arXiv AI

The Geometric Nature and a Free Proxy for Flow-Matching Uncertainty

arXiv:2607. 27933v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flow matching (FM) has become a popular action head paradigm for modern embodied models.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606. 18043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) combine vision-language backbones with expressive generative action heads trained via flow matching on large-scale robotic datasets.

By Ralf R\"omer, Maximilian Seeliger, Saida Liu, Ben Sturgis, Marco Bagatella, Daniel Marta, Andreas Krause, Angela P. Schoellig
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 16

Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) combine vision-language backbones with expressive generative action heads trained via flow matching on large-scale robotic datasets. Despite their strong empirical performance in robotic manipulation, VLAs lack mechanisms to quantify confidence in their predictions and to detect when their actions may be unreliable.

arXiv AI
Aug 3

FBFM: A Training-Free Asynchronous Feedback Mechanism for Flow-Matching in World-Action Models Execution

arXiv:2607. 29235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although world-action models (WAMs) enhance long-horizon robot control by predicting visual evolution before acting, long-horizon reliability demands repeated re-grounding in real observations--not recursive rollout.

By Peize Li, Ruimeng Zhang, Ru Zhang, Cong Huang, Kai Chen, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Friction-Augmented Drifting Models for Resource-Efficient Domain Translation

arXiv:2604. 18194v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Single-step generators promise high-fidelity synthesis at a fraction of the inference and training cost of ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based flow models, a central concern when compute is limited.

By Arkadii Kazanskii, Tatiana Petrova, Andrey Ustyuzhanin, Konstantin Bagrianskii, Aleksandr Puzikov, Radu State
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Flash-WAM: Modality-Aware Distillation for World Action Models

arXiv:2606. 05254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) jointly generate future video and robot actions through iterative diffusion, achieving strong performance on manipulation benchmarks but requiring tens of denoising steps, a cost that precludes real-time control.

By Arman Akbari, Ci Zhang, Arash Akbari, Lin Zhao, Yixiao Chen, Weiwei Chen, Xuan Zhang, Geng Yuan, Yanzhi Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 21

RobustVLA: On Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Model against Multi-Modal Perturbations

arXiv:2510. 00037v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Vision-Language-Actionf(VLA) models, robustness to real-world perturbations is critical for deployment.

By Jianing Guo, Zhenhong Wu, Chang Tu, Yiyao Ma, Xiangqi Kong, Zhiqian Liu, Jiaming Ji, Shuning Zhang, Yuanpei Chen, Kai Chen, Qi Dou, Yaodong Yang, Xianglong Liu, Huijie Zhao, Weifeng Lv, Simin Li
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Value Flows

arXiv:2510. 07650v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While most reinforcement learning methods today flatten the distribution of future returns to a single scalar value, distributional RL methods exploit the return distribution to provide stronger learning signals and to enable applications in exploration and safe RL.

By Perry Dong, Chongyi Zheng, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh, Benjamin Eysenbach