • Applying the pre-training recipe to additional robot embodiments would test how much of the reported generalization comes from the visual forecasting component.
  • Tighter integration of generative vision inside the control loop may reduce the need for separate world-model pre-training stages in other embodied domains.

Load-bearing premise

Pre-training on large robotic datasets produces visual forecasts that stay accurate enough for reliable action prediction when the model is later fine-tuned on small amounts of real-world data involving novel objects, lighting, and disturbances.

What would settle it

A controlled test in which visual forecast error is deliberately increased by changes in lighting or object appearance and action-prediction success is measured to check whether performance gains disappear.

read the original abstract

Current efforts to learn scalable policies in robotic manipulation primarily fall into two categories: one focuses on "action," which involves behavior cloning from extensive collections of robotic data, while the other emphasizes "vision," enhancing model generalization by pre-training representations or generative models, also referred to as world models, using large-scale visual datasets. This paper presents an end-to-end paradigm that predicts actions using inverse dynamics models conditioned on the robot's forecasted visual states, named Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models (PIDM). By closing the loop between vision and action, the end-to-end PIDM can be a better scalable action learner. In practice, we use Transformers to process both visual states and actions, naming the model Seer. It is initially pre-trained on large-scale robotic datasets, such as DROID, and can be adapted to realworld scenarios with a little fine-tuning data. Thanks to large-scale, end-to-end training and the synergy between vision and action, Seer significantly outperforms previous methods across both simulation and real-world experiments. It achieves improvements of 13% on the LIBERO-LONG benchmark, 21% on CALVIN ABC-D, and 43% in real-world tasks. Notably, Seer sets a new state-of-the-art on CALVIN ABC-D benchmark, achieving an average length of 4.28, and exhibits superior generalization for novel objects, lighting conditions, and environments under high-intensity disturbances on real-world scenarios. Code and models are publicly available at https://github.com/OpenRobotLab/Seer/.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models (PIDM), a framework in which a Transformer-based model (Seer) generates forecasted visual states and conditions an inverse-dynamics head on those forecasts to predict actions. The model is pre-trained end-to-end on large robotic datasets such as DROID and then fine-tuned with limited real-world data; the authors report gains of 13% on LIBERO-LONG, 21% on CALVIN ABC-D (new SOTA average length 4.28), and 43% in real-world tasks, attributing the improvements to the closed-loop synergy between vision forecasting and action prediction.

Significance. If the central claim holds, the work provides evidence that large-scale, end-to-end training of predictive vision models jointly with inverse dynamics can produce more scalable and generalizable manipulation policies than separate vision pre-training or pure behavior cloning. Public release of code and models is a clear strength that supports reproducibility.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4] §4 (Experiments) and associated tables: No quantitative metrics are reported for the accuracy of the visual forecasts (frame-wise MSE, optical-flow error, or feature-space distance) on the real-world test distributions that contain novel objects, lighting changes, and high-intensity disturbances. Without these numbers it is impossible to verify that the forecasted states are sufficiently accurate to support the claimed PIDM synergy rather than gains arising from model scale or standard imitation learning.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Model Architecture): The precise conditioning mechanism—how the forecasted visual tokens are injected into the inverse-dynamics Transformer layers, whether they are used at every timestep or only at the first step, and how gradients flow through the forecast head during fine-tuning—is described at a high level but lacks the concrete equations or pseudocode needed to reproduce the conditioning exactly.
  3. [§4.3] §4.3 (Ablations): The ablation study does not isolate the contribution of the predictive visual component from the effects of larger model capacity or longer pre-training; a controlled comparison that freezes the forecast head or replaces it with ground-truth images would directly test the load-bearing synergy hypothesis.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figures 3,4] Figure 3 and 4: Axis labels and legend text are too small for print; consider increasing font size and adding error bars or statistical significance markers to the bar plots.
  2. [§2] §2 (Related Work): The discussion of prior world-model approaches omits recent diffusion-based video prediction methods that also condition on actions; a brief comparison would strengthen the positioning.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and for acknowledging the significance of end-to-end PIDM training for scalable manipulation policies. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript accordingly to improve clarity and experimental rigor.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments) and associated tables: No quantitative metrics are reported for the accuracy of the visual forecasts (frame-wise MSE, optical-flow error, or feature-space distance) on the real-world test distributions that contain novel objects, lighting changes, and high-intensity disturbances. Without these numbers it is impossible to verify that the forecasted states are sufficiently accurate to support the claimed PIDM synergy rather than gains arising from model scale or standard imitation learning.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative forecast metrics on real-world distributions would better substantiate the PIDM synergy. In the revised manuscript we have added frame-wise MSE and feature-space distance evaluations on the real-world test sets that include novel objects, lighting changes, and disturbances. These results indicate that forecast accuracy remains adequate to support the reported action-prediction gains beyond scale or standard imitation learning effects. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Model Architecture): The precise conditioning mechanism—how the forecasted visual tokens are injected into the inverse-dynamics Transformer layers, whether they are used at every timestep or only at the first step, and how gradients flow through the forecast head during fine-tuning—is described at a high level but lacks the concrete equations or pseudocode needed to reproduce the conditioning exactly.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. Section 3.2 has been expanded in the revision to include explicit equations that describe token injection into the inverse-dynamics layers at every timestep, the conditioning formulation, and the gradient flow through the forecast head during fine-tuning. Pseudocode is now provided in the appendix to enable exact reproduction. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.3] §4.3 (Ablations): The ablation study does not isolate the contribution of the predictive visual component from the effects of larger model capacity or longer pre-training; a controlled comparison that freezes the forecast head or replaces it with ground-truth images would directly test the load-bearing synergy hypothesis.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the original ablations do not fully disentangle the predictive visual component from capacity or pre-training effects. The revised manuscript includes new controlled ablations that freeze the forecast head and compare against ground-truth image inputs. These experiments help isolate the contribution of predictive forecasting to the observed performance improvements. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical claims rest on held-out benchmarks

full rationale

The paper defines PIDM as an end-to-end model that conditions inverse-dynamics action prediction on forecasted visual states, pre-trains on DROID-scale data, and reports gains on LIBERO-LONG, CALVIN ABC-D, and real-world tasks. These performance numbers are obtained via standard held-out evaluation rather than by re-using fitted parameters or self-referential definitions inside the same equations. No self-definitional steps, fitted-input-as-prediction reductions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided description. The central synergy claim between vision and action therefore remains an independent empirical hypothesis rather than a tautology.

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