arXiv:2610.27698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models transfer knowledge from large-scale pretraining into robot control, but their manipulation performance remains se...
arXiv:2605. 21854v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have rapidly converged on a small set of architectural patterns: discrete-token autoregression (e.
arXiv:2607. 10172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on industrial hardware requires fine-tuning to bridge the embodiment gap.
arXiv:2609.15229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a pre-fine-tuning probing method for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) layer selection, aiming to obtain more stable and higher gains...
The paper introduces a Vision‑Language Model (VLM) that acts as a diagnostic agent to adapt a detect‑to‑track system to new domains without target‑domain labels. By inspecting rendered tracking outputs, the VLM identifies failure modes and iteratively recommends parameter updates, recovering a significant portion of performance lost when transferring hyperparameters from a source domain. Experiments on MOT17→MOT20 show the VLM tuner restores 67.8% of the lost headroom, while Bayesian optimization with proxy objectives performs poorly under large domain shifts.
arXiv:2610.16567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have achieved high success rates on familiar manipulation tasks, yet it remains unclear whether such scores refl...
The paper introduces the Capability-Driven Multimodal Scaling Law, a cross-family framework that predicts vision-language model (VLM) benchmark accuracy from a low-dimensional textual capability score extracted via PCA. By training over 150 VLMs on 34 large language models across seven families, the authors demonstrate that the law accurately extrapolates transfer rates from 8B to 72B‑parameter backbones, predicts full training trajectories, and generalizes to unseen model families. The study also reveals actionable insights, such as certain textual benchmarks negatively correlating with multimodal performance and base LLMs outperforming instruction-tuned counterparts as VLM backbones due to higher absorption rates.
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.
arXiv:2609.13984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models combine a pretrained vision encoder, a language backbone, and an action head, but their relative contribution has...
arXiv:2606. 27449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-head attention conventionally partitions the hidden dimension equally across all heads at every layer, enforcing an identical representational subspace dimension (dh = dmodel/h) throughout the models depth.
arXiv:2512.04305v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP are increasingly adapted across decentralized data silos, yet the reliability of their predictions under...
The paper evaluates the claim that vision‑language models (VLMs) outperform task‑specific vision backbones for UAV power‑line defect assessment using the ElecVQA‑Bench benchmark. Across various evaluation settings—partitioning, item sets, label spaces, replication, resolution, and side information—the performance gap between VLMs and traditional backbones is minimal or even reversed when controlling for resolution and token budget. The study concludes that VLM superiority is not universally supported and emphasizes the importance of rigorous benchmark audits.