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Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models equipped with Flow Matching (FM) action heads achieve state-of-the-art performance in complex robot manipulation. However, the multi-step iterative ODE solving required by FM introduces inference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhou Fang , Jiaqi Wang , Yi Zhou , Qiongfeng Shi

Large-scale pretraining has made Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promising foundations for generalist robot manipulation, yet adapting them to downstream tasks remains necessary. However, the common practice of full fine-tuning treats…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xinyu Guo , Bin Xie , Wei Chai , Xianchi Deng , Tiancai Wang , Zhengxing Wu , Xingyu Chen

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve remarkable flexibility and generalization beyond classical control paradigms. However, most prevailing VLAs are trained under a single-frame observation paradigm, which leaves them structurally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yanyan Zhang , Chaoda Song , Vikash Singh , Xinpeng Li , Kai Ye , Zhe Hu , Zhongzhu Pu , Yu Yin , Vipin Chaudhary

Multi-task ``vision-language-action'' (VLA) models have recently demonstrated increasing promise as generalist foundation models for robotics, achieving non-trivial performance out of the box on new tasks in new environments. However, for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Dinesh Jayaraman , Insup Lee

We introduce OG-VLA, a novel architecture and learning framework that combines the generalization strengths of Vision Language Action models (VLAs) with the robustness of 3D-aware policies. We address the challenge of mapping natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ishika Singh , Ankit Goyal , Stan Birchfield , Dieter Fox , Animesh Garg , Valts Blukis

The established redundancy in visual tokens within large vision-language models allows pruning to effectively reduce their substantial computational demands. Previous methods typically employ heuristic layer-specific pruning strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hanshi Wang , Yuhao Xu , Zekun Xu , Jin Gao , Yufan Liu , Weiming Hu , Ke Wang , Zhipeng Zhang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently shown impressive generalization and language-guided manipulation capabilities. However, their performance degrades on tasks requiring precise spatial reasoning due to limited spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Tianyuan Yuan , Yicheng Liu , Chenhao Lu , Zhuoguang Chen , Tao Jiang , Hang Zhao

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation. However, the visual representations of most VLA models are often dominated by global object appearance and struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Weijie Kong , Zhian Su , Wei Yu , Huixu Dong

Recent advances in FlowMatching-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) frameworks have demonstrated remarkable advantages in generating high-frequency action chunks, particularly for highly dexterous robotic manipulation tasks. Despite these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yang Chen , Xiaoguang Ma , Bin Zhao

Predictive foresight is important to intelligent embodied agents. Since the motor execution of a robot is intrinsically constrained by its visual perception of environmental geometry, effectively anticipating the future requires capturing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xiaoxu Xu , Hao Li , Jinhui Ye , Yilun Chen , Jia Zeng , Xinyi Chen , Linning Xu , Dahua Lin , Weixin Li , Jiangmiao Pang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models such as $\pi_0$ have demonstrated remarkable generalization across diverse fixed-base manipulators. However, transferring these foundation models to aerial platforms remains an open challenge due to the…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged, demonstrating strong generalization in robotic scene understanding and manipulation. However, when confronted with long-horizon tasks that require defined goal states, such as LEGO…

Vision-Language-Action models have achieved remarkable progress in robotic manipulation, yet they suffer from a critical limitation: a lack of 3D scene understanding. This deficiency manifests as three intertwined challenges: weak…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhongyu Xia , Yousen Tang , Bingqing Wei , Yongtao Wang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remain brittle in long-horizon, contact-rich manipulation because success-only imitation provides little supervision for execution drift, while failed rollouts are often discarded. We introduce RePO-VLA,…

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) incur substantial inference cost due to the processing of hundreds of visual tokens per image. Although token pruning has proven effective for accelerating inference, determining when and where to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yahong Wang , Juncheng Wu , Zhangkai Ni , Chengmei Yang , Yihang Liu , Longzhen Yang , Yuyin Zhou , Ying Wen , Lianghua He

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models improve action generation by conditioning policies on rich vision-language information. However, current auto-regressive policies are constrained by three bottlenecks: (1) architectural bias drives models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yichi Zhang , Weihao Yuan , Yizhuo Zhang , Xidong Zhang , Jia Wan

Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models often use intermediate representations to connect multimodal inputs with continuous control, yet spatial guidance is often injected implicitly through latent features. We propose $CorridorVLA$, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Dachong Li , ZhuangZhuang Chen , Jin Zhang , Jianqiang Li

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems have shown strong potential for language-driven robotic manipulation. However, scaling them to long-horizon tasks remains challenging. Existing pipelines typically separate data collection, policy…

Mobile manipulation is the fundamental challenge for robotics to assist humans with diverse tasks and environments in everyday life. However, conventional mobile manipulation approaches often struggle to generalize across different tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhenyu Wu , Yuheng Zhou , Xiuwei Xu , Ziwei Wang , Haibin Yan

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models benefit from chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but existing approaches incur high inference overhead and rely on discrete reasoning representations that mismatch continuous perception and control. We…