arXiv:2604. 18933v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation tasks exhibit varying memory requirements, ranging from Markovian tasks that require no memory to non-Markovian tasks that demand in-context memorization of historical information within a single trial or in-context adaptation based on the outcomes of multiple past trials.
By Yihuai Gao, Jeff Jinyun Liu, Shuang Li, Shuran Song
arXiv:2610.00982v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle on history-dependent manipulation tasks, where the current observation alone does not determine the acti...
By Xuehui Yu, Eason Yu, Meiyi Wang, Haozhe Du, Stefano V. Albrecht, Harold Soh
MemBodied introduces a fixed‑size episodic memory for Vision‑Language‑Action models, comprising an associative state that tracks interactions across policy calls and an episode anchor that stores a compact representation of the initial scene. By conditioning action generation on these memory components instead of raw past observations, MemBodied reduces context bloat and inference latency. In five memory‑dependent RMBench tasks, it outperforms stateless and vanilla recurrent policies by significant margins, and achieves a 90.6% success rate on the LIBERO‑Long suite, improving over the baseline by 5.4%.
By Tej Deep Pala, Navonil Majumder, Bryce Goh, Raphael Yee, Jianfei Yang, Liming Chen, Soujanya Poria
arXiv:2608. 05970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied visuomotor models, including Diffusion Policy (DP) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have demonstrated promising performance on robotic manipulation benchmarks.
By Changyuan Wang, Chubin Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Runhao Li, Angyuan Ma, Ke Chao, Yinan Liang, Xiuwei Xu, Ziwei Wang, Yansong Tang, Jiwen Lu
arXiv:2609.32453v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Robotic manipulation is inherently history-dependent, yet most pretrained robotic policies condition on only the current observation or a sho...
By Xinyu Zhao, Yixiang Shan, Tao Yang, Runyu Lei, Yiming Zhao, Jiaxin Fan, Zongbao Feng, Peng Jia
arXiv:2606. 16447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation learning has enabled highly-dexterous robotic manipulation from RGB observations.
By Abhinav Agarwal, Adam Wei, Taylan Kargin, Michael Zeng, Cole Becker, Arif Kerem Dayi, Pablo Parrilo, Asuman Ozdaglar, Russ Tedrake
arXiv:2609.36595v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Visual-memory systems commonly retain or compress past observations. Robot control additionally requires interaction-derived state that no individual...
By Yuyou Zhang, Yunbei Zhang, Miao Li, Janet Wang, Zijian Jin, Shilong Liu, Ding Zhao
arXiv:2606. 14551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots under autonomous operation may require decisions based on evidence that is no longer visible.
By Zihao Li, Ranpeng Qiu, Yincong Chen, Guoqiang Ren, Weiming Zhi
The paper introduces 2AM, a system that separates memory and action execution in long‑horizon robot manipulation. 2AM stores task memory exclusively in a multimodal Agent, while a single RGB‑based, stateless Action Model performs motion based on language and optional 2D hints. On the LIBERO‑Mem benchmark, 2AM achieves 76.3% average completion—over 61 points higher than the best baseline—demonstrating that agent‑side memory and precise steering of the Action Model can substantially improve performance.
By Yutong Hu, Fengjiao Chen, Xuezhi Cao, Renaud Detry
arXiv:2607. 27138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models remain constrained by scarce action-labeled robot data, whereas action-free videos offer abundant observations of physical change.
By Zuojin Tang, Feifan Luo, Haoyun Liu, Botai Yuan, Dekang Qi, Ronghan Chen, Yandan Yang, Tong Lin, Xinyuan Chang, Mu Xu, Bin Liu, De Ma, Zhiheng Ma
arXiv:2607. 15275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent robot foundation models operate with single-step or short-history visuomotor context.
By Yunfan Jiang, Yevgen Chebotar, Ruijie Zheng, Fengyuan Hu, Yunhao Ge, Jimmy Wu, Tianyuan Dai, Scott Reed, Li Fei-Fei, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan
arXiv:2609.22684v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Memory-dependent robotic manipulation often requires later actions to use information from earlier interactions. Existing vision-language-action (VLA...
By Wenzhuo Li, Qiongfeng Shi, Yi Zhou