arXiv AI

FORGE: Towards Functional Tool-Use Generalization via Keypoint Trajectory Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 05780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While humans readily repurpose a book, a stone, or a shoe to drive a nail, robots trained on specific tools fail to transfer the same function to novel ones -- a gap we formalize as functional generalization.

arXiv AI
Jul 28

Unified Embodied VLM Reasoning with Robotic Action via Autoregressive Discretized Pre-training

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 AI
Sep 10

3DWay: Generalizing Robot Manipulation via 3D Consistent Waypoints

The paper introduces 3DWay, a method that predicts 3D-consistent waypoints for robot manipulation by first generating multi‑view consistent 2D waypoints and then triangulating them. This approach addresses the 3D ambiguity inherent in 2D trajectory predictions and leverages pretrained vision‑language models to provide explicit 3D motion specifications. Experiments demonstrate that 3DWay improves 3D spatial grounding and vision‑language reasoning, enhancing generalization for robot manipulation tasks.

By Ziqin Huang, Yingyue Li, Chenyangguang Zhang, Ruida Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Gu Wang, Xingyu Liu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Xiangyang Ji
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models

The paper introduces GTA‑VLA, an interactive Vision‑Language‑Action framework that lets users guide robot policies with explicit visual cues such as affordance points, boxes, and traces. Unlike traditional direct sense‑to‑act models, GTA‑VLA incorporates a spatial‑visual Chain‑of‑Thought that blends human guidance with internal task planning, and couples this reasoning module with a lightweight reactive action head for efficient execution. Experiments on the SimplerEnv WidowX benchmark show a state‑of‑the‑art 81.2 % success rate, and the framework significantly improves task success under out‑of‑domain visual shifts and spatial ambiguities, demonstrating the benefit of interactive reasoning for failure recovery in embodied control.

By Yiran Ling, Qing Lian, Jinghang Li, Qing Jiang, Tianming Zhang, Xiaoke Jiang, Chuanxiu Liu, Jie Liu, Lei Zhang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 8

3DWay: Generalizing Robot Manipulation via 3D Consistent Waypoints

The paper introduces 3DWay, a method that predicts 3D consistent waypoints for robot manipulation using multi‑view images. By first generating 2D waypoints that are consistent across views and then triangulating them, the approach provides explicit 3D motion specifications while leveraging pretrained vision‑language models. Experiments demonstrate that 3DWay improves 3D spatial grounding and vision‑language reasoning, enhancing the generalization of robot manipulation policies.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

NebulaVLA: A Dual-Frequency Vision-Language-Action Model With Guide Action for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 16503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is often bottlenecked by efficiency-performance trade-offs, cross-embodiment generalization, and execution smoothness.

By Cong Zhao, Shuai Tian, Xu Zhang, Baocheng Ni, Xinguo Song, Xueying Sun, Shu Jiang, Shouchang Yang, Bo Tang, Jin Deng, Ge Zhu, YongCheng Wang, Jin Xu, Ri Yang