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Interaction Latents as Actions for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yuhang Zheng, Yujie Zang, Yuchen Liu +9
Contact-rich manipulation requires robots to coordinate not only where to move, but also how contact and force should evolve throughout an interaction. Yet most robot policies repr…
Contact Trajectory Prompting: In-Context Transfer of Contact-Rich Behaviors from a Single Demonstration
Xian Nie, Yujie Zang, Yuhang Zheng +8
In-context robot learning enables robots to acquire new behaviors from demonstrations without test-time parameter updates. However, visual and kinematic specifications alone may no…
WoVR+: World Model as Reliable Simulator for Versatile VLA Policy Optimization with RL
Shangqing Zhou, Zhennan Jiang, Ning Ma +9
Action-conditioned world models can reduce costly real-robot interaction in reinforcement learning for Vision-Language-Action models (VLA-RL), but hallucinations can mislead policy…
TacDyn-WAM: Learning Implicit Tactile Dynamics in a Heterogeneous Visuo-Tactile World Action Model
Enyi Wang, Mingxin Wang, Quan Shi +12
World action models improve robotic manipulation by conditioning actions on predicted futures, yet existing tactile variants largely inherit video-generation pipelines that reconst…
GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation
Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu +11
Vision-language pre-training and predictive world modeling provide robot policies with rich semantic and dynamic visual features, but their native action and visual-prediction obje…
Latent Action as Intention Enables Efficient Future Imagination for World Action Models
Xiang Li, Yupeng Zheng, Songen Gu +11
World action models (WAMs) improve robot control by modeling how observations evolve, but generating future observations at test time incurs substantial latency. Fast-WAM removes t…
DriveVLA-M0: Failure-Aware Memory Augmentation for Autonomous Driving
Zebin Xing, Yupeng Zheng, Qiang Chen +10
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving by enabling unified reasoning across perception, language, and p…
VisCo: Leveraging Large Language Models as Intrinsic Encoders for Visual Token Compression
Yupeng Zheng, Kai Zou, Bin Liu +1
Vision-language models (VLMs) process large numbers of visual tokens, resulting in substantial inference latency and memory overhead. This has motivated extensive research on visua…
VT-WAM: Visual-Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Shuai Tian, Yupeng Zheng, Yuhang Zheng +7
Contact-rich manipulation requires policies to react to local deformation, pressure, slip, and friction, yet these cues are temporally sparse and often invisible in visual observat…
TacForeSight: Force-Guided Tactile World Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yujie Zang, Yuhang Zheng, Xian Nie +7
Contact-rich manipulation requires robots to continuously perceive and regulate evolving physical interactions under dynamic contact transitions or complex surface geometries. Rece…
Learning High-Frequency Continuous Action Chunks in Latent Space
Kunyun Wang, Yuhang Zheng, Yupeng Zheng +2
Modern robotic policies increasingly rely on action chunking to execute complex tasks in the physical world. While action chunking improves temporal consistency at moderate action…
PokeVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance
Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu +12
Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have opened new avenues for robot manipulation, yet existing methods exhibit limited efficiency and a lack of high-level know…
VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis
Songen Gu, Yuhang Zheng, Weize Li +6
Recently, end-to-end robotic manipulation models have gained significant attention for their generalizability and scalability. However, they often suffer from limited robustness to…
Saliency-Guided Representation with Consistency Policy Learning for Visual Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning
Jingbo Sun, Qichao Zhang, Songjun Tu +5
Zero-shot unsupervised reinforcement learning (URL) offers a promising direction for building generalist agents capable of generalizing to unseen tasks without additional supervisi…
DreamerAD: Efficient Reinforcement Learning via Latent World Model for Autonomous Driving
Pengxuan Yang, Yupeng Zheng, Deheng Qian +11
We introduce DreamerAD, the first latent world model framework that enables efficient reinforcement learning for autonomous driving by compressing diffusion sampling from 100 steps…
Latent-WAM: Latent World Action Modeling for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Linbo Wang, Yupeng Zheng, Qiang Chen +14
We introduce Latent-WAM, an efficient end-to-end autonomous driving framework that achieves strong trajectory planning through spatially-aware and dynamics-informed latent world re…
Learning from Mistakes: Post-Training for Driving VLA with Takeover Data
Yinfeng Gao, Deqing Liu, Qichao Zhang +7
Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) paradigms in end-to-end autonomous driving rely on offline training from static datasets, leaving them vulnerable to distribution shift. Recent…
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Yuhang Zheng, Songen Gu, Yupeng Zheng +11
Contact-rich manipulation tasks, such as wiping and assembly, require accurate perception of contact forces, friction changes, and state transitions that cannot be reliably inferre…
Rhythm: Learning Interactive Whole-Body Control for Dual Humanoids
Hongjin Chen, Wei Zhang, Pengfei Li +10
Realizing interactive whole-body control for multi-humanoid systems is critical for unlocking complex collaborative capabilities in shared environments. Although recent advancement…
Enhancing Indoor Occupancy Prediction via Sparse Query-Based Multi-Level Consistent Knowledge Distillation
Xiang Li, Yupeng Zheng, Pengfei Li +3
Occupancy prediction provides critical geometric and semantic understanding for robotics but faces efficiency-accuracy trade-offs. Current dense methods suffer computational waste…
Towards Long-Lived Robots: Continual Learning VLA Models via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
Yuan Liu, Haoran Li, Shuai Tian +5
Pretrained on large-scale and diverse datasets, VLA models demonstrate strong generalization and adaptability as general-purpose robotic policies. However, Supervised Fine-Tuning (…
WorldRFT: Latent World Model Planning with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Autonomous Driving
Pengxuan Yang, Ben Lu, Zhongpu Xia +7
Latent World Models enhance scene representation through temporal self-supervised learning, presenting a perception annotation-free paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving. Howe…
TakeAD: Preference-based Post-optimization for End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Expert Takeover Data
Deqing Liu, Yinfeng Gao, Deheng Qian +9
Existing end-to-end autonomous driving methods typically rely on imitation learning (IL) but face a key challenge: the misalignment between open-loop training and closed-loop deplo…
TrajMoE: Scene-Adaptive Trajectory Planning with Mixture of Experts and Reinforcement Learning
Zebin Xing, Pengxuan Yang, Linbo Wang +12
Current autonomous driving systems often favor end-to-end frameworks, which take sensor inputs like images and learn to map them into trajectory space via neural networks. Previous…