Fetching the paper…
Reading the bibliography…
Offering great potential in robotic manipulation, a capable Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model is expected to faithfully generalize across tasks and platforms while ensuring cost efficiency (e.g., data and GPU hours required for adaptation).
Flow matching for generative modeling
Yaron Lipman, Ricky TQ Chen, Heli Ben-Hamu, Maximilian Nickel, and Matt Le · 2022
Earlier work this paper cites.
Calvin: A benchmark for language-conditioned policy learning for long-horizon robot manipulation tasks
Oier Mees, Lukas Hermann, Erick Rosete-Beas, and Wolfram Burgard · 2022
Earlier work this paper cites.
Libero: Benchmarking knowledge transfer for lifelong robot learning
Bo Liu, Yifeng Zhu, Chongkai Gao, Yihao Feng, Qiang Liu, Yuke Zhu, and Peter Stone · 2023
Earlier work this paper cites.
Paligemma: A versatile 3B VLM for transfer
Lucas Beyer, Andreas Steiner, André Susano Pinto, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiao Wang, Daniel Salz, Maxim Neumann, Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin, Michael Tschannen, Emanuele Bugliarello, et al · 2024
Earlier work this paper cites.
Evaluating real-world robot manipulation policies in simulation
Xuanlin Li, Kyle Hsu, Jiayuan Gu, Karl Pertsch, Oier Mees, Homer Rich Walke, Chuyuan Fu, Ishikaa Lunawat, Isabel Sieh, Sean Kirmani, et al · 2024
Earlier work this paper cites.
Robocasa: Large-scale simulation of everyday tasks for generalist robots
Soroush Nasiriany, Abhiram Maddukuri, Lance Zhang, Adeet Parikh, Aaron Lo, Abhishek Joshi, Ajay Mandlekar, and Yuke Zhu · 2024
Earlier work this paper cites.
Roboarena: Distributed real-world evaluation of generalist robot policies
Pranav Atreya, Karl Pertsch, Tony Lee, Moo Jin Kim, Arhan Jain, Artur Kuramshin, Clemens Eppner, Cyrus Neary, Edward Hu, Fabio Ramos, et al · 2025
Earlier work this paper cites.
Shuai Bai, Keqin Chen, Xuejing Liu, Jialin Wang, Wenbin Ge, Sibo Song, Kai Dang, Peng Wang, Shijie Wang, Jun Tang, et al · 2025
Earlier work this paper cites.
GR00T N1: An open foundation model for generalist humanoid robots
Johan Bjorck, Fernando Castañeda, Nikita Cherniadev, Xingye Da, Runyu Ding, Linxi Fan, Yu Fang, Dieter Fox, Fengyuan Hu, Spencer Huang, et al · 2025
Earlier work this paper cites.
Chilam Cheang, Sijin Chen, Zhongren Cui, Yingdong Hu, Liqun Huang, Tao Kong, Hang Li, Yifeng Li, Yuxiao Liu, Xiao Ma, et al · 2025
Earlier work this paper cites.
Tianxing Chen, Zanxin Chen, Baijun Chen, Zijian Cai, Yibin Liu, Zixuan Li, Qiwei Liang, Xianliang Lin, Yiheng Ge, Zhenyu Gu, et al · 2025
Earlier work this paper cites.
InternVLA-M1: A spatially guided vision-language-action framework for generalist robot policy
Xinyi Chen, Yilun Chen, Yanwei Fu, Ning Gao, Jiaya Jia, Weiyang Jin, Hao Li, Yao Mu, Jiangmiao Pang, Yu Qiao, et al · 2025
Cited alongside, same era.
Emerging properties in unified multimodal pretraining
Chaorui Deng, Deyao Zhu, Kunchang Li, Chenhui Gou, Feng Li, Zeyu Wang, Shu Zhong, Weihao Yu, Xiaonan Nie, Ziang Song, et al · 2025
Cited alongside, same era.
Heyu Guo, Shanmu Wang, Ruichun Ma, Shiqi Jiang, Yasaman Ghasempour, Omid Abari, Baining Guo, and Lili Qiu · 2025
Cited alongside, same era.
MLLMs need 3D-aware representation supervision for scene understanding
Xiaohu Huang, Jingjing Wu, Qunyi Xie, and Kai Han · 2025
Cited alongside, same era.
Gemini Robotics Team, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Saminda Abeyruwan, Joshua Ainslie, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Ashwin Balakrishna, Nathan Batchelor, Alex Bewley, Jeff Bingham, et al · 2025
Later among the works it cites.
Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the physical world
Gemini Robotics Team, Saminda Abeyruwan, Joshua Ainslie, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Travis Armstrong, Ashwin Balakrishna, Robert Baruch, Maria Bauza, Michiel Blokzijl, et al · 2025
Later among the works it cites.
GR00T N1.6: An improved open foundation model for generalist humanoid robots
NVIDIA GEAR Team · 2025
Later among the works it cites.
