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Sensing Which Modality Matters: Evidence-Gated Regularization for Robust VLA Policies

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 2, 2026 · UTC

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies fuse multimodal sensory inputs, but training on limited and homogeneous robot demonstrations encourages spurious inter-sensor correlations rather than task-relevant signal, a failure we term modality entanglement. Under real-world occlusions and distractors, this manifests as nuisance sensitivity to corruption of uninformative sensors and single-modality insufficiency when only one informative sensor remains intact. We propose Evidence-Gated Regularization (EGR), a modality-agnostic training objective that introduces zero inference-time overhead. EGR deriv

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