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arxiv: 2605.14950 · v1 · pith:HLMHWWYZnew · submitted 2026-05-14 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.RO

Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Model

Tao Lin , Yuxin Du , Jiting Liu , Nuobei Zhu , Yunhe Li , Yuqian Fu , Yinxinyu Chen , Hongyi Cai
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Zewei Ye Bing Cheng Kai Ye Yiran Mao Yilei Zhong Mingkang Dong Junchi Yan Gen Li Bo Zhao
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keywords vision-language-actionrobotic manipulationimplicit depth encodinglightweight modelspatial enhancementprogressive alignment trainingmulti-view RGBdepth-aware modulation
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A 0.9B-parameter VLA model extracts implicit depth features from multi-view RGB images to improve robotic manipulation performance and efficiency.

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Current vision-language-action models rely on 2D representations that limit precise spatial understanding during manipulation tasks. Evo-Depth addresses this by adding a lightweight Implicit Depth Encoding Module that derives compact depth features directly from RGB inputs without extra sensors or large geometry models. These features are fused into vision-language representations through depth-aware modulation in a Spatial Enhancement Module. A Progressive Alignment Training strategy then aligns the enhanced representations with action generation. The resulting system reports better benchmark results and real-world success rates than larger alternatives while using fewer resources.

Core claim

Evo-Depth is a lightweight depth-enhanced VLA framework that employs an Implicit Depth Encoding Module to extract compact depth features from multi-view RGB images. These features are incorporated into vision-language representations through a Spatial Enhancement Module via depth-aware modulation, and a Progressive Alignment Training strategy aligns the depth-enhanced representations with downstream action learning. With only 0.9B parameters, the model achieves superior performance across four simulation benchmarks and the highest average success rate in real-world experiments while maintaining the smallest model size, lowest GPU memory usage, and highest inference frequency among compared m

What carries the argument

The Implicit Depth Encoding Module, which extracts compact depth features from multi-view RGB images and feeds them into a Spatial Enhancement Module for depth-aware modulation of vision-language representations.

If this is right

  • The model achieves superior performance across four simulation benchmarks with only 0.9B parameters.
  • It attains the highest average success rate in real-world experiments among compared methods.
  • It exhibits the smallest model size while delivering the lowest GPU memory usage.
  • It records the highest inference frequency among compared methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The approach implies that explicit depth sensors or point-cloud inputs may be unnecessary for many manipulation tasks if compact implicit features suffice.
  • Progressive alignment between depth-enhanced representations and actions may generalize to other embodied tasks that combine perception and control.
  • Lowering both parameter count and inference cost could enable deployment on resource-constrained robots without sacrificing spatial reasoning.

Load-bearing premise

The lightweight Implicit Depth Encoding Module can extract compact, reliable depth features from multi-view RGB images that meaningfully improve action learning without reconstruction errors.

