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most citedCobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference

6 citations · 11 across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

cs.RO2026

Discrete Forcing: Infusing Discrete Guidance into Continuous Denoising for Few-Step Action Experts

Jingbo Wang, Wenxuan Song, Wenhao Yu +6

Efficient action generation in vision-language-action (VLA) models requires capturing both coarse action structure and fine-grained details. Discrete action tokens provide compact…

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

Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: Unified Embodied Synthesis with World Foundation Model

Xinghang Li, Jun Guo, Qiwei Li +21

Recent foundation image and video generation models offer strong generalization and controllability, but their direct application to embodied scenarios is limited by requirements f…

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

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.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.AI2026

CRL-VLA: Continual Vision-Language-Action Learning

Qixin Zeng, Shuo Zhang, Hongyin Zhang +6

Lifelong learning is critical for embodied agents in open-world environments, where reinforcement learning fine-tuning has emerged as an important paradigm to enable Vision-Languag…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

BabyVision: Visual Reasoning Beyond Language

Liang Chen, Weichu Xie, Yiyan Liang +27

While humans develop core visual skills long before acquiring language, contemporary Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) still rely heavily on linguistic priors to compensate for their fragile…

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…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.RO2025

CEED-VLA: Consistency Vision-Language-Action Model with Early-Exit Decoding

Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Pengxiang Ding +4

In recent years, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a vital research direction in robotics due to their impressive multimodal understanding and generalization capabili…

cs.RO2025

RationalVLA: A Rational Vision-Language-Action Model with Dual System

Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Wenxue Li +12

A fundamental requirement for real-world robotic deployment is the ability to understand and respond to natural language instructions. Existing language-conditioned manipulation ta…

cs.RO2025

Unveiling the Potential of Vision-Language-Action Models with Open-Ended Multimodal Instructions

Wei Zhao, Gongsheng Li, Zhefei Gong +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently become highly prominent in the field of robotics. Leveraging vision-language foundation models trained on large-scale internet dat…

cs.RO2025

ReinboT: Amplifying Robot Visual-Language Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning

Hongyin Zhang, Zifeng Zhuang, Han Zhao +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown great potential in general robotic decision-making tasks via imitation learning. However, the variable quality of training data often…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

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

Can Cui, Pengxiang Ding, Wenxuan Song +10

Dual-system VLA (Vision-Language-Action) architectures have become a hot topic in embodied intelligence research, but there is a lack of sufficient open-source work for further per…

cs.CV2025

SSR: Enhancing Depth Perception in Vision-Language Models via Rationale-Guided Spatial Reasoning

Yang Liu, Ming Ma, Xiaomin Yu +5

Despite impressive advancements in Visual-Language Models (VLMs) for multi-modal tasks, their reliance on RGB inputs limits precise spatial understanding. Existing methods for inte…

cs.RO2025

MoRE: Unlocking Scalability in Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Vision-Language-Action Models

Han Zhao, Wenxuan Song, Donglin Wang +4

Developing versatile quadruped robots that can smoothly perform various actions and tasks in real-world environments remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces a novel…

cs.RO2025

PD-VLA: Accelerating Vision-Language-Action Model Integrated with Action Chunking via Parallel Decoding

Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Pengxiang Ding +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate remarkable potential for generalizable robotic manipulation. The performance of VLA models can be improved by integrating with actio…