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EmbodiedSmith: Scaling Embodied Data through Recursive Self-Improvement Flywheel in Simulation
Yikai Qin, Yifei Deng, Mingjian Liang +13
Scaling robotic foundation models requires diverse training data and reliable evaluation environments. Simulation offers a scalable solution, yet existing generation pipelines rema…
XPolicyLab: A Unified Standard and Open Ecosystem for Robot Policy Evaluation and Deployment
XPolicyLab Community, Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen +67
Robot policy evaluation and deployment remain fragmented by model-specific software dependencies, data representations, and runtime interfaces, so that connecting N policies to M e…
Revisiting Embodied Chain-of-Thought for Generalizable Robot Manipulation
Nan Sun, Yuan Zhang, Yongkun Yang +10
Embodied chain-of-thought (CoT) aims to bridge linguistic reasoning with robotic control, yet its effective form and integration remain underexplored. In this paper, we revisit emb…
CUBic: Coordinated Unified Bimanual Perception and Control Framework
Xingyu Wang, Pengxiang Ding, Jingkai Xu +2
Recent advances in visuomotor policy learning have enabled robots to perform control directly from visual inputs. Yet, extending such end-to-end learning from single-arm to bimanua…
RoboMemArena: A Comprehensive and Challenging Robotic Memory Benchmark
Huashuo Lei, Wenxuan Song, Huarui Zhang +10
Memory is a critical component of robotic intelligence, as robots must rely on past observations and actions to accomplish long-horizon tasks in partially observable environments.…
CapVector: Learning Transferable Capability Vectors in Parametric Space for Vision-Language-Action Models
Wenxuan Song, Han Zhao, Fuhao Li +7
This paper proposes a novel approach to address the challenge that pretrained VLA models often fail to effectively improve performance and reduce adaptation costs during standard s…
Fast-dVLA: Accelerating Discrete Diffusion VLA to Real-Time Performance
Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Shuai Chen +8
This paper proposes a novel approach to address the challenge that pretrained VLA models often fail to effectively improve performance and reduce adaptation costs during standard s…
VAMPO: Policy Optimization for Improving Visual Dynamics in Video Action Models
Zirui Ge, Pengxiang Ding, Baohua Yin +16
Video action models are an appealing foundation for Vision--Language--Action systems because they can learn visual dynamics from large-scale video data and transfer this knowledge…
MMaDA-VLA: Large Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model with Unified Multi-Modal Instruction and Generation
Yang Liu, Pengxiang Ding, Tengyue Jiang +10
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map visual observations and natural-language instructions to robot actions; however, hierarchical and autoregressive paradigms often incur archi…
Rethinking the Practicality of Vision-language-action Model: A Comprehensive Benchmark and An Improved Baseline
Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Xiaoquan Sun +12
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a generalist robotic agent. However, existing VLAs are hindered by excessive parameter scales, prohibitive pre-training requirem…
Embodied Robot Manipulation in the Era of Foundation Models: Planning and Learning Perspectives
Shuanghao Bai, Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen +14
Recent advances in vision, language, and multimodal learning have significantly accelerated progress in robotic foundation models, with robotic manipulation remaining one of the mo…
HiF-VLA: Hindsight, Insight and Foresight through Motion Representation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Minghui Lin, Pengxiang Ding, Shu Wang +7
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently enabled robotic manipulation by grounding visual and linguistic cues into actions. However, most VLAs assume the Markov property,…
Unified Diffusion VLA: Vision-Language-Action Model via Joint Discrete Denoising Diffusion Process
Jiayi Chen, Wenxuan Song, Pengxiang Ding +5
Vision-language-action (VLA) models aim to understand natural language instructions and visual observations and to execute corresponding actions as an embodied agent. Recent work i…
Iterative Refinement of Flow Policies in Probability Space for Online Reinforcement Learning
Mingyang Sun, Pengxiang Ding, Weinan Zhang +1
While behavior cloning with flow/diffusion policies excels at learning complex skills from demonstrations, it remains vulnerable to distributional shift, and standard RL methods st…
Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model
Fuhao Li, Wenxuan Song, Han Zhao +5
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have recently shown strong potential in enabling robots to follow language instructions and execute precise actions. However, most VLAs are buil…
VLA^2: Empowering Vision-Language-Action Models with an Agentic Framework for Unseen Concept Manipulation
Han Zhao, Jiaxuan Zhang, Wenxuan Song +2
Current vision-language-action (VLA) models, pre-trained on large-scale robotic data, exhibit strong multi-task capabilities and generalize well to variations in visual and languag…
VCoT-Grasp: Grasp Foundation Models with Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Language-driven Grasp Generation
Haoran Zhang, Shuanghao Bai, Wanqi Zhou +6
Robotic grasping is one of the most fundamental tasks in robotic manipulation, and grasp detection/generation has long been the subject of extensive research. Recently, language-dr…
Towards a Unified Understanding of Robot Manipulation: A Comprehensive Survey
Shuanghao Bai, Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen +15
Embodied intelligence has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, driven by advances in computer vision, natural language processing, and the rise of large-scale multimodal…
VLA-RFT: Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Fine-tuning with Verified Rewards in World Simulators
Hengtao Li, Pengxiang Ding, Runze Suo +8
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable embodied decision-making but rely heavily on imitation learning, leading to compounding errors and poor robustness under distribution shi…
VLA-Adapter: An Effective Paradigm for Tiny-Scale Vision-Language-Action Model
Yihao Wang, Pengxiang Ding, Lingxiao Li +13
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically bridge the gap between perceptual and action spaces by pre-training a large-scale Vision-Language Model (VLM) on robotic data. While t…
Robust Online Residual Refinement via Koopman-Guided Dynamics Modeling
Zhefei Gong, Shangke Lyu, Pengxiang Ding +2
Imitation learning (IL) enables efficient skill acquisition from demonstrations but often struggles with long-horizon tasks and high-precision control due to compounding errors. Re…
TrajBooster: Boosting Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation via Trajectory-Centric Learning
Jiacheng Liu, Pengxiang Ding, Qihang Zhou +8
Recent Vision-Language-Action models show potential to generalize across embodiments but struggle to quickly align with a new robot's action space when high-quality demonstrations…
Long-VLA: Unleashing Long-Horizon Capability of Vision Language Action Model for Robot Manipulation
Yiguo Fan, Pengxiang Ding, Shuanghao Bai +10
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a cornerstone in robotic policy learning, leveraging large-scale multimodal data for robust and scalable control. However, existing…
ReconVLA: Reconstructive Vision-Language-Action Model as Effective Robot Perceiver
Wenxuan Song, Ziyang Zhou, Han Zhao +7
Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have enabled robotic agents to integrate multimodal understanding with action execution. However, our empirical analysis reve…