What would settle it

A controlled experiment in which Evo-Depth is evaluated on the same real-world tasks and hardware as competing methods and shows either lower average success rate or higher GPU memory usage than at least one larger baseline would falsify the central performance and efficiency claims.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.14950 by Bing Cheng, Bo Zhao, Gen Li, Hongyi Cai, Jiting Liu, Junchi Yan, Kai Ye, Mingkang Dong, Nuobei Zhu, Tao Lin, Yilei Zhong, Yinxinyu Chen, Yiran Mao, Yunhe Li, Yuqian Fu, Yuxin Du, Zewei Ye.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of Evo-Depth with three representative VLA paradigms. (a) 2D-only VLAs are efficient but lack spatial perception. (b) Explicit 3D VLAs offer strong spatial understanding at the cost of extra sensors and high latency. (c) Implicit 3D VLAs remove sensor dependency but rely on heavy geometry models. (d) Evo-Depth improves spatial perception with low latency by using the lightweight IDEM module to e… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of Evo-Depth. Given multi-view RGB observations, language instructions, and robot states, Evo-Depth first extracts implicit depth cues with the IDEM, then enhances vision￾language representations through the SEM, and finally predicts actions with a flow-matching action expert. The bottom panel shows the progressive alignment training strategy, which improves cross￾module coordination and facilitat… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Real-World Setup. Real-world experiment process for three tasks, Orange Placement, Tennis Deposit, and Cup Stacking, with increasing manipulation difficulty. 4 Simulation Experiments Setup. We evaluate Evo-Depth on four representative simulation benchmarks, including Meta￾World [53], VLA-Arena [55], LIBERO [26], and LIBERO-Plus [10], to assess manipulation per￾formance under varying task difficulty, long-h… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Generalization Setup. Generalization experiments under four disturbance settings: background disturbance, unseen distractors, horizontal and height position disturbance. Results. Evo-Depth achieves the strongest overall performance across all three real-world tasks. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Generalization and Ablation Studies on Evo-Depth. (a) Generalization performance of Pi0 and Evo-Depth across multiple perturbations. (b) Effect of the implicit depth perception module on LIBERO-Plus under four evaluation dimensions. (c) Effect of different alignment training stages on LIBERO Long benchmark. (d) Effect of different fusion strategies on LIBERO Long benchmark. 7 Ablation Studies 7.1 Implicit … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Representative task trajectories from Meta-World. We show example multi-step manipulation sequences from several Meta-World tasks to illustrate the benchmark’s diversity in object interaction and spatial control. "put the wine bottle on top of the cabinet" "pick up the salad dressing and place it in the basket" "put the black bowl in the bottom drawer of the cabinet and close it" "put both the alphabet sou… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Representative task trajectories from LIBERO. We show example task sequences from LIBERO to illustrate the benchmark’s language-conditioned manipulation settings and varied object arrangements. requires stacking a white cup onto a blue cup and demands the most precise spatial understanding and fine-grained control due to the small geometric tolerance during insertion. Together, these tasks impose progressi… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Real-world hardware setup. The real-world platform uses a fixed-base UFACTORY xArm6 robot with two Intel RealSense D435i RGB cameras, including one external camera and one wrist-mounted camera. Camera Configuration. The real-world setup uses two RGB views for observation, including one external scene camera and one wrist-mounted camera. During critical manipulation stages, the external scene camera is part… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Visualization of IDEM spatial attention. The first row shows input RGB observations from representative stages of real-world manipulation. The second row shows attention maps from the initial IDEM initialized from the depth encoder. The third row shows attention maps from the IDEM in Evo-Depth after progressive alignment training. Compared with the initial IDEM, the trained IDEM exhibits more focused respo… view at source ↗
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Vision-Language-Action models have emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by unifying perception, language grounding, and action generation. However, they often struggle in scenarios requiring precise spatial understanding, as current VLA models primarily rely on 2D visual representations that lack depth information and detailed spatial relationships. While recent approaches incorporate explicit 3D inputs such as depth maps or point clouds to address this issue, they often increase system complexity, require additional sensors, and remain vulnerable to sensing noise and reconstruction errors. Another line of work explores implicit 3D-aware spatial modeling directly from RGB observations without extra sensors, but it often relies on large geometry foundation models, resulting in higher training and deployment costs. To address these challenges, we propose Evo-Depth, a lightweight depth-enhanced VLA framework that enhances spatially grounded manipulation without relying on additional sensing hardware or compromising deployment efficiency. Evo-Depth employs a lightweight Implicit Depth Encoding Module to extract compact depth features from multi-view RGB images. These features are incorporated into vision-language representations through a Spatial Enhancement Module via depth-aware modulation, enabling efficient spatial-semantic enhancement. A Progressive Alignment Training strategy is further introduced to align the resulting depth-enhanced representations with downstream action learning. With only 0.9B parameters, Evo-Depth achieves superior performance across four simulation benchmarks. In real-world experiments, Evo-Depth attains the highest average success rate while also exhibiting the smallest model size, lowest GPU memory usage, and highest inference frequency among compared methods.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Evo-Depth, a 0.9B-parameter vision-language-action model that introduces a lightweight Implicit Depth Encoding Module to derive compact depth features from multi-view RGB images. These features are integrated into vision-language representations via a Spatial Enhancement Module using depth-aware modulation, with a Progressive Alignment Training strategy to align the enhanced representations for action learning. The central empirical claim is that this yields superior performance on four simulation benchmarks and the highest average success rate (with smallest model size, lowest GPU memory, and highest inference frequency) in real-world experiments, all without additional sensors or large geometry foundation models.

