ForgeVLA: Federated Vision-Language-Action Learning without Language Annotations
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models hold great promise for general-purpose robotic intelligence, yet scaling up such models is severely bottlenecked by the high cost of acquiring annotated training data. Fortunately, vision-equipped robots deployed across various domains already produce abundant vision-action pairs that can be leveraged to scale up VLA training more efficiently. However, these raw data cannot be centrally aggregated due to various constraints and also exhibit severe heterogeneity. To address these challenges, in this paper, we propose ForgeVLA, a federated VLA training framework that learns VLA models from distributed vision-action pairs without centralizing raw data or requiring manual annotations. Specifically, each client in ForgeVLA is equipped with an embodied instruction classifier that maps vision-action pairs to a predefined instruction set, recovering the missing language modality and forming complete vision-language-action triplets. Beyond triplet construction, we also identify vision-language feature collapse as a critical challenge that has been largely overlooked in prior federated VLA research. To mitigate this issue, ForgeVLA combines a client-side contrastive planning loss with a server-side adaptive aggregation strategy to learn task-discriminative representations efficiently. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks show that ForgeVLA significantly outperforms other baselines, and ablation studies further validate the contribution of each component.
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