arXiv AI

Unified Embodied VLM Reasoning with Robotic Action via Autoregressive Discretized Pre-training

arXiv:2512. 24125v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose robotic systems operating in open-world environments must achieve both broad generalization and high-precision action execution, a combination that remains challenging for existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

arXiv AI

Jun 10

RoboGPT-R1: Enhancing Robot Task Planning with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2510. 14828v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex human instructions in long-view manipulation tasks successfully.

By Jinrui Liu, Bingyan Nie, Boyu Li, Yaran Chen, Yuze Wang, Shunsen He, Haoran Li

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arXiv AI

Jun 18

Guava: An Effective and Universal Harness for Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2606. 18363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models trained on large-scale vision-language data have demonstrated strong potential for embodied agents.

By Haowen Liu, Xirui Li, Shaoxiong Yao, Peng Shi, Tianyi Zhou, Jia-Bin Huang, Furong Huang, Jiayuan Mao

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arXiv AI

Jun 9

GEAR-VLA: Learning Geometry-Aware Action Representations for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2606. 08530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong benchmark performance but still struggle in real-world deployment with unseen objects, background shifts, and different robot embodiments.

By Yuan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen, Shuai Dong, Jiajun Deng, Xin Zhang, Yuxuan Gao, Jiajia Wu, Xin Nie, Zhiyuan Cheng, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang, Xingyi Zhang, Jia Pan

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arXiv AI

Jul 1

MIRTH: Mutual-Information Reasoning with Temporal Hubs for Vision-Language-Action Agents

arXiv:2606. 31167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: VLA models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for transferring semantic knowledge from web-scale data to physical robotic control.

By Hao Sun, Yu Song, Shiyu Teng, Ziwei Niu, Yen-Wei Chen

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments

arXiv:2605. 30280v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied intelligence is often studied through specialized models for individual tasks such as manipulation or navigation, resulting in fragmented capabilities and limited generalization across tasks, environments, and robot embodiments.

By Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Jian Guan, Jinhui Ye, Sicheng Xie, Yitao Liu, Junhao Chen, Zhixuan Liang, Jie Zhang, Xintong Hu, Xuhong Huang, Pei Lin, Junyang Lin, Dayiheng Liu, Shuai Bai, Jingren Zhou, Jiazhao Zhang, Haoqi Yuan, Gengze Zhou, Hang Yin, Ye Wang, Yiyang Huang, Zixing Lei, Wujian Peng, Delin Chen, Yingming Zheng, Jingyang Fan, Xianwei Zhuang, Xin Zhou, Haoyang Li, Anzhe Chen, Tong Zhang, Xuejing Liu, Yuchong Sun, Ruizhe Chen, Zhaohai Li, Chenxu L\"u, Zhibo Yang, Tao Yu, Xionghui Chen

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 04162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-ended tabletop manipulation requires agents to not only understand natural language but also adapt to dynamic environments and execution failures.

By Iok Tong Lei, QianZhi Li, Ying Jie Yap, Yujie Zhang, Rui Zhong, Haichao Gui, Xiaolong Liu, Zhidong Deng

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arXiv AI

Jun 11

Embodied-R1.5: Evolving Physical Intelligence via Embodied Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 11324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Embodied-R1.

By Yifu Yuan, Yaoting Huang, Xianze Yao, Yutong Li, Shuoheng Zhang, Linqi Han, Pengyi Li, Jiangeng Sun, Wenting Jia, Zhao Zhang, Yuhao Liu, Ruihao Liao, Yucheng Hu, Qiyu Wu, Yuxiao Li, Zibin Dong, Fei Ni, Yan Zheng, Shuyang Gu, Yi Ma, Hongyao Tang, Han Hu, Jianye Hao

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arXiv AI

Jul 20

IMBench: A Benchmark for Intuitive Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2607. 15641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans combine reasoning and motor control to solve complex manipulation tasks under diverse constraints.

By Anurag Maurya, Sukhvansh Jain, Prajwal Avhad, Gautham Balachandran, Ziyi Zhou, Atharva Kshirsagar, Satyam Singh, Bowen Li. Rishabh Mukund, Ritul Singh, Jatin Vira, Suvonil Chatterjee, Devesh K. Jha

llms agents robotics multimodal benchmarks

arXiv AI

Aug 6

DeepThinkVLA: Enhancing Reasoning Capability of Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2511. 15669v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Does Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning genuinely improve Vision Language Action (VLA) models, or does it merely add overhead?

By Cheng Yin, Yankai Lin, Wang Xu, Sikyuen Tam, Xiangrui Zeng, Zhiyuan Liu, Zhouping Yin

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arXiv AI

6d ago

G0.5: One Autoregressive Stream for Robot Reasoning and Action

arXiv:2608. 11739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The prevailing recipe for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models couples a pretrained VLM with a separately trained flow-matching action expert.

By Yicheng Liu, Zibin Dong, Baijun Ye, Tianyuan Yuan, Tao Jiang, Anqi Yang, Shicheng Cao, Haonan Liu, Yue Sun, Zihan Guo, Xiao Liu, Dong Ke, Changxun Pan, Chenru Wu, Tailai Cheng, Xiaoshu Ren, Xinlei Zhang, Jianning Cui, Zijie Zhao, Haoyu Zhang, Kaiming Xu, Haodong Yang, Bowen Zhang, Jiahui Niu, Shaoting Zhu, Shiduo Zhang, Hang Zhao

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arXiv AI

Aug 6

Explicit Language Memory for Long-Horizon Planning in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608. 04765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide a unified paradigm for connecting visual perception, language understanding, and robotic control.

By Houze Xu, Jizhong Li, Ziyi Ye

llms nlp robotics fine-tuning multimodal

arXiv AI

Jun 16

X-Tokenizer: A Multimodal Action Tokenizer for Vision-Language-Action Pretraining

arXiv:2606. 14752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models must bridge pretrained vision-language reasoning and precise continuous robot control.

By Xirui Kang, Yanpei Shi, Lucy Liang, Roy Gan, Dongxiu Liu, Pushi Zhang, Danpeng Chen, Xiaoyi Qin, Yinan Zheng, Jinliang Zheng, Hao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan, Hang Su

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