Significance. If the performance claims and the depth-specific contribution of the Implicit Depth Encoding Module are substantiated, the work would demonstrate a practical route to spatially grounded VLA models that remain deployable on modest hardware. The emphasis on avoiding explicit 3D inputs and large foundation models addresses a recognized efficiency bottleneck in the field.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (method description): No quantitative check is supplied that the Implicit Depth Encoding Module extracts depth-related features rather than generic visual enhancements. The central claim requires evidence such as depth-prediction error on held-out views, correlation with ground-truth depth in simulation, or a controlled ablation that isolates the depth signal from added capacity in the Spatial Enhancement Module. Without such evidence, gains on the four simulation benchmarks and real-world success rates could be attributable to extra parameters or the Progressive Alignment Training alone.
  2. [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (experiments): The performance claims (superior results on four simulation benchmarks, highest real-world success rate, lowest GPU memory, highest inference frequency) are stated without any reported baselines, metrics, error bars, dataset details, or ablation tables. This absence makes it impossible to assess whether the data support the stated superiority or efficiency advantages.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract introduces several new modules (Implicit Depth Encoding Module, Spatial Enhancement Module) without a high-level diagram or pseudocode that would clarify data flow before the detailed method section.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments highlight important aspects of evidence presentation that we will address in revision. Below we respond point by point.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (method description): No quantitative check is supplied that the Implicit Depth Encoding Module extracts depth-related features rather than generic visual enhancements. The central claim requires evidence such as depth-prediction error on held-out views, correlation with ground-truth depth in simulation, or a controlled ablation that isolates the depth signal from added capacity in the Spatial Enhancement Module. Without such evidence, gains on the four simulation benchmarks and real-world success rates could be attributable to extra parameters or the Progressive Alignment Training alone.

    Authors: We agree that isolating the depth-specific contribution is essential. The module is trained implicitly from multi-view RGB without direct depth supervision, so explicit depth-prediction error is not directly applicable. However, we will add a controlled ablation in the revised manuscript that compares the full model against a capacity-matched variant using a generic visual encoder (identical parameter count, no depth-aware modulation) to demonstrate that gains are not due to added capacity alone. Where simulation ground-truth depth is available, we will also report feature correlation metrics. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (experiments): The performance claims (superior results on four simulation benchmarks, highest real-world success rate, lowest GPU memory, highest inference frequency) are stated without any reported baselines, metrics, error bars, dataset details, or ablation tables. This absence makes it impossible to assess whether the data support the stated superiority or efficiency advantages.

    Authors: The manuscript contains baseline comparisons, success-rate metrics, and efficiency measurements, but we acknowledge that the presentation can be made more transparent. In revision we will expand §4 with explicit tables listing all baselines, report standard deviations from multiple random seeds, provide full dataset and benchmark specifications, and include additional ablation tables that quantify the contribution of each module. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical architecture with benchmark results

full rationale

The manuscript proposes Evo-Depth as an empirical VLA architecture whose central claims are performance numbers on four simulation benchmarks and real-world success rates. No equations, first-principles derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the abstract or described sections. The Implicit Depth Encoding Module and Spatial Enhancement Module are presented as design choices whose value is asserted via external empirical comparison rather than by definitional reduction to their own inputs. The paper is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 2 invented entities

Based solely on the abstract, the central claim rests on the unverified effectiveness of two newly introduced modules and the assumption that multi-view RGB suffices for useful depth features; no fitted numerical parameters are mentioned.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Multi-view RGB images contain sufficient information for a lightweight module to extract compact, actionable depth features without large geometry models or extra sensors.
    This premise underpins the entire Implicit Depth Encoding Module and is stated as the motivation for avoiding both sensor-based and large-model alternatives.
invented entities (2)
  • Implicit Depth Encoding Module no independent evidence
    purpose: Extract compact depth features from multi-view RGB images
    New architectural component introduced to enable depth awareness without additional hardware.
  • Spatial Enhancement Module no independent evidence
    purpose: Incorporate depth features into vision-language representations via depth-aware modulation
    New component for fusing the extracted depth information.

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