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Temporal Forcing: 4D Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
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Long-horizon robotic manipulation requires vision-language-action (VLA) models to track scene states and their evolution beyond the current observation. However, simply conditioning policies on observation history does not guarantee that the history is effectively utilized: action supervision constrains what the policy should do, but only indirectly constrains what its history representations should retain. To resolve this, we present Temporal Forcing, a 4D representation alignment framework that explicitly supervises latent temporal states and their transitions. Specifically, we first introduce a history pathway that compresses past observations into compact latent tokens. We then align these tokens and current-frame features with geometric targets from a pretrained 4D foundation model, providing direct supervision at both the state and transition levels. The 4D foundation model and alignment heads are used only for training-time supervision. Temporal Forcing improves average success from 96.6% to 98.8% on LIBERO, with the largest gain on LIBERO-Long (93.8% to 97.2%), and from 53.5% to 62.8% across twelve RoboTwin 2.0 tasks. Furthermore, Temporal Forcing increases full-task success from 20.0% to 43.3% on a physical multi-stage hidden-placement task. Controlled experiments show that 4D representation alignment is crucial for making observation history beneficial to the model. Code will be publicly available.
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