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most citedTinyVLA: Towards Fast, Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

3 citations · 9 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.RO2025

dVLA: Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model with Multimodal Chain-of-Thought

Junjie Wen, Minjie Zhu, Jiaming Liu +6

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a next-generation paradigm for robotics. We introduce dVLA, a diffusion-based VLA that leverages a multimodal chain-of-thought t…

cs.RO2025

ObjectVLA: End-to-End Open-World Object Manipulation Without Demonstration

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +6

Imitation learning has proven to be highly effective in teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills. However, it typically relies on large amounts of human demonstration data, wh…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

ChatVLA: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Robot Control with Vision-Language-Action Model

Zhongyi Zhou, Yichen Zhu, Minjie Zhu +8

Humans possess a unified cognitive ability to perceive, comprehend, and interact with the physical world. Why can't large language models replicate this holistic understanding? Thr…

cs.LG2025

Fresh-CL: Feature Realignment through Experts on Hypersphere in Continual Learning

Zhongyi Zhou, Yaxin Peng, Pin Yi +2

Continual Learning enables models to learn and adapt to new tasks while retaining prior knowledge. Introducing new tasks, however, can naturally lead to feature entanglement across…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

CoA-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Visual-Textual Chain-of-Affordance

Jinming Li, Yichen Zhu, Zhibin Tang +8

Robot foundation models, particularly Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have garnered significant attention for their ability to enhance robot policy learning, greatly improving…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Diffusion-VLA: Generalizable and Interpretable Robot Foundation Model via Self-Generated Reasoning

Junjie Wen, Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu +8

In this paper, we present DiffusionVLA, a novel framework that seamlessly combines the autoregression model with the diffusion model for learning visuomotor policy. Central to our…

cs.RO2024

Scaling Diffusion Policy in Transformer to 1 Billion Parameters for Robotic Manipulation

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +8

Diffusion Policy is a powerful technique tool for learning end-to-end visuomotor robot control. It is expected that Diffusion Policy possesses scalability, a key attribute for deep…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

TinyVLA: Towards Fast, Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable potential in visuomotor control and instruction comprehension through end-to-end learning processes. However, current VLA…

cs.RO2024

MMRo: Are Multimodal LLMs Eligible as the Brain for In-Home Robotics?

Jinming Li, Yichen Zhu, Zhiyuan Xu +7

It is fundamentally challenging for robots to serve as useful assistants in human environments because this requires addressing a spectrum of sub-problems across robotics, includin…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Mipha: A Comprehensive Overhaul of Multimodal Assistant with Small Language Models

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Xin Liu +7

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have showcased impressive skills in tasks related to visual understanding and reasoning. Yet, their widespread application faces obstacles…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

LLaVA-Phi: Efficient Multi-Modal Assistant with Small Language Model

Yichen Zhu, Minjie Zhu, Ning Liu +3

In this paper, we introduce LLaVA- (LLaVA-Phi), an efficient multi-modal assistant that harnesses the power of the recently advanced small language model, Phi-2, to facilitate m…

cs.RO2024

Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation with Fast and Slow Thinking

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +8

The language-conditioned robotic manipulation aims to transfer natural language instructions into executable actions, from simple pick-and-place to tasks requiring intent recogniti…

cs.RO2024

Object-Centric Instruction Augmentation for Robotic Manipulation

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Minjie Zhu +8

Humans interpret scenes by recognizing both the identities and positions of objects in their observations. For a robot to perform tasks such as \enquote{pick and place}, understand…

cs.CV2023

SpeechAct: Towards Generating Whole-body Motion from Speech

Jinsong Zhang, Minjie Zhu, Yuxiang Zhang +2

This paper addresses the problem of generating whole-body motion from speech. Despite great successes, prior methods still struggle to produce reasonable and diverse whole-body mot…

cs.LG2023

Enhancing Asynchronous Time Series Forecasting with Contrastive Relational Inference

Yan Wang, Zhixuan Chu, Tao Zhou +9

Asynchronous time series, also known as temporal event sequences, are the basis of many applications throughout different industries. Temporal point processes(TPPs) are the standar…