Vision-language-action (VLA) models inherit a shared synchronous clock from vision-language pretraining, processing every input at one rate. This is misaligned with physical interaction, where a high-frequency modality changes at hundreds of hertz, vision evolves more slowly, and language stays constant across an episode.
arXiv:2512. 01031v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are becoming increasingly capable across diverse robotic tasks.
By Jiaming Tang, Yufei Sun, Yilong Zhao, Shang Yang, Yujun Lin, Zhuoyang Zhang, James Hou, Yao Lu, Zhijian Liu, Song Han
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
Vision-language-action (VLA) models commonly adopt an LLM-centric $V \to L \to A$ pathway, where visual observations are projected into the representation space of a large language model before being decoded into robot actions. Although effective, this design incurs substantial computation and memory overhead at every policy invocation.
arXiv:2606. 06491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot manipulation alternates between low-risk transit phases that call for fast execution and high-risk contact stages that demand slow, precise motion.
By Dong Jing, Jingchen Nie, Tianqi Zhang, Jiaqi Liu, Huaxiu Yao, Zhiwu Lu, Mingyu Ding
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising approach for generalizable robotic manipulations. In particular, flow matching-based VLA models have shown remarkable success due to their capability to generate precise and smooth action sequences and capture multimodal distributions.
arXiv:2607. 06370v2 Announce Type: replace-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
Robot manipulation alternates between low-risk transit phases that call for fast execution and high-risk contact stages that demand slow, precise motion. Yet existing Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) only inherit a single fixed speed from training demonstrations.
arXiv:2606. 09572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models have shown strong promise for robot manipulation, yet raw language is primarily needed to specify task intent rather than to be repeatedly processed during high-frequency low-level execution.
By Jiacheng Li, Yize Guo, Jiabin Guo, Qingchen Liu, Jiahu Qin
arXiv:2606. 07383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation, but real-time deployment on edge hardware remains challenging.
By Huixi Intelligence, :, Chen Zhang, Chenyang Zhou, Guanglei Ding, Guanghui He, Haibin Gao, Jiajia Chen, Jianyong Zhang, Lianyi Yu, Ningyi Xu, Ping Xu, Qingchen Li, Yingjun Hu, Yijia Zhang, Yuxi Liu
arXiv:2607. 18236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning.
By Gaoyue Zhou, Zichen Jeff Cui, Ada Langford, Bowen Tan, Yann LeCun, Lerrel Pinto
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