arXiv AI

Learning to Fold: prizewinning solution at LeHome Challenge 2026 (1st place online, 2nd offline)

arXiv:2606. 27163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: I describe my solution to the LeHome Challenge 2026, an ICRA 2026 competition on bimanual garment folding.

arXiv AI
Jun 17

DeMaVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model for Generalizable Deformable Manipulation

arXiv:2605. 31286v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world household robots require Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models that can acquire reusable manipulation skills across diverse objects, task conditions, and household environments.

By Taiyi Su, Jian Zhu, Tianjian Wang, Youzhang He, Zitai Huang, Jianjun Zhang, Chong Ma, Hanyang Wang, Tianjiao Zhang, Munan Yin, Weihao Ding, Yi Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

EvoCUA-1.5: Online Reinforcement Learning for Multi-turn Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2607. 09773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents must solve long-horizon tasks through repeated interaction with partially observable, multimodal desktop environments.

By Mianqiu Huang, Taofeng Xue, Chong Peng, Jinrui Ding, Sicheng Fan, Jiale Hong, Yufei Gao, Xiaocheng Zhang, Linsen Guo, Xin Yang, Dengchang Zhao, Yuchen Xie, Peng Pei, Xunliang Xie, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv AI
Jun 30

WoVR: World Models as Reliable Simulators for Post-Training VLA Policies with RL

arXiv:2602. 13977v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to unlock capabilities beyond imitation learning for Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, but its requirement for massive real-world interaction prevents direct deployment on physical robots.

By Zhennan Jiang, Shangqing Zhou, Yutong Jiang, Zefang Huang, Mingjie Wei, Yuhui Chen, Tianxing Zhou, Zhen Guo, Hao Lin, Quanlu Zhang, Yu Wang, Haoran Li, Chao Yu, Dongbin Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

AcceRL: A Distributed Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning and World Model Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2603. 18464v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is severely bottlenecked by synchronization barriers and the high cost of environment data acquisition.

By Chengxuan Lu, Shukuan Wang, Yanjie Li, Yingying Fang, Huoyan Wang, Tian Zhang, Wei Liu, Shiji Jin, Fuyuan Qian, Peiming Li, Chao Xu, Baigui Sun, Yang Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 23

In-the-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool Use

arXiv:2510. 05592v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outcome-driven reinforcement learning has advanced reasoning in large language models (LLMs), but prevailing tool-augmented approaches train a single, monolithic policy that interleaves thoughts and tool calls under full context; this scales poorly with long horizons and diverse tools and generalizes weakly to new scenarios.

By Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Seungju Han, Sheng Liu, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Pan Lu