arXiv Machine Learning

Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching Policies for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2510. 09976v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models such as OpenVLA, Octo, and $\pi_0$ have shown strong generalization by leveraging large-scale demonstrations, yet their performance is still fundamentally constrained by the quality and coverage of supervised data.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

Exploring the Design Space of Reward Backpropagation for Flow Matching

arXiv:2606. 11075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning text-to-image flow matching models with human preferences via direct reward backpropagation is sample-efficient but hampered by two well-known pathologies: activations cannot be stored across the full sampling trajectory at modern model scale, and chained Jacobian products across steps inflate the reward gradient as it travels back to early indices.

By Ruoyu Wang, Boye Niu, Xiangxin Zhou, Yushi Huang, Tongliang Liu, Chi Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 3

VLAFlow: A Unified Training Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models via Co-training and Future Latent Alignment

arXiv:2607. 01586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have recently advanced robotic manipulation, yet the effects of different robot-data pre-training paradigms remain difficult to compare because existing models often differ in architecture, data, action space, and evaluation protocol.

By Guoyang Xia, Fengfa Li, Hongjin Ji, Lei Ren, Fangxiang Feng, Kun Zhan, Yan Xie