Vision-language-action (VLA) models commonly adopt an LLM-centric $V \to L \to A$ pathway, where visual observations are projected into the representation space of a large language model before being decoded into robot actions. Although effective, this design incurs substantial computation and memory overhead at every policy invocation.
arXiv:2609.18623v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: State-of-the-art vision-language-action models (VLA) for autonomous driving face critical limitations: excessive parameter counts, inefficient high-res...
By Kemal Oksuz, Alexandru Buburuzan, Yuhan Yao, Puneet K. Dokania
arXiv:2608. 12932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise to bring end-to-end reasoning to autonomous driving, but their computational cost remains far too high for real-time control.
By Zekai Li, Yihao Liang, Hongfei Zhang, Jian Chen, Yesheng Liang, Zhijian Liu
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise to bring end-to-end reasoning to autonomous driving, but their computational cost remains far too high for real-time control. The core challenge is structural: VLA inference is not a single bottleneck but a cascade of four.
arXiv:2602. 21172v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are advancing autonomous driving by replacing modular pipelines with unified end-to-end architectures.
By Ishaan Rawal, Shubh Gupta, Yihan Hu, Wei Zhan
arXiv:2507. 05116v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent large-scale Vision Language Action (VLA) models have shown superior performance in robotic manipulation tasks guided by natural language.
By Juyi Lin, Amir Taherin, Arash Akbari, Arman Akbari, Lei Lu, Guangyu Chen, Taskin Padir, Xiaomeng Yang, Weiwei Chen, Yiqian Li, Xue Lin, David Kaeli, Pu Zhao, Yanzhi Wang
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: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:2607. 02222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map construction, and instruction decomposition, while the low-level action representation remains comparatively underexplored.
By Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen, Wentao Zhang, Masaki Kitagawa, Zicen Xiong, Jinjie Li, Moju Zhao
LookStep is a new end‑to‑end framework for Vision‑Language Navigation that integrates Language‑Centric Future State Modeling with an Event‑Driven Rolling Memory. It uses language labels to predict coarse navigation progress and future states for candidate actions, and autonomously decides which observations to store in a bounded memory with semantic roles. Empirical results show that LookStep outperforms existing methods on VLN‑CE tasks, achieving a 49.7% success rate on R2R‑CE Val‑Unseen while improving memory efficiency and reducing data requirements.
By Kun-Yang Yu, Yingzhe Li, Hongyu Xu, Shi-Yu Tian, Zhi Zhou, Yang Chen, Ming Yang, Sheng Wang, Qing Yu, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li
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...
By Sunghwan Han, Youngtae Han, Youngmin Yi
arXiv:2609.06079v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies leverage pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to guide action generation for robot control. VLMs provide hier...
By Zheng Lu, Haoran Liao, Wanqi Zhong, Yunhe Ni, Lijie Wang, Xingjie Fan, Zhisheng Chen, Yantang Qu, Meijia Chen, Tianyu Xin, Zirui Song, Yiming Li