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AnchorRefine: Synergy-Manipulation Based on Trajectory Anchor and Residual Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models

Tingzheng Jia, Kan Guo, Lanping Qian, Yongli Hu, Daxin Tian, Guixian Qu, Chunmian Lin, Baocai Yin, Jiapu Wang · 2026

Precision-critical manipulation requires both global trajectory organization and local execution correction, yet most vision-language-action (VLA) policies generate actions within a single unified spa…

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Dynamic Whole-Body Dancing with Humanoid Robots -- A Model-Based Control Approach

Shibowen Zhang, Jiayang Wu, Guannan Liu, Helin Zhu, Junjie Liu, Zhehan Li, Junhong Guo, Xiaokun Leng, Hangxin Liu, Jingwen Zhang, Jikai Wang, Zonghai Chen, Zhicheng He, Jiayi Wang, Yao Su · 2026

This paper presents an integrated model-based framework for generating and executing dynamic whole-body dance motions on humanoid robots. The framework operates in two stages: offline motion generatio…

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ProgressVLA: Progress-Guided Diffusion Policy for Vision-Language Robotic Manipulation

Hongyu Yan, Qiwei Li, Jiaolong Yang, Yadong Mu · 2026

Most existing vision-language-action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation lack progress awareness, typically relying on hand-crafted heuristics for task termination. This limitation is particularly s…

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Disentangled Robot Learning via Separate Forward and Inverse Dynamics Pretraining

Wenyao Zhang, Bozhou Zhang, Zekun Qi, Wenjun Zeng, Xin Jin, Li Zhang · 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown great potential in building generalist robots, but still face a dilemma-misalignment of 2D image forecasting and 3D action prediction. Besides, such a vi…

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DFM-VLA: Iterative Action Refinement for Robot Manipulation via Discrete Flow Matching

Jiayi Chen, Wenxuan Song, Shuai Chen, Jingbo Wang, Zhijun Li, Haoang Li · 2026

Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models that encode actions using a discrete tokenization scheme are increasingly adopted for robotic manipulation, but existing decoding paradigms remain fundamentally l…

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MMaDA-VLA: Large Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model with Unified Multi-Modal Instruction and Generation

Yang Liu, Pengxiang Ding, Tengyue Jiang, Xudong Wang, Wenxuan Song, Minghui Lin, Han Zhao, Hongyin Zhang, Zifeng Zhuang, Wei Zhao, Siteng Huang, Jinkui Shi, Donglin Wang · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to control robots for manipulation from visual observations and natural-language instructions. However, existing hierarchical and autoregressive paradigms often…

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QuadFM: Foundational Text-Driven Quadruped Motion Dataset for Generation and Control

Li Gao, Fuzhi Yang, Jianhui Chen, Liu Liu, Yao Zheng, Yang Cai, Ziqiao Li · 2026

Despite significant advances in quadrupedal robotics, a critical gap persists in foundational motion resources that holistically integrate diverse locomotion, emotionally expressive behaviors, and ric…

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Make Tracking Easy: Neural Motion Retargeting for Humanoid Whole-body Control

Qingrui Zhao, Kaiyue Yang, Xiyu Wang, Shiqi Zhao, Yi Lu, Xinfang Zhang, Qiu Shen, Xiao-Xiao Long, Xun Cao · 2026

Humanoid robots require diverse motor skills to integrate into complex environments, but bridging the kinematic and dynamic embodiment gap from human data remains a major bottleneck. We demonstrate th…

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AtomicVLA: Unlocking the Potential of Atomic Skill Learning in Robots

Likui Zhang, Tao Tang, Zhihao Zhan, Xiuwei Chen, Zisheng Chen, Jianhua Han, Jiangtong Zhu, Pei Xu, Hang Xu, Hefeng Wu, Liang Lin, Xiaodan Liang · 2026

Recent advances in Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promising potential for robotic manipulation tasks. However, real-world robotic tasks often involve long-horizon, multi-step problem-s…

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TempoFit: Plug-and-Play Layer-Wise Temporal KV Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

Jun Sun, Boyu Yang, Jiahao Zhang, Ning Ma, Chencheng Wu, Siqing Zhang, Yiou Huang, Qiufeng Wang, Shan Liang, Yaran Chen · 2026

Pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have achieved strong single-step manipulation, but their inference remains largely memoryless, which is brittle in non-Markovian long-horizon settings …

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Moving Through Clutter: Scaling Data Collection and Benchmarking for 3D Scene-Aware Humanoid Locomotion via Virtual Reality

Beichen Wang, Yuanjie Lu, Linji Wang, Liuchuan Yu, Xuesu Xiao · 2026

Recent advances in humanoid locomotion have enabled dynamic behaviors such as dancing, martial arts, and parkour, yet these capabilities are predominantly demonstrated in open, flat, and obstacle-free…

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Iterative On-Policy Refinement of Hierarchical Diffusion Policies for Language-Conditioned Manipulation

Clemence Grislain, Olivier Sigaud, Mohamed Chetouani · 2026

Hierarchical policies for language-conditioned manipulation decompose tasks into subgoals, where a high-level planner guides a low-level controller. However, these hierarchical agents often fail becau…

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Rhythm: Learning Interactive Whole-Body Control for Dual Humanoids

Hongjin Chen, Wei Zhang, Pengfei Li, Shihao Ma, Ke Ma, Yujie Jin, Zijun Xu, Xiaohui Wang, Yupeng Zheng, Zining Wang, Jieru Zhao, Yilun Chen, Wenchao Ding · 2026

Realizing interactive whole-body control for multi-humanoid systems is critical for unlocking complex collaborative capabilities in shared environments. Although recent advancements have significantly…

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Neural Implicit Action Fields: From Discrete Waypoints to Continuous Functions for Vision-Language-Action Models

Haoyun Liu, Jianzhuang Zhao, Xinyuan Chang, Tianle Shi, Chuanzhang Meng, Jiayuan Tan, Feng Xiong, Tong Lin, Dongjie Huo, Mu Xu, SongLin Dong, Zhiheng Ma, Yihong Gong, Sheng Zhong · 2026

Despite the rapid progress of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, the prevailing paradigm of predicting discrete waypoints remains fundamentally misaligned with the intrinsic continuity of physical m…

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StemVLA:An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model with Future 3D Spatial Geometry Knowledge and 4D Historical Representation

Jiasong Xiao, Yutao She, Kai Li, Yuyang Sha, Ziang Cheng, Ziang Tong · 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate visual observations and language instructions to predict robot actions, demonstrating promising generalization in manipulation tasks. However, most existi…

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DySL-VLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference via Dynamic-Static Layer-Skipping for Robot Manipulation

Zebin Yang, Yijiahao Qi, Tong Xie, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu, Meng Li · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable success in robotic tasks like manipulation by fusing a language model's reasoning with a vision model's 3D understanding. However, their high …

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Global Prior Meets Local Consistency: Dual-Memory Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

Zaijing Li, Bing Hu, Rui Shao, Gongwei Chen, Dongmei Jiang, Pengwei Xie, Jianye Hao, Liqiang Nie · 2026

Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have rapidly become a dominant paradigm for robotic manipulation. It typically comprising a Vision-Language backbone for perception and understanding, …

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TextOp: Real-time Interactive Text-Driven Humanoid Robot Motion Generation and Control

Weiji Xie, Jiakun Zheng, Jinrui Han, Jiyuan Shi, Weinan Zhang, Chenjia Bai, Xuelong Li · 2026

Recent advances in humanoid whole-body motion tracking have enabled the execution of diverse and highly coordinated motions on real hardware. However, existing controllers are commonly driven either b…

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Think Proprioceptively: Embodied Visual Reasoning for VLA Manipulation

Fangyuan Wang, Peng Zhou, Jiaming Qi, Shipeng Lyu, David Navarro-Alarcon, Guodong Guo · 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models typically inject proprioception only as a late conditioning signal, which prevents robot state from shaping instruction understanding and from influencing which vis…

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VLS: Steering Pretrained Robot Policies via Vision-Language Models

Shuo Liu, Ishneet Sukhvinder Singh, Yiqing Xu, Jiafei Duan, Ranjay Krishna · 2026

Why do pretrained diffusion or flow-matching policies fail when the same task is performed near an obstacle, on a shifted support surface, or amid mild clutter? Such failures rarely reflect missing mo…

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