arXiv:2609.18084v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Fine-tuning a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for a new deployment environment is expensive, yet most methods apply uniform-capacity adapters to e...
By Shahram Najam Syed, Arthur Jakobsson, Prayuj Sachdev, Jeffrey Ichnowski
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...
By Borui Xu, Han Chen, Bingsheng He, Ming Wu, Jason Zeng, Michael Heinrich
FAVE (Foveated Adaptive Visual Encoding) is a lightweight, variable‑resolution Vision Transformer that encodes user‑selected image regions at high acuity while maintaining the image’s native geometry. In controlled experiments on small‑object ImageNet crops, FAVE outperforms a fixed‑resolution ViT by 9.4 top‑1 points while using 12.7× fewer FLOPs. When added as a local branch to FastVLM, FAVE improves TextVQA by 1.60 points and GQA attribute accuracy by 1.31 points, achieving a 3.3× speedup over SmolVLM2-2.2B with only 16 extra local tokens.
By Amitangshu Mukherjee, Kaushik Roy
arXiv:2609.38485v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) train image understanding and autoregressive image generation on shared parameters, and the two objectives are known t...
By Shuyang Jiang, Fucheng Deng, Yuchuan Luo, Zhenyu Wu
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.
By Finn Ferchau, Daniel Pommer, Cristian Axenie
arXiv:2610.24619v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Visual accuracy, geometric validity, and agreement with applied forces are distinct requirements for visual dynamics. We introduce a diagnostic fra...
By Qibin Gu, Yunfeng Yan