arXiv AI

Early Warning Signals for OpenVLA Failure under Visual Distribution Shift

arXiv:2606. 29699v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Language Action models combine perception, language grounding, and control in a single policy, but their failures are hard to diagnose once visual conditions shift.

arXiv AI
Aug 3

ActFovea: Runtime Safeguarding for VLA Policies via Spatiotemporal Visual-Action Consistency

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 AI
Aug 7

Visual Grounding in Zero-Shot Vision-Language Control

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 AI
1d ago

FabriMAE I Trust Myself? Self-Evaluating VLA Action Generation with Markov Attention Entropy

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