Vision-language-action models

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• SynthDemo-RL: Breaking the Zero-Reward Barrier in VLA Adaptation with LLM-Guided Synthetic Demonstrations
  Hiroaki Kingetsu, Hiroaki Kurihara, Kaoru Yokoo, Kenji Fukumizu, Manohar Kaul · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• FOCAL-VLA: Subtask-Guided Geometry Distillation and Implicit World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models
  Zhiyuan Gao, Di Wen, Yanxiang Zhan, Mohammad Khoshnazar, Jeroen Schäfer, Kunyu Peng, Michael Beetz · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• PRIME: Perception Feedback with Situational Memory Embeddings in VLA Models
  Erik Deinzer, Naya Baslan, Luca Paparusso, Narunas Vaskevicius, Peter Knott, Luigi Palmieri · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• ZYT-World: A Real-Time Controllable World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous-Driving Simulation
  Boni Hu, Xiong Wei, Haoming Huang, Yong Huang, Chenbo Wang, Yi Yang, Jiancheng Wang, Ruicheng Zhu, Zhimin Yang, Guanglai Liu, Qiaowan Jin, Dongzhuo Wang, Haiwei Kuang, Jiajun Fan, Yue Wu, Jiaxin Wei, Hao Sun, Feihong Yan, Wei Bi, Kaixuan Wang, Zichao Guo, Xiaozhi Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• GALA: Geometry-Aware Latent Action Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Model Pretraining across Embodiments
  Yichen Liu, Puzhen Yuan, Xiang Zhu, Yanjiang Guo, Jianyu Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• ForceTwin: Physics-informed Digital Twins for Robotic Manipulation from Instrumented Human Interaction
  Tim Engelbracht, René Zurbrügg, Mayank Mittal, Marco Hutter, Marc Pollefeys, Hermann Blum, Zuria Bauer · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Potential-Field Action Representation for Reinforcement Learning in Contact-Rich Manipulation
  Xinyu Liu, Gökhan Solak, Arash Ajoudani · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Fewer Steps, Better Actions: Rethinking Flow-Matching Inference for VLA Policies
  Zhipeng Tang, Xinda Chen, Weining Rao, Xiao Li, Wenting Tan, Yuning Wang, Xiao Shi, Xiaofang Zhao · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Outcome-Conditioned End-Effector Geometry Across Vision-Language-Action Policies
  Xingyu Lin, Zhuang Li, Zhongrun Wu, Shouquan Zhou, Dehui Du · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• VLA-Scope: Shift-Aware Failure Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models
  Kaiwen Zhu, Dongfang Liu, Liangkai Liu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• DexTouch-WM: Learning Action-Conditioned Tactile World Models from Human Touch for Dexterous Robot Manipulation
  Yan Qin, Yue Chen, Wenwei Lin, Shujia Liu, Chuqiao Lyu, Kailun Su, Weiyang Jin, Chenze Yu, Ping Luo, Wenbo Ding, Tianxing Chen, Renjing Xu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Navi-Agent: Unlocalized Monocular Navigation Agent
  Wenyuan Xie, Mengyang Hong, Yongzhong Wang, Yanbiao Ji, Yijin Zhou, Shaokai Wu, Shalayiding Sirejiding, Huayi Zhou, Yi-Chao Chen, Ma Ling, Yue Ding, Hongtao Lu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• DeliveryGym: An RL Environment for Long-Horizon Embodied Agent Planning with Adaptive Curriculum
  Haoqiang Kang, Yiming Zhang, Yiyang Guo, Chuying Li, Jianzhi Shen, Tianruo Rose Xu, Xiaokang Ye, Lianhui Qin · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Workspace Models: Lightweight Robotic Memory via Saliency-Driven Supervision
  Nitish Dashora, Douglas Chen, Idan Shenfeld, John Marangola, Pulkit Agrawal, Max Simchowitz · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• MaskHarness-WAM: Instance-Grounded Harnessing for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
  Zitai Huang, Taiyi Su, Jian Zhu, Jianjun Zhang, Chong Ma, Tianbin Liu, Weiyi Lu, Yi Xu, Hanli Wang · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• HIL-UMI: Bringing Human-in-the-Loop Post-Training of Vision-Language-Action Models to Universal Manipulation Interface
