Prepending a few self-generated random interaction clips as context lets VLA policies identify novel camera viewpoints and morphologies at test time and outperform multi-view baselines without parameter updates.
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Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models are Scalable Learners for Robotic Manipulation
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Current efforts to learn scalable policies in robotic manipulation primarily fall into two categories: one focuses on "action," which involves behavior cloning from extensive collections of robotic data, while the other emphasizes "vision," enhancing model generalization by pre-training representations or generative models, also referred to as world models, using large-scale visual datasets. This paper presents an end-to-end paradigm that predicts actions using inverse dynamics models conditioned on the robot's forecasted visual states, named Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models (PIDM). By closing the loop between vision and action, the end-to-end PIDM can be a better scalable action learner. In practice, we use Transformers to process both visual states and actions, naming the model Seer. It is initially pre-trained on large-scale robotic datasets, such as DROID, and can be adapted to realworld scenarios with a little fine-tuning data. Thanks to large-scale, end-to-end training and the synergy between vision and action, Seer significantly outperforms previous methods across both simulation and real-world experiments. It achieves improvements of 13% on the LIBERO-LONG benchmark, 21% on CALVIN ABC-D, and 43% in real-world tasks. Notably, Seer sets a new state-of-the-art on CALVIN ABC-D benchmark, achieving an average length of 4.28, and exhibits superior generalization for novel objects, lighting conditions, and environments under high-intensity disturbances on real-world scenarios. Code and models are publicly available at https://github.com/OpenRobotLab/Seer/.
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World models introduce a stealthy poisoning vector into robot learning pipelines where malicious prompts or dynamics in teleoperated data activate only during synthetic trajectory generation, enabling backdoors in downstream policies.
AwareVLN introduces a structural reasoning module and automatic data engine with progress division to equip VLN agents with self-awareness of agent state and task progress, outperforming prior methods on Habitat datasets.
VistaBot integrates 4D geometry estimation and spatiotemporal view synthesis into action policies to improve cross-view generalization by 2.6-2.8x on a new VGS metric in simulation and real tasks.
RoboWM-Bench evaluates video world models by converting their manipulation video predictions into executable actions validated in simulation, showing that visual plausibility does not guarantee physical executability.
HiPolicy is a new hierarchical multi-frequency action chunking method for imitation learning that jointly generates coarse and fine action sequences with entropy-guided execution to improve performance and efficiency in robotic manipulation.
Next Forcing augments video generation models with auxiliary multi-chunk prediction modules to achieve faster training convergence, higher accuracy at high frame rates, and 2x faster inference on world modeling benchmarks.
AffordanceVLA proposes a VLA model with affordance-aware modules (Which2Act, Where2Act, How2Act) in a Mixture-of-Transformer trained in three stages to improve robotic manipulation.
IDOL uses inverse dynamics on adjacent predicted latent futures to extract planning-relevant motion deltas, then optimizes trajectories with a closed-loop refinement step, reporting SOTA results on NAVSIM v1 and v2.
Decouples action-free video world models from embodiment-specific IDMs using Jacobian-based translation to achieve zero-shot cross-embodiment robot policies.
A Goal-Conditioned Inverse Dynamics Model amortizes planning in pretrained world model latents, matching or exceeding CEM in seven of eight settings at 100-130x lower per-decision cost.
ConsisVLA-4D adds cross-view semantic alignment, cross-object geometric fusion, and cross-scene dynamic reasoning to VLA models, delivering 21.6% and 41.5% gains plus 2.3x and 2.4x speedups on LIBERO and real-world tasks.
DIAL decouples intent from action in end-to-end VLAs using a latent visual foresight bottleneck and two-stage training, reaching SOTA on RoboCasa with 10x fewer demonstrations and zero-shot real-world transfer.
OptimusVLA augments hierarchical VLA models with Global Prior Memory for shorter generative paths and Local Consistency Memory for temporal coherence, yielding higher success rates and 2.9x faster inference on simulation and real-world robotic benchmarks.
PALM improves long-horizon robotic manipulation success by distilling affordance representations for object interaction and predicting within-subtask progress in a VLA model.
InternVLA-M1 uses spatially guided pre-training on 2.3M examples followed by action post-training to deliver up to 17% gains on robot manipulation benchmarks and 20.6% on unseen objects.
