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most citedEmpowering Large Language Models on Robotic Manipulation with Affordance Prompting

4 citations · 4 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2026

GEAR: Granularity-Adaptive Advantage Reweighting for LLM Agents via Self-Distillation

Sijia Li, Yuchen Huang, Zifan Liu +7

Reinforcement learning has become a widely used post-training approach for LLM agents, where training commonly relies on outcome-level rewards that provide only coarse supervision.…

cs.RO2026

What to Ignore, What to React: Visually Robust RL Fine-Tuning of VLA Models

Yuanfang Peng, Jingjing Fu, Chuheng Zhang +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning has shown promise for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in robotic manipulation, but deployment-time visual shifts pose practical challeng…

cs.CV2026

Learning Additively Compositional Latent Actions for Embodied AI

Hangxing Wei, Xiaoyu Chen, Chuheng Zhang +5

Latent action learning infers pseudo-action labels from visual transitions, providing an approach to leverage internet-scale video for embodied AI. However, most methods learn late…

cs.RO2025

Discover, Learn, and Reinforce: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Pretraining with Diverse RL-Generated Trajectories

Rushuai Yang, Zhiyuan Feng, Tianxiang Zhang +6

Scaling vision-language-action (VLA) model pre-training requires large volumes of diverse, high-quality manipulation trajectories. Most current data is obtained via human teleopera…

cs.RO2025

How Do VLAs Effectively Inherit from VLMs?

Chuheng Zhang, Rushuai Yang, Xiaoyu Chen +4

Vision-language-action (VLA) models hold the promise to attain generalizable embodied control. To achieve this, a pervasive paradigm is to leverage the rich vision-semantic priors…

cs.LG2025

Co-Evolving Latent Action World Models

Yucen Wang, Fengming Zhang, De-Chuan Zhan +3

Adapting pretrained video generation models into controllable world models via latent actions is a promising step towards creating generalist world models. The dominant paradigm ad…

cs.RO2025

Beyond Human Demonstrations: Diffusion-Based Reinforcement Learning to Generate Data for VLA Training

Rushuai Yang, Hangxing Wei, Ran Zhang +8

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization across tasks and embodiments; however, their reliance on large-scale human demonstrations limits their scalabil…

cs.CV2025

PIG-Nav: Key Insights for Pretrained Image Goal Navigation Models

Jiansong Wan, Chengming Zhou, Jinkua Liu +14

Recent studies have explored pretrained (foundation) models for vision-based robotic navigation, aiming to achieve generalizable navigation and positive transfer across diverse env…

cs.LG2025

Dyn-O: Building Structured World Models with Object-Centric Representations

Zizhao Wang, Kaixin Wang, Li Zhao +2

World models aim to capture the dynamics of the environment, enabling agents to predict and plan for future states. In most scenarios of interest, the dynamics are highly centered…

cs.RO2025

villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models

Xiaoyu Chen, Hangxing Wei, Pushi Zhang +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a popular paradigm for learning robot manipulation policies that can follow language instructions and generalize to novel scenar…

cs.LG2025

What Do Latent Action Models Actually Learn?

Chuheng Zhang, Tim Pearce, Pushi Zhang +5

Latent action models (LAMs) aim to learn action-relevant changes from unlabeled videos by compressing changes between frames as latents. However, differences between video frames c…

cs.AI2025

AdaptiveStep: Automatically Dividing Reasoning Step through Model Confidence

Yuliang Liu, Junjie Lu, Zhaoling Chen +10

Current approaches for training Process Reward Models (PRMs) often involve breaking down responses into multiple reasoning steps using rule-based techniques, such as using predefin…

cs.AI2024★ 4 cited

Empowering Large Language Models on Robotic Manipulation with Affordance Prompting

Guangran Cheng, Chuheng Zhang, Wenzhe Cai +3

While large language models (LLMs) are successful in completing various language processing tasks, they easily fail to interact with the physical world by generating control sequen…

cs.LG2024

DPO Meets PPO: Reinforced Token Optimization for RLHF

Han Zhong, Zikang Shan, Guhao Feng +6

In the classical Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) framework, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is employed to learn from sparse, sentence-level rewards -- a chall…