DREAM: Deployment-Time Demonstration Generation via Real-to-Sim for Scalable Policy Adaptation

📅 2026-08-29
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DREAM框架通过重建工作空间、自动翻译指令并生成机器人轨迹来为预训练的VLA模型提供微调数据,解决了在新环境中收集标注数据成本高的问题。
📝 Abstract
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made strong progress in language-conditioned robot manipulation, but improving their performance in a new workspace still often requires action-labeled data from that environment. Collecting such data by human teleoperation is costly, especially when each workspace, object arrangement, or task may require new demonstrations. We present DREAM, a framework that generates fine-tuning data for a pretrained VLA from a captured workspace and a language instruction, without requiring a task-specific human demonstration. DREAM reconstructs the workspace, automatically translates the instruction into symbolic task goals and success criteria using a large language model, and uses task-and-motion planning to generate feasible robot trajectories. The planned trajectories are augmented across randomized object configurations, verified by the generated success criteria, and rendered into image-action examples for VLA fine-tuning. Through real-robot experiments on language-conditioned manipulation tasks, we study whether DREAM can serve as a scalable data-collection system for the deployment workspace by examining whether fine-tuning on its automatically generated data improves success over direct deployment and how its data-collection cost compares with human teleoperation when adapting a VLA to a new workspace.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Vision-language-action models
language-conditioned robot manipulation
action-labeled data
human teleoperation
workspace adaptation
Innovation

Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.

Real-to-Sim
Scalable Policy Adaptation
Vision-Language-Action Models
Automatic Demonstration Generation
Task-and-Motion Planning
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