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In robotics, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that integrate diverse multimodal signals from multi-view inputs have emerged as an effective approach. However, most prior work adopts static fusion that processes all visual inputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Young-Chae Son , Jung-Woo Lee , Yoon-Ji Choi , Dae-Kwan Ko , Soo-Chul Lim

Recent advances in robot manipulation have leveraged pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) and explored integrating 3D spatial signals into these models for effective action prediction, giving rise to the promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhenyang Liu , Yongchong Gu , Yikai Wang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Despite progress, Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are limited by a scarcity of large-scale, diverse robot data. While human manipulation videos offer a rich alternative, existing methods are forced to choose between small,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Hao Luo , Ye Wang , Wanpeng Zhang , Haoqi Yuan , Yicheng Feng , Haiweng Xu , Sipeng Zheng , Zongqing Lu

Humans are able to seamlessly visually imitate others, by inferring their intentions and using past experience to achieve the same end goal. In other words, we can parse complex semantic knowledge from raw video and efficiently translate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Sudeep Dasari , Abhinav Gupta

To operate effectively in the real world, robots should integrate multimodal reasoning with precise action generation. However, existing vision-language-action (VLA) models often sacrifice one for the other, narrow their abilities to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shuai Yang , Hao Li , Bin Wang , Yilun Chen , Yang Tian , Tai Wang , Hanqing Wang , Feng Zhao , Yiyi Liao , Jiangmiao Pang

Memory is critical for long-horizon and history-dependent robotic manipulation. Such tasks often involve counting repeated actions or manipulating objects that become temporarily occluded. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yinpei Dai , Hongze Fu , Jayjun Lee , Yuejiang Liu , Haoran Zhang , Jianing Yang , Chelsea Finn , Nima Fazeli , Joyce Chai

Recent advancements in image generation have enabled the creation of high-quality images from text conditions. However, when facing multi-modal conditions, such as text combined with reference appearances, existing methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Yucheng Han , Rui Wang , Chi Zhang , Juntao Hu , Pei Cheng , Bin Fu , Hanwang Zhang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a prominent paradigm for embodied intelligence, yet further performance improvements typically rely on scaling up training data and model size -- an approach that is prohibitively expensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Mingtong Dai , Lingbo Liu , Yongjie Bai , Yang Liu , Zhouxia Wang , Rui SU , Chunjie Chen , Liang Lin , Xinyu Wu

Imitation learning for robotic manipulation often suffers from limited generalization and data scarcity, especially in complex, long-horizon tasks. In this work, we introduce a hierarchical framework that leverages code-generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Markus Peschl , Pietro Mazzaglia , Daniel Dijkman

Vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate visual observations and language instructions to predict robot actions, demonstrating promising generalization in manipulation tasks. However, most existing approaches primarily rely on direct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Jiasong Xiao , Yutao She , Kai Li , Yuyang Sha , Ziang Cheng , Ziang Tong

Recent advancements utilizing large-scale video data for learning video generation models demonstrate significant potential in understanding complex physical dynamics. It suggests the feasibility of leveraging diverse robot trajectory data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Youpeng Wen , Junfan Lin , Yi Zhu , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Shen Zhao , Xiaodan Liang

Visual imitation learning provides a framework for learning complex manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations. However, current interfaces for imitation such as kinesthetic teaching or teleoperation prohibitively restrict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Sarah Young , Dhiraj Gandhi , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta , Pieter Abbeel , Lerrel Pinto

Robotic Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize well for open-ended manipulation, but their perception is fragile under sensing-stage degradations such as extreme low light, motion blur, and black clipping. We present E-VLA, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiajun Zhai , Hao Shi , Shangwei Guo , Kailun Yang , Kaiwei Wang

Automatically generating training supervision for embodied tasks is crucial, as manual designing is tedious and not scalable. While prior works use large language models (LLMs) or vision-language models (VLMs) to generate rewards, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xiaowen Qiu , Yian Wang , Jiting Cai , Zhehuan Chen , Chunru Lin , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Chuang Gan

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved remarkable progress in robotic manipulation by mapping multimodal observations and instructions directly to actions. However, they typically mimic expert trajectories without predictive…

Recent progress in video-to-video (V2V) translation has enabled realistic resimulation of embodied AI demonstrations, a capability that allows pretrained robot policies to be transferable to new environments without additional data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Dong Chen , Yang Bai , Liudi Yang , Ziyuan Liu

Diffusion-based visuomotor policies effectively capture multimodal action distributions through iterative denoising, but their high inference latency limits real-time robotic control. Recent flow matching and consistency-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chongyang Xu , Yixian Zou , Ziliang Feng , Fanman Meng , Shuaicheng Liu

Video generative models can be regarded as world simulators due to their ability to capture dynamic, continuous changes inherent in real-world environments. These models integrate high-dimensional information across visual, temporal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hengyuan Cao , Yutong Feng , Biao Gong , Yijing Tian , Yunhong Lu , Chuang Liu , Bin Wang

The acquisition of large-scale, high-quality data is a resource-intensive and time-consuming endeavor. Compared to conventional Data Augmentation (DA) techniques (e.g. cropping and rotation), exploiting prevailing diffusion models for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yunxiang Fu , Chaoqi Chen , Yu Qiao , Yizhou Yu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show promise for robotic control, yet performance in complex household environments remains sub-optimal. Mobile manipulation requires reasoning about global scene layout, fine-grained geometry, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruisen Tu , Arth Shukla , Sohyun Yoo , Xuanlin Li , Junxi Li , Jianwen Xie , Hao Su , Zhuowen Tu