Pace-and-Path Correction decomposes a quadratic cost minimization into orthogonal pace and path channels to correct chunked actions in VLA models, raising success rates by up to 28.8% in dynamic settings.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.22153 (2026)
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Discrete diffusion policies act as natural asynchronous executors for robotics by treating action generation as iterative unmasking, yielding higher success rates and lower computation than flow-matching real-time chunking in dynamic tasks.
TISED decomposes inference optimization effects on embodied tasks and identifies paradoxical outcomes where faster per-step inference can increase task completion time on static tasks or raise success rates on dynamic tasks.
PAMAE adds a phase-aware router and expert mixture to flow-matching VLA models, yielding up to 9.2% higher task success on multi-stage manipulation simulations via two-stage training.
Fine-tuning VLMs with pairwise progress supervision from policy rollouts improves fine-grained failure detection and boosts robot manipulation success by 11% real-world and 5.9% in simulation.
DREAM-Chunk uses test-time sampling and latent-world-model rollouts to select robust action chunks from chunking-based VLA policies, improving performance under stochastic dynamics on simulation and hardware tasks.
AHEAD augments frozen VLAs with a 4.9M-parameter latent world model that forecasts future visual features using optical-flow motion cues, achieving 79-97% success on dynamic simulation tasks and high real-robot success rates where baselines score near zero.
AsyncShield restores VLA geometric intent from latency via kinematic pose mapping and uses PPO-Lagrangian to balance tracking with LiDAR safety constraints in a plug-and-play module.
FASTER adds a Horizon-Aware Schedule to flow VLAs that compresses immediate-action denoising to one step while keeping long-horizon trajectory quality, lowering real-robot reaction latency.
PhysMani couples a physics-principled 3D Gaussian world model with a future-aware policy to achieve higher success rates on dynamic manipulation tasks in simulation and real robots.
VLA-Pro improves cross-task generalization in vision-language-action models by storing task-specific LoRA adapters as procedural memories and retrieving/fusing them at inference.
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Overcoming Dynamics-Blindness: Training-Free Pace-and-Path Correction for VLA Models
Pace-and-Path Correction decomposes a quadratic cost minimization into orthogonal pace and path channels to correct chunked actions in VLA models, raising success rates by up to 28.8% in dynamic settings.
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DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors
Discrete diffusion policies act as natural asynchronous executors for robotics by treating action generation as iterative unmasking, yielding higher success rates and lower computation than flow-matching real-time chunking in dynamic tasks.
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The Speedup Paradox: Rethinking Inference Speed-Quality Trade-off in Embodied Tasks
TISED decomposes inference optimization effects on embodied tasks and identifies paradoxical outcomes where faster per-step inference can increase task completion time on static tasks or raise success rates on dynamic tasks.
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PAMAE: Phase-Aware-MoE Action Experts Towards Reliable Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Policies
PAMAE adds a phase-aware router and expert mixture to flow-matching VLA models, yielding up to 9.2% higher task success on multi-stage manipulation simulations via two-stage training.
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Robot Critics that Sweat the Small Stuff
Fine-tuning VLMs with pairwise progress supervision from policy rollouts improves fine-grained failure detection and boosts robot manipulation success by 11% real-world and 5.9% in simulation.
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DREAM-Chunk: Reactive Action Chunking with Latent World Model
DREAM-Chunk uses test-time sampling and latent-world-model rollouts to select robust action chunks from chunking-based VLA policies, improving performance under stochastic dynamics on simulation and hardware tasks.
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Intercepting the Future: Latent-Space Predictive World Model for Dynamic VLA Manipulation
AHEAD augments frozen VLAs with a 4.9M-parameter latent world model that forecasts future visual features using optical-flow motion cues, achieving 79-97% success on dynamic simulation tasks and high real-robot success rates where baselines score near zero.
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AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation
AsyncShield restores VLA geometric intent from latency via kinematic pose mapping and uses PPO-Lagrangian to balance tracking with LiDAR safety constraints in a plug-and-play module.
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FASTER: Rethinking Real-Time Flow VLAs
FASTER adds a Horizon-Aware Schedule to flow VLAs that compresses immediate-action denoising to one step while keeping long-horizon trajectory quality, lowering real-robot reaction latency.
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PhysMani: Physics-principled 3D World Model for Dynamic Object Manipulation
PhysMani couples a physics-principled 3D Gaussian world model with a future-aware policy to achieve higher success rates on dynamic manipulation tasks in simulation and real robots.
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VLA-Pro: Cross-Task Procedural Memory Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Models
VLA-Pro improves cross-task generalization in vision-language-action models by storing task-specific LoRA adapters as procedural memories and retrieving/fusing them at inference.