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most citedOpenHelix: A Short Survey, Empirical Analysis, and Open-Source Dual-System VLA Model for Robotic Manipulation

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43 papers

cs.RO2026

Language2Drive: Do Vision-Language-Action Models Really Follow the Instructions in Autonomous Driving?

Zihan You, Zehua Fan, Wenqi Lyu +19

Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models increasingly use natural-language instructions to condition autonomous driving behavior. Yet existing closed-loop benchmarks primarily me…

cs.CV2026

GroundAnything: Reconciling Parallel Decoding with Precise Visual Grounding at Flash Speed

Qize Yu, Lianrui Fan, Bowen Ping +19

Autoregressive (AR) grounding models serialize spatial predictions, introducing sequential latency and imposing a causal order on output tokens. We view grounding as visual evidenc…

cs.RO2026

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…

cs.RO2026

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

Zheng Yang, Wenjie Zhang, Xiangyu Chen +9

Mobile manipulation requires a robot to coordinate base and arm motion under continuously changing viewpoints and contact conditions, within an action space far larger than that of…

cs.RO2026

4D-WAM: Infusing Spatiotemporal Awareness into World Action Models through Trajectory Fields

Lishan Yang, Wenxuan Song, Xi Wang +14

Building on recent advances in world models, World Action Models (WAMs) jointly model video prediction and action generation. However, they typically represent videos in 2D pixel s…

cs.RO2026

Is Forward Prediction Enough? Physical State Grounding for JEPA World Models

Haodong Yan, Jiaguan Zhu, Mingyuan Jia +12

Learning structured and control-relevant latent representations remains a key challenge for world models. Recent JEPA-based world models learn action-conditioned predictive latent…

cs.CV2026

Robust-WAM: Bridging Generative Pretraining and Semantic Foresight in World-Action Models

Haodong Yan, Junfeng Li, Junjie He +12

Mainstream World-Action Models (WAMs) adapt pretrained video generation models (VGMs) for robot control, transferring their learned dynamics prior for action prediction. These VGMs…

cs.CV2026

MobileWAM: Bridging World Action Models to Mobile Manipulation with Chain-of-Foresight

Zehua Fan, Junjie He, Wenxuan Song +14

World action models (WAMs) built on video generation backbones are a rising recipe for robot learning, yet remain confined to tabletop manipulation. Mobile manipulation demands sim…

cs.RO2026

Xiaomi-Robotics-1: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with over 100K Hours of Real-World Trajectories

Xiaomi Robotics Team, Jun Guo, Piaopiao Jin +31

We present Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a foundational vision-language-action (VLA) model capable of (1) following diverse language instructions to perform a wide range of mobile manipulatio…

cs.RO2026

SEDualVLN: A Spatially-Enhanced Dual-System Framework for Vision-Language Navigation

Jingzhi Huang, Junkai Huang, Wenxuan Song +6

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) approaches have currently followed two primary paradigms: the end-to-end Vision-Language Model (VLM) policy fine-tuned on navigation trajectories t…

cs.RO2026

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…

cs.CL2026

PIVOTSBench: Evaluating Fine-Grained Interpersonal Relationship Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

Shuxiang Zhang, Yiting Yin, Wenxuan Song +2

Humans possess an innate ability to understand fine-grained interpersonal relationships, which is central to everyday social interactions. Although such reasoning is inherently mul…

cs.CV2026

IPIBench: Evaluating Interactive Proactive Intelligence of MLLMs under Continuous Streams

Jinzhao Li, Yinuo Chen, Wenxuan Song +5

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on reactive question answering, but real-world streaming assistants require proactive reasoning over cont…

cs.RO2026

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.…

cs.CV2026

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…

cs.RO2026

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…

cs.RO2026

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…

cs.CV2026

S-VAM: Shortcut Video-Action Model by Self-Distilling Geometric and Semantic Foresight

Haodong Yan, Zhide Zhong, Jiaguan Zhu +10

Video action models (VAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot learning, owing to their powerful visual foresight for complex manipulation tasks. However, current VAMs,…

cs.CV2026

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

Zehua Fan, Wenqi Lyu, Wenxuan Song +12

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced zero-shot end-to-end Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), yet robust navigation requires not only semantic understanding but als…

cs.RO2026

DFM-VLA: Iterative Action Refinement for Robot Manipulation via Discrete Flow Matching

Jiayi Chen, Wenxuan Song, Jiaxin Fang +12

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that encode actions using a discrete tokenization scheme have been widely adopted for robotic manipulation, but existing decoding paradigms rema…

cs.RO2026

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…

cs.RO2026

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…

cs.RO2026

FRAPPE: Infusing World Modeling into Generalist Policies via Multiple Future Representation Alignment

Han Zhao, Jingbo Wang, Wenxuan Song +5

Enabling VLA models to predict environmental dynamics, known as world modeling, has been recognized as essential for improving robotic reasoning and generalization. However, curren…

cs.RO2025

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…