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  1. GeoAAC: Geometry-Based Adaptive Action Chunking from Denoising Trajectories in VLA Policies

    Sep 17, 2026Xin Chen, Sen Chen, Yujuan Ding +5Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionVision-Language-Action Models

  2. HIL-UMI: Bringing Human-in-the-Loop Post-Training of Vision-Language-Action Models to Universal Manipulation Interface

    Sep 17, 2026Zimu Han, Yiming Zeng, Jiyao Zhang +9Vision-Language-Action ModelsHuman-In-The-Loop

  3. SkipVLA: Skipping VLA Steps with Classical Planning for Fast Robot Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Kaivalya Agrawal, Md Ashiqur Rahman, Raymond A. Yeh +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsRobot Policies

  4. TraceFlow: Guiding Frozen Flow-Matching Robot Policies with Success and Failure Traces

    Sep 17, 2026Jiaxuan Zhang, Ruizhe Liu, Yu Zhang +1Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionFlow-Based Policy

  5. Beyond Patch Removal: Persistent Adversarial Effects in Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Sep 17, 2026Enhao Wu, Fusen Guo, Yuxin Cao +3Vision-Language-Action ModelsVision-Language Model Adaptation

  6. Towards High-DoF Dexterous Manipulation through VLA Post-Training

    Sep 17, 2026Junlei Zhu, Shenzhe Yao, Chaogui Huang +6Vision-Language-Action ModelsDexterous Manipulation

  7. Recovering Aggressively Pruned Vision-Language-Action Models with Offline Hidden-State Distillation

    Sep 17, 2026Chiyoung Kim, Sanghyuk Roy Choi, Minhyeok LeeVision-Language-Action ModelsPruning

  8. rMuscle: Robotic Muscle Memory for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference

    Sep 16, 2026Kaijun Zhou, Zhiyang Li, Le Chen +1Pretrained Vision-Language-ActionVision-Language-Action Models

  9. FIVE-VLA: Fast and EffectIVE Autonomous Driving with Recurrent Action Memory

    Sep 16, 2026Kemal Oksuz, Alexandru Buburuzan, Yuhan Yao +1Efficient Vision-Language-Action ModelsAutonomous Driving

  10. ActiveScale: Scaling Active Perception for Robots across Model, Data, and Hardware

    Sep 16, 2026Shuai Zhou, Kaisheng Pang, Wenxuan Song +3Viewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionActive Perception

  11. TAO-Force: Unifying Force-Aware Perception and Fast-Slow Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Bohan Gan, Xuanzhang Wen, Yongsheng Zhao +8Generalizable Robotic ManipulationsContact-Rich Manipulation

  12. ActionPiece: Rethinking Action Tokenization for Autoregressive Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 16, 2026Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Zhaolong Shen +5Vision-Language-Action ModelsQwen3-Embedding-8B

  13. DistAL: Distance-based Advantage Learning for VLA Fine-Tuning

    Sep 16, 2026Reece O'Mahoney, Ioannis HavoutisVision-Language-Action ModelsGoal-Conditioned Policy

  14. M2Tok: Multi-head Multi-codebook Discrete Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 16, 2026Chunpu Xu, Zhixuan Liang, Yuhao Zhang +6Vision-Language-Action ModelsVisual Tokens

  15. Acting in Meters: Learning Metric Interactions for Precise Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Lijie Wang, Zheng Lu, Yiming Wang +12Generalizable Robotic ManipulationsVision-Language-Action Models

  16. ForceDelta-VLA: Distilling Force-Conditioned ActionCorrections for Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Ju Dong, Yu Fu, Jian Chen +9Vision-Language-Action ModelsManipulation

  17. Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Sep 16, 2026Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Dorsa Sadigh +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsReinforcement Fine-Tuning

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

    Sep 16, 2026Xihe ShaoVision-Language-Action ModelsTechnical Report

  19. Not All Layers Need Tuning: Diagnosing and Directing Adaptation in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 16, 2026Shahram Najam Syed, Arthur Jakobsson, Prayuj Sachdev +1Vision-Language Model AdaptationVision-Language-Action Models

