arXiv:2606. 30113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete action tokenization provides a compact interface for autoregressive VLA policies, but accurately recovering continuous robot actions from discrete codes remains challenging.
By Tengyue Jiang, Chunpu Xu, Jiayue Kang, Yao Mu
arXiv:2608. 10484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action verbs describe not only the physical outcomes of actions, but also how those actions are performed.
By Li Wenjie, Yash Jangir, Ignacy Stepka, Yash Agarwal, Marion Kipsang, Yonatan Bisk
arXiv:2606. 14752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models must bridge pretrained vision-language reasoning and precise continuous robot control.
By Xirui Kang, Yanpei Shi, Lucy Liang, Roy Gan, Dongxiu Liu, Pushi Zhang, Danpeng Chen, Xiaoyi Qin, Yinan Zheng, Jinliang Zheng, Hao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan, Hang Su
arXiv:2511. 08583v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Developing efficient and accurate visuomotor policies poses a central challenge in robotic imitation learning.
By Rong Xue, Jiageng Mao, Mingtong Zhang, Yue Wang
arXiv:2605. 09948v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically treat the deepest representation of a vision-language backbone as universally optimal for action prediction.
By Boyang Shen, Kaixiang Yang, Hao Wang, Qiuyu Yu, Qiang Xie, Qiang Li, Zhiwei Wang
arXiv:2606. 20246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on massive video-robot datasets have revolutionized robotic manipulation, yet their multi-billion parameter architectures impose prohibitive computational burdens during downstream fine-tuning and real-time inference.
By Gia-Binh Nguyen, Trong-Bao Ho, Thien-Loc Ha, Khoa Vo, Philip Lund M{\o}ller, Quang T. Nguyen, Long Dinh, Tuan Dam, Vu Duong, Tung M. Luu, Trung Le, Tran Nguyen Le, Minh Vu, An Thai Le, Ngan Le, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Jan Peters, Duy M. H. Nguyen, Ngo Anh Vien
arXiv:2607. 18236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning.
By Gaoyue Zhou, Zichen Jeff Cui, Ada Langford, Bowen Tan, Yann LeCun, Lerrel Pinto
Recent progress in large-scale imitation learning for robot manipulation has been driven by leveraging datasets across a wide range of robot embodiments. However, achieving significant cross-embodiment transfer is often still challenging.
arXiv:2607. 15275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent robot foundation models operate with single-step or short-history visuomotor context.
By Yunfan Jiang, Yevgen Chebotar, Ruijie Zheng, Fengyuan Hu, Yunhao Ge, Jimmy Wu, Tianyuan Dai, Scott Reed, Li Fei-Fei, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan
arXiv:2607. 27549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in large-scale imitation learning for robot manipulation has been driven by leveraging datasets across a wide range of robot embodiments.
By Ajay Sridhar, Jensen Gao, Jonathan Yang, Jean Mercat, Suneel Belkhale, Dorsa Sadigh
arXiv:2512. 24125v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose robotic systems operating in open-world environments must achieve both broad generalization and high-precision action execution, a combination that remains challenging for existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.
By Yi Liu, Sukai Wang, Dafeng Wei, Xiaowei Cai, Linqing Zhong, Jiange Yang, Guanghui Ren, Jinyu Zhang, Maoqing Yao, Chuankang Li, Xindong He, Liliang Chen, Jianlan Luo
arXiv:2607. 10706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The action space poses a major challenge in robot learning, since it is often high-dimensional, can span long time horizons, and frequently admits multi-modal optimal solutions.
By Haojie Huang, Zhang Ye, Linfeng Zhao, Boce Hu, Mingxi Jia, Yu Qi, Ahmed Agha, Dian Wang, Robert Platt, Robin Walters