arXiv AI By Rufeng Xiao (VLA Research Team, Synthoid.ai), Ruihao Xiao (VLA Research Team, Synthoid.ai), Wei Chen (VLA Research Team, Synthoid.ai), Xinhai Sun (VLA Research Team, Synthoid.ai)

SaiVLA-JEPA: Evaluating Future Latent Prediction in JEPA-Conditioned VLA Control

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SaiVLA-JEPA is a family of vision‑language‑action policies that condition on frozen V‑JEPA features and use lightweight auxiliary heads to predict future latent representations during training. Experiments on 10,030 LIBERO‑Plus episodes show that JEPA conditioning improves success rates to about 82.5% versus 71.6% without JEPA, but adding future supervision does not yield a detectable aggregate gain. Variants that adapt latent context or selected parameters provide mixed results, suggesting that latent‑prediction objectives should be evaluated via closed‑loop rollouts rather than latent loss alone.

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Oct 15

EmbodiedSkills: World Action Model-augmented Cascaded Skills for Vision-Language-Action Agent

EmbodiedSkills is a skill-based agent framework that enhances frozen vision‑language‑action (VLA) policies with world action models for consequence‑aware action selection. It defines reusable skills for observation, context encoding, candidate generation, consequence prediction, outcome evaluation, candidate comparison, and action execution, organized into five stages that support both continuous action chunks and pick‑and‑place primitives. The framework improves success rates on MetaWorld MT50, CLIPort, and CALVIN benchmarks by incorporating outcome predictions and lightweight comparators while keeping the core policy and observation encoders frozen.

By Wei Wang, Wenqiao Zhang, Yutong Lin, Yuqian Yuan, Tianwei Lin, Jinhao Mao, Zhenxuan Fan, Mingjian Gao, Yang Dai, Wentong Li, Zheqi Lv, Zheng Dong, Yingjie Niu, Jiaqi Zhu, Jun Xiao, Chao Li, Yueting Zhuang