  20. RAF-VLA: Representation Alignment with the Future for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 15, 2026Dogun Kim, Yongjae Lee, Joonhee Lim +4Autonomous DrivingEfficient Vision-Language-Action Models

  21. FluxVLA Engine: A One-Stop VLA Engineering Platform for Embodied Intelligence

    Sep 15, 2026Yinhao Li, Weixin Mao, Zihan Lan +21Vision-Language-Action ModelsWorld Models

  22. Intrinsic Robot Rewarding: Reusing VLA Representations for Autonomous Evaluation and Policy Improvement

    Sep 15, 2026Tobias Schaffer, Mohab Elkhayat, Daniela Nicklas +2External Reward ModelsVision-Language-Action Models

  23. sensVLA: Spatially-Grounded Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Wheel Loader

    Sep 15, 2026Gopi Krishna Erabati, Bjarne Johannsen, Angus Stewart +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsSpatial Grounding

  24. TEMPO: Learning Temporal Context for Dynamic Robot Manipulation

    Sep 15, 2026Zhenyang Feng, Jimin Heo, Erik B. Sudderth +1Generalizable Robotic ManipulationsVision-Language-Action Models

  25. SAVLA: Symmetry-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 15, 2026Junle Li, Weixian Waylon Li, Fuxiang Wu +2Pretrained Vision-Language-ActionVision-Language-Action Models

  26. Dense to MoE Adaptation for Compact Vision Language Action Policies

    Sep 15, 2026Muchun Niu, Shuang Chen, Yuzhou Wu +1Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionVision-Language Model Adaptation

  27. GRAVA: Grounded Reasoning-to-Action Representation and Learning for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 14, 2026Xiao Liu, Haoyu Li, Jianghao Leng +2Autonomous DrivingVision-Language-Action Models

  28. Atomic Motion Coordinate for Language-Steerable and Force-Responsive Manipulation

    Sep 14, 2026Jiaqi Zhai, Jingkai Zhao, Chen Yang +10ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

  29. Efficient Vision-Language-Action Management and Serving for Robot Factories

    Sep 14, 2026Dionysios Adamopoulos, Nattapol Chanpaisit, Basel Fakhri +1Vision-Language-Action Models

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

    Sep 14, 2026Jianman Lin, Shailesh Shailesh, Zhongyi Luo +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsEnd-Effector Pose

  31. DATAFARM: Distribution-Aligned Task and Motion Planning for Fine-Tuning Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 14, 2026Samrat Sahoo, Yixuan Huang, Tom SilverRobotic DatasetsVision-Language-Action Models

  32. READ: Learning Risk-Informed Fields for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 14, 2026Zhiyuan Liu, Yuanxin Tian, Zehong Ke +5Autonomous DrivingTrajectory Prediction

  33. When Faster VLA Deployment Changes Closed-Loop Behavior: Task Success-Latency Analysis of SmolVLA Across PyTorch and ONNX Variants

    Sep 12, 2026Rafiqul IslamVision-Language-Action ModelsInference Latency

  34. 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) +7Pretrained Vision-Language-ActionAction Space

  35. HuRo: Robotizing Human Videos for Scalable VLA Pretraining

    Sep 9, 2026Jinho Jeong, Se June Joo, Jaehyun Kang +4Robotic DatasetsVideo Pretraining

  36. Frequency-Conditioned Flow Matching for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 9, 2026Haochen Niu, Shengye Dong, Hao Liu +2Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionVision-Language-Action Models

  37. RoboDrop: Curating VLA Post-Training Data via Local Gradient Compatibility

    Sep 9, 2026Runze Xu, Yuanfan Xu, Cuijie Xu +4Robotic DatasetsRobocasa

  38. Time-Frequency Geometric Cross-Attention for Chunked Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 9, 2026Shengye Dong, Haochen Niu, Hao Liu +3Efficient Vision-Language-Action ModelsVision-Language-Action Models

  39. TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model

    Sep 8, 2026Anqi Li, Yuxin Chen, Zhaobo Li +4Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlVision-Language-Action Models

  40. DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination

    Sep 8, 2026Yankai Fu, Ning Chen, Junkai Zhao +5Tactile World ModelVision-Language-Action Models

