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.
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.
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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
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 30
Reactive Real-Time Flow Policies via Asynchronous Distribution Alignment
arXiv:2609.36540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist robot policies such as vision-language-action models (VLAs) have achieved remarkable generalization, but their inference delays can confli...
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21
RoMAN-Flow: Taming Autoregressive Normalizing Flows for Offline Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608. 20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning improves robotic policies using previously collected data without further environment interaction.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
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RoMAN-Flow: Taming Autoregressive Normalizing Flows for Offline Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation
Offline reinforcement learning improves robotic policies using previously collected data without further environment interaction. Yet prevalent diffusion- and flow-matching robot policies lack tractable likelihoods, limiting their use in likelihood-based offline RL post-training.
arXiv AI
Sep 24
BEE: Intervention-Adaptive Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.27450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models handle long-horizon manipulation, yet success hinges on a few precision-critical phases where millimeter-scale er...
arXiv AI
Aug 17
AtomBridge: Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments
arXiv:2602. 09430v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic laboratories play a critical role in autonomous scientific discovery by enabling scalable, continuous experimental execution.
arXiv AI
Jun 15
Elastic Queries Reinforcement Learning: Self-Aware Policy Execution for VLA Models
arXiv:2606. 14375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models are powerful action generators for robot manipulation, but they are typically executed with fixed inference and replanning schedules.
arXiv AI
Jul 20
SLAC: Safe and Efficient Real-Robot Reinforcement Learning via Unsupervised Simulation Pre-Training
arXiv:2506. 04147v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
SpeedAug: Policy Acceleration via Tempo-Enriched Policy and RL Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2512. 00062v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic policy learning for complex real-world manipulation tasks has seen rapid recent progress, enabled in large part by the ability to collect demonstrations through human operation.
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23
What Does It Take For A Generalist Robot Policy To Adapt Using Minimal Data?
The paper introduces a minimal‑data adaptation regime where a pretrained robot policy learns a new task from a single demonstration followed by autonomous online interaction. It shows that while zero‑shot performance is poor, one demonstration can guide the policy toward coarse task‑following, and identifies key design principles—pretrained VLA representations for sample‑efficient value learning, residual policy learning for corrective behavior, and data‑balancing to avoid exploration collapse. The proposed MiDAS method, combining few‑demonstration behavior cloning with value‑based residual learning over frozen VLA representations, significantly boosts task success on LIBERO, RoboCasa, and a bimanual YAM platform after only a few hours of online interaction.