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:2606. 08602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present an online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for fine-tuning flow-matching policies in continuous-control problems.
arXiv:2609.38855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models based on generative frameworks, such as Flow Matching, have recently achieved impressive performance in robotic m...
arXiv:2608.29208v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, built upon Vision-Language Models (VLMs), have significantly enhanced robotic capabilities by leveraging interne...
arXiv:2609.15123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-based policies offer an expressive representation for online reinforcement learning, but conventional flow matching requires samples drawn from...
arXiv:2606. 31846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising framework for robotic manipulation by connecting language instructions, visual observations, and continuous control.
arXiv:2604. 16557v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current post-training methodologies for adapting Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) generally fall into two paradigms: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL).
LoopVLA introduces a recurrent Vision‑Language‑Action architecture that learns to refine multimodal representations, predict actions, and estimate when further refinement is unnecessary. By iteratively applying a shared Transformer block and producing a sufficiency score at each step, it decouples refinement from fixed layer indices and aligns confidence scores with action quality through a self‑supervised objective. Experiments on LIBERO, LIBERO‑Plus, and VLA‑Arena demonstrate that LoopVLA reduces model parameters by 45% and boosts inference throughput up to 1.7× while matching or surpassing strong baselines in task success.
arXiv:2606. 11025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has demonstrated that online reinforcement learning (RL) can substantially improve the quality and alignment of flow matching models for image and video generation.
arXiv:2608.23664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reward fine-tuning is becoming an important tool for adapting diffusion models to human preferences and task-specific objectives, but existing method...
The paper introduces QWM, a framework that integrates world models with standard Q‑learning to perform test‑time search over imagined trajectories. By training the policy and value function solely on real transitions, QWM avoids compounding model bias while still benefiting from predictive search. Experiments on the Robomimic and LIBERO manipulation benchmarks show that QWM outperforms strong prior state‑of‑the‑art methods in both sample efficiency and performance.
arXiv:2609.37250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) couple future visual-state prediction with action generation. By adapting video generators or image-editing models pretrai...
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.