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From Reasoning to Action: Consequence-Grounded Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yixue Zhang, Wenke Xia, Kun Wu +6
Reasoning informs decision-making by connecting intended actions with their expected consequences. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models incorporate embodied chains of thought…
Barrier-Constrained Guidance For Real-time Asynchronous VLA Execution
Wenbo Yu, Jifan Li, Wenke Xia +5
While asynchronous execution enables VLA models to operate in real-time environments by predicting the next chunk during execution, it inevitably introduces boundary misalignment w…
Robo-ValueRL: Reliable Value Estimation for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
Wenke Xia, Pei Ren, Wenbo Yu +10
Offline-to-online reinforcement learning is promising for generalizable robotic manipulation, yet its full-stack complexity obscures reproduction and diagnosis. Within such systems…
GeCo-SRT: Geometry-aware Continual Adaptation for Robotic Cross-Task Sim-to-Real Transfer
Wenbo Yu, Wenke Xia, Weitao Zhang +1
Bridging the sim-to-real gap is important for applying low-cost simulation data to real-world robotic systems. However, previous methods are severely limited by treating each trans…
When would Vision-Proprioception Policies Fail in Robotic Manipulation?
Jingxian Lu, Wenke Xia, Yuxuan Wu +2
Proprioceptive information is critical for precise servo control by providing real-time robotic states. Its collaboration with vision is highly expected to enhance performances of…
Human-assisted Robotic Policy Refinement via Action Preference Optimization
Wenke Xia, Yichu Yang, Hongtao Wu +3
Establishing a reliable and iteratively refined robotic system is essential for deploying real-world applications. While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are widely recognized a…
Depth Helps: Improving Pre-trained RGB-based Policy with Depth Information Injection
Xincheng Pang, Wenke Xia, Zhigang Wang +4
3D perception ability is crucial for generalizable robotic manipulation. While recent foundation models have made significant strides in perception and decision-making with RGB-bas…
KOI: Accelerating Online Imitation Learning via Hybrid Key-state Guidance
Jingxian Lu, Wenke Xia, Dong Wang +4
Online Imitation Learning struggles with the gap between extensive online exploration space and limited expert trajectories, hindering efficient exploration due to inaccurate rewar…
Learning Manipulation by Predicting Interaction
Jia Zeng, Qingwen Bu, Bangjun Wang +12
Representation learning approaches for robotic manipulation have boomed in recent years. Due to the scarcity of in-domain robot data, prevailing methodologies tend to leverage larg…
Kinematic-aware Prompting for Generalizable Articulated Object Manipulation with LLMs
Wenke Xia, Dong Wang, Xincheng Pang +4
Generalizable articulated object manipulation is essential for home-assistant robots. Recent efforts focus on imitation learning from demonstrations or reinforcement learning in si…