arXiv Machine Learning

Your Model Already Knows: Attention-Guided Safety Filter for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606. 09749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated impressive end-to-end performance across a variety of robotic manipulation tasks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Learning What to Say to Your VLA: Mostly Harmless Vision Language Action Model Steering

arXiv:2606. 12299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a natural language interface to robot control, but the mapping from language to behavior is often brittle and unintuitive: semantically similar instructions can induce drastically different behaviors, while some capabilities may not be elicitable through prompting alone.

By Hyun Joe Jeong, Gokul Swamy, Andrea Bajcsy
arXiv AI
Jul 7

DSWAM: A Dual-System World Action Foundation Model for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2607. 04927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) provide a promising alternative to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies by using video-based world modeling as dense supervision for robot action learning.

By Jian Zhu, Jianjun Zhang, Taiyi Su, Tianbin Liu, Zhangyuan Wang, Kai Xie, Zitai Huang, Chong Ma, Youzhang He, Tianjian Wang, Hanyang Wang, Weihao Ding, Yi Xu
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 Machine Learning
Jun 16

AVA-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action models with Active Visual Attention

arXiv:2511. 18960v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable progress in embodied tasks recently, but most methods process visual observations independently at each timestep.

By Lei Xiao, Jifeng Li, Juntao Gao, Feiyang Ye, Yan Jin, Jingjing Qian, Jing Zhang, Yong Wu, Xiaoyuan Yu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

VLESA: Vision-Language Embodied Safety Agent for Human Activity Monitoring

arXiv:2606. 03954v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI systems increasingly assist humans in physical tasks, ensuring safety becomes paramount -- physical actions carry immediate and irreversible consequences that digital errors do not.

By Hanjiang Hu, Yiyuan Pan, Jiaxing Li, Xusheng Luo, Alexander Robey, Na Li, Yebin Wang, Changliu Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 21

RobustVLA: On Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Model against Multi-Modal Perturbations

arXiv:2510. 00037v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Vision-Language-Actionf(VLA) models, robustness to real-world perturbations is critical for deployment.

By Jianing Guo, Zhenhong Wu, Chang Tu, Yiyao Ma, Xiangqi Kong, Zhiqian Liu, Jiaming Ji, Shuning Zhang, Yuanpei Chen, Kai Chen, Qi Dou, Yaodong Yang, Xianglong Liu, Huijie Zhao, Weifeng Lv, Simin Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

RhinoVLA Technical Report

arXiv:2606. 07383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation, but real-time deployment on edge hardware remains challenging.

By Huixi Intelligence, :, Chen Zhang, Chenyang Zhou, Guanglei Ding, Guanghui He, Haibin Gao, Jiajia Chen, Jianyong Zhang, Lianyi Yu, Ningyi Xu, Ping Xu, Qingchen Li, Yingjun Hu, Yijia Zhang, Yuxi Liu