Vision-Language-Action Models

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  1. 3D-Mix for VLA: A Plug-and-Play Module for Integrating VGGT-based 3D Information into Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 25, 2026Bin Yu, Shijie Lian, Xiaopeng Lin +8VLMs for RoboticsVision-Language-Action Models

    HIT · ZGCA · HUST +5

  2. SG-VLA: Learning Spatially-Grounded Vision-Language-Action Models for Mobile Manipulation

    Mar 24, 2026Ruisen Tu, Arth Shukla, Sohyun Yoo +5Vision-Language-Action ModelsMobile Manipulation

    UC San Diego · Lambda, Inc.

  3. VP-VLA: Visual Prompting as an Interface for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 23, 2026Zixuan Wang, Yuxin Chen, Yuqi Liu +6Vision-Language-Action ModelsReasoning for VLA Models

    HKUST · CUHK · SmartMore

  4. RoboAlign: Learning Test-Time Reasoning for Language-Action Alignment in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 22, 2026Dongyoung Kim, Sumin Park, Woomin Song +6Vision-Language-Action ModelsReasoning for VLA Models

    KAIST · RLWRLD · Yonsei University +1

  5. ROI-Driven Foveated Attention for Unified Egocentric Representations in Vision-Language-Action Systems

    Mar 21, 2026Xinhai Sun, Xiang Shi, Menglin Zou +1Robotic PerceptionData-Efficient Robot Learning

    Synthoid.ai, Shanghai, China · Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  6. StageCraft: Execution Aware Mitigation of Distractor and Obstruction Failures in VLA Models

    Mar 21, 2026Kartikay Milind Pangaonkar, Prabin Rath, Omkar Patil +1VLM RobustnessRobotic Manipulation

    Arizona State University

  7. Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 21, 2026Zhilong Zhang, Haoxiang Ren, Yihao Sun +6RL for VLMsVision-Language-Action Models

    National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Mila - Quebec AI Institute +1

  8. HUGE-Bench: A Benchmark for High-Level UAV Vision-Language-Action Tasks

    Mar 20, 2026Jingyu Guo, Ziye Chen, Ziwen Li +7UAV NavigationVision-Language-Action Models

    1The University of Melbourne, Australia · 2Melsy Tech, China · 3MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates +1

  9. Not All Features Are Created Equal: A Mechanistic Study of Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 19, 2026Bryce Grant, Xijia Zhao, Peng WangVision-Language-Action ModelsRobotics

    Case Western Reserve University

  10. Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable and Steerable Features in VLA Models

    Mar 19, 2026Aiden Swann, Lachlain McGranahan, Hugo Buurmeijer +2Vision-Language-Action ModelsInstruction Generalization in VLA Models

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University · Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University · Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

  11. From Inference Efficiency to Embodied Efficiency: Revisiting Efficiency Metrics for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 19, 2026Zhuofan Li, Hongkun Yang, Zhenyang Chen +4Efficient VLA ModelsVision-Language-Action Models

    Celine · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Georgia Institute of Technology

  12. Scaling Sim-to-Real VLA Reinforcement Learning with Generative 3D Worlds

    Mar 19, 2026Andrew Choi, Xinjie Wang, Zhizhong Su +1Sim-to-Real TransferVision-Language-Action Models

    Horizon Robotics

  13. ProbeFlow: Training-Free Adaptive Flow Matching for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 18, 2026Zhou Fang, Jiaqi Wang, Wenzhuo Li +2Efficient VLA Model InferenceVision-Language-Action Models

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China · Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications, Ministry of Education, China · School of Electronic Science & Engineering, Southeast University, China

  14. HeiSD: Hybrid Speculative Decoding for Embodied Vision-Language-Action Models with Kinematic Awareness

    Mar 18, 2026Zihao Zheng, Zhihao Mao, Sicheng Tian +8Efficient VLA Model InferenceSpeculative Decoding

    School of Computer Science, Peking University · School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University +1

  15. ExecVLA: Following Fine-Grained Execution Constraints in Vision-Language-Action Models with Bi-Level Action Representation

    Mar 18, 2026Gaoge Han, Zhengqing Gao, Ziwen Li +5Vision-Language-Action ModelsVLMs for Robotics

    MBZUAI.

