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HiWE: Hierarchical World Knowledge Model with Visual Keypoint Enhancement for Zero-Shot 3D Path Planning

arXiv:2609.39323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot demonstration generation requires a system to identify where an interaction should occur, plan a feasible motion, and execute the required contact. HiWE connects these decisions through a point-based interface between visual grounding and language-based planning. PointVLM is instruction-tuned to associate task-relevant objects with image coordinates using a mixture of point annotations, segmentation-derived samples, robot observations, and v

Published October 1, 2026 · Category: Robotics

Overview

arXiv:2609.39323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot demonstration generation requires a system to identify where an interaction should occur, plan a feasible motion, and execute the required contact. HiWE connects these decisions through a point-based interface between visual grounding and language-based planning. PointVLM is instruction-tuned to associate task-relevant objects with image coordinates using a mixture of point annotations, segmentation-derived samples, robot observations, and visual question answering data. Depth measurements lift these predictions into a semantic 3D representation. A language planner, 3DLLM, uses this representation to specify end-effector waypoints and gripper commands, while a hybrid grasping module resolves local grasp poses. The evaluation covers 14 simulated manipulation tasks and four physical-robot tasks, together with ablations of the visual training data, spatial inputs, and grasp selection. Here, zero-shot execution refers to deployment without task-specific demonstration training; the visual model uses existing robot data during fine-tuning. This paper describes the original point-based formulation of the framework; its relationship to the subsequent GeneralVLA extension is detailed in the introduction.

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Originally published at arxiv.org.

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