arXiv Machine Learning August 19, 2026 By Dhia Naouali, Minghan Wu, Claudia Wong, Abhinav Puthran, Omar G. Younis

VLCP: Vision Language Control Policy Closed-Loop Code Replanning for Robot Manipulation

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arXiv:2608. 16978v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Turning a frontier vision-language model into a robot policy usually means fine-tuning it to emit an action representation it never saw in pretraining, which throws away much of the reasoning that made the model worth reaching for.

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