EvoScene-VLA maintains an action-updated scene prior across control chunks in VLA policies, raising success rates on RoboTwin tasks from 87.2% to 89.1% fixed and 86.1% to 88.5% randomized while outperforming baselines on a real robot.
HAMLET: Switch your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
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Inherently, robotic manipulation tasks are history-dependent: leveraging past context could be beneficial. However, most existing Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have been designed without considering this aspect, i.e., they rely solely on the current observation, ignoring preceding context. In this paper, we propose HAMLET, a scalable framework to adapt VLAs to attend to the historical context during action prediction. Specifically, we introduce moment tokens that compactly encode perceptual information at each timestep. Their representations are initialized with time-contrastive learning, allowing them to better capture temporally distinctive aspects. Next, we employ a lightweight memory module that integrates the moment tokens across past timesteps into memory features, which are then leveraged for action prediction. Through empirical evaluation, we show that HAMLET successfully transforms a state-of-the-art VLA into a history-aware policy, especially demonstrating significant improvements on long-horizon tasks that require historical context. In particular, on top of GR00T N1.5, HAMLET achieves an average success rate of 76.4% on history-dependent real-world tasks, surpassing the baseline performance by 47.2%. Furthermore, HAMLET pushes prior art performance from 64.1% to 66.4% on RoboCasa Kitchen (100-demo setup) and from 95.6% to 97.7% on LIBERO, highlighting its effectiveness even under generic robot-manipulation benchmarks.
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DSSP is a history-conditioned diffusion state space policy that uses SSMs to encode full observation streams with an auxiliary dynamics objective and hierarchical fusion, achieving SOTA results with reduced model size in robot manipulation.
DOMINO dataset and PUMA architecture enable better dynamic robotic manipulation by incorporating motion history, delivering 6.3% higher success rates than prior VLA models.
Replacing Gaussian noise with a temporally grounded prior from recent actions straightens flow-matching paths and improves success rates in robotic manipulation and prior-space RL.
RoboMemArena is a new large-scale robotic memory benchmark with real-world tasks, and PrediMem is a dual VLA system that outperforms baselines by managing memory buffers with predictive coding.
Adaptive Action Chunking uses action entropy to dynamically adjust chunk sizes in VLA models, improving performance on simulated and real robotic manipulation tasks.
Single-stage fine-tuning of a video model to generate actions as latent frames plus future states and values yields state-of-the-art robot policy performance on LIBERO, RoboCasa, and bimanual tasks.
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EvoScene-VLA: Evolving Scene Beliefs Inside the Action Decoder for Chunked Robot Control
EvoScene-VLA maintains an action-updated scene prior across control chunks in VLA policies, raising success rates on RoboTwin tasks from 87.2% to 89.1% fixed and 86.1% to 88.5% randomized while outperforming baselines on a real robot.
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DSSP: Diffusion State Space Policy with Full-History Encoding
DSSP is a history-conditioned diffusion state space policy that uses SSMs to encode full observation streams with an auxiliary dynamics objective and hierarchical fusion, achieving SOTA results with reduced model size in robot manipulation.
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Towards Generalizable Robotic Manipulation in Dynamic Environments
DOMINO dataset and PUMA architecture enable better dynamic robotic manipulation by incorporating motion history, delivering 6.3% higher success rates than prior VLA models.
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WarmPrior: Straightening Flow-Matching Policies with Temporal Priors
Replacing Gaussian noise with a temporally grounded prior from recent actions straightens flow-matching paths and improves success rates in robotic manipulation and prior-space RL.
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RoboMemArena: A Comprehensive and Challenging Robotic Memory Benchmark
RoboMemArena is a new large-scale robotic memory benchmark with real-world tasks, and PrediMem is a dual VLA system that outperforms baselines by managing memory buffers with predictive coding.
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Adaptive Action Chunking at Inference-time for Vision-Language-Action Models
Adaptive Action Chunking uses action entropy to dynamically adjust chunk sizes in VLA models, improving performance on simulated and real robotic manipulation tasks.
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Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planning
Single-stage fine-tuning of a video model to generate actions as latent frames plus future states and values yields state-of-the-art robot policy performance on LIBERO, RoboCasa, and bimanual tasks.
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