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  1. World Observer: Joint Actor-Observer Generation for Persistent World Modeling

    Oct 1, 2026Hyunwook Choi, Dahyun Chung, Hyunsung Kim +4Video World ModelsWorld Models

    KAIST AI

  2. Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents

    Oct 1, 2026Feiyu Gavin Zhu, Xiaoyu Zhu, Jiqi Yang +9Multimodal Search AgentsMultimodal Agents

    Apple · Carnegie Mellon University

  3. AutoGUIWorld: Image Generators as Visual World Models for GUI Agent

    Oct 1, 2026Cheng Yang, Yifan Wu, Yutao Huang +18Visual GenerationAction Generation

    Hunyuan AI Data Team

  4. Kinematic MeanFlow: One-Step Action Generation Policy for Robotic Foundation Models

    Oct 1, 2026Jiawei Fan, Sifeng Wang, Yuqing Hou +1MeanflowMultimodal Action Distributions

    Intel Labs China · Midea AI Research

  5. ActionGuard: Tool Call Authorization under Poisoned Skills

    Sep 30, 2026Jihun Han, Yejin Jang, Byung Il Kwak +1Tool InvocationAuthorization

    Korea University Republic of Korea

  6. Correcting WHERE, Preserving HOW: Compositional Generalization for Vision-Language-Action Models via Referential Guidance

    Sep 29, 2026Yanyan Zhang, Disheng Liu, Xinpeng Li +8Large-Scale Robot Demonstration DatasetsAction Generation

    Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, USA

  7. Direct Experience World-Model Optimization: Learning the World Beyond Action Imitation

    Sep 29, 2026Xiangcheng Zhan, Zirui Chen, Yicheng Zhao +2Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    Harbin Institute of Technology · Dalian University of Technology · Southern University of Science and Technology

  8. V-JEPA Policy: Building Effective World-Action Models on Predictive Visual Latents

    Sep 29, 2026Yang Zhang, Jiangyuan Zhao, Chenyou Fan +4Video Joint Embedding Predictive ArchitectureRecent World-Action Models

    Tsinghua University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Fudan University +4

  9. Reactive Real-Time Flow Policies via Asynchronous Distribution Alignment

    Sep 29, 2026Moritz Zoellner, Reece O'Mahoney, Ioannis Havoutis +1Asynchronous ExecutionRobot Policies

    Department of Computer Science, Purdue University · Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford

  10. Staircase Policy: Streaming Inference for World-Action Models with Large Action Chunks

    Sep 29, 2026Guoheng Sun, Chen Chen, Jin Wang +2Efficient World-Action ModelAction Chunks

    University of Maryland, College Park · Independent Researcher · Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford

  11. QAMM: Adjoint MeanFlow Matching for Few-Step Offline Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Yuehu Gong, Shutong Ding, Mokai Pan +4Flow PoliciesMeanflow

    School of Data Science, Fudan University · ShanghaiTech University · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  12. Beyond End-to-End Black Box Mapping: An Intentional Agent Framework for Cognitive-driven Facial Reaction Generation

    Sep 28, 2026Hanzhong Zhang, Jindong Wang, Siyang SongFacial Expression RecognitionAgentic Framework

    Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK · Department of Data Science, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA

  13. RAVEL: Asynchronous Rolling Inference for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 28, 2026Yuhan Chen, Ke Yu, Pengfei Liu +3Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionInference Latency

    Zhejiang University · Nanyang Technological University

  14. Design and Evaluation of LLM Chaining-Based Task Planning for General Purpose Service Robots

    Sep 24, 2026Lucas Da Mota Bruno, Jiahao Sim, Yoshinobu HagiwaraLarge Language Model PlanningRobocasa

    Grad. School of Science and Engineering Soka University Tokyo, Japan · Faculty of Science and Engineering Soka University Tokyo, Japan

  15. Latent evolving World Action Model

    Sep 23, 2026Xueji Fang, Boqiang Duan, Hua Wu +2Action GenerationWorld Models

    Zhejiang University · Westlake University · Baidu Inc.

