Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations
arXiv:2607. 18236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning.
arXiv:2606. 16253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models increasingly rely on high-frequency multi-camera observations, making visual communication a major bottleneck for real-time robotic control in bandwidth-constrained or distributed deployment settings.
arXiv:2607. 18236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning.
Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning. Modern robot policies either compress each observation into a single global token, or rely on visual backbones trained from scratch, sacrificing both fine-grained spatial detail and the benefits of large-scale visual pre-training.
arXiv:2506. 17639v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLA) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities and strong potential in complex robotic manipulation.
arXiv:2606. 30113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete action tokenization provides a compact interface for autoregressive VLA policies, but accurately recovering continuous robot actions from discrete codes remains challenging.
arXiv:2608.22419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Query-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer low-latency inference that is attractive for bimanual robotic manipulation, but we observe that...
arXiv:2607. 06370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising approach for generalizable robotic manipulations.
arXiv:2606. 20246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on massive video-robot datasets have revolutionized robotic manipulation, yet their multi-billion parameter architectures impose prohibitive computational burdens during downstream fine-tuning and real-time inference.
StreamPI introduces a streaming multimodal temporal modeling framework that enhances Vision‑Language‑Action models by adding temporal reasoning without extra parameters. It anchors each visual observation and language instruction pair as a temporal unit, using bidirectional attention for cross‑modal fusion and causal attention for autoregressive streaming inference. The method employs random‑interval streaming training to improve robustness and leverages the LLM backbone’s length extrapolation to inherit pretrained weights, achieving superior performance over pi0.5 on real‑robot and simulation tasks.
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated effectiveness in robot manipulation, yet state-of-the-art models such as pi0.5 operate under a single-frame paradigm, limiting their ability to re...
arXiv:2511. 18960v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable progress in embodied tasks recently, but most methods process visual observations independently at each timestep.
RawVLA introduces a streaming neural image signal processor that adaptively renders RAW observations for vision‑language‑action (VLA) policies, focusing on imaging factors that influence embodied behavior. The authors systematically analyze how five ISP dimensions—gain, sensor noise, chromatic response, tonal response, and bit depth—affect action prediction and manipulation success, showing that RAW‑to‑RGB processing significantly shapes outcomes. They also present RawVLA‑Bench, a RAW‑domain manipulation benchmark that evaluates image processing as an explicit variable across clean and adverse conditions, demonstrating that RawVLA maintains performance under standard settings while markedly improving robustness under degraded imaging.
arXiv:2606. 29350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models and vision-language action models endow the robot with unprecedented capabilities.