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MIRTH: Mutual-Information Reasoning with Temporal Hubs for Vision-Language-Action Agents

arXiv:2606. 31167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: VLA models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for transferring semantic knowledge from web-scale data to physical robotic control.

arXiv AI

Jul 28

Unified Embodied VLM Reasoning with Robotic Action via Autoregressive Discretized Pre-training

arXiv:2512. 24125v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose robotic systems operating in open-world environments must achieve both broad generalization and high-precision action execution, a combination that remains challenging for existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

By Yi Liu, Sukai Wang, Dafeng Wei, Xiaowei Cai, Linqing Zhong, Jiange Yang, Guanghui Ren, Jinyu Zhang, Maoqing Yao, Chuankang Li, Xindong He, Liliang Chen, Jianlan Luo

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arXiv AI

Jun 17

ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model

arXiv:2603. 22281v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in latent world models (e.

By Haichao Zhang, Yijiang Li, Shwai He, Tushar Nagarajan, Mingfei Chen, Jianglin Lu, Ang Li, Yun Fu

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies

arXiv:2606. 15768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) leverage large-scale vision-language pretraining for semantic robot control, but often lack explicit foresight into how robot actions change the scene.

By Jialei Chen, Kai Wang, Kang Chen, Shuaihang Chen, Feng Gao, Wenhao Tang, Zhiyuan Li, Weilin Liu, Zhuyu Yao, Boxun Li, Yuanbo Xu, Chao Yu

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arXiv AI

Aug 6

Explicit Language Memory for Long-Horizon Planning in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608. 04765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide a unified paradigm for connecting visual perception, language understanding, and robotic control.

By Houze Xu, Jizhong Li, Ziyi Ye

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

X-Tokenizer: A Multimodal Action Tokenizer for Vision-Language-Action Pretraining

arXiv:2606. 14752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models must bridge pretrained vision-language reasoning and precise continuous robot control.

By Xirui Kang, Yanpei Shi, Lucy Liang, Roy Gan, Dongxiu Liu, Pushi Zhang, Danpeng Chen, Xiaoyi Qin, Yinan Zheng, Jinliang Zheng, Hao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan, Hang Su

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arXiv AI

2d ago

Reflex: Enabling Fast and Predictive Vision-Language-Action Models for Reaction-Critical Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 14379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently achieved promising performance in robotic manipulation.

By Yuxuan Chen, Wanruo Zhang, Xiao Li

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arXiv AI

Aug 5

LiLa-WAM: Lightweight Latent Reasoning World-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 03701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action modeling has emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic control, as it empowers models to go beyond reacting to observations and anticipate how a scene will evolve.

By Fan Yang, Yuting Su, Xiaobo Wang, Yuncheng You, Fugui Fan, Yuting Wu, Minghui Wu, Chenxu Zhao, JiaHong Ning, Peiguang Jing

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arXiv AI

Jul 21

Spatiotemporal Knowledge Graphs as Persistent Scene Memory for Embodied Question Answering

arXiv:2510. 01483v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong image-level scene understanding, but reasoning over long egocentric video remains costly: because VLMs maintain no persistent memory or explicit spatial representation, all sampled frames must be re-processed for every new query.

By Mohamad Al Mdfaa, Svetlana Lukina, Timur Akhtyamov, Arthur Nigmatzyanov, Dmitrii Nalberskii, Sergey Zagoruyko, Gonzalo Ferrer

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

From Human Videos to Robot Manipulation: A Survey on Scalable Vision-Language-Action Learning with Human-Centric Data

arXiv:2606. 00054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in generalizable embodied control has been driven by large-scale pretraining of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

By Zhiyuan Feng, Qixiu Li, Huizhi Liang, Rushuai Yang, Yichao Shen, Zhiying Du, Zhaowei Zhang, Yu Deng, Li Zhao, Hao Zhao, Zongqing Lu, Oier Mees, Marc Pollefeys, Jiaolong Yang, Baining Guo

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 8

Training-Free Acceleration for Vision-Language-Action Models with Action Caching and Refinement

arXiv:2607. 06370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising approach for generalizable robotic manipulations.

By Ryuji Oi, Hikari Otsuka, Kosuke Matsushima, Yuki Ichikawa, Masato Motomura, Tatsuya Kaneko, Daichi Fujiki

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arXiv AI

Jun 26

E-TTS: A New Embodied Test-Time Scaling Framework for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2606. 27268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, a few works have made early attempts to study test-time scaling for embodied tasks.

By Wen Ye, Peiyan Li, Tingyu Yuan, Yuan Xu, Xiangnan Wu, Chaoyang Zhao, Jing Liu, Nianfeng Liu, Yan Huang, Liang Wang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Think Less, Act Early: Reinforced Latent Reasoning with Early Exit in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606. 15099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to bridge perception and action.

By Dianqiao Lei, Lianlei Shan

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