arXiv AI

HELP: Human-Efficient Large-Scale Robot Post-Training with Rollout Segmentation

arXiv:2607. 09776v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When adapting Vision Language Action (VLA) models to downstream tasks, multiple rounds of post-training are often required to progressively address policy weaknesses.

arXiv AI
Jul 14

Maximizing Human Efficiency in Large-Scale Robot Post-Training via VLAC-Cut Guided Pipeline

arXiv:2607. 09776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When adapting Vision Language Action (VLA) models to downstream tasks, multiple rounds of post training are required because a single round of data cannot resolve all issues, making continuous iterations necessary to progressively address the weaknesses exposed in previous rounds.

By Shaopeng Zhai, Qi Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Haoran Zhang, Fuxian Huang, Zhanhui Lin, Zijun Xu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models on SO-101: Failure and Recovery Analysis

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 AI
Jun 29

Drop-Then-Recovery: How Redundant Are Vision-Language-Action Models?

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 Machine Learning
Jul 21

Foresight Residual RL for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation with Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2607. 16506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies offer strong general-purpose manipulation priors, but often fail on tight-tolerance, contact-rich assembly due to long-horizon credit assignment and subtask coupling: a state that is geometrically successful for the current skill can be brittle for downstream skills.

By Yuhan Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Litao Liu, Abdeslam Boularias
arXiv AI
Jul 24

TOPReward: Token Probabilities as Hidden Zero-Shot Rewards for Robotics

arXiv:2602. 19313v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose robot learning requires dense, instruction-conditioned feedback that can distinguish meaningful task progress from stalled, failed, or partially completed behavior.

By Shirui Chen, Cole Harrison, Ying-Chun Lee, Angela Jin Yang, Zhongzheng Ren, Lillian J. Ratliff, Jiafei Duan, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Hierarchical Advantage Weighting for Online RL Fine-Tuning of VLAs from Sparse Episode Outcomes

arXiv:2606. 17043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When pretrained VLA policies are fine-tuned through online RL, each rollout episode produces only a single binary outcome (success or failure), yet the actor update requires per-transition supervision.

By Tongyan Fang, Siyuan Huang, Naiyu Fang, Ganlong Zhao, Zhongjin Luo, Jianbo Liu, Xiaogang Wang, Ying Dong, Hongsheng Li