  Zimu Han, Yiming Zeng, Jiyao Zhang, Zihao Zhao, Yuanfei Wang, Yixiang Jin, Shiqi Li, Shuangben Chen, Wei Huang, Ruodai Li, Hui Shen, Hao Dong · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• SIMLIFE: Pattern Understanding for Long-Horizon Human-Agent Partnership
  Run Peng, Zinnia Nie, Jing Ding, Yinpei Dai, Yichi Zhang, Zengqing Wu, Yao Fu, Ziqiao Ma, Jiayuan Mao, Joyce Chai · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• TouchSight: Bare-Handed Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Video via Generative Visual Augmentation
  Danyan Zhou, Jinxuan Lu, Jiawei Lin, Tianxing Chen, Chuqiao Lyu, Wenbo Ding · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Beyond Patch Removal: Persistent Adversarial Effects in Vision-Language-Action Policies
  Enhao Wu, Fusen Guo, Yuxin Cao, Ziyang Lyu, Lin Li, Wei Song · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• GeoAAC: Geometry-Based Adaptive Action Chunking from Denoising Trajectories in VLA Policies
  Xin Chen, Sen Chen, Yujuan Ding, Jian Liu, Guoqing Wang, Wei Ye, Heng Tao Shen, Yi Bin · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Uni-LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Unifies Multimodal Reasoning
  Haoqiang Kang, Yizhe Zhang, Nikki Lijing Kuang, Yian Ma, Lianhui Qin · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• rMuscle: Robotic Muscle Memory for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference
  Kaijun Zhou, Zhiyang Li, Le Chen, Jinyu Gu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• FIVE-VLA: Fast and EffectIVE Autonomous Driving with Recurrent Action Memory
  Kemal Oksuz, Alexandru Buburuzan, Yuhan Yao, Puneet K. Dokania · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Finder: Agentic Closed-Loop Object Finding for Embodied Grounding
  Shixiong Xu, Zhiyuan Chen, Song Ding, Rui Luo, Xiaowei Liang, Dongxu Miao, Zhiying Du · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Policies
  Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Dorsa Sadigh, Chelsea Finn · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• In-Context Robot Learning with VLM Agents
  Dongzhou Cheng, Taoran Yi, Ye Fang, Xingwu Zhang, Fan Feng, Yixuan Li, Gengxiong Zhuang, Rongze Wang, Shuai Yang, Wei Song, Weizhi Xue, Minyan Wu, Jie Gui, Jiaqi Wang, Tong Wu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Energy-Regularized Imitation Learning for Force- and Work-Aware Robotic Manipulation
  Toshiki Otani, Hiromu Taketsugu, Norimichi Ukita · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• WetRobo: A Reproducible Robot Kit for Coding Agents in Biological Laboratories
  Yuna Oikawa, Kei Endo, Takanori Uzawa, Yunzhe Zhang, Manan Anjaria, Lerrel Pinto, Sherry Yang, Koji Tsuda · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• ActionPiece: Rethinking Action Tokenization for Autoregressive Vision-Language-Action Models
  Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Zhaolong Shen, Xiaopeng Lin, Yichao Du, Zhirui Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Kai Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• ActiveScale: Scaling Active Perception for Robots across Model, Data, and Hardware
  Shuai Zhou, Kaisheng Pang, Wenxuan Song, Wenjie Zhang, Xinhu Zheng, Haoang Li · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• M2Tok: Multi-head Multi-codebook Discrete Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models
  Chunpu Xu, Zhixuan Liang, Yuhao Zhang, Chi-Min Chan, Jessie Wang, Yang Xiao, Mengkang Hu, Xiaokang Yang, Yao Mu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Not All Layers Need Tuning: Diagnosing and Directing Adaptation in Vision-Language-Action Models
  Shahram Najam Syed, Arthur Jakobsson, Prayuj Sachdev, Jeffrey Ichnowski · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• ParticleSplat: Self-supervised Object-centric Latent Particle Splatting
