Vision-Language-Action Models

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  1. HarvestFlex: Strawberry Harvesting via Vision-Language-Action Policy Adaptation in the Wild

    Mar 6, 2026Ziyang Zhao, Shuheng Wang, Zhonghua Miao +1Visuomotor Policy LearningAgricultural Robotics

    The Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China. · The School of Mechanical Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 20044, China.

  2. AnyCamVLA: Zero-Shot Camera Adaptation for Viewpoint Robust Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 6, 2026Hyeongjun Heo, Seungyeon Woo, Sang Min Kim +4Test-Time Adaptation of VLA ModelsRobustness of VLA Models

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  3. Safe-Night VLA: Seeing the Unseen via Thermal-Perceptive Vision-Language-Action Models for Safety-Critical Manipulation

    Mar 5, 2026Dian Yu, Qingchuan Zhou, Bingkun Huang +2Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80992 Munich, Germany

  4. Observing and Controlling Features in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 5, 2026Hugo Buurmeijer, Carmen Amo Alonso, Aiden Swann +1VLM InterpretabilityVision-Language-Action Models

    Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University · Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University · NVIDIA Research

  5. PhysiFlow: Physics-Aware Humanoid Whole-Body VLA via Multi-Brain Latent Flow Matching and Robust Tracking

    Mar 5, 2026Weikai Qin, Sichen Wu, Ci Chen +5Humanoid Robot ControlRobotic Control

    department of Automation Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China · Department of Automation, Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Marine Intelligent Equipment and System of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Control and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

  6. Act, Think or Abstain: Complexity-Aware Adaptive Inference for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 5, 2026Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Gianluca Bardaro, Matteo MatteucciVision-Language-Action ModelsUncertainty Estimation for VLA Models

    All authors are with the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

  7. SkillVLA: Tackling Combinatorial Diversity in Dual-Arm Manipulation via Skill Reuse

    Mar 4, 2026Xuanran Zhai, Zekai Huang, Longyan Wu +5Bimanual Robotic ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    National University of Singapore · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Fudan University +4

  8. PROSPECT: Unified Streaming Vision-Language Navigation via Semantic--Spatial Fusion and Latent Predictive Representation

    Mar 4, 2026Zehua Fan, Wenqi Lyu, Wenxuan Song +12Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language-Action Models

    Z. Fan and F. Gao are with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. · W. Lyu is with the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. · W. Song and J. He are with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China. +5

  9. MEM: Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models

    Mar 4, 2026Marcel Torne, Karl Pertsch, Homer Walke +14Memory-Augmented AgentsRobotic Control

    Physical Intelligence · Stanford University · UC Berkeley +1

  10. Chain of World: World Model Thinking in Latent Motion

    Mar 3, 2026Fuxiang Yang, Donglin Di, Lulu Tang +6Vision-Language-Action ModelsReasoning for VLA Models

    Harbin Institute of Technology · Li Auto · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) +3

  11. ππ-StepNFT: Wider Space Needs Finer Steps in Online RL for Flow-based VLAs

    Mar 2, 2026Siting Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu +7Vision-Language-Action ModelsRL for VLMs

    GigaAI · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +4

  12. LaST-VLA: Thinking in Latent Spatio-Temporal Space for Vision-Language-Action in Autonomous Driving

    Mar 2, 2026Yuechen Luo, Fang Li, Shaoqing Xu +10VLMs for Autonomous DrivingVision-Language-Action Models

    1Tsinghua University · 2Xiaomi EV · University of Macau

  13. Neural Implicit Action Fields: From Discrete Waypoints to Continuous Functions for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 2, 2026Haoyun Liu, Jianzhuang Zhao, Xinyuan Chang +11Vision-Language-Action ModelsVisuomotor Policy Learning

    State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · Faculty of Computility Microelectronics, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology · Amap, Alibaba Group +5

  14. KERV: Kinematic-Rectified Speculative Decoding for Embodied VLA Models

    Mar 2, 2026Zihao Zheng, Zhihao Mao, Maoliang Li +6Efficient VLA Model InferenceVision-Language-Action Models

    School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan, China

  15. Pri4R: Learning World Dynamics for Vision-Language-Action Models with Privileged 4D Representation

    Mar 2, 2026Jisoo Kim, Jungbin Cho, Sanghyeok Chu +9Vision-Language-Action ModelsWorld Models for Robotics

