arXiv AI

LLaDA-UI: Bringing Block-wise Diffusion to Vision-Language GUI Agents

arXiv AI
Jun 24

Accelerating Disaggregated RL for Visual Generative LLMs with Diffusion-Based Parallelism and Trainer-Assisted Generation

arXiv:2606. 24369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant post-training paradigm, driving the emergence of high-performance RL systems such as veRL for autoregressive large language models (LLMs).

By Sijie Wang, Zhengyu Qing, Zhiqiang Tan, Yiming Yin, Yeqing Zhang, Yaoyuan Wang, Qiang Wang, Xiaowen Chu, Shaohuai Shi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

XS-VLA: Coupling Coarse-grained Spatial Distillation with Latent Flow Matching for Lightweight Robotic Control

arXiv:2607. 04171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong multimodal understanding and spatial grounding, but their computational cost limits real-time robotic control.

By Lei Iok Tong, Qingchen Xie, Wei Huang, Ying Jie Yap, Yujie Zhang, Qianzhi Li, Xiaolong Liu, Zhidong Deng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Discrete Diffusion VLA: Bringing Discrete Diffusion to Action Decoding in Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2508. 20072v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models adapt large vision-language backbones to map images and instructions into robot actions.

By Zhixuan Liang, Yizhuo Li, Tianshuo Yang, Chengyue Wu, Sitong Mao, Liuao Pei, Tian Nian, Shunbo Zhou, Xiaokang Yang, Jiangmiao Pang, Yao Mu, Ping Luo
arXiv AI
5d ago

MobileWorldBench: Towards Semantic World Modeling For Mobile Agents

MobileWorldBench introduces a benchmark for evaluating vision‑language models as world models in mobile GUI agents, shifting from pixel‑based predictions to natural‑language state transitions. The authors release MobileWorld, a 1.4 million‑sample dataset that enhances VLM world‑modeling performance. They also present a framework that integrates these semantic world models into mobile agent planning, showing improved task success rates.

By Shufan Li, Konstantinos Kallidromitis, Akash Gokul, Yusuke Kato, Kazuki Kozuka, Aditya Grover
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

BARD: Bridging AutoRegressive and Diffusion Vision-Language Models Via Highly Efficient Progressive Block Merging and Stage-Wise Distillation

arXiv:2604. 16514v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal capability, but their token-by-token decoding imposes a fundamental inference bottleneck.

By Baoyou Chen, Hanchen Xia, Peng Tu, Haojun Shi, Liwei Zhang, Yuxuan Yao, Weihao Yuan, Siyu Zhu
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

Learning Representations to Guide Pixel Diffusion Transformers

The paper investigates how visual representations contribute to pixel diffusion transformers and finds that higher representation quality does not always improve generative performance, and that separating architecture into specialized decoders mainly redistributes modeling rather than enhancing generative suitability. Based on these findings, the authors propose Representation Guidance (RG), a method that compacts generation-relevant information into a low-dimensional bottleneck and explicitly uses it to steer decoder generation. RG achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on ImageNet 256×256 with fewer parameters, scales efficiently, and extends to text‑to‑image tasks with strong benchmark performance.

By Zihao Pan, Mengting Chen, Cheng Shi, Taihang Hu, Zhengrong Yue, Zikang Wang, Yuan Wang, Wei Li, Sibei Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

MintAct: A Unified Visual Agent for Digital Environments

arXiv:2609.22083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present MintAct, a family of vision-language models that unifies UI grounding, multi-step navigation across mobile, desktop, and web, and visual too...

By Mingfei Gao, Rui Tian, Haiming Gang, Bohan Zhai, Le Zhang, Yuanzheng Gong, Di Feng, Ege \"Ozsoy, Kaixin Ma, Vishwesh Kirthivasan, O\u{g}uzhan Fatih Kar, Roman Bachmann, Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen, Afshin Dehghan