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Probabilistic Reachable-Action Verification of Visuomotor Policies via Set-Based Training

Robotics 2026-08-03 v1

Abstract

Reachability analysis for visuomotor policies is difficult because large visual encoders make end-to-end set propagation computationally expensive and excessively conservative. We therefore freeze the visual encoder and confine set propagation to a low-dimensional interface between it and the downstream policy, with the interface set calibrated from held-out camera-pose perturbations. Propagating this set through the policy with zonotopes yields a terminal output-enclosure width that set-based training optimizes directly. During evaluation, camera-pose perturbations are sampled from the prescribed distribution, and rollout-level split conformal calibration converts the resulting action-deviation scores into a probabilistic reachable-action radius with finite-sample coverage. In controlled manipulation experiments, set-based training reduces this radius while preserving closed-loop task capability, and matched behavior-only, observational-consistency, and pointwise-adversarial controls all leave a larger radius.

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@article{arxiv.2608.02545,
  title  = {Probabilistic Reachable-Action Verification of Visuomotor Policies via Set-Based Training},
  author = {Yanliang Huang and Zhuocheng Zhang and Peng Xie and Zhen Zhang and Wenyuan Wu and Majid Khadiv and Zhuoqi Zeng and Amr Alanwar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.02545},
  year   = {2026}
}