    KAIST AI · LG AI Research · Yonsei University +2

  16. ATA: Bridging Implicit Reasoning with Attention-Guided and Action-Guided Inference for Vision-Language Action Models

    Mar 2, 2026Cheng Yang, Jianhao Jiao, Lingyi Huang +8Vision-Language-Action ModelsReasoning for VLA Models

    Rutgers University · University College London · Rice University +1

  17. Mean-Flow based One-Step Vision-Language-Action

    Mar 2, 2026Yang Chen, Xiaoguang Ma, Bin ZhaoEfficient VLA Model InferenceVision-Language-Action Models

  18. Non-Markovian Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Keyframe Chaining

    Mar 2, 2026Yipeng Chen, Wentao Tan, Lei Zhu +4Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Tongji University · University of Technology Sydney · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China +1

  19. Unifying Language-Action Understanding and Generation for Autonomous Driving

    Mar 2, 2026Xinyang Wang, Qian Liu, Wenjie Ding +7Vision-Language-Action ModelsEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University · Li Auto

  20. DAM-VLA: A Dynamic Action Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Framework for Robot Manipulation

    Mar 1, 2026Xiongfeng Peng, Jiaqian Yu, Dingzhe Li +8Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Advanced Research Lab, Samsung R&D Institute China-Beijing (SRCB), China · Samsung AI Center, DS Division, South Korea · Hanyang University ERICA, South Korea

  21. Characterizing VLA Models: Identifying the Action Generation Bottleneck for Edge AI Architectures

    Mar 1, 2026Manoj Vishwanathan, Suvinay Subramanian, Anand RaghunathanVision-Language-Action ModelsEfficient VLA Model Inference

    Google, Mountain View, CA USA · Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA

  22. UniHM: Unified Dexterous Hand Manipulation with Vision Language Model

    Feb 28, 2026Zhenhao Zhang, Jiaxin Liu, Ye Shi +1Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    ShanghaiTech University · InstAdapt

  23. LangGap: Diagnosing and Closing the Language Gap in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Feb 28, 2026Yuchen Hou, Lin ZhaoVision-Language-Action ModelsInstruction Generalization in VLA Models

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  24. Thinking with Images as Continuous Actions: Numerical Visual Chain-of-Thought

    Feb 27, 2026Kesen Zhao, Beier Zhu, Junbao Zhou +3Multimodal CoT ReasoningVisual CoT

    Nanyang Technological University · Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg · University of Science and Technology of China

  25. StemVLA:An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model with Future 3D Spatial Geometry Knowledge and 4D Historical Representation

    Feb 27, 2026Jiasong Xiao, Yutao She, Kai Li +2Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    Image Processing Ricoh Software Research Center (Beijing) Co., Ltd. Beijing, China · Guanghua School of Management Peking University Beijing, China · Image Processing Beijing YZH Engineering Technology Co., Ltd Beijing, China +2

  26. FAVLA: A Force-Adaptive Fast-Slow VLA model for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Feb 27, 2026Yao Li, Peiyuan Tang, Wuyang Zhang +7Vision-Language-Action ModelsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China · Central South University, Changsha, China

  27. DySL-VLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference via Dynamic-Static Layer-Skipping for Robot Manipulation

    Feb 26, 2026Zebin Yang, Yijiahao Qi, Tong Xie +3Efficient VLA Model InferenceVision-Language-Action Models

    Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China +2

  28. Rethinking the Practicality of Vision-language-action Model: A Comprehensive Benchmark and An Improved Baseline

    Feb 26, 2026Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Xiaoquan Sun +12Vision-Language-Action ModelsEfficient VLA Models

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China. · Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. · Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. +1

  29. Metamorphic Testing of Vision-Language Action-Enabled Robots

    Feb 26, 2026Pablo Valle, Sergio Segura, Shaukat Ali +1Metamorphic TestingVision-Language-Action Models

    Mondragon University, Mondragon, Spain · University of Seville, Seville, Spain · Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway

  30. SignVLA: A Gloss-Free Vision-Language-Action Framework for Real-Time Sign Language-Guided Robotic Manipulation

    Feb 26, 2026Xinyu Tan, Ningwei Bai, Harry Gardener +6Vision-Language-Action ModelsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL), London, WC1E 6BT, U.K.