arXiv Machine Learning By Mutian Tong, Han Jiang, Qiao Feng, Lingjie Liu, Jiatao Gu

PointAction: 3D Points as Universal Action Representations for Robot Control

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arXiv:2606. 03943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video-Action Models (VAMs) leverage the broad visual dynamics captured by pre-trained video diffusion models, offering a promising path toward generalizable robot manipulation.

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