Researchers introduce UniMem, a unified framework for vision-language-action models that integrates multimodal memory with low-level control. The single-backbone system targets non-Markovian, long-horizon tasks in both simulated and real robotic settings. Traditional approaches bolt on separate vision-language models for long-term memory, creating bottlenecks and complex training. Fixed-interval frame conditioning can also hurt performance by selecting uninformative history, limiting a model’s ability to recall crucial scene details. UniMem adds an event classifier for selective memory updates, a keyframe encoder for dense spatial memory, and keyframe caching to reduce rollout overhead. Across five simulation and four hardware tasks, it delivers higher success rates, faster inference, and a simpler training pipeline.
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