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In order for a robot to be a generalist that can perform a wide range of jobs, it must be able to acquire a wide variety of skills quickly and efficiently in complex unstructured environments. High-capacity models such as deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Chelsea Finn , Tianhe Yu , Tianhao Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to control robots for manipulation from visual observations and natural-language instructions. However, existing hierarchical and autoregressive paradigms often introduce architectural overhead,…

Integrating visual-language instructions into visuomotor policies is gaining momentum in robot learning for enhancing open-world generalization. Despite promising advances, existing approaches face two challenges: limited language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenhui Huang , Changhe Chen , Han Qi , Chen Lv , Yilun Du , Heng Yang

In this paper, we focus on designing effective method for fast and accurate scene parsing. A common practice to improve the performance is to attain high resolution feature maps with strong semantic representation. Two strategies are widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xiangtai Li , Ansheng You , Zhen Zhu , Houlong Zhao , Maoke Yang , Kuiyuan Yang , Yunhai Tong

Inspired by the success of transfer learning in computer vision, roboticists have investigated visual pre-training as a means to improve the learning efficiency and generalization ability of policies learned from pixels. To that end, past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Kaylee Burns , Zach Witzel , Jubayer Ibn Hamid , Tianhe Yu , Chelsea Finn , Karol Hausman

Learning latent actions from large-scale videos is crucial for the pre-training of scalable embodied foundation models, yet existing methods often struggle with action-irrelevant distractors. Although incorporating action supervision can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xizhou Bu , Jiexi Lyu , Fulei Sun , Ruichen Yang , Zhiqiang Ma , Wei Li

Robotic manipulation in 3D requires effective computation of N degree-of-freedom joint-space trajectories that enable precise and robust control. To achieve this, robots must integrate semantic understanding with visual perception to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Vineet Bhat , Yu-Hsiang Lan , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami

Recent advancements in vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in robotic manipulation, yet they continue to struggle with long-horizon, multi-step tasks. Existing methods lack internal reasoning mechanisms that can identify…

Conventional flow matching and diffusion-based policies sample via iterative denoising from standard noise distributions (e.g., Gaussian), and require conditioning modules to repeatedly incorporate visual information during the generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dechen Gao , Boqi Zhao , Andrew Lee , Ian Chuang , Hanchu Zhou , Hang Wang , Zhe Zhao , Junshan Zhang , Iman Soltani

In this work, we propose an efficient Video-Language Alignment (ViLA) network. Our ViLA model addresses both efficient frame sampling and effective cross-modal alignment in a unified way. In our ViLA network, we design a new learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Xijun Wang , Junbang Liang , Chun-Kai Wang , Kenan Deng , Yu Lou , Ming Lin , Shan Yang

Temporal context is essential for robotic manipulation because such tasks are inherently non-Markovian, yet mainstream VLA models typically overlook it and struggle with long-horizon, temporally dependent tasks. Cognitive science suggests…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Hao Shi , Bin Xie , Yingfei Liu , Lin Sun , Fengrong Liu , Tiancai Wang , Erjin Zhou , Haoqiang Fan , Xiangyu Zhang , Gao Huang

Imitation learning has demonstrated significant potential in performing high-precision manipulation tasks using visual feedback. However, it is common practice in imitation learning for cameras to be fixed in place, resulting in issues like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ian Chuang , Andrew Lee , Dechen Gao , M-Mahdi Naddaf-Sh , Iman Soltani

Recent advances in vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in integrating image generation with action prediction to improve generalization and reasoning in robot manipulation. However, existing methods are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Wenyao Zhang , Hongsi Liu , Zekun Qi , Yunnan Wang , Xinqiang Yu , Jiazhao Zhang , Runpei Dong , Jiawei He , Fan Lu , He Wang , Zhizheng Zhang , Li Yi , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are driving a revolution in robotics, enabling machines to understand instructions and interact with the physical world. This field is exploding with new models and datasets, making it both exciting and…

Human vision is a highly active process driven by gaze, which directs attention to task-relevant regions through foveation, dramatically reducing visual processing. In contrast, robot learning systems typically rely on passive, uniform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ian Chuang , Jinyu Zou , Andrew Lee , Dechen Gao , Iman Soltani

We propose Avi, a novel 3D Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architecture that reframes robotic action generation as a problem of 3D perception and spatial reasoning, rather than low-level policy learning. While existing VLA models primarily…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Harris Song , Long Le

Deploying autonomous robots that can learn new skills from demonstrations is an important challenge of modern robotics. Existing solutions often apply end-to-end imitation learning with Vision-Language Action (VLA) models or symbolic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Maëlic Neau , Zoe Falomir , Paulo E. Santos , Anne-Gwenn Bosser , Cédric Buche

Vision-language-action models have emerged as a crucial paradigm in robotic manipulation. However, existing VLA models exhibit notable limitations in handling ambiguous language instructions and unknown environmental states. Furthermore,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Helong Huang , Min Cen , Kai Tan , Xingyue Quan , Guowei Huang , Hong Zhang

Video action models (VAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot learning, owing to their powerful visual foresight for complex manipulation tasks. However, current VAMs, typically relying on either slow multi-step video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haodong Yan , Zhide Zhong , Jiaguan Zhu , Junjie He , Weilin Yuan , Wenxuan Song , Xin Gong , Yingjie Cai , Guanyi Zhao , Xu Yan , Bingbing Liu , Ying-Cong Chen , Haoang Li

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing robot vision challenges that describe the critical ability for an autonomous robot to learn to decompose images into individual objects without labeled data. These tasks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Xinyu Zhang , Abdeslam Boularias