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Vision-language-action (VLA) models trained on large-scale internet data and robot demonstrations have the potential to serve as generalist robot policies. However, despite their large-scale training, VLAs are often brittle to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Asher J. Hancock , Allen Z. Ren , Anirudha Majumdar

Vision-language-action (VLA) models increasingly rely on auxiliary world modules to plan over long horizons, yet how such modules should be parameterized on top of a pretrained VLA remains an open design question. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zuojin Tang , Shengchao Yuan , Xiaoxin Bai , Zhiyuan Jing , De Ma , Gang Pan , Bin Liu

Recent large-scale Vision Language Action (VLA) models have shown superior performance in robotic manipulation tasks guided by natural language. However, current VLA models suffer from two drawbacks: (i) generation of massive tokens leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Juyi Lin , Amir Taherin , Arash Akbari , Arman Akbari , Lei Lu , Guangyu Chen , Taskin Padir , Xiaomeng Yang , Weiwei Chen , Yiqian Li , Xue Lin , David Kaeli , Pu Zhao , Yanzhi Wang

In this report, we introduce Xiaomi-Robotics-0, an advanced vision-language-action (VLA) model optimized for high performance and fast and smooth real-time execution. The key to our method lies in a carefully designed training recipe and…

Most existing vision-language-action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation lack progress awareness, typically relying on hand-crafted heuristics for task termination. This limitation is particularly severe in long-horizon tasks involving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hongyu Yan , Qiwei Li , Jiaolong Yang , Yadong Mu

Recent work has begun to equip vision-language-action (VLA) policies with explicit intermediate reasoning. In embodied control, however, textual chain-of-thought is a poor fit: irrelevant or weakly textual information can interfere with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mingjian Gao , Wenqiao Zhang , Yuqian Yuan , Yang Dai , Binhe Yu , Zheqi Lv , Haoyu Zheng , Jiaqi Zhu , Zhiqi Ge , Zixuan Wan , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong multi-modal reasoning capabilities, enabling direct action generation from visual perception and language instructions in an end-to-end manner. However, their substantial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Siyu Xu , Yunke Wang , Chenghao Xia , Dihao Zhu , Tao Huang , Chang Xu

Large Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, leveraging powerful pre trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) backends, have shown promise in robotic control due to their impressive generalization ability. However, the success comes at a cost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jianke Zhang , Yanjiang Guo , Xiaoyu Chen , Yen-Jen Wang , Yucheng Hu , Chengming Shi , Jianyu Chen

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

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a powerful paradigm for generalist robotic control. However, their high computational cost and limited control frequency hinder real-time robotic manipulation, especially when large vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ye Li , Huanan Liu , Kangye Ji , Yuan Meng , Jiajun Fan , Yuansong Wang , Shiyu Qin , Chenglei Wu , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhi Wang

Large policies pretrained on a combination of Internet-scale vision-language data and diverse robot demonstrations have the potential to change how we teach robots new skills: rather than training new behaviors from scratch, we can…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for general-purpose robotic manipulation, leveraging large-scale pre-training to achieve strong performance. The field has rapidly evolved with additional spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yuankai Luo , Woping Chen , Tong Liang , Baiqiao Wang , Zhenguo Li

Recently, linear complexity sequence modeling networks have achieved modeling capabilities similar to Vision Transformers on a variety of computer vision tasks, while using fewer FLOPs and less memory. However, their advantage in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Bencheng Liao , Xinggang Wang , Lianghui Zhu , Qian Zhang , Chang Huang

Developing efficient GPU kernels can be difficult because of the complexity of GPU architectures and programming models. Existing performance tools only provide coarse-grained suggestions at the kernel level, if any. In this paper, we…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Keren Zhou , Xiaozhu Meng , Ryuichi Sai , John Mellor-Crummey

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant potential in real-world robotic manipulation. However, pre-trained VLA policies still suffer from substantial performance degradation during downstream deployment. Although…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zhuo Li , Junjia Liu , Zhipeng Dong , Tao Teng , Quentin Rouxel , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies are typically evaluated as if the user had finished typing or speaking before the robot begins acting. In real deployment, however, users take several seconds to enter a request, leaving the policy idle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Joonha Park , Jiseung Jeong , Taesik Gong

This paper presents a high speed implementation of an optical flow algorithm which computes planar velocity fields in an experimental flow. Real-time computation of the flow velocity field allows the experimentalist to have instantaneous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-26 N. Gautier , J-L. Aider

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

Neural networks have shown great potential in compressing volume data for visualization. However, due to the high cost of training and inference, such volumetric neural representations have thus far only been applied to offline data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Qi Wu , David Bauer , Michael J. Doyle , Kwan-Liu Ma

Recent work in visual SLAM has shown the effectiveness of using deep network backbones. Despite excellent accuracy, however, such approaches are often expensive to run or do not generalize well zero-shot. Their runtime can also fluctuate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Lahav Lipson , Zachary Teed , Jia Deng