Learning from Hindsight for VLA Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2607.09042v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning is increasingly used to fine-tune vision-language-action (VLA) models, but robot interaction is expensive and learning becomes highly sample inefficient when successful rollouts are rare. When reward is assigned only for completing the commanded task, a failed rollout is treated as having no value even if it successfully executes behaviors relevant to that task. A robot that fails to place the correct object in a bowl may