  16. An Action Is Worth One Patch: Unified World-Action Modeling with PatchWAM

    Sep 22, 2026Tianheng Wang, Zhou Xie, Heng Jia +3Action GenerationVisuomotor Control

    Westlake University · Lanzhou University · Zhejiang University +2

  17. MedVLA: A Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Framework for Closed-Loop Precision Medical Robot Manipulation

    Sep 22, 2026Junjie Xie, Chuxuan He, Angen Ye +2Medical Vision-Language ModelsRobotic Manipulation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China

  18. Learning Foresight without Explicit Trajectories for 3D Diffusion Policies

    Sep 17, 2026Zhongbo Zhang, Zaibin Zhang, Yifan Wang +3Diffusion PoliciesAction Generation

    Dalian University of Technology

  19. LYRIC: Language-Driven Physics-Based Character Control for Contact-Rich Whole-Body Object Interaction

    Sep 17, 2026Zeyu Han, Zichong Meng, Julian Tanke +8Action GenerationMotion Planning

    Northeastern University, USA · Sony AI America Inc, USA · Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc, Japan +3

  20. OpenDexGrasp: Open-vocabulary Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasping

    Sep 16, 2026Jiyao Zhang, Junhan Wang, Tianyu Wang +4Robotic GraspingOpen-Vocabulary

    CFCS, School of CS, PKU, China · National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of CS, PKU, China · PrimeBot +1

  21. A Comprehensive Review of Generative Physical Artificial Intelligence

    Sep 16, 2026Satyam Gaba, Krutiksinh Rana, Siva Sai +2Embodied Artificial IntelligenceAction Generation

    Qualcomm Research, San Diego, USA · University of the Cumberlands, KY, USA · Department of Electronics and Instrumentation, BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, India +3

  22. Technical Report: One-Step Drifting Action Heads for GR00T N1.7

    Sep 16, 2026Xihe ShaoAction GenerationTechnical Report

    ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China · LimX Dynamics, Shenzhen, China

  23. Zing-0.5: Toward Playable Worlds with Real-Time Joint Action and Text Control

    Sep 15, 2026Mingyang Chen, Shengdong Chen, Xiaoxiao Fu +13Camera-Conditioned Video GenerationAction Generation

    Zing Team, SeedLeap.ai

  24. Breaking the Vision-Action Shortcut: Latent Interface Training for Generalizable Robotics Foundation Models

    Sep 14, 2026Jianman Lin, Shailesh Shailesh, Zhongyi Luo +1Action GenerationEnd-Effector Pose

    School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China · National University of Singapore, Singapore · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  25. IMLE-VLA: Fast Single-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Sep 11, 2026Kian Hosseinkhani (Simon Fraser University), Qinhe Peng (University of Pennsylvania), George Shramko (Simon Fraser University) +7Action GenerationMultimodal Action Distributions

    Simon Fraser University · University of Pennsylvania · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) +1

  26. MoPA: Coordinated Mobile Manipulation via Subsystem-Specific Perception Alignment

    Sep 10, 2026Guangyu Chen, Qiwei Liang, Shaolong Zhu +7Perception PipelineMultimodal Action Distributions

    1THU · 2Xspark AI · 3HKUST (GZ) +1

  27. Do GUI Agents Know When Not to Act? Enabling Conflict-Aware Termination for Multimodal GUI Agents

    Sep 3, 2026Zhaoyuan Huang, Tianjie Ju, Pengzhou Cheng +7Graphical User Interface AgentsGraphical User Interface

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Ant Group

  28. DriftingVLA: Native One-Step Vision-Language-Action Generation via Per-Dimension Temporal Drifting

    Aug 30, 2026Yuxuan Gao, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen +6Generalist Vision--Language--ActionAction Generation

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China. · LYNSENSE, Shanghai, China.