AnyPos automates task-agnostic action collection and inverse-dynamics modeling with arm/end-effector decoupling plus a direction-aware decoder, delivering 51% higher test accuracy and 30-40% better success rates on bimanual tasks.
RIPT-VLA applies RL with dynamic rollout sampling and leave-one-out advantage estimation to fine-tune VLA models, achieving up to 97.5% success rates and recovering from 4% to 97% success with one demonstration in 15 iterations.
GraspVLA shows that pretraining a grasping model on a billion synthetic action frames enables zero-shot open-vocabulary performance and sim-to-real transfer.
OpenVLA-OFT fine-tuning boosts LIBERO success rate from 76.5% to 97.1%, speeds action generation 26x, and outperforms baselines on real bimanual dexterous tasks.
LEEVLA improves VLA robot policies by training-time prioritization of dynamic instruction-relevant patches plus structured latent future-feature prediction with topology constraints.
S²-VLA uses a state-space model to maintain a belief state that produces dynamic gating weights for fusing visual, language, and action features, claiming better long-horizon manipulation than 7B models with only 2B parameters.
MV-WAM reports 55.7% simulation and 77.5% real-world success rates by aligning heterogeneous visual and action manifolds through causal masking and value-guided rollback.
Survey organizing world models for robotic manipulation into representation families, a functional taxonomy, and infrastructure roles across pretraining, post-training, and inference, while reviewing 34 datasets and evaluation protocols.
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Targeting World Models to Compromise Robot Learning Pipelines
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AwareVLN: Reasoning with Self-awareness for Vision-Language Navigation
AwareVLN introduces a structural reasoning module and automatic data engine with progress division to equip VLN agents with self-awareness of agent state and task progress, outperforming prior methods on Habitat datasets.
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VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis
VistaBot integrates 4D geometry estimation and spatiotemporal view synthesis into action policies to improve cross-view generalization by 2.6-2.8x on a new VGS metric in simulation and real tasks.
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RoboWM-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating World Models in Robotic Manipulation
RoboWM-Bench evaluates video world models by converting their manipulation video predictions into executable actions validated in simulation, showing that visual plausibility does not guarantee physical executability.
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HiPolicy: Hierarchical Multi-Frequency Action Chunking for Policy Learning
HiPolicy is a new hierarchical multi-frequency action chunking method for imitation learning that jointly generates coarse and fine action sequences with entropy-guided execution to improve performance and efficiency in robotic manipulation.
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Next Forcing: Causal World Modeling with Multi-Chunk Prediction
Next Forcing augments video generation models with auxiliary multi-chunk prediction modules to achieve faster training convergence, higher accuracy at high frame rates, and 2x faster inference on world modeling benchmarks.
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AffordanceVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Empowering Action Generation through Affordance-Aware Understanding
AffordanceVLA proposes a VLA model with affordance-aware modules (Which2Act, Where2Act, How2Act) in a Mixture-of-Transformer trained in three stages to improve robotic manipulation.
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IDOL: Inverse-Dynamics-Guided Future Prediction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
IDOL uses inverse dynamics on adjacent predicted latent futures to extract planning-relevant motion deltas, then optimizes trajectories with a closed-loop refinement step, reporting SOTA results on NAVSIM v1 and v2.
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Turning Video Models into Generalist Robot Policies
Decouples action-free video world models from embodiment-specific IDMs using Jacobian-based translation to achieve zero-shot cross-embodiment robot policies.
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Latent Geometry Beyond Search: Amortizing Planning in World Models
A Goal-Conditioned Inverse Dynamics Model amortizes planning in pretrained world model latents, matching or exceeding CEM in seven of eight settings at 100-130x lower per-decision cost.
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ConsisVLA-4D: Advancing Spatiotemporal Consistency in Efficient 3D-Perception and 4D-Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
ConsisVLA-4D adds cross-view semantic alignment, cross-object geometric fusion, and cross-scene dynamic reasoning to VLA models, delivering 21.6% and 41.5% gains plus 2.3x and 2.4x speedups on LIBERO and real-world tasks.
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DIAL: Decoupling Intent and Action via Latent World Modeling for End-to-End VLA
DIAL decouples intent from action in end-to-end VLