arXiv AI

Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers

arXiv:2507. 15833v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human vision is a highly active process driven by gaze, which directs attention to task-relevant regions through foveation, dramatically reducing visual processing.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

AVA-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action models with Active Visual Attention

arXiv:2511. 18960v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable progress in embodied tasks recently, but most methods process visual observations independently at each timestep.

By Lei Xiao, Jifeng Li, Juntao Gao, Feiyang Ye, Yan Jin, Jingjing Qian, Jing Zhang, Yong Wu, Xiaoyuan Yu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

MaskVLA: Visual Masking Against Trajectory Overfitting of Vision-Language-Action Model

arXiv:2609.23565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models integrate vision-language understanding with executable robot actions, enabling end-to-end learning for robot contr...

By Yuxuan Jiang, Jiaying Huang, Ge Wang, Shenhao Yan, Jiahao Yang, Chengsi Yao, Qi Liu, Qing Zhao, Shuguang Cui, Yiming Zhao, Yatong Han, Zhen Li
arXiv AI
Jun 3

See Less, Specify More: Visual Evidence Budgets for Generalizable VLAs

arXiv:2606. 02735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalization remains a central bottleneck for vision-language-action (VLA) models: under distractors, appearance shifts, and semantically similar tasks, the policy must often infer local execution details from coarse instructions while also deciding which parts of the image matter for control.

By Yueh-Hua Wu, Tatsuya Matsushima, Kei Ota
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 20

Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations

Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning. Modern robot policies either compress each observation into a single global token, or rely on visual backbones trained from scratch, sacrificing both fine-grained spatial detail and the benefits of large-scale visual pre-training.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

HuRo: Robotizing Human Videos for Scalable VLA Pretraining

The paper introduces HuRo, a dataset of 630K robotized episodes derived from diverse human videos, created via a pipeline that aligns observations and actions for robotic use. Experiments on four real‑world manipulation tasks show that scaling robotized pretraining boosts task completion from 51.5% to 80.3% and improves out‑of‑distribution performance under spatial and visual shifts. Ablation studies reveal that visual robotization enhances robustness and that end‑to‑end pretraining with retargeted actions outperforms visual‑only transfer.

By Jinho Jeong, Se June Joo, Jaehyun Kang, Dongyun Kim, Yena Kim, Hanjung Kim, Seon Joo Kim
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

Gaze Target Estimation Anywhere with Concepts

Estimating human gaze targets from images in-the-wild is an important and formidable task. Existing approaches primarily employ brittle, multi-stage pipelines that require explicit inputs, like head bounding boxes and human pose, in order to identify the subject of gaze analysis.

arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

GazeFlow: From Human Gaze Behavior to Generative Egocentric Gaze Prediction

GazeFlow is a new framework for egocentric gaze prediction that models gaze as a joint distribution of temporal positions conditioned on both top‑down task cues and bottom‑up visual saliency. It employs conditional flow matching to iteratively transform Gaussian noise into realistic gaze trajectories, using a velocity field informed by video‑encoded visual features and global task queries. On standard benchmarks, GazeFlow outperforms existing methods on per‑frame metrics and produces trajectories that better reflect human gaze dynamics.

By Sheng Zhao, Weikai Lin, Yuhao Zhu