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most citedVoroNav: Voronoi-based Zero-shot Object Navigation with Large Language Model

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27 papers

cs.RO2026

Token-World: World Modeling in Vision-Language Model Token Space for Robot Manipulation

Chuyao Fu, Xiaowei Chi, Yuhan Rui +14

A common approach to world-model simulation for vision-language-action (VLA) systems is to predict future RGB observations and then re-encode them into policy inputs, introducing a…

cs.RO2026

DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination

Yankai Fu, Ning Chen, Junkai Zhao +5

Dexterous manipulation involves contact-rich and fine-grained interactions with the physical world, posing significant challenges for existing vision-language-action (VLA) models d…

cs.RO2026

OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining

Yuran Wang, Siqiao Huang, Mingleyang Li +21

World-Action Models inherit world knowledge from video-generative priors, and channel it into executable control signals through embodied experience. Existing systems, however, are…

cs.RO2026

Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation: A Survey

Yifan Ye, Yankai Fu, Yaoxu Lv +26

Multimodal foundation models learned to see and to speak by consuming the whole internet. Embodied agents admit no such shortcut, since they require data that couple observations w…

cs.RO2026

FBFM: A Training-Free Asynchronous Feedback Mechanism for Flow-Matching in World-Action Models Execution

Peize Li, Ruimeng Zhang, Ru Zhang +3

Although world-action models (WAMs) enhance long-horizon robot control by predicting visual evolution before acting, long-horizon reliability demands repeated re-grounding in real…

cs.CV2026

Hierarchical Denoising For Multi-Step Visual Reasoning

Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Chak-Wing Mak +9

Video models are evolving into vision foundation models, yet they still lack human-like multi-step reasoning. Streaming autoregressive diffusion models are efficient but limited in…

cs.CV2026

WAM4D: Fast 4D World Action Model via Spatial Register Tokens

Ying Li, Xiaobao Wei, Jiajun Cao +10

World action models (WAMs) have recently shown promise in jointly modeling future observations and executable robot actions. However, most existing WAMs still operate in 2D video o…

cs.RO2026

Efficient-WAM: A 1B-Parameter World-Action Model with Low-Cost Future Imagination

Jiajun Li, Tiecheng Guo, Yifan Ye +10

World-Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied control by coupling future visual prediction with action generation. However, many existing WAMs rely o…

cs.CV2026

Vector Map as Language: Toward Unified Remote Sensing Vector Mapping

Yinglong Yan, Yunkai Yang, Haoyi Wang +7

Remote sensing vector mapping aims to generate structured maps of geospatial entities, such as buildings, roads, and water bodies, from remote sensing imagery. In practice, vector…

cs.RO2026

Dream-Tac: A Unified Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation

Yunfan Lou, Yifan Ye, Yankai Fu +7

World action models inherit the predictive capability of world models, enabling action generation to be guided by anticipated future observations. However, they rely primarily on v…

cs.RO2026

TC-IDM: Grounding Video Generation for Executable Zero-shot Robot Motion

Weishi Mi, Yong Bao, Xiaowei Chi +7

The vision-language-action (VLA) paradigm has enabled powerful robotic control by leveraging vision-language models, but its reliance on large-scale, high-quality robot data limits…

cs.CV2026

PhysicsMind: Sim and Real Mechanics Benchmarking for Physical Reasoning and Prediction in Foundational VLMs and World Models

Chak-Wing Mak, Guanyu Zhu, Boyi Zhang +16

Modern foundational Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and video world models have advanced significantly in mathematical, common-sense, and visual reasoning, but their grasp…

cs.RO2026

Wow, wo, val! A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation Turing Test

Chun-Kai Fan, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaozhu Ju +18

As world models gain momentum in Embodied AI, an increasing number of works explore using video foundation models as predictive world models for downstream embodied tasks like 3D p…

cs.RO2026

LaST: Latent Spatio-Temporal Chain-of-Thought for Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model

Zhuoyang Liu, Jiaming Liu, Hao Chen +11

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently shown strong generalization, with some approaches seeking to explicitly generate linguistic reasoning traces or predict future obs…

cs.CV2025

WristWorld: Generating Wrist-Views via 4D World Models for Robotic Manipulation

Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Yuming Li +5

Wrist-view observations are crucial for VLA models as they capture fine-grained hand-object interactions that directly enhance manipulation performance. Yet large-scale datasets ra…

cs.RO2025

LHM-Humanoid: Long-Horizon Human Motion Control for Continuous Object Transport in Cluttered Scenes

Haozhuo Zhang, Jingkai Sun, Michele Caprio +5

Physics-based human motion control can make a simulated character walk, sit, and manipulate objects with high physical realism. Almost always, though, this happens in short, isolat…

cs.RO2025

MinD: Learning A Dual-System World Model for Real-Time Planning and Implicit Risk Analysis

Xiaowei Chi, Kuangzhi Ge, Jiaming Liu +9

Video Generation Models (VGMs) have become powerful backbones for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, leveraging large-scale pretraining for robust dynamics modeling. However, cur…

cs.CV2025

CoGesture: Towards Coherent Concurrent Co-speech 3D Gesture Generation with Interactive Diffusion

Xingqun Qi, Yatian Wang, Hengyuan Zhang +6

Generating gestures from human speech has gained tremendous progress in animating virtual avatars. While the existing methods enable synthesizing gestures cooperated by individual…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

EVA: An Embodied World Model for Future Video Anticipation

Xiaowei Chi, Chun-Kai Fan, Hengyuan Zhang +8

Video generation models have made significant progress in simulating future states, showcasing their potential as world simulators in embodied scenarios. However, existing models o…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

MMTrail: A Multimodal Trailer Video Dataset with Language and Music Descriptions

Xiaowei Chi, Yatian Wang, Aosong Cheng +16

Massive multi-modality datasets play a significant role in facilitating the success of large video-language models. However, current video-language datasets primarily provide text…

cs.CV2024

CoCoGesture: Toward Coherent Co-speech 3D Gesture Generation in the Wild

Xingqun Qi, Hengyuan Zhang, Yatian Wang +10

Deriving co-speech 3D gestures has seen tremendous progress in virtual avatar animation. Yet, the existing methods often produce stiff and unreasonable gestures with unseen human s…

cs.CV2024★ 5 cited

Era3D: High-Resolution Multiview Diffusion using Efficient Row-wise Attention

Peng Li, Yuan Liu, Xiaoxiao Long +10

In this paper, we introduce Era3D, a novel multiview diffusion method that generates high-resolution multiview images from a single-view image. Despite significant advancements in…

cs.RO2024★ 8 cited

VoroNav: Voronoi-based Zero-shot Object Navigation with Large Language Model

Pengying Wu, Yao Mu, Bingxian Wu +4

In the realm of household robotics, the Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) task empowers agents to adeptly traverse unfamiliar environments and locate objects from novel categories…

cs.CV2024

DOZE: A Dataset for Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot Object Navigation in Dynamic Environments

Ji Ma, Hongming Dai, Yao Mu +6

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) requires agents to autonomously locate and approach unseen objects in unfamiliar environments and has emerged as a particularly challenging task…