  Lyuxing He, Daniel Guo, Elizabeth Terveen, Deepak Pathak, David Held, Tal Daniel · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Acting in Meters: Learning Metric Interactions for Precise Robotic Manipulation
  Lijie Wang, Zheng Lu, Yiming Wang, Heyang Yu, Kenghou Hoi, Bowen Hu, Di Cui, Tianyu Xin, Haoran Liao, Wanqi Zhong, Xingjie Fan, Yizhao Xu, Ziliang Wang, Fei Gao, Yiming Li · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• GeoLAM: Learning Geometry-Grounded Latent Actions from Unlabeled Human Videos
  Yifan Xie, Hekun Tian, Jinkun Liu, YuAn Wang, Qiao Sun, Wenbo Ding · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• sensVLA: Spatially-Grounded Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Wheel Loader
  Gopi Krishna Erabati, Bjarne Johannsen, Angus Stewart, Vardeep Singh Sandhu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• TEMPO: Learning Temporal Context for Dynamic Robot Manipulation
  Zhenyang Feng, Jimin Heo, Erik B. Sudderth, Unnat Jain · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• World Models for Embodied Intelligence: From Plausible to Controllable to Actionable
  Nanjie Yao, Hao Wang, Chong Cheng, Zhikang Chen, Wenzhe Li, Jiafei Lyu, Li Shen, Peilin Zhao, Zongqing Lu, Gao Huang, Steven Hoi, Dacheng Tao, Deheng Ye · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• FluxVLA Engine: A One-Stop VLA Engineering Platform for Embodied Intelligence
  Yinhao Li, Weixin Mao, Zihan Lan, Jikun Rong, Qirui Hu, Yiming Zhang, Weipeng Deng, Bowen Shen, Minzhao Zhu, Yiming Mao, Yan Yang, Chenguang Cui, Hongyuan Chen, Xu Huang, Zheyi Zhao, Pinxi Shen, Bozhen He, Zhen Fu, Yifan Wang, Zexin Zhang, Ang Gao, Haoyu Chen, Chengqi Shi, Hua Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Exploring 2D backbone effects for indoor semantic occupancy prediction
  Shizhang Fanga, Wanling Yea, Qi Zheng · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Intrinsic Robot Rewarding: Reusing VLA Representations for Autonomous Evaluation and Policy Improvement
  Tobias Schaffer, Mohab Elkhayat, Daniela Nicklas, Mustafa Almohamad, Elham Al-Fuqara · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• GRAVA: Grounded Reasoning-to-Action Representation and Learning for Autonomous Driving
  Xiao Liu, Haoyu Li, Jianghao Leng, Lin Wang, Chao Sun · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Steering Generative Robot Policies with Lexicographic Preferences
  Yixuan Jia, Jonathan P. How · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• IMPACT-VLA: Interaction-aware Multimodal Propagation Attribution via Counterfactual Trajectories for Vision-Language-Action Policies
  Jinwoong Kim, Sangjin Park · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• World-Action Models for Robot Learning and Control: A Survey
  Zuxing Lu, Hongjia Zhai, Guanzhi Wang, Huajian Zeng, Jiaqi Yang, Jingyu Liu, Lei Cheng, Yuantai Zhang, Yuheng Qiu, Zezhou Cheng, Ivan Laptev, Danfei Xu, Benjamin Riviere, Giuseppe Loianno, Eric Xing, Xingxing Zuo · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• VGFM: Expressive Robot Policies via Dense Value Guidance in Flow Matching
  Prajwal Koirala, Mark Campbell · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Managing Action Preconditions in Neuro-Symbolic RL: Three Placement Strategies for Embodied Agents
  Norbert Oswald, Fabian Deuser, Thomas Bräunl · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• ReWeight: Leveraging Human Data for VLA Post-Training via Demonstration Retrieval and Sample Weighting
  Chenwei Wang, Dianye Huang, Match W. L. Ko, Chenjia Bai, Zhongliang Jiang · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• When Faster VLA Deployment Changes Closed-Loop Behavior: Task Success-Latency Analysis of SmolVLA Across PyTorch and ONNX Variants
  Rafiqul Islam · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• What Makes an Efficient VLA? Navigating Action-Head Design, Scaling, and Latency
  Luoyang Sun, Guoyang Xia, Fengfa Li, Lei Ren, Xinyu Cui, Haifeng Zhang, Fangxiang Feng, Kaike Zhang, Kun Zhan, Yan Xie, Jun Wang, Cheng Deng · Sep 2026 · arXiv