arXiv AI
Jul 28
VLASH: Real-Time VLAs via Future-State-Aware Asynchronous Inference
arXiv:2512. 01031v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are becoming increasingly capable across diverse robotic tasks.
Reactive Real-Time Flow Policies via Asynchronous Distribution Alignment
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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26
Learning to Act While Waiting: RL Finetuning of Generalist Robot Policies Under Inference Latency
The paper introduces ARLI, a latency‑aware framework that enables reinforcement learning fine‑tuning of large generalist robot policies despite inference delays. ARLI combines asynchronous inference with state augmentations—incorporating committed actions and mid‑inference observations—to restore near‑Markovian dynamics and maintain reactivity. Experiments on simulated and real‑world manipulation tasks show that ARLI allows effective policy improvement under latency, outperforming standard RL even in no‑latency scenarios.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
DEFLECT: Temporal Counterfactual Preference Learning for Delay-Robust Asynchronous VLAs
arXiv:2605. 19294v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies increasingly rely on asynchronous inference to hide large-model latency behind ongoing robot motion.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 4
Let It Be Simple: One-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Diffusion-based vision-language-action (VLA) models often inherit the image-generation view: actions are generated by iterative denoising. We argue that VLA action generation has a different condition-target structure: the policy is conditioned on rich observations, language, and state, but predicts only a compact, low-dimensional action chunk.
arXiv AI
Sep 1
PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.30378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct vision-language-action policies generate continuous robot actions efficiently, but standard behavior cloning leaves two complementary gaps: th...
arXiv AI
3d ago
Encore: Few-Shot Agentic Discovery of Manipulation Strategies
arXiv:2609.37359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents can now write, run, and debug programs with little human help. Robot tasks, however, are usually specified by a sentence that leaves ou...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5
Let It Be Simple: One-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606. 05737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based vision-language-action (VLA) models often inherit the image-generation view: actions are generated by iterative denoising.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17
Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Policies
The paper presents Real‑Time EXPO‑FT, a reinforcement learning framework that fine‑tunes large Vision‑Language‑Action models for real‑time robotic control. It separates slow, expressive action generation from fast, reactive edits, allowing a lightweight policy to adjust actions based on the latest observation. Experiments on the Kinetix benchmark and four dynamic real‑world tasks show that Real‑Time EXPO‑FT achieves superior performance, improving policy success rates from 42% to 97% with only ten minutes of online data and no human intervention.
arXiv AI
Aug 3
FBFM: A Training-Free Asynchronous Feedback Mechanism for Flow-Matching in World-Action Models Execution
arXiv:2607. 29235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although world-action models (WAMs) enhance long-horizon robot control by predicting visual evolution before acting, long-horizon reliability demands repeated re-grounding in real observations--not recursive rollout.
arXiv AI
Aug 18
EvoScene-VLA: Evolving Scene Beliefs Inside the Action Decoder for Chunked Robot Control
arXiv:2605. 21862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chunked vision-language-action (VLA) policies predict multi-step robot controls, conditioning each update on the current visual observation alone.
arXiv AI
Jun 26
WatchAct: A Benchmark for Behavior-Grounded Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606. 26443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot working alongside people must reason about what they have done, in what order, and with what intent.
arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago
EVO-WAM: Evolving World Action Models through Video-Action Verification
arXiv:2609.38057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving robot policies on new tasks without collecting additional expert demonstrations remains a central challenge in robot learning. World action m...