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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…

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Current end-to-end autonomous driving systems are fundamentally limited by a mismatch between temporal causal reasoning and global trajectory consistency. Autoregressive (AR) models capture interaction-aware temporal dependencies via causal…

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The performance of robotic imitation learning is fundamentally limited by data quality and training strategies. Prevalent sampling strategies on RLBench suffer from severe keyframe redundancy and imbalanced temporal distribution, leading to…

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Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have emerged as powerful generative tools, capable of synthesizing high-quality spatiotemporal content. Yet, their potential goes far beyond mere video generation. We argue that the training dynamics of VDMs,…

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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show strong potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet their closed-loop reliability often degrades under local deployment conditions. Existing evaluations typically treat test episodes as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jianchao Zhao , Huoren Yang , Yusong Hu , Yuyang Gao , Qiguan Ou , Cong Wan , SongLin Dong , Zhiheng Ma , Yihong Gong

Robots must adapt to diverse human instructions and operate safely in unstructured, open-world environments. Recent Vision-Language models (VLMs) offer strong priors for grounding language and perception, but remain difficult to steer for…

While language model (LM)-powered chatbots and generative search engines excel at answering concrete queries, discovering information in the terrain of unknown unknowns remains challenging for users. To emulate the common educational…

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Despite the promise of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models as generalist robotic controllers, their robustness against perceptual noise and environmental variations in out-of-distribution (OOD) tasks remains fundamentally limited by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhuoran Li , Zhiyang Li , Kaijun Zhou , Jinyu Gu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to control robots for manipulation from visual observations and natural-language instructions. However, existing hierarchical and autoregressive paradigms often introduce architectural overhead,…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a promising path toward embodied intelligence, yet they often overlook the predictive and temporal-causal structure underlying visual dynamics. World-model VLAs address this by predicting future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fuxiang Yang , Donglin Di , Lulu Tang , Xuancheng Zhang , Lei Fan , Hao Li , Chen Wei , Tonghua Su , Baorui Ma

Robust perception and dynamics modeling are fundamental to real-world robotic policy learning. Recent methods employ video diffusion models (VDMs) to enhance robotic policies, improving their understanding and modeling of the physical…

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on 2D inputs, lacking integration with the broader realm of the 3D physical world. Furthermore, they perform action prediction by learning a direct mapping from perception to action,…

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Adapting a pretrained diffusion model to new objectives at inference time remains an open problem in generative modeling. Existing steering methods suffer from inaccurate value estimation, especially at high noise levels, which biases…

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World model-based policy evaluation is a practical proxy for testing real-world robot control by rolling out candidate actions in action-conditioned video diffusion models. As these models increasingly adopt latent diffusion modeling (LDM),…

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We propose SLARM, a feed-forward model that unifies dynamic scene reconstruction, semantic understanding, and real-time streaming inference. SLARM captures complex, non-uniform motion through higher-order motion modeling, trained solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhicheng Qiu , Jiarui Meng , Tong-an Luo , Yican Huang , Xuan Feng , Xuanfu Li , ZHan Xu

Effective planning requires strong world models, but high-level world models that can understand and reason about actions with semantic and temporal abstraction remain largely underdeveloped. We introduce the Vision Language World Model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Delong Chen , Theo Moutakanni , Willy Chung , Yejin Bang , Ziwei Ji , Allen Bolourchi , Pascale Fung

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately model the fine-grained robot-object interaction within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Fangqi Zhu , Hongtao Wu , Song Guo , Yuxiao Liu , Chilam Cheang , Tao Kong

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

Referring multi-object tracking (RMOT) is a task of associating all the objects in a video that semantically match with given textual queries or referring expressions. Existing RMOT approaches decompose object grounding and tracking into…

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