Vision-centric activation and coordination for multimodal large language models
Yunnan Wang, Fan Lu, Kecheng Zheng, Ziyuan Huang, Ziqiang Li, Wenjun Zeng, and Xin Jin · 2025
Later among the works it cites.
alphaXiv searches the wider corpus for related work and actual follow-ups.
alphaXiv is searching for related work…
Tao Jiang, Tianyuan Yuan, Yicheng Liu, Chenhao Lu, Jianning Cui, Xiao Liu, Shuiqi Cheng, Jiyang Gao, Huazhe Xu, and Hang Zhao · 2025
Cited alongside, same era.
Spatial forcing: Implicit spatial representation alignment for vision-language-action model
Fuhao Li, Wenxuan Song, Han Zhao, Jingbo Wang, Pengxiang Ding, Donglin Wang, Long Zeng, and Haoang Li · 2025
Cited alongside, same era.
Veomni: Scaling any modality model training with model-centric distributed recipe zoo
Qianli Ma, Yaowei Zheng, Zhelun Shi, Zhongkai Zhao, Bin Jia, Ziyue Huang, Zhiqi Lin, Youjie Li, Jiacheng Yang, Yanghua Peng, et al · 2025
Cited alongside, same era.
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
Cited alongside, same era.
StarVLA: A lego-like codebase for vision-language-action model developing, 2025
starVLA Contributors · 2025
Cited alongside, same era.
GeoVLA: Empowering 3d representations in vision-language-action models
Lin Sun, Bin Xie, Yingfei Liu, Hao Shi, Tiancai Wang, and Jiale Cao · 2025
Cited alongside, same era.
π 0.5 \pi_{0.5} : A vision-language-action model with open-world generalization
Kevin Black, Noah Brown, James Darpinian, Karan Dhabalia, Danny Driess, Adnan Esmail, Michael Robert Equi, Chelsea Finn, Niccolo Fusai, Manuel Y. Galliker, Dibya Ghosh, Lachy Groom, Karol Hausman, brian ichter, Szymon Jakubczak, Tim Jones, Liyiming Ke, Devin LeBlanc, Sergey Levine, Adrian Li-Bell, Mohith Mothukuri, Suraj Nair, Karl Pertsch, Allen Z. Ren, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Laura Smith, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Kyle Stachowicz, James Tanner, Quan Vuong, Homer Walke, Anna Walling, Haohuan Wang, Lili Yu, and Ury Zhilinsky
Cited in the paper.
π 0 \pi_{0} : A vision-language-action flow model for general robot control
Kevin Black, Noah Brown, Danny Driess, Adnan Esmail, Michael Equi, Chelsea Finn, Niccolo Fusai, Lachy Groom, Karol Hausman, Brian Ichter, Szymon Jakubczak, Tim Jones, Liyiming Ke, Sergey Levine, Adrian Li-Bell, Mohith Mothukuri, Suraj Nair, Karl Pertsch, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, James Tanner, Quan Vuong, Anna Walling, Haohuan Wang, and Ury Zhilinsky
Cited in the paper.
Bin Xie, Erjin Zhou, Fan Jia, Hao Shi, Haoqiang Fan, Haowei Zhang, Hebei Li, Jianjian Sun, Jie Bin, Junwen Huang, et al · 2025
Later among the works it cites.
RoboChallenge: Large-scale real-robot evaluation of embodied policies
Adina Yakefu, Bin Xie, Chongyang Xu, Enwen Zhang, Erjin Zhou, Fan Jia, Haitao Yang, Haoqiang Fan, Haowei Zhang, Hongyang Peng, et al · 2025
Later among the works it cites.
Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents
Jianwei Yang, Reuben Tan, Qianhui Wu, Ruijie Zheng, Baolin Peng, Yongyuan Liang, Yu Gu, Mu Cai, Seonghyeon Ye, Joel Jang, et al · 2025
Later among the works it cites.
Igniting VLMs toward the embodied space
Andy Zhai, Brae Liu, Bruno Fang, Chalse Cai, Ellie Ma, Ethan Yin, Hao Wang, Hugo Zhou, James Wang, Lights Shi, et al · 2025
Later among the works it cites.
Masked depth modeling for spatial perception
Bin Tan, Changjian Sun, Xiage Qin, Hanat Adai, Zelin Fu, Tianxiang Zhou, Han Zhang, Yinghao Xu, Xing Zhu, Yujun Shen Shen, and Nan Xue · 2026
Closest in time.
The Great March 100: 100 detail-oriented tasks for evaluating embodied ai agents, 2026
Ziyu Wang, Chenyuan Liu, Yushun Xiang, Runhao Zhang, Qingbo Hao, Hongliang Lu, Houyu Chen, Zhizhong Feng, Kaiyue Zheng, Dehao Ye, Xianchao Zeng, Xinyu Zhou, Boran Wen, Jiaxin Li, Mingyu Zhang, Kecheng Zheng, Qian Zhu, Ran Cheng, and Yong-Lu Li · 2026
Closest in time.