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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models commonly generate robot actions token by token through Large Language Model (LLM) decoders, causing inference latency to grow with action sequence length and limiting closed-loop control frequency. We present Goal-Conditioned Vision-Predictor-Action (VPA), which replaces autoregressive decoders with a lightweight latent control loop.
Runtime failure monitors for robot policies are typically evaluated by how accurately they distinguish failed from successful executions. Yet an accurate alarm may arrive too late for recovery, while an unnecessary intervention may disrupt an execution that would otherwise succeed.
Reinforcement Learning (RL) substantially improves planning performance in autonomous-driving Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, existing RL methods rely on scalar trajectory rewards that measure overall quality but fail to identify specific planning errors or provide actionable correction signals.
Vision-language-action (VLA) models and world action models (WAMs) have advanced robotic policy learning by building on pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) and video generative models (VGMs), respectively. Yet VLAs learn without explicit supervision from future world states, while WAMs that condition actions on predicted futures incur extra inference cost and let visual prediction errors propagate into actions.
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies issue sparse targets whose arrival at the robot controller is delayed and irregular, so a reasonable predicted action can still produce abrupt motion near people. Remedies are evaluated on different streams, delays and metrics.
Memory-dependent manipulation requires a policy to track execution state and recover visual evidence that is no longer observable. We propose dual-stream memory for vision-language-action policies, assigning these requirements to complementary representations.
Pre-trained robot policies, such as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, provide a strong foundation for generalist robotic manipulation, but adapting them to new tasks with only a few demonstrations remains challenging. Directly fine-tuning a pre-trained policy often achieves strong in-distribution performance, yet it can distort the representations learned during pre-training and weaken the model's generalization ability under out-of-distribution shifts.
Pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) models encode broad manipulation priors, yet adapting them to specific tasks requires balancing limited robot interaction, computational resources, and safety constraints. Noise space learning (NSL) adapts flow-matching-based VLAs by learning a context-conditioned distribution over noise while keeping the pretrained VLA fixed.
Actions specify what a robot should execute, but do not describe what those commands will achieve. Vision-language-action (VLA) policies nevertheless learn primarily by predicting action chunks from images, language, and state.
A user who brings a generalist manipulation policy into their home or office wants it to pick up their objects from their shelves, counters, and tables. Yet even a strong generalist like $π_{0.5}$ achieves 0% pickup success in our captured deployment scenes without adaptation, and collecting real demonstrations in every user's environment is prohibitively expensive.
Scaling generalist robotic policies is limited by the high cost of collecting embodied interaction data. Large-scale egocentric human videos offer a rich alternative, but they lack robot action labels, and existing action annotation methods are often noisy under real-world visual complexity and diverse manipulation dynamics.
KAIST 연구진이 arXiv 프리프린트로 공개한 FastOPD는 대형 VLA와 WAM 교사를 소형 SmolVLA 학생에 증류하면서 샘플링 단계까지 줄이는 온폴리시 증류 프레임워크다. LIBERO에서 π0.5 교사 평균 성공률의 84%를 2단계 추론만으로 유지했고 추론 지연은 78.1% 줄었으며, RoboTwin 2.0에서는 LingBot-VLA 교사 기준 단일 단계 성공률을 기존 학생보다 15.9%포인트 높였다. 실물 로봇에서도 4단계 기준 성공률을 8%포인트 개선해 대형 파운데이션 정책의 실시간 배포 가능성을 보였다.
이 논문은 프리프린트다. 연구진은 VLA 모델이 지시와 장면을 결합해 필요한 행동을 선택하지 못하는 instruction action binding 현상을 진단하고, 같은 지시에 서로 다른 행동이 필요한 장면 쌍을 학습에 쓰는 Equivariant Counterfactual Training(ECT)을 제안했다. LIBERO-PRO에서 ECT는 \pi_{0.5}의 평균 위치 교환 성공률을 36%에서 59%로 올렸고, CALVIN에서는 5개 연속 작업 완료율을 58%에서 76%로, UR5e 실물 로봇에서는 보지 못한 위치 성공률을 8%에서 88%로 높였다.
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced robotic manipulation, but their zero-shot generalization in new tasks and environments remains limited, and their reliance on specialized training keeps them from benefiting directly from rapidly advancing general-purpose vision-language models (VLMs). In parallel, recent agentic robotic systems leverage VLMs for high-level reasoning or coding agents for robot control, but often depend on extensive external models and tools, introducing additional complexity and cost.
Visual Language Action (VLA) models offer unprecedented generalization for autonomous robots; however, their real-world deployment is frequently bottlenecked by unreliable execution and the prohibitive computational cost of fine-tuning for specific robot embodiments and tasks. To bridge this gap, we propose WayFinder, an end-to-end, closed-loop hierarchical VLA framework that circumvents the need for fine-tuning by decoupling high-level task reasoning from low-level kinematic control.
Vision-language-action and world-action models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in robotics, yet generalization to unseen tasks remains challenging. More recently, general-purpose multimodal agents have shown great potential for zero-shot robotic task solving.
Diffusion and flow-matching Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies generate action chunks through iterative denoising, incurring substantial inference latency that severely limits real-time robotic control. Existing acceleration methods treat an action chunk as a monolithic computational unit, ignoring a crucial physical reality of receding-horizon control: actions are generated jointly but consumed sequentially, resulting in inherently heterogeneous execution urgencies.
Simulated manipulation benchmarks are the standard tool for evaluating vision-language-action (VLA) policies and the acceleration methods that reduce their inference latency for on-robot deployment. On these benchmarks, we observe that some training-free acceleration methods, which approximate the baseline policy's computation, achieve higher measured success rates than the baseline itself.
Vision-language-action (VLA) models typically operate on RGB images produced by a fixed camera image signal processor (ISP), leaving the imaging pipeline outside the learning and evaluation loop. We systematically examine the consequences of this overlooked design choice across five fundamental ISP dimensions: gain, sensor noise, chromatic response, tonal response, and bit depth.
General-purpose physical AI models must combine broad visual and linguistic capabilities with precise control across robot embodiments and efficient adaptation to downstream tasks. We introduce Rho, a family of open-weights VLA models for bimanual manipulation designed for data-light task adaptation on 3 embodiments representative of dual-arm robots across research labs and the industry -- YAM Box, UR AI Trainer, and FR3 Duo.
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