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VLA-Pro: Cross-Task Procedural Memory Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Models

Abstract

Vision-Language-Action~(VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet they still struggle to generalize to unseen tasks that necessitate transferring relevant experience across objects, scenes, and action patterns. This paper proposes VLA-Pro, a plug-and-play framework designed to enhance cross-task generalization by storing task-relevant procedural memories at training time and transferring these memories during inference. Specifically, VLA-Pro stores task-specific LoRA adapters as parameterized procedural memories during training. At inference time, VLA-Pro retrieves relevant procedural memories based on the current multi-modal context and dynamically fuses these memories for generating the current action chunk. Experiments on RoboTwin, RLBench, and real-world manipulation tasks show that VLA-Pro consistently improves cross-task generalization across multiple backbones, achieving up to a 207% relative improvement in simulation and increasing real-world success rate from 5.8% to 65.0%. These results suggest that procedural memory retrieval and adaptation provide an effective mechanism for transferring manipulation experience to novel tasks while preserving modularity and execution stability.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.29562,
  title  = {VLA-Pro: Cross-Task Procedural Memory Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Models},
  author = {Shengyu Si and Yuanzhuo Lu and Ruimeng Yang and Ziyi Ye and Zuxuan Wu and Yu-Gang Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29562},
  year   = {2026}
}