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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced general-purpose robotic manipulation by leveraging pretrained visual and linguistic representations. However, they struggle with contact-rich tasks that require fine-grained control…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful generalist policies for robotic control, yet their performance scaling across model architectures and hardware platforms, as well as their associated power budgets, remain poorly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Amir Taherin , Juyi Lin , Arash Akbari , Arman Akbari , Pu Zhao , Weiwei Chen , David Kaeli , Yanzhi Wang

Vision-language-action (VLA) models can learn to perform diverse manipulation skills "out of the box," but achieving the precision and speed that real-world tasks demand requires further fine-tuning -- for example, via reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Charles Xu , Jost Tobias Springenberg , Michael Equi , Ali Amin , Adnan Esmail , Sergey Levine , Liyiming Ke

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have opened new avenues for robot manipulation, yet existing methods exhibit limited efficiency and a lack of high-level knowledge and spatial awareness. To address these challenges, we…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models adapt large vision-language backbones to map images and instructions into robot actions. However, prevailing VLAs either generate actions auto-regressively in a fixed left-to-right order or attach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zhixuan Liang , Yizhuo Li , Tianshuo Yang , Chengyue Wu , Sitong Mao , Tian Nian , Liuao Pei , Shunbo Zhou , Xiaokang Yang , Jiangmiao Pang , Yao Mu , Ping Luo

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models trained on large robot datasets promise general-purpose, robust control across diverse domains and embodiments. However, existing approaches often fail out-of-the-box when deployed in novel environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ruihan Zhao , Tyler Ingebrand , Sandeep Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as generalist robotic controllers capable of mapping visual observations and natural language instructions to continuous action sequences. However, VLAs provide no calibrated measure of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lingling Chen , Zongyao Lyu , William J. Beksi

Although large vision-language-action (VLA) models pretrained on extensive robot datasets offer promising generalist policies for robotic learning, they still struggle with spatial-temporal dynamics in interactive robotics, making them less…

In recent years, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a vital research direction in robotics due to their impressive multimodal understanding and generalization capabilities. Despite the progress, their practical deployment is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenxuan Song , Jiayi Chen , Pengxiang Ding , Yuxin Huang , Han Zhao , Donglin Wang , Haoang Li

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a popular paradigm for learning robot manipulation policies that can follow language instructions and generalize to novel scenarios. Recent works have begun to explore the incorporation of…

Robots deployed in dynamic environments must be able to not only follow diverse language instructions but flexibly adapt when user intent changes mid-execution. While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced multi-task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Meng Li , Zhen Zhao , Zhengping Che , Fei Liao , Kun Wu , Zhiyuan Xu , Pei Ren , Zhao Jin , Ning Liu , Jian Tang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have rapidly converged on a small set of architectural patterns: discrete-token autoregression (e.g. OpenVLA) and continuous-action flow-matching (e.g. pi-0.5). Yet preference alignment via Direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhi Liu

Many Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are built upon an internal world model trained via next-frame prediction ``$v_t \rightarrow v_{t+1}$''. However, this paradigm attempts to predict the future frame's appearance directly, without…

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong semantic grounding and task generalization in manipulation, but aerial deployment remains difficult because drones require low-latency closed-loop guidance under strict onboard compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Justin williams , Kishor Datta Gupta , Roy George , Mrinmoy Sarkar

In this paper, we propose GTA-VLA(Guide, Think, Act), an interactive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework that enables spatially steerable embodied reasoning by allowing users to guide robot policies with explicit visual cues. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yiran Ling , Qing Lian , Jinghang Li , Qing Jiang , Tianming Zhang , Xiaoke Jiang , Chuanxiu Liu , Jie Liu , Lei Zhang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are promising for generalist robot control, but on-robot deployment is bottlenecked by real-time inference under tight cost and energy budgets. Most prior evaluations rely on desktop-grade GPUs, obscuring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kaijun Zhou , Qiwei Chen , Da Peng , Zhiyang Li , Xijun Li , Jinyu Gu

Most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems integrate a Vision-Language Model (VLM) for semantic reasoning with an action expert generating continuous action signals, yet both typically run at a single unified frequency. As a result, policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Teqiang Zou , Hongliang Zeng , Yuxuan Nong , Yifan Li , Kehui Liu , Haotian Yang , Xinyang Ling , Xin Li , Lianyang Ma

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models built on pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in robotic manipulation. However, these models remain constrained by the single-frame image paradigm and fail…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hao Li , Shuai Yang , Yilun Chen , Xinyi Chen , Xiaoda Yang , Yang Tian , Hanqing Wang , Tai Wang , Dahua Lin , Feng Zhao , Jiangmiao Pang

Recent vision-language-action models (VLAs) build upon pretrained vision-language models and leverage diverse robot datasets to demonstrate strong task execution, language following ability, and semantic generalization. Despite these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Moo Jin Kim , Chelsea Finn , Percy Liang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a promising path toward embodied intelligence, yet they often overlook the predictive and temporal-causal structure underlying visual dynamics. World-model VLAs address this by predicting future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fuxiang Yang , Donglin Di , Lulu Tang , Xuancheng Zhang , Lei Fan , Hao Li , Chen Wei , Tonghua Su , Baorui Ma
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