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RA-VLA: Retrieval-Augmented VLA for Test-Time Adaptation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a versatile foundation for general robotic manipulation, yet they exhibit significant brittleness when confronted with novel task distributions. While In-Context Imitation Learning (ICIL) offers a training-free alternative, existing frameworks suffer from an adaptation bottleneck that hinders the effective translation of expert context to executable actions. This failure originates from superficial retrieval mechanisms and an inherent behavioral inertia that anchors the policy to its pre-trained priors. To address these limitations, we present RA-VLA

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