VLAConf: Calibrated Task-Success Confidence for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2605.29605v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Task-success confidence estimation for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provides a crucial task-level signal for monitoring manipulation in open-world environments and supporting downstream decision-making. Existing methods typically construct task-success confidence from action-token probabilities. However, such probabilities are not naturally available in flow-matching policies, limiting their applicability to mainstream flow-matching VLA
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arXiv:2605.29605v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Task-success confidence estimation for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provides a crucial task-level signal for monitoring manipulation in open-world environments and supporting downstream decision-making. Existing methods typically construct task-success confidence from action-token probabilities. However, such probabilities are not naturally available in flow-matching policies, limiting their applicability to mainstream flow-matching VLAs. To address this issue, we propose VLAConf, a two-stage representation-level confidence framework that operates on frozen pretrained VLA representations. A step-conditioned Coin-Flip Network learns an uncalibrated inverse success-support score from successful demonstrations, while a low-capacity calibrator fitted on outcome-labeled successful and failed rollouts maps the aggregated score to task-success probability. Experimental results on the LIBERO benchmark demonstrate that VLAConf improves online task-success confidence estimation over alternative approaches. We further demonstrate its utility in selective expert assistance, where confidence-triggered handoffs improve task success over no intervention. Its applicability is also evaluated in real-robot experiments. To access the source code and supplementary videos, visit https://sites.google.com/view/vlaconf.
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Originally published at arxiv.org.
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Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29605