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Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically treat the deepest representation of a vision-language backbone as universally optimal for action prediction. However, robotic manipulation is composed of many frequent closed-loop…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Boyang Shen , Kaixiang Yang , Hao Wang , Qiuyu Yu , Qiang Xie , Qiang Li , Zhiwei Wang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically map visual observations and linguistic instructions directly to control signals. This "black-box" mapping forces a single forward pass to simultaneously handle instruction interpretation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zixuan Wang , Yuxin Chen , Yuqi Liu , Jinhui Ye , Pengguang Chen , Changsheng Lu , Shu Liu , Bei Yu , Jiaya Jia

Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots. Classical navigation approaches offer safety assurances but require environment-specific parameter tuning; end-to-end learning bypasses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuanjie Lu , Beichen Wang , Zhengqi Wu , Yang Li , Xiaomin Lin , Chengzhi Mao , Xuesu Xiao

We introduce InternVLA-M1, a unified framework for spatial grounding and robot control that advances instruction-following robots toward scalable, general-purpose intelligence. Its core idea is spatially guided vision-language-action…

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task, the agent is required to navigate to a destination following a natural language instruction. While learning-based approaches have been a major solution to the task, they suffer from high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Sijie Yu , Guang Tan

Manipulating dynamic objects remains an open challenge for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which, despite strong generalization in static manipulation, struggle in dynamic scenarios requiring rapid perception, temporal anticipation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Haozhe Xie , Beichen Wen , Jiarui Zheng , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Haiwen Diao , Ziwei Liu

Object-based approaches for learning action-conditioned dynamics has demonstrated promise for generalization and interpretability. However, existing approaches suffer from structural limitations and optimization difficulties for common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Guangxiang Zhu , Jianhao Wang , Zhizhou Ren , Zichuan Lin , Chongjie Zhang

This study presents a new methodology for learning-based motion planning for autonomous exploration using aerial robots. Through the reinforcement learning method of learning through trial and error, the action policy is derived that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Sunggoo Jung , David Hyunchul Shim

Video Language Models (VLMs) are crucial for generalizing across diverse tasks and using language cues to enhance learning. While transformer-based architectures have been the de facto in vision-language training, they face challenges like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Zhikang Dong , Apoorva Beedu , Jason Sheinkopf , Irfan Essa

Object-goal navigation is a crucial engineering task for the community of embodied navigation; it involves navigating to an instance of a specified object category within unseen environments. Although extensive investigations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Leyuan Sun , Asako Kanezaki , Guillaume Caron , Yusuke Yoshiyasu

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires intelligent agents to navigate environments by interpreting linguistic instructions alongside visual observations, serving as a cornerstone task in Embodied AI. Current VLN research for unmanned…

In reinforcement learning for visual navigation, it is common to develop a model for each new task, and train that model from scratch with task-specific interactions in 3D environments. However, this process is expensive; massive amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Ziad Al-Halah , Santhosh K. Ramakrishnan , Kristen Grauman

Visual-spatial understanding, the ability to infer object relationships and layouts from visual input, is fundamental to downstream tasks such as robotic navigation and embodied interaction. However, existing methods face spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Zaijing Li , Haokun Wen , Weili Guan , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie

The vision-language tracking task aims to perform object tracking based on various modality references. Existing Transformer-based vision-language tracking methods have made remarkable progress by leveraging the global modeling ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xinqi Liu , Li Zhou , Zikun Zhou , Jianqiu Chen , Zhenyu He

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to interpret natural language instructions and act coherently in visually rich environments. However, most existing methods rely on reactive state-action mappings without explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Weiye Zhu , Zekai Zhang , Xiangchen Wang , Hewei Pan , Teng Wang , Tiantian Geng , Rongtao Xu , Feng Zheng

Leveraging temporal context is crucial for success in partially observable robotic tasks. However, prior work in behavior cloning has demonstrated inconsistent performance gains when using multi-frame observations. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Huiwon Jang , Sihyun Yu , Heeseung Kwon , Hojin Jeon , Younggyo Seo , Jinwoo Shin

Numerous past works have tackled the problem of task-driven navigation. But, how to effectively explore a new environment to enable a variety of down-stream tasks has received much less attention. In this work, we study how agents can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Tao Chen , Saurabh Gupta , Abhinav Gupta

Vision Language Action (VLA) models have recently shown great potential in bridging multimodal perception with robotic control. However, existing methods often rely on direct fine-tuning of pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), feeding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Kun Wang , Xiao Feng , Mingcheng Qu , Tonghua Su

Crowds do not merely move; they decide. Human navigation is inherently contextual: people interpret the meaning of space, social norms, and potential consequences before acting. Sidewalks invite walking, crosswalks invite crossing, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Juyeong Hwang , Seong-Eun Hong , Jinhyun Kim , JaeYoung Seon , Giljoo Nam , Hanyoung Jang , HyeongYeop Kang

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have shown generalization capabilities in robotic manipulation tasks by inheriting from vision-language models (VLMs) and learning action generation. Most VLA models focus on interpreting vision and…