arXiv Computer Vision

UniMem: Unifying Multimodal Memory and Control for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv Computer Vision
22h ago

StreamPI: Streaming Multimodal Temporal Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models

StreamPI introduces a streaming multimodal temporal modeling framework that enhances Vision‑Language‑Action models by adding temporal reasoning without extra parameters. It anchors each visual observation and language instruction pair as a temporal unit, using bidirectional attention for cross‑modal fusion and causal attention for autoregressive streaming inference. The method employs random‑interval streaming training to improve robustness and leverages the LLM backbone’s length extrapolation to inherit pretrained weights, achieving superior performance over pi0.5 on real‑robot and simulation tasks.

By Zhe Liu, Jinghua Hou, Yuxiang Lu, Zhenya Yang, Xianzhe Fan, Junwei Luo, Junyi Li, Ruihua Han, Zhi Hou, Hengshuang Zhao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

WALL-WM: Carving World Action Modeling at the Event Joints

WALL-WM is a World Action Model that shifts video-action learning from chunk-centric optimization to event-grounded Vision-Language-Action pretraining, using semantically coherent action events as the atomic unit of learning. Existing WAMs commonly initialize from multimodal or video foundation models and then optimize fixed-length action chunks conditioned directly on the current observation and instruction.

arXiv AI
Aug 20

EgoMemReason: A Memory-Driven Reasoning Benchmark for Long-Horizon Egocentric Video Understanding

EgoMemReason is a new benchmark for week‑long egocentric video understanding that focuses on memory‑driven reasoning rather than simple perception tasks. It tests three memory types—entity, event, and behavior—across 500 questions, each requiring evidence from an average of 5.1 video segments and 25.9 hours of backtracking. Evaluation of 17 models shows that even the best achieves only 39.6% accuracy, highlighting the difficulty of long‑horizon memory in multimodal systems.

By Ziyang Wang, Yue Zhang, Shoubin Yu, Ce Zhang, Zengqi Zhao, Jaehong Yoon, Hyunji Lee, Gedas Bertasius, Mohit Bansal
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

Online Neural Space Time Memory for Dynamic Novel View Synthesis

arXiv:2607. 15271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online novel view synthesis from multi-view streaming videos faces a fundamental trade-off: maintaining a persistent, long-horizon memory to reconstruct temporarily occluded regions while operating under strict real-time constraints.

By Baback Elmieh, Lynn Tsai, Zeman Li, Srinivas Kaza, Tiancheng Sun, Gabor Csapo, Ali Behrouz, Yuan Deng, Stephen Lombardi, Steven M. Seitz, Xuan Luo
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

GlanceWAM: Sparse Test-Time Imagination for World-Action Models

GlanceWAM introduces a sparse test‑time imagination approach for world‑action models that decouples visual imagination from control. By asynchronously generating a single lookahead frame on a slow clock and decoding action chunks at a 48 ms control rate purely in latent space, it avoids latency while maintaining high success. The method achieves 72.2 % on the RoboCasa kitchen benchmark and 99.0 % on LIBERO, running 24× faster than synchronous baselines.

By Linhan Wang, Zijian An, Mingyuan Zhang, Chen Dai, Yi Xu, Can Cui, Zichong Yang, Yinlin Chen, Lifeng Zhou, Chang-Tien Lu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

C$^3$ache: Accelerating World Action Models with Cross Inference Chunk Cache

arXiv:2606. 08962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) generalize better than standard Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies to novel motions and environments, because a video-modeling objective lets them learn from abundant unlabeled video rather than scarce labeled robot demonstrations.

By Weisen Zhao, Lam Nguyen, Zhicong Lu, Yuzhang Shang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Echo-Memory: A Controlled Study of Memory in Action World Models

arXiv:2606. 09803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present \textbf{Echo-Memory}, a controlled study of memory mechanisms in action-conditioned world models.

By Wayne King, Zeyue Xue, Yuxuan Bian, Jie Huang, Haoran Li, Yaowei Li, Yaofeng Su, Yuming Li, Haoyu Wang, Shiyi Zhang, Songchun Zhang, Yuwei Niu, Sihan Xu, Junhao Zhuang, Haoyang Huang, Nan Duan