  29. TacForcing: Streaming Action Generation with Execution-Time Tactile Feedback

    Aug 26, 2026Jianbo Zhou, Boyuan Zhao, Yuzheng Zhang +9Tactile World ModelTactile

    School of Computer Science, SJTU · SCUT · ECUST +5

  30. Generative Action-Chunk Sampling for Adaptive Stiffness Control in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration

    Aug 26, 2026Aoi Otake, Ferdinand Hartmann, Ko Igari +1Human-Robot CollaborationAction Generation

    School of Engineering and Design, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan

  31. MAE I Trust Myself? Self-Evaluating VLA Action Generation with Markov Attention Entropy

    Aug 17, 2026Aniri, Chen Yilin, Jinhe Bi +7Vision-Language-Action FrameworkLatent Actions

    Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning · East China University of Science and Technology +2

  32. FACT: Failure-Aware Causal Training for World-Action Models

    Aug 10, 2026Quanquan Peng, Yutong Liang, Rui Yan +2Efficient World-Action ModelAction Generation

    University of California San Diego

  33. DreamTrajectory: Trajectory-Guided Action Generation with World Model Alignment for Mobile Manipulation

    Aug 2, 2026Zheng Yang, Wenjie Zhang, Xiangyu Chen +7Action GenerationMotion Planning

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Ola Dimensions

  34. STAGE: STyle-controllable Action GEneration for personalized autonomous driving

    Jul 31, 2026Zihao Liu, Xing Liu, Yizhai Zhang +1Action GenerationImitation Learning

    Research Center for Intelligent Robotics, School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, and National Key Laboratory of Aerospace Flight Dynamics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

  35. Temporal Policy: History-Initialized Action Generation for Robotic Learning from Demonstration

    Jul 31, 2026Dylan Miller, Martin JagersandRobot PoliciesScalable Robot Learning

    Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada

  36. WorldDiT: A Unified Diffusion Architecture for World and Action Modeling

    Jul 27, 2026Sen Wang, R. Gnana Praveen, Bidhan Roy +1Action GenerationDiffusion Transformers

    Bagel Labs (bagel.com)

  37. STeP: Signal Temporal Logic for Precise Specifications for Action Generation with Vision Language Models

    Jul 20, 2026Kasra Torshizi, Anukriti Singh, Sidharth Mathur +3Signal Temporal LogicAction Generation

    Department of Computer Science University of Maryland

  38. BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong

    Jul 16, 2026Qi Li, Xingyi Yang, Xinchao WangAction GenerationBlack-Box Adversarial Attacks

    National University of Singapore · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  39. GigaWorld-Policy-0.5: A Faster and Stronger WAM Empowered by AutoResearch

    Jul 15, 2026GigaWorld Team, Angen Ye, Angyuan Ma +26Efficient World-Action ModelRobot Policies

    GigaAI Tsinghua University

  40. Reducing Temporal Redundancy for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Inference

    Jul 14, 2026Yuzhou Wu, Yuxin Zheng, Muchun Niu +6Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsVision-Language-Action Framework

    1Tianji KernalMind co ltd · 2Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China · 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China +2

  41. SUREFlow: State-space Uncertainty-aware REsidual Flow Matching for Robust Robot Manipulation

    Jul 11, 2026Md Tanvir Islam, Sai Navaneet Peddapalli, Sangmoon Lee +1Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionRobotic Manipulation

    School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea

  42. PIER-Flow: Physics-Informed Efficient Rectified Flow for Real-Time Mobile Robot Navigation

    Jul 11, 2026Shibo Li, Zhongcheng Wang, Jiahe Cao +2Flow PoliciesRobot Navigation

    School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · Department of Robotics, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi SE45 05, United Arab Emirates

  43. Dual Latent Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 8, 2026Hongyu Qu, Jianzhe Gao, Xiaobin Hu +6Generalist Vision--Language--ActionVision-Language-Action Framework

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University · National University of Singapore

  44. InternVLA-A1.5: Unifying Understanding, Latent Foresight, and Action for Compositional Generalization

    Jul 6, 2026Haoxiang Ma, Junhao Cai, Xiaoxu Xu +26Action GenerationForesight

    Physical Intelligence Team, Shanghai AI Laboratory

  45. Look Before You Leap: Distilling Tree Search into Action Evaluation for Frozen VLA Models

    Jul 4, 2026Xinyi Xie, Zican Hu, Zhanyu Liu +7Frozen Vision-Language ModelsAction Generation

    Nanjing University · Australian National University · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  46. Mastermind: Strategy-grounded Learning for Repository-Scale Vulnerability Reproduction

