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Imperfection for Precision: Upcycling Imperfect Data for High-Precision Robotic Manipulation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 22, 2026 · UTC

Training vision-language-action (VLA) models for high-precision manipulation typically requires task-specific, high-quality data (e.g., teleoperation), which is slow and expensive to collect. To reduce this burden without compromising manipulation precision, we propose $\varepsilon$4P (Imperfection for Precision), a simple yet effective method that "upcycles" two otherwise discarded data sources: (1) low-precision data from the target task and (2) high-precision data from mismatched tasks. Rather than naively mixing these imperfect data sources throughout co-training, $\varepsilon$4P controls

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