arXiv:2606. 27755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable instruction-driven robotic manipulation, but they inherit oversized language backbones from pretrained VLMs whose capacity far exceeds what is needed for short robotic instructions.
By Guoheng Sun, Kaixi Feng, Shwai He, Xiaochuan Gong, Yexiao He, Ziyao Wang, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Ramana Rao Kompella, Gaowen Liu, Ang Li
arXiv:2603. 06001v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable robots to perform manipulation tasks directly from natural language instructions and are increasingly viewed as a foundation for generalist robotic policies.
By Ninghao Zhang, Bin Zhu, Shijie Zhou, Jingjing Chen
arXiv:2606. 13886v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at mapping visual inputs and natural language instructions directly to robotic control policies.
By Namai Chandra, Shriram Damodaran, Lin Wang
arXiv:2606. 12299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a natural language interface to robot control, but the mapping from language to behavior is often brittle and unintuitive: semantically similar instructions can induce drastically different behaviors, while some capabilities may not be elicitable through prompting alone.
By Hyun Joe Jeong, Gokul Swamy, Andrea Bajcsy
arXiv:2606. 02735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalization remains a central bottleneck for vision-language-action (VLA) models: under distractors, appearance shifts, and semantically similar tasks, the policy must often infer local execution details from coarse instructions while also deciding which parts of the image matter for control.
By Yueh-Hua Wu, Tatsuya Matsushima, Kei Ota
arXiv:2607. 10059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for autonomous tasks, yet existing evaluations mostly focus on task success rather than whether agents know when to abstain.
By Xun Liu, Yi Evie Zhang, Vira Kasprova, Parisa Rabbani, Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Tianyu Zhang, Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny, Varun Chandrasekaran
arXiv:2608. 01428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied agents replan frequently to recover from execution drift, partial observability, and coordination hazards, but each LLM-based replanning call can consume an accumulated textual context that grows over time and across agents.
By Shuaijun Liu, Feiyang You, Xingwei Chen, Ningxin Su
arXiv:2606. 08881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet existing evaluations are primarily conducted in simulation or on expensive robotic platforms, leaving their robustness on affordable real-world robots largely unexplored.
By Yi Yu, Xinchuan Qiu
arXiv:2607. 09713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key step toward autonomous industrial operation is the ability to create and reconfigure control policies from natural-language requirement specifications, with minimal or no manual redesign.
By Yuchen Wang, Javal Vyas, Tong Liu, Mehmet Mercangoz
arXiv:2607. 11388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled increasingly capable digital agents for computer use.
By Wenyi Wu, Sibo Zhu, Kun Zhou, Aayush Salvi, Zixuan Song, Biwei Huang
arXiv:2606. 12402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as high-level planners for embodied agents, with an emerging strategy of scaling test-time compute to improve capability.
By Jadelynn Dao, Milan Ganai, Yasmina Abukhadra, Ajay Sridhar, Mozhgan Nasr Azadani, Katie Luo, Clark Barrett, Jiajun Wu, Chelsea Finn, Marco Pavone
arXiv:2606. 17929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-using agents drive real software through the screen -- clicking and typing -- but they solve every task from scratch: asked to repeat a task, an agent re-reads the screen, re-reasons every tap, and pays the full cost again.
By Bojie Li