CoRe-VLA: Preserving Cross-View Coordination in VLAs under Camera Shifts

Abstract

VLAs combine pretrained vision-language representations with action generation to enable language-guided control across diverse tasks, becoming a mainstream paradigm in embodied intelligence. However, multiple studies have reported VLA's substantial declines in task success under camera shifts, revealing a key vulnerability that limits reliable deployment. To address this vulnerability, existing methods collect paired observations of the same scene from different viewpoints to fine-tune the VLA or train visual adaptation modules. Unfortunately, they require additional data collection and VLA training costs. In this paper, we first identify \emph{cross-view coordination breakdown} under external camera shifts: the robot may rely too heavily on wrist-view cues and consequently execute subtasks in the wrong order when losing global view. Motivated by this, we propose CoRe-VLA, a plug-and-play framework requiring neither additional multi-view data collection nor VLA fine-tuning, which can incorporate with exsiting VLAs. It reconstructs a scene point cloud and renders the observation from the VLA's training viewpoint to restore cross-view coordination. In CoRe-VLA, Render-to-Camera (R2C) Restoration reduces rendering-induced visual degradation, while Execution-Trajectory-Conditioned Alignment (ETCA) reduces robot idle time and mitigates motion conflicts during asynchronous execution. Experiments on 5 real-robot tasks, LIBERO-100 and LIBERO-Plus demonstrate CoRe-VLA substantially improves task success across mainstream VLAs under camera shifts. For example, CoRe-VLA raises PI0.5's success rate from 13.3% to 83.3% at a 1.6m camera shift in real-robot environment.