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Pretrained large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP have demonstrated excellent generalizability over a series of downstream tasks. However, they are sensitive to the variation of input text prompts and need a selection of prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Lianyu Hu , Liqing Gao , Zekang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Wei Feng

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…

Reinforcement learning (RL) for large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models faces significant challenges in computational efficiency and data acquisition. We propose AcceRL, a fully asynchronous and decoupled RL framework designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chengxuan Lu , Shukuan Wang , Yanjie Li , Wei Liu , Shiji Jin , Fuyuan Qian , Peiming Li , Baigui Sun , Yang Liu

World models aim to improve robotic decision making by predicting the consequences of actions. However, in practice, their predictions often become unreliable once the robot encounters states outside the training distribution, limiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Tuo An , Jindou Jia , Gen Li , Jingliang Li , Chuhao Zhou , Pengfei Liu , Bofan Lyu , Jiaqi Bai , Xinying Guo , Geng Li , Jianfei Yang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models commonly adapt pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to robot control by mapping visual observations and language instructions to continuous actions. Existing approaches typically take an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xuan Wang , Yinan Wu , Haoran Duan , Jungong Han

Unsupervised pre-training methods utilizing large and diverse datasets have achieved tremendous success across a range of domains. Recent work has investigated such unsupervised pre-training methods for model-based reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jialong Wu , Haoyu Ma , Chaoyi Deng , Mingsheng Long

Training robot policies within a learned world model is trending due to the inefficiency of real-world interactions. The established image-based world models and policies have shown prior success, but lack robust geometric information that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Guanxing Lu , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Yixin Chen , Ziwei Wang , Yansong Tang , Siyuan Huang

Learning robot policies using imitation learning requires collecting large amounts of costly action-labeled expert demonstrations, which fundamentally limits the scale of training data. A promising approach to address this bottleneck is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Liang , Pavel Czempin , Matthew Hong , Yutai Zhou , Erdem Biyik , Stephen Tu

We propose X-WAM, a Unified 4D World Model that unifies real-time robotic action execution and high-fidelity 4D world synthesis (video + 3D reconstruction) in a single framework, addressing the critical limitations of prior unified world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jun Guo , Qiwei Li , Peiyan Li , Zilong Chen , Nan Sun , Yifei Su , Heyun Wang , Yuan Zhang , Xinghang Li , Huaping Liu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models mark a transformative advancement in artificial intelligence, aiming to unify perception, natural language understanding, and embodied action within a single computational framework. This foundational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ranjan Sapkota , Yang Cao , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee

A unified video and action model holds significant promise for robotics, where videos provide rich scene information for action prediction, and actions provide dynamics information for video prediction. However, effectively combining video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Shuang Li , Yihuai Gao , Dorsa Sadigh , Shuran Song

Latent action learning infers pseudo-action labels from visual transitions, providing an approach to leverage internet-scale video for embodied AI. However, most methods learn latent actions without structural priors that encode the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hangxing Wei , Xiaoyu Chen , Chuheng Zhang , Tim Pearce , Jianyu Chen , Alex Lamb , Li Zhao , Jiang Bian

End-to-end autonomous driving models based on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures have shown promising results by learning driving policies through behavior cloning on expert demonstrations. However, imitation learning inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zihao Sheng , Xin Ye , Jingru Luo , Sikai Chen , Liu Ren

Response generation for task-oriented dialogues involves two basic components: dialogue planning and surface realization. These two components, however, have a discrepancy in their objectives, i.e., task completion and language quality. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Xinting Huang , Jianzhong Qi , Yu Sun , Rui Zhang

World models have become a central paradigm for learning predictive simulators that support generation, planning, and decision-making. Yet, despite rapid progress in industry-scale interactive video generation, the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Siqiao Huang , Partha Kaushik , Michael Chen , Hengkai Pan , Kaiwen Geng , Omar Chehab , Fernando Moreno-Pino , Max Simchowitz

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated remarkable success in various image tasks. However, how to extend CLIP with effective temporal modeling is still an open and crucial problem. Existing factorized or joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shuyuan Tu , Qi Dai , Zuxuan Wu , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Han Hu , Yu-Gang Jiang

In this work, we present CollabVLA, a self-reflective vision-language-action framework that transforms a standard visuomotor policy into a collaborative assistant. CollabVLA tackles key limitations of prior VLAs, including domain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Nan Sun , Yongchang Li , Chenxu Wang , Huiying Li , Huaping Liu

Long video question answering is a challenging task that involves recognizing short-term activities and reasoning about their fine-grained relationships. State-of-the-art video Large Language Models (vLLMs) hold promise as a viable solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Reuben Tan , Ximeng Sun , Ping Hu , Jui-hsien Wang , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Bryan A. Plummer , Bryan Russell , Kate Saenko

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

Embodied navigation in open, dynamic environments demands accurate foresight of how the world will evolve and how actions will unfold over time. We propose AstraNav-World, an end-to-end world model that jointly reasons about future visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jintao Chen , Junjun Hu , Haochen Bai , Minghua Luo , Xinda Xue , Botao Ren , Chengyu Bai , Shichao Xie , Ziyi Chen , Fei Liu , Zedong Chu , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Shanghang Zhang