arXiv:2601. 20334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly adopted vision-language-action (VLA) models, which achieve strong performance but typically require task-specific demonstrations and fine-tuning, and often generalize poorly under domain shift.
By Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. Hwu
arXiv:2607. 05377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show promise toward generalist manipulation policies, they struggle with long-horizon tasks due to their Markovian nature-relying solely on current observations.
By Jiaqi Peng, Xiqian Yu, Delin Feng, Yuqiang Yang, Wenzhe Cai, Jing Xiong, Ganlin Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Jiafei Cao, Xueyuan Wei, Jiangmiao Pang, Yuan Shen, Tai Wang
arXiv:2608. 06756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models are increasingly serving as the reasoning core of embodied agents.
By Ying Chen, Weizhen Li, Zhe Hu, Zhenjiang Li, Rui Jiang, Zhifeng Gu, Lihuang Fang, Jiangping Liu, Lei Yi, Jie Chen
arXiv:2606. 30111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied agents are typically built as hand-designed compositions of perception, memory, planning, and action modules.
By Jian Zhou, Sihao Lin, Jin Li, Shuai Fu, Gengze Zhou, Qi Wu
arXiv:2606. 30111v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied agents are typically built as hand-designed compositions of perception, memory, planning, and action modules.
By Jian Zhou, Sihao Lin, Jin Li, Shuai Fu, Gengze Zhou, Qi Wu
arXiv:2606. 04046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In embodied vision-language decision making tasks such as robotic manipulation and navigation, Vision-Language and Vision-Language-Action Models (VLMs & VLAs) are powerful tools with different benefits: VLMs are better at long-term planning, while VLAs are better at reactive control.
By Boyuan Xiao, Bohong Chen, Yumeng Li, Ji Feng, Yao-Xiang Ding, Kun Zhou
arXiv:2607. 10350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent VLM and VLA systems have improved robotic perception and action prediction, yet long-horizon embodied agents still require a general runtime layer for reasoning, memory, tool use, verification, and cross-embodiment execution.
By Jiayi Tian, Shiao Liu, Yuting Xu, Jia Lu, Zihao Guan, Honglin Han, Di Yang, Minqi Gu, Yifei Qian, Tianlin Zhang, Yanqing Zhu, Zeqian Ye, Menglin Yang, Fei Wang, Xu Hu, Xiuxian Li, Wei Zhang, Shihui Su, Yiyan Ji, Jingbo Wang, Ziteng Feng, Jiaheng Liu, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Xiaolong Wu, Mingyang Yin, Zedong Chu, Mu Xu
arXiv:2601. 03309v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which integrate pretrained large Vision-Language Models (VLM) into their policy backbone, are gaining significant attention for their promising generalization capabilities.
By Jianke Zhang, Xiaoyu Chen, Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Yanjiang Guo, Yucheng Hu, Jiajun Zhang, Shuai Bai, Junyang Lin, Jianyu Chen
arXiv:2606. 27268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, a few works have made early attempts to study test-time scaling for embodied tasks.
By Wen Ye, Peiyan Li, Tingyu Yuan, Yuan Xu, Xiangnan Wu, Chaoyang Zhao, Jing Liu, Nianfeng Liu, Yan Huang, Liang Wang
Recently, a few works have made early attempts to study test-time scaling for embodied tasks. However, two major challenges remain unsolved: (1) reasoning can effectively improve the performance of the policy, but its scaling mechanism has seldom been studied; (2) historical information is essential, as embodied tasks are inherently long-horizon and sequential, making sole reliance on current observations for action scaling inadequate due to the lack of historical context utilization.
arXiv:2606. 28385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in robot world models enable synthetic video generation for embodied prediction and planning.
By Minh-Loi Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Hung Khang Nguyen, Minh Le, Doanh Le Thien, Hoang H. Tran, Dung D. Le, Vu N. Duong, Daniel Sonntag, An Thai Le, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Vien Anh Ngo, Tran Van Nhiem
arXiv:2603. 22435v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: "Code-as-Policy" considers how executable code can complement data-intensive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) methods, yet their effectiveness as autonomous controllers for embodied manipulation remains underexplored.
By Letian Fu, Justin Yu, Karim El-Refai, Ethan Kou, Haoru Xue, Huang Huang, Wenli Xiao, Guanzhi Wang, Dantong Niu, Fei-Fei Li, Guanya Shi, Jiajun Wu, Shankar Sastry, Yuke Zhu, Ken Goldberg, Linxi "Jim" Fan