  41. WorldAgen: Unified State-Action Prediction with Test-Time World Model Training

    Sep 8, 2026Chi Wan, Kangrui Wang, Yuan Si +2Efficient World-Action ModelVision-Language-Action Models

  42. ComVLA: Communication-Aware Split Inference for VLA Models in 6G-Connected Robotics

    Sep 7, 2026Boliang Liu, Wint Yi Poe, Jingyun Di +2Semantic CommunicationsVision-Language-Action Models

  43. LayerRoute: Action-Conditioned Mixture-of-Layers Routing for Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Sep 5, 2026Zheng Lu, Haoran Liao, Wanqi Zhong +9Vision-Language-Action ModelsAction Space

  44. GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 3, 2026Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu +11Generalizable Robotic ManipulationsVision-Language-Action Models

  45. Continuous Actions from Discrete Minds: Latent-Aligned Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 3, 2026Ruoyu Yao, Yusen Xie, Qingzhao Liu +5Efficient Vision-Language-Action ModelsAutonomous Driving

  46. Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Shaunak A. Mehta, Ananya Hazarika, Haochen Zhang +5Scalable Robot LearningSocial Robot Navigation

  47. FWBC-VLA: Force-Aware Whole-Body Compensation for Contact-Rich Loco-Manipulation

    Sep 3, 2026Yutian Zhang, Siyuan Ma, Liwen Yang +6Task-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body ControllerHumanoid Loco-Manipulation

  48. MINERVA: How Small Can a Manipulation Policy Be and Still Solve LIBERO?

    Sep 3, 2026Kohei Sendai, Tatsuya Matsushima, Yusuke IwasawaVision-Language-Action ModelsManipulation

  49. WISE: World-model-guided Imagination Scheduling for Efficient Post-training of Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 3, 2026Chenhao Zhang, Hanyu Zhao, Hang Cheng +2Vision-Language-Action ModelsImagination

  50. SV-WAM: An Efficient Surround-View World-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 3, 2026Jinyang Wang, Shiwei Li, Junjian Wang +12Autonomous DrivingEfficient World-Action Model

  51. Sensing Which Modality Matters: Evidence-Gated Regularization for Robust VLA Policies

    Sep 2, 2026Yue Yang, Diego Romeres, Chiori Hori +3Vision-Language-Action ModelsSensory Feedback

  52. Evaluating Multimodal LLMs as Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agents for Drone Control: Commanding, Approaching, Tracking and Searching

    Sep 1, 2026Jaewoo Park, Minyoung Lee, Sukmin Seo +11DroneVision-Language-Action Models

  53. EmbodiedSkills: A Unified Framework for Orchestrating, Training, and Deploying VLA Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Wei Wang, Wenqiao Zhang, Yutong Lin +14Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionEmbodied Agents

  54. REFACTOR-VLA: Unsupervised Library Learning of Typed Motor Programs

    Sep 1, 2026Riyaaz Shaik, Chandru VenkataramanVision-Language-Action ModelsEquivalence

  55. Knowing When to Stop: Adaptive Action Chunking via Internal Cross-Attention Dynamics in VLAs

    Sep 1, 2026Runze Xu, Xiaolong Shan, Shuang Dai +2Vision-Language-Action ModelsCross-Attention

  56. Temporal Forcing: 4D Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Aug 31, 2026Xingyu Ding, Yuzhong Zhao, Chunhai Zhao +3Vision-Language-Action ModelsLong-Horizon Planning

  57. Rethinking Language's Role in Efficient VLA for Autonomous Vehicles: Toward Smarter, Trustworthy Driving

    Aug 31, 2026Tongfei Guo, Lili SuEfficient Vision-Language-Action ModelsVision-Language-Action Models

  58. Aligning Multi-Trajectory Supervision with Policy Optimization for VLA Driving

    Aug 31, 2026Tian Zhang, Zhuo Huang, Hongrui Ye +3Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionGroup Relative Policy Optimization

  59. Training-Free Action Correction for VLA Model Failures via Language Feedback

    Aug 30, 2026Owen Kwon, Pablo Ortega-Kral, Arthur Bucker +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsGrammatical Error Correction

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

    Aug 30, 2026Yuxuan Gao, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen +6Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionAction Space