most citedCoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models

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cs.AI2026

LLM-as-a-Verifier: A General-Purpose Verification Framework

Jacky Kwok, Shulu Li, Pranav Atreya +6

Scaling pre-training, post-training, and test-time compute have become the central paradigms for improving the capabilities of LLMs. In this work, we identify verification, the abi…

cs.RO2026

DIRECT: When and Where Should You Allocate Test-Time Compute in Embodied Planners?

Jadelynn Dao, Milan Ganai, Yasmina Abukhadra +7

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as high-level planners for embodied agents, with an emerging strategy of scaling test-time compute to improve capability. Ho…

cs.RO2026

CHORUS: Decentralized Multi-Embodiment Collaboration with One VLA Policy

Ria Doshi, Tian Gao, Annie Chen +2

Multi-robot collaboration allows robots to efficiently take on a wide range of tasks, from moving a couch through a doorway to assembling structures on a construction site. However…

cs.LG2026

: a Steerable Generalist Robotic Foundation Model with Emergent Capabilities

Physical Intelligence, Bo Ai, Ali Amin +85

We present a new robotic foundation model, called , that can enable strong out-of-the-box performance in a wide range of scenarios. can follow diverse language i…

cs.RO2026

MEM: Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models

Marcel Torne, Karl Pertsch, Homer Walke +14

Conventionally, memory in end-to-end robotic learning involves inputting a sequence of past observations into the learned policy. However, in complex multi-stage real-world tasks,…

cs.RO2026

Scaling Verification Can Be More Effective than Scaling Policy Learning for Vision-Language-Action Alignment

Jacky Kwok, Xilun Zhang, Mengdi Xu +4

The long-standing vision of general-purpose robots hinges on their ability to understand and act upon natural language instructions. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have made r…

cs.RO2026

VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model

Yanjiang Guo, Tony Lee, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi +3

The goal of this paper is to improve the performance and reliability of vision-language-action (VLA) models through iterative online interaction. Since collecting policy rollouts i…

cs.AI2026

Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planning

Moo Jin Kim, Yihuai Gao, Tsung-Yi Lin +8

Recent video generation models demonstrate remarkable ability to capture complex physical interactions and scene evolution over time. To leverage their spatiotemporal priors, robot…

cs.RO2026

RoboReward: General-Purpose Vision-Language Reward Models for Robotics

Tony Lee, Andrew Wagenmaker, Karl Pertsch +3

A well-designed reward is critical for effective reinforcement learning-based policy improvement. In real-world robotics, obtaining such rewards typically requires either labor-int…

cs.RO2025

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models

Simar Kareer, Karl Pertsch, James Darpinian +5

Vision-language-action (VLA) models can enable broad open world generalization, but require large and diverse datasets. It is appealing to consider whether some of this data can co…

cs.RO2025

RoboArena: Distributed Real-World Evaluation of Generalist Robot Policies

Pranav Atreya, Karl Pertsch, Tony Lee +29

Comprehensive, unbiased, and comparable evaluation of modern generalist policies is uniquely challenging: existing approaches for robot benchmarking typically rely on heavy standar…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models

Qingqing Zhao, Yao Lu, Moo Jin Kim +12

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have shown potential in leveraging pretrained vision-language models and diverse robot demonstrations for learning generalizable sensorimotor c…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Fine-Tuning Vision-Language-Action Models: Optimizing Speed and Success

Moo Jin Kim, Chelsea Finn, Percy Liang

Recent vision-language-action models (VLAs) build upon pretrained vision-language models and leverage diverse robot datasets to demonstrate strong task execution, language followin…