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Flow Control: Steering Vision-Language-Action Models with Simple Real-Time Inputs

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arXiv:2606. 10180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce flow control of vision-language-action (VLA) models, a simple and effective way to steer VLA actions in real-time through generic inputs, such as a keyboard.

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