arXiv Machine Learning By Chaoqi Liu, Yue Zhao, Haonan Chen, Xiaoshen Han, Jiawei Gao, Ehsan Adeli, Yilun Du

Ordered Action Tokens for Visuomotor Policy Learning

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arXiv:2607. 21670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action tokenization maps continuous robot action chunks to discrete tokens and has become an important interface for modern visuomotor policies.

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