arXiv:2608. 04510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based vision-language-action (VLA) policies can generate plausible actions even when their predictions are weakly grounded in the visual and language evidence defining the task.
By Suhas Hegde, Jitendra Yasaswi Bharadwaj Katta
arXiv:2606. 03134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation-learning policies for robot manipulation inherit the quality of the success labels attached to their training episodes, and those labels are usually produced by the robot's own success check.
By Aarav Bedi (University of California, Berkeley)
arXiv:2607. 29169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation but remain vulnerable to runtime disturbances that break the temporal alignment among visual observations, robot states, and executed actions.
By Wenda Yu, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li, Xin Li, Jingjing Li, Lei Zhu
arXiv:2607. 13305v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmark accuracy in video large language models (LLMs) is often treated as evidence of visual understanding.
By Jae Joong Lee
arXiv:2608. 06154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used as zero-shot controllers, but successful trajectories do not necessarily show that decisions are grounded in visual input: simulator dynamics and conservative action priors can produce favourable scores without meaningful perception.
By J. de Curt\`o, Dayani Plasencia, Diego S\'anchez, I. de Zarz\`a
arXiv:2607. 22034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed on consumer hardware where input images are degraded by compression, camera shake, and poor lighting.
By M M Asif Ferdous
arXiv:2608. 08904v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How much of a vision-language model's (VLM) spatial understanding remains after the action post-training process of building a vision-language-action model (VLA)?
By Alexander Hackett, Arnaud Denis-Remillard, Axel Cassou
arXiv:2606. 07595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language agents increasingly consume screenshots, documents, and user interfaces before writing to memory, sending messages, or invoking external tools.
By Youting Wang, Yuan Tang, Yitian Qian, Chen Zhao
arXiv:2603. 06001v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable robots to perform manipulation tasks directly from natural language instructions and are increasingly viewed as a foundation for generalist robotic policies.
By Ninghao Zhang, Bin Zhu, Shijie Zhou, Jingjing Chen
arXiv:2608. 13167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When visual evidence is occluded or chaotic, models should abstain.
By Fnu Pramono, John Cai, Sourabh Kulkarni
arXiv:2608. 16697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) integrate visual perception, language instruction, and action generation into end-to-end policies across heterogeneous architectures.
By Aniri, Chen Yilin, Jinhe Bi, Junfei Guo, Donglai Ran, Xu Bian, Zengjie Jin, Yujun Wang, Yijun Tian, Volker Tresp, Fei Shen, Tat-Seng Chua, Yunpu Ma
arXiv:2607. 00218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are now proposed as runtime safety guards for embodied agents in homes and factories.
By Siddhant Panpatil, Arth Singh, Mijin Koo, Chaeyun Kim, Haon Park, Dasol Choi