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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising autonomous driving paradigm for leveraging world knowledge and reasoning capabilities, especially in long-tail scenarios. However, existing VLA models often struggle with the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zewei Zhou , Ruining Yang , Xuewei , Qi , Yiluan Guo , Sherry X. Chen , Tao Feng , Kateryna Pistunova , Yishan Shen , Lili Su , Jiaqi Ma

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced the field of embodied manipulation by harnessing broad world knowledge and strong generalization. However, current VLA models still face several key challenges, including limited reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Wenhao Li , Xiu Su , Dan Niu , Yichao Cao , Hongyan Xu , Zhe Qu , Lei Fan , Shan You , Chang Xu

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…

Vision-Language Action (VLA) models significantly advance robotic manipulation by leveraging the strong perception capabilities of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs). By integrating action modules into these pretrained models, VLA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shaoqi Dong , Chaoyou Fu , Haihan Gao , Yi-Fan Zhang , Chi Yan , Chu Wu , Xiaoyu Liu , Yunhang Shen , Jing Huo , Deqiang Jiang , Haoyu Cao , Yang Gao , Xing Sun , Ran He , Caifeng Shan

A major challenge for the operation of large language models (LLMs) is how to predict whether a specific LLM will produce sufficiently high-quality output for a given query. Existing approaches rely on external classifiers, most commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hossein Hosseini Kasnavieh , Gholamreza Haffari , Chris Leckie , Adel N. Toosi

Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in robot control. However, they remain fundamentally limited in tasks that require high precision due to their single-inference paradigm. While test-time scaling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Suhyeok Jang , Dongyoung Kim , Changyeon Kim , Youngsuk Kim , Jinwoo Shin

Generalist robots should be able to understand and follow user instructions, but current vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle with following fine-grained commands despite providing a powerful architecture for mapping open-vocabulary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Catherine Glossop , William Chen , Arjun Bhorkar , Dhruv Shah , Sergey Levine

The large adoption of the self-attention (i.e. transformer model) and BERT-like training principles has recently resulted in a number of high performing models on a large panoply of vision-and-language problems (such as Visual Question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Corentin Kervadec , Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Christian Wolf

Long-term action anticipation (LTA) aims to predict future actions over an extended period. Previous approaches primarily focus on learning exclusively from video data but lack prior knowledge. Recent researches leverage large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Congqi Cao , Lanshu Hu , Yating Yu , Yanning Zhang

Despite the impressive improvements achieved by unsupervised deep neural networks in computer vision and NLP tasks, such improvements have not yet been observed in ranking for information retrieval. The reason may be the complexity of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Mostafa Dehghani , Hamed Zamani , Aliaksei Severyn , Jaap Kamps , W. Bruce Croft

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities across various embodied AI tasks. While deploying VLA models on real-world robots imposes strict real-time inference constraints, the inference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Wenqi Jiang , Jason Clemons , Karu Sankaralingam , Christos Kozyrakis

Visual attention serves as the primary mechanism through which MLLMs interpret visual information; however, its limited localization capability often leads to hallucinations. We observe that although MLLMs can accurately extract visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jianfei Zhao , Feng Zhang , Xin Sun , Chong Feng , Zhixing Tan

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which integrate pretrained large Vision-Language Models (VLM) into their policy backbone, are gaining significant attention for their promising generalization capabilities. This paper revisits a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jianke Zhang , Xiaoyu Chen , Qiuyue Wang , Mingsheng Li , Yanjiang Guo , Yucheng Hu , Jiajun Zhang , Shuai Bai , Junyang Lin , Jianyu Chen

Real-time inference of vision-language-action (VLA) models is essential for robotic control. While visual token pruning has shown strong potential for accelerating inference, most existing methods mainly base pruning decisions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shilin Ma , Chubin Zhang , Changyuan Wang , Yuji Wang , Yue Wu , Zixuan Wang , Jingqi Tian , Zheng Zhu , Yansong Tang

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong multimodal reasoning but frequently exhibit hallucinations and incorrect responses with high certainty, which hinders their usage in high-stakes domains. Existing verbalized confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wenyi Xiao , Xinchi Xu , Leilei Gan

This paper investigates context stickiness in in-context learning (ICL), a phenomenon where earlier examples in a prompt interfere with a transformer's ability to adapt to later tasks. Using synthetic regression tasks over linear and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hanna Rød , Dagny Streit , Nils Valseth Selte , Justin Li

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving, valued for their potential to leverage world knowledge and reason about complex driving scenes. However, existing methods suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinyang Wang , Qian Liu , Wenjie Ding , Zhao Yang , Wei Li , Chang Liu , Bailin Li , Kun Zhan , Xianpeng Lang , Wei Chen

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve preliminary generalization through pretraining on large scale robot teleoperation datasets. However, acquiring datasets that comprehensively cover diverse tasks and environments is extremely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Weisheng Dai , Kai Lan , Jianyi Zhou , Bo Zhao , Xiu Su , Junwen Tong , Weili Guan , Shuo Yang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm in Embodied AI. However, the significant computational overhead of processing redundant visual tokens remains a critical bottleneck for real-time robotic deployment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Juntao Gao , Feiyang Ye , Jing Zhang , Wenjing Qian

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced robot manipulation through large-scale pretraining, but real-world deployment remains challenging due to partial observability and delayed feedback. Reinforcement learning addresses this via…