    Jul 2, 2026Mingzhe Du, Luu Anh Tuan, Tianyi Wu +4Repository-Level Code UnderstandingAutomated Program Repair

    National University of Singapore · Nanyang Technological University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  47. Human-as-Humanoid: Enabling Zero-Shot Humanoid Learning from Ego-Exo Human Videos with Human-Aligned Embodiments

    Jun 30, 2026Xiaopeng Lin, Ruoqi Yang, Shijie Lian +14Egocentric VideoTeleoperation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · DeepCybo · ZGCA +4

  48. SIR: Structured Image Representations for Explainable Robot Learning

    Jun 29, 2026Paul Mattes, Jan Schwab, Jens Bosch +5Robot PoliciesScalable Robot Learning

    Intuitive Robots Lab, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · Robotics Institute Germany

  49. OpenSPM: An Environment-Transferable Robotic Key Spatial Pose Memory and Closed-Loop High-Frequency Flow-Matching Action Generation Model

    Jun 29, 2026Iok Tong Lei, Qingchen Xie, Yifan Wang +2Robotic ManipulationAction Generation

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  50. World Action Models Enable Continual Imitation Learning with Recurrent Generative Replays

    Jun 25, 2026Manish Kumar Govind, Dominick Reilly, Smit Patel +2Efficient World-Action ModelAction Generation

    Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States

  51. PAMAE: Phase-Aware-MoE Action Experts Towards Reliable Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Jun 25, 2026Jiayu Yang, Tao Yang, Xiang Chang +3Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionAction Generation

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China · Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, U.K.

  52. Action ControlNet: A Lightweight Delay-Aware Adapter for Smooth Asynchronous Control in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 24, 2026Tiecheng Guo, Meng GuoAction GenerationRobotic Manipulation

    The authors are with the School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

  53. iFLYTEK-Embodied-Omni Technical Report

    Jun 24, 2026Yuan Zhang, Jingfei Ni, Guanchen Lu +12Action GenerationCross-Modal Attention

    1iFLYTEK · University of Science and Technology of China · 2LindenBot

  54. MANGO: Automated Multi-Agent Test Oracle Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 23, 2026Pablo Valle, Shaukat Ali, Aitor Arrieta +1Action GenerationTest Generation

    Mondragon University, Guipuzcoa, Spain · Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway · University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada +1

  55. ARP: Enhancing Quantized Skill Abstractions via Visual Alignment and Iterative Refinement for Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 21, 2026Yuntian Wang, Zesheng Jia, Yuhui Duan +5Robotic ManipulationAction Generation

    School of Future Science and Engineering, Soochow University · Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence and Large Models in Provincial Universities, Soochow University · College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, China Jiliang University +2

  56. VLA-FAIL: Efficient Task Failure Detection for Finetuned Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 19, 2026Florian Seligmann, Emiliyan Gospodinov, Enes Ulas Dincer +1Action GenerationRobotic Manipulation

    Autonomous Learning Robots Lab, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe

  57. Co-policy: Responsive Human-Robot Co-Creation for Musical Performances

    Jun 18, 2026Xuetao Li, Wenke Huang, Mang Ye +4Human-Robot CollaborationRobot Policies

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China +2

  58. Start Right, Arrive Right: Asynchronous Execution via Initial Noise Selection

    Jun 18, 2026Trong-Bao Ho, Quang-Tan Nguyen, Thien-Loc Ha +7Action ChunksRobot Policies

    VinRobotics · VinUniversity · DFKI +2

  59. ROBOSHACKLES: A Safety Dataset for Human-Injury Prevention in Embodied Foundation Models

    Jun 17, 2026Zhuowen Yin, Chongyang Liu, Wenzhang Yang +2Large-Scale Robot Demonstration DatasetsRobocasa

    Institute of Al for Industries, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China · University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

  60. LAGO Policy: Latency-Aware Asynchronous Diffusion Policies with Goal-Directed Collision-Free Planning for Smooth Manipulation

    Jun 16, 2026Guowei Shi, Xupeng Xie, Yiming Luo +3Visuomotor PolicyCollision-Free Trajectories

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · International Digital Economy Academy · Southern University of Science and Technology +1