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arXiv Robotics — research abstracts· Zhihong Cui, Hengyu Liu, Michael Alexander Riegler, Guandong Xu, Amir Taherkordi, Tor Skeie·· 2 days agoSignalEditorial score75

Locating and Repairing Domain Shift in VLM Trajectory Planning

Locating and Repairing Domain Shift in VLM Trajectory Planning

Summary

This research introduces MoLaRx (Modality-Layer Repair), a framework designed to address domain shift in Vision-Language Model (VLM) trajectory planners.

Editorial context

The authors propose MoLaRx, a framework that localizes and repairs domain shift in Vision-Language Model trajectory planners by analyzing structured variations across modality and layer axes, demonstrating improved performance over uniform adaptation baselines on cross-city benchmarks.

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  • inference latency reduction

    8.4–10.9

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    mong adaptation methods in all six main-table settings, while using 50-60% fewer trainable parameters and 8.4-10.9 ms lower inference latency. In contrast, uniform MMD-only adaptation collapses in all six settings, highlighting the importance of structure-guided repair.
    Open source S6
  • cross-city benchmarks evaluated

    2

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    R) then applies a matched operator (Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) / low-rank adaptation (LoRA) / freezing) to repair each zone, with the composition adapting automatically to each architecture. We evaluate MoLaRx on three architecturally distinct VLMs (LFM2-VL-1.6B, Qwen2-VL-2B, and PaliGemma2-3B) across two cross-city benchmarks (nuScenes and Argoverse 2). MoLaRx attains the lowest cross-city trajectory-error gap a
    Open source S5
  • main-table settings

    6

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    mong adaptation methods in all six main-table settings, while using 50-60% fewer trainable parameters and 8.4-10.9 ms lower inference latency. In contrast, uniform MMD-only adaptation collapses in all six settings, highlighting the importance of structure-guided repair.
    Open source S6
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mong adaptation methods in all six main-table settings, while using 50-60% fewer trainable parameters and 8.4-10.9 ms lower inference latency. In contrast, uniform MMD-only adaptation collapses in all six settings, highlighting the importance of structure-guided repair.

Open source S6

R) then applies a matched operator (Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) / low-rank adaptation (LoRA) / freezing) to repair each zone, with the composition adapting automatically to each architecture. We evaluate MoLaRx on three architecturally distinct VLMs (LFM2-VL-1.6B, Qwen2-VL-2B, and PaliGemma2-3B) across two cross-city benchmarks (nuScenes and Argoverse 2). MoLaRx attains the lowest cross-city trajectory-error gap a

Open source S5

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