arXiv:2607. 15621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models bring instruction following and scene reasoning to end-to-end driving, but their inference latency collides with the control rate a vehicle requires.
By Yun Li, Jiachen Gong, Simon Thompson, Ehsan Javanmardi, Qunli Zhang, Zifan Zeng, Shiming Liu, Peng Wang, Zixuan Guo, Manabu Tsukada
arXiv:2511. 15669v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Does Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning genuinely improve Vision Language Action (VLA) models, or does it merely add overhead?
By Cheng Yin, Yankai Lin, Wang Xu, Sikyuen Tam, Xiangrui Zeng, Zhiyuan Liu, Zhouping Yin
DriveVLA-M0 introduces a failure-aware latent memory system for Vision‑Language‑Action models in autonomous driving. It stores past failure cases with scene representations and expert trajectories, and uses a retrieval model to decouple static road structure from dynamic agent interactions. During inference, retrieved cases are injected via a lightweight LoRA‑based test‑time training mechanism, yielding significant performance gains on NAVSIM benchmarks with minimal latency overhead.
By Zebin Xing, Yupeng Zheng, Qiang Chen, Linbo Wang, Yichen Zhang, Pengxuan Yang, Junli Wang, Deheng Qian, Xiaoqing Ye, Junyu Han, Yifeng Pan, Qichao Zhang, Dongbin Zhao
arXiv:2606. 28397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language navigation (VLN) has recently advanced with large language and multimodal models, enabling agents to follow natural-language instructions in unseen environments without training a task-specific navigation policy.
By Shaoxuan Li, Xiangyu Dong, Xiaoguang Ma, Junfeng Chen, Haoran Zhao, Yaoming Zhou
arXiv:2606.08684v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present BLUE, a minimal method for better language use in vision-language-action (VLA) models for autonomous driving (AD). Through extensive ana...
By George Ling, Lijin Yang, Hao Yang, Zhongzhan Huang
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
The paper introduces Latent Action Driving Annotations (LADA), a three‑stage pipeline that converts large amounts of unlabelled observation‑trajectory data into a language‑conditioned driving model. First, a latent action model with a vector‑quantised bottleneck learns a compact codebook of vehicle intents. Then, a small set of language‑annotated examples trains a vision‑language translator to map observations and instructions into this codebook, and finally a VLA is trained on observation‑latent‑action pairs across the full corpus. Using less than 5% of language annotations, LADA attains a Driving Score of 87.98 and a Success Rate of 70.46% on Bench2Drive, matching or surpassing fully supervised baselines.
By Alexey Zakharov, Kemal Oksuz, Puneet K. Dokania
arXiv:2607. 25487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models translate natural-language commands into robot action sequences, but leading systems on the LIBERO-Plus robustness benchmark use three- to seven-billion-parameter backbones whose memory demands can exceed embedded robotic budgets.
By Minhyeok Lee, Chiyoung Kim, Chanhoe Gu, Seongrok Kim, Sanghyuk Roy Choi, Donghwan Hwang, Donghun Ryu, Seokhyun Kim
RoboSPA is a large-scale robotic manipulation dataset and benchmark designed to evaluate Vision‑Language‑Action models on fine‑grained spatial reasoning and long‑horizon procedural planning. It contains 10 task categories, 56 base tasks, and 280 variants across five difficulty levels, with 527K trajectories collected from multiple embodiments and scenes. The benchmark introduces diagnostic metrics beyond binary success, revealing that current VLA models struggle with complex spatial relations, precise execution, and memory‑intensive planning.
By Zhenxuan Fan, Bo Zhang, Yutong Lin, Yuqian Yuan, Juekai Lin, Liang Liang, Zhuoyi Huang, Wenqiao Zhang, Juncheng Li, Siliang Tang, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang
arXiv:2512. 05277v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as the perception and reasoning backbone of autonomous agents acting in the wild, with autonomous driving (AD) being one of the most safety-critical instances.
By Kevin Cannons, Saeed Ranjbar Alvar, Mohammad Asiful Hossain, Ahmad Rezaei, Mohsen Gholami, Alireza Heidarikhazaei, Zhou Weimin, Yong Zhang, Mohammad Akbari
arXiv:2609.34792v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation requires robots to remember cues that are no longer in view while responding to moving objects. Yet vision-language-actio...
By Zijian Ye, Chengqi Wei, Wei Huang, Anlin Zheng, Chunyu Zou, Liangyu Wu, Zikang Zhao, Zhenjie Peng, Yushuo Yang, Shuman Zhao, Zhongrui Wang, Xiaojuan Qi
PRIME introduces a perception feedback mechanism for Vision‑Language‑Action models in autonomous driving, conditioning perceptual queries on a Situational Memory that aggregates past perception, reasoning, navigation goals, and predicted behaviors via cross‑attention. This approach adds only 29.7 M parameters (0.41 % of a 7.3 B‑parameter base model) and enables intent‑driven perceptual attention at minimal computational cost. On the Bench2Drive closed‑loop benchmark, PRIME achieves a state‑of‑the‑art Driving Score of 82.47 and a Success Rate of 60.00 %, outperforming prior models such as ORION.
By Erik Deinzer, Naya Baslan, Luca Paparusso, Narunas Vaskevicius, Peter Knott, Luigi Palmieri