ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 10, 2026

Predict in Chunks, Revise in Spans: History-conditioned Action Regeneration for Robotic Manipulation

We introduce Contextual Masked Action Policy (CMAP), a visuomotor policy that refines continuous action chunks through history-conditioned local regeneration.

Key points

  • Action chunking improves temporal coherence in visuomotor imitation learning by jointly predicting sequences of future actions.
  • Specifically, CMAP introduces a history-conditioned action tape that combines executed commands with masked future positions to produce coarse action predictions and per-step uncertainty scores.
  • An uncertainty-guided span regeneration mechanism then selects a high-uncertainty contiguous span and reconstructs it using the executed history and retained future predictions as context.
  • By jointly reconstructing neighboring actions, CMAP models local temporal dependencies while preserving all predictions outside the selected span.

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