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Vision-language-action (VLA) models have recently shown strong potential in enabling robots to follow language instructions and execute precise actions.
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Bc-z: Zero-shot task generalization with robotic imitation learning
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Calvin: A benchmark for language-conditioned policy learning for long-horizon robot manipulation tasks
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Behavior transformers: Cloning k k modes with one stone
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Self-supervised learning from images with a joint-embedding predictive architecture
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Pali-3 vision language models: Smaller, faster, stronger
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Diffusion policy: Visuomotor policy learning via action diffusion
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Maniskill2: A unified benchmark for generalizable manipulation skills
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Voxposer: Composable 3d value maps for robotic manipulation with language models
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Dinov2: Learning robust visual features without supervision
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Scalable diffusion models with transformers
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Open-world object manipulation using pre-trained vision-language models
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Llama 2: Open foundation and fine-tuned chat models
Hugo Touvron, Louis Martin, Kevin Stone, Peter Albert, Amjad Almahairi, Yasmine Babaei, Nikolay Bashlykov, Soumya Batra, Prajjwal Bhargava, Shruti Bhosale, et al · 2023
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Bridgedata v2: A dataset for robot learning at scale
Homer Rich Walke, Kevin Black, Tony Z Zhao, Quan Vuong, Chongyi Zheng, Philippe Hansen-Estruch, Andre Wang He, Vivek Myers, Moo Jin Kim, Max Du, et al · 2023
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Sigmoid loss for language image pre-training
Xiaohua Zhai, Basil Mustafa, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Lucas Beyer · 2023
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Towards a unified understanding of robot manipulation: A comprehensive survey
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Gr00t n1: An open foundation model for generalist humanoid robots
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Univla: Learning to act anywhere with task-centric latent actions
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Vidbot: Learning generalizable 3d actions from in-the-wild 2d human videos for zero-shot robotic manipulation
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π 0 \pi_{0} : A vision-language-action flow model for general robot control
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Deconstructing denoising diffusion models for self-supervised learning
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Octo: An open-source generalist robot policy
Dibya Ghosh, Homer Walke, Karl Pertsch, Kevin Black, Oier Mees, Sudeep Dasari, Joey Hejna, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, Tobias Kreiman, You Liang Tan, Pannag Sanketi, Quan Vuong, Ted Xiao, Dorsa Sadigh, Chelsea Finn, and Sergey Levine · 2024
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Deciphering cross-modal alignment in large vision-language models with modality integration rate
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Cotracker: It is better to track together
Nikita Karaev, Ignacio Rocco, Benjamin Graham, Natalia Neverova, Andrea Vedaldi, and Christian Rupprecht · 2024
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Prismatic vlms: Investigating the design space of visually-conditioned language models
Siddharth Karamcheti, Suraj Nair, Ashwin Balakrishna, Percy Liang, Thomas Kollar, and Dorsa Sadigh · 2024
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Openvla: An open-source vision-language-action model
Moo Jin Kim, Karl Pertsch, Siddharth Karamcheti, Ted Xiao, Ashwin Balakrishna, Suraj Nair, Rafael Rafailov, Ethan Foster, Grace Lam, Pannag Sanketi, et al · 2024
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Can Cui, Pengxiang Ding, Wenxuan Song, Shuanghao Bai, Xinyang Tong, Zirui Ge, Runze Suo, Wanqi Zhou, Yang Liu, Bofang Jia, et al · 2025
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Graspvla: a grasping foundation model pre-trained on billion-scale synthetic action data
Shengliang Deng, Mi Yan, Songlin Wei, Haixin Ma, Yuxin Yang, Jiayi Chen, Zhiqi Zhang, Taoyu Yang, Xuheng Zhang, Heming Cui, et al · 2025
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Dita: Scaling diffusion transformer for generalist vision-language-action policy
Zhi Hou, Tianyi Zhang, Yuwen Xiong, Haonan Duan, Hengjun Pu, Ronglei Tong, Chengyang Zhao, Xizhou Zhu, Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai, et al · 2025
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Mllms need 3d-aware representation supervision for scene understanding
Xiaohu Huang, Jingjing Wu, Qunyi Xie, and Kai Han · 2025
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Fine-tuning vision-language-action models: Optimizing speed and success
Moo Jin Kim, Chelsea Finn, and Percy Liang · 2025
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Evo-0: Vision-language-action model with implicit spatial understanding
Tao Lin, Gen Li, Yilei Zhong, Yanwen Zou, and Bo Zhao · 2025
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Genhancer: Imperfect generative models are secretly strong vision-centric enhancers
Shijie Ma, Yuying Ge, Teng Wang, Yuxin Guo, Yixiao Ge, and Ying Shan · 2025
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Robotwin: Dual-arm robot benchmark with generative digital twins
Yao Mu, Tianxing Chen, Zanxin Chen, Shijia Peng, Zhiqian Lan, Zeyu Gao, Zhixuan Liang, Qiaojun Yu, Yude Zou, Mingkun Xu, et al · 2025
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Fast: Efficient action tokenization for vision-language-action models
Karl Pertsch, Kyle Stachowicz, Brian Ichter, Danny Driess, Suraj Nair, Quan Vuong, Oier Mees, Chelsea Finn, and Sergey Levine · 2025
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Spatialvla: Exploring spatial representations for visual-language-action model
Delin Qu, Haoming Song, Qizhi Chen, Yuanqi Yao, Xinyi Ye, Yan Ding, Zhigang Wang, JiaYuan Gu, Bin Zhao, Dong Wang, et al · 2025
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Geovla: Empowering 3d representations in vision-language-action models
Lin Sun, Bin Xie, Yingfei Liu, Hao Shi, Tiancai Wang, and Jiale Cao · 2025
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Tinyvla: Towards fast, data-efficient vision-language-action models for robotic manipulation
Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li, Minjie Zhu, Zhibin Tang, Kun Wu, Zhiyuan Xu, Ning Liu, Ran Cheng, Chaomin Shen, et al · 2025
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Geometry forcing: Marrying video diffusion and 3d representation for consistent world modeling
Haoyu Wu, Diankun Wu, Tianyu He, Junliang Guo, Yang Ye, Yueqi Duan, and Jiang Bian · 2025
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4d-vla: Spatiotemporal vision-language-action pretraining with cross-scene calibration
Jiahui Zhang, Yurui Chen, Yueming Xu, Ze Huang, Yanpeng Zhou, Yu-Jie Yuan, Xinyue Cai, Guowei Huang, Xingyue Quan, Hang Xu, et al · 2025
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Tracevla: Visual trace prompting enhances spatial-temporal awareness for generalist robotic policies
Ruijie Zheng, Yongyuan Liang, Shuaiyi Huang, Jianfeng Gao, Hal Daumé III, Andrey Kolobov, Furong Huang, and Jianwei Yang · 2025
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Flowvla: Thinking in motion with a visual chain of thought
Zhide Zhong, Haodong Yan, Junfeng Li, Xiangchen Liu, Xin Gong, Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, and Haoang Li · 2025
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Rt-2: Vision-language-action models transfer web knowledge to robotic control
Brianna Zitkovich, Tianhe Yu, Sichun Xu, Peng Xu, Ted Xiao, Fei Xia, Jialin Wu, Paul Wohlhart, Stefan Welker, Ayzaan Wahid, et al · 2025
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