  16. TokenPB: Enabling VLA Action Self-Verification via VLM Token Probability Bucketing

    Mar 18, 2026Chen Zhao, Zhuoran Wang, Haoyang Li +6Vision-Language-Action Models

    School of Information, Renmin University of China · Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, China · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications +1

  17. Enabling Dynamic Tracking in Vision-Language-Action Models via Time-Discrete and Time-Continuous Velocity Feedforward

    Mar 17, 2026Johannes Hechtl, Philipp Schmitt, Georg von Wichert +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Siemens Foundational Technologies · Department of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany.

  18. Towards the Vision-Sound-Language-Action Paradigm: The HEAR Framework for Sound-Centric Manipulation

    Mar 17, 2026Chang Nie, Tianchen Deng, Guangming Wang +2Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Navigation and Location Based Services, Shanghai 200240, China. · Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, UK.

  19. Enhancing Linguistic Generalization of VLA: Fine-Tuning OpenVLA via Synthetic Instruction Augmentation

    Mar 17, 2026Dongik ShinVision-Language-Action ModelsInstruction Generalization in VLA Models

  20. Towards Generalizable Robotic Manipulation in Dynamic Environments

    Mar 16, 2026Heng Fang, Shangru Li, Shuhan Wang +3Generalization in Robotic ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China · Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China

  21. Look Before Acting: Enhancing Vision Foundation Representations for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 16, 2026Yulin Luo, Hao Chen, Zhuangzhe Wu +10Vision-Language-Action ModelsVision-Language Models

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Simplexity Robotics

  22. HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

    Mar 16, 2026Konstantin Gubernatorov, Mikhail Sannikov, Ilya Mikhalchuk +7Robotic ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia.

  23. AnolisVLA: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model with Deep State Space Models for Mobile Manipulation

    Mar 16, 2026Yusuke Takagi, Motonari Kambara, Daichi Yashima +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan.

  24. AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture-of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Mar 16, 2026Wenhui Huang, Songyan Zhang, Qihang Huang +6End-to-End Autonomous DrivingVision-Language-Action Models

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Harvard University, US · Xiaomi EV, China

  25. Tactile Modality Fusion for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 15, 2026Charlotte Morissette, Amin Abyaneh, Wei-Di Chang +5Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    McGill University, CAN · Mila - Québec AI Institute, CAN · NVIDIA, USA

  26. VLA-Thinker: Boosting Vision-Language-Action Models through Thinking-with-Image Reasoning

    Mar 15, 2026Chaoyang Wang, Wenrui Bao, Sicheng Gao +5Vision-Language-Action ModelsReasoning for VLA Models

    University of Central Florida · University of Würzburg · University of Southern California +1

  27. AerialVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Navigation via Minimalist End-to-End Control

    Mar 15, 2026Peng Xu, Zhengnan Deng, Jiayan Deng +2UAV NavigationAerial VLN

    Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China · Department of Computer Science, Hofstra University, Hempstead, USA

  28. vla-eval: A Unified Evaluation Harness for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 14, 2026Suhwan Choi, Yunsung Lee, Yubeen Park +4VLM EvaluationVision-Language-Action Models

    Allen Institute for AI (AI2) · Seoul National University

  29. Your Vision-Language-Action Model Already Has Attention Heads For Path Deviation Detection

    Mar 14, 2026Jaehwan Jeong, Evelyn Zhu, Jinying Lin +5Vision-Language-Action ModelsVision-Language Navigation

    Korea University · University of California, Los Angeles · NVIDIA

  30. ReMem-VLA: Empowering Vision-Language-Action Model with Memory via Dual-Level Recurrent Queries

    Mar 13, 2026Hang Li, Fengyi Shen, Dong Chen +6Memory-Augmented VLMsVision-Language-Action Models

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Huawei Heisenberg Research Center, Munich, Germany · University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany +2