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Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often suffer from feature collapse and low training efficiency because they entangle high-level perception with sparse, embodiment-specific action supervision. Since these models typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haitao Lin , Hanyang Yu , Jingshun Huang , He Zhang , Yonggen Ling , Ping Tan , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models combine perception, language, and motor control in a single architecture, yet how they translate multimodal inputs into actions remains poorly understood. We apply activation injection, sparse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Bryce Grant , Xijia Zhao , Peng Wang

LIBERO has emerged as a widely adopted benchmark for evaluating Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models; however, its current training and evaluation settings are problematic, often leading to inflated performance estimates and preventing fair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xueyang Zhou , Yangming Xu , Guiyao Tie , Yongchao Chen , Guowen Zhang , Duanfeng Chu , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown great potential for embodied AI by integrating visual perception, language understanding, and action execution. In real-time deployment, these models must process continuous visual streams,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ziyan Liu , Yeqiu Chen , Hongyi Cai , Tao Lin , Shuo Yang , Zheng Liu , Bo Zhao

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often suffer from performance degradation under distribution shifts, as they struggle to learn generalized behavior representations across varying environments. While existing approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Bing Hu , Zaijing Li , Rui Shao , Junda Chen , April Hua Liu , Wei-Shi Zheng , Liqiang Nie

Prevalent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are typically built upon Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and demonstrate exceptional proficiency in semantic understanding, but they inherently lack the capability to deduce physical…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have rapidly advanced embodied intelligence, enabling robots to execute complex, instruction-driven tasks. However, as model capacity and visual context length grow, the inference cost of VLA systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jintao Cheng , Haozhe Wang , Weibin Li , Gang Wang , Yipu Zhang , Xiaoyu Tang , Jin Wu , Xieyuanli Chen , Yunhui Liu , Wei Zhang

Latent Action Models (LAMs) have rapidly gained traction as an important component in the pre-training pipelines of leading Vision-Language-Action models. However, they fail when observations contain action-correlated distractors, often…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel in robotic manipulation but suffer from significant inference latency due to processing dense visual tokens. Existing token reduction methods predominantly rely on attention magnitude as a static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Peiju Liu , Jinming Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

To operate effectively in the real world, robots should integrate multimodal reasoning with precise action generation. However, existing vision-language-action (VLA) models often sacrifice one for the other, narrow their abilities to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shuai Yang , Hao Li , Bin Wang , Yilun Chen , Yang Tian , Tai Wang , Hanqing Wang , Feng Zhao , Yiyi Liao , Jiangmiao Pang

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models have significantly advanced robotic manipulation by unifying perception, reasoning, and control. To achieve such integration, recent studies adopt a predictive paradigm that models future visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yijie Zhu , Jie He , Rui Shao , Kaishen Yuan , Tao Tan , Xiaochen Yuan , Zitong Yu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) bridge visual perception and linguistic reasoning. In Autonomous Driving (AD), this synergy has enabled Vision Language Action (VLA) models, which translate high-level multimodal understanding into driving…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising path to generalist robot control, but their inference latency causes observation staleness when generated actions are executed asynchronously. Several methods have been proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ayoub Agouzoul

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel kinematics-rich vision-language-action (VLA) task, in which language commands densely encode diverse kinematic attributes (such as direction, trajectory, orientation, and relative displacement) from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Gaoge Han , Zhengqing Gao , Ziwen Li , Jiaxin Huang , Shaoli Huang , Fakhri Karray , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

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

Latent Action Models (LAMs) enable Vision- Language-Action (VLA) systems to learn semantic action representations from large-scale unannotated data. Yet, we identify two bottlenecks of LAMs: 1) the commonly adopted end-to-end trained image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhejia Cai , Yandan Yang , Xinyuan Chang , Shiyi Liang , Ronghan Chen , Feng Xiong , Mu Xu , Ruqi Huang

The Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable performance on embodied tasks and shown promising potential for real-world applications. However, current VLAs still struggle to produce consistent and precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ziwen Li , Xin Wang , Hanlue Zhang , Runnan Chen , Runqi Lin , Xiao He , Han Huang , Yandong Guo , Fakhri Karray , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong

Existing vision-language-action (VLA) models act in 3D real-world but are typically built on 2D encoders, leaving a spatial reasoning gap that limits generalization and adaptability. Recent 3D integration techniques for VLAs either require…

The task of long-term action anticipation demands solutions that can effectively model temporal dynamics over extended periods while deeply understanding the inherent semantics of actions. Traditional approaches, which primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Binglu Wang , Yao Tian , Shunzhou Wang , Le Yang