Chronos elevates full observation history to the policy's latent state via selective SSM tokens and a Schrödinger-inspired acceleration bridge, achieving large gains on memory-dependent robot tasks with fewer parameters.
Bc-z: Zero-shot task generalization with robotic imitation learning
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FineVLA unifies robot datasets into 47k fine-grained trajectories, adds a VLM annotator and benchmark, and shows that mixing fine-grained and goal-level instructions improves steerable control without hurting task success.
DeMiAn re-annotates robot and egocentric videos with VLM-generated dense labels across motion, scene, pose, and reasoning aspects, then uses a learned instructor to boost policy success by 5 points on RoboCasa over task-only baselines.
VLAs-as-Tools pairs a VLM planner with specialized VLA executors via a new interface and Tool-Aligned Post-Training to raise long-horizon robot success rates on LIBERO-Long and RoboTwin benchmarks.
MAVIC corrects Bellman backups at instruction boundaries by adjusting the incoming objective and restoring continuation value, enabling consistent estimation under stochastic instruction switching in cooperative MARL.
X-Diffusion adapts Ambient Diffusion to selectively train on noised human actions for cross-embodiment robot policies, yielding 16% higher average success rates than naive co-training or manual filtering across five real-world manipulation tasks.
PGT optimizes latent goal embeddings for frozen policies via trajectory-level preference objectives, reporting 72-81.6% relative gains on 17 Minecraft tasks and 13.4% better OOD performance than fine-tuning.
Q-guided reverse-time flow sampling with a rollout-trained action-chunk critic improves frozen SmolVLA success on LIBERO, with strong single-task gains but only modest locked held-out transfer.
MagicSim is a unified embodied interaction infrastructure built on a deterministic batched runtime and shared MDP that supports diverse world construction, execution, task evaluation, automatic rollout generation, and interactive agent interfaces.
The paper identifies four missing interfaces (data autolabelling, embodiment retargeting, physics-grounded world models, and video-based reward inference) as the central bottleneck beyond VLA scaling for robot intelligence.
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Chronos: A Physics-Informed Full-History Framework for Non-Markovian Long-Horizon Manipulation
Chronos elevates full observation history to the policy's latent state via selective SSM tokens and a Schrödinger-inspired acceleration bridge, achieving large gains on memory-dependent robot tasks with fewer parameters.
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FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies
FineVLA unifies robot datasets into 47k fine-grained trajectories, adds a VLM annotator and benchmark, and shows that mixing fine-grained and goal-level instructions improves steerable control without hurting task success.
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How to Instruct Your Robot: Dense Language Annotations Power Robot Policy Learning
DeMiAn re-annotates robot and egocentric videos with VLM-generated dense labels across motion, scene, pose, and reasoning aspects, then uses a learned instructor to boost policy success by 5 points on RoboCasa over task-only baselines.
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Towards Long-horizon Embodied Agents with Tool-Aligned Vision-Language-Action Models
VLAs-as-Tools pairs a VLM planner with specialized VLA executors via a new interface and Tool-Aligned Post-Training to raise long-horizon robot success rates on LIBERO-Long and RoboTwin benchmarks.
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Robust Instruction Compliance in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
MAVIC corrects Bellman backups at instruction boundaries by adjusting the incoming objective and restoring continuation value, enabling consistent estimation under stochastic instruction switching in cooperative MARL.
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X-Diffusion: Training Diffusion Policies on Cross-Embodiment Human Demonstrations
X-Diffusion adapts Ambient Diffusion to selectively train on noised human actions for cross-embodiment robot policies, yielding 16% higher average success rates than naive co-training or manual filtering across five real-world manipulation tasks.
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Preference Goal Tuning: Post-Training as Latent Control for Frozen Policies
PGT optimizes latent goal embeddings for frozen policies via trajectory-level preference objectives, reporting 72-81.6% relative gains on 17 Minecraft tasks and 13.4% better OOD performance than fine-tuning.
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Guided Action Flow: Q-Guided Inference for Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Policies
Q-guided reverse-time flow sampling with a rollout-trained action-chunk critic improves frozen SmolVLA success on LIBERO, with strong single-task gains but only modest locked held-out transfer.
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MagicSim: A Unified Infrastructure for Executable Embodied Interaction
MagicSim is a unified embodied interaction infrastructure built on a deterministic batched runtime and shared MDP that supports diverse world construction, execution, task evaluation, automatic rollout generation, and interactive agent interfaces.
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Robots Need More than VLA and World Models
The paper identifies four missing interfaces (data autolabelling, embodiment retargeting, physics-grounded world models, and video-based reward inference) as the central bottleneck beyond VLA scaling for robot intelligence.