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7 papers

cs.RO2026

From Human Videos to Robot Manipulation: A Survey on Scalable Vision-Language-Action Learning with Human-Centric Data

Zhiyuan Feng, Qixiu Li, Huizhi Liang +12

Recent progress in generalizable embodied control has been driven by large-scale pretraining of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, most existing approaches rely on large…

cs.CV2026

Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes

Zhiyuan Feng, Zhaolu Kang, Qijie Wang +16

Vision-language models (VLMs) are essential to Embodied AI, enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments. They also serve as the foundation for the recent V…

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.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.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…