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Multi-View Latent Action Pretraining for Cross-Embodiment Robot Learning from Videos

2026-10-20 07:55:43
Oliver Hausd\"orfer, Felix Minzenmay, Mani Majd, Maximilian P. Christof, Shiyuan Zhang, Angela P. Schoellig

Abstract

Action-free videos are an appealing substitute for costly teleoperated data. Latent action models (LAMs) turn videos into a supervision signal by inferring abstract actions between frames. Existing LAMs observe a single camera view, which resolves 6D robot actions only ambiguously missing out-of-plane movements and potential occlusions. We propose a LAM that ingests synchronized multi-camera views using cross-attention to resolve depth and occlusions before compressing them into latent actions. The latent actions are fed into a policy in which a latent expert and an action expert are coupled by sequential flow matching around a frozen VLM backbone. We further evaluate in strict cross-embodiment settings where task-specific demonstrations come from other embodiments. We show that dual-view LAM pretraining improves the decodability of ground-truth 6D actions by 17% compared to single-view, while scaling single-view data by two orders of magnitude is not sufficient to fully recover out-of-plane motions. The downstream policy improves success rate by +13.5% compared to +6.2% for single-view LAM. A single cross-embodiment is sufficient for skill transfer, and adding a second viewpoint outperforms adding up to four further embodiments. The results transfer to hardware where demonstrations come from a human hand improving success rate by +20% over action-only policies in 850 rollouts. We show that video and robot data are complementary, and that benefits of learning from video are task-dependent. Website: this https URL

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27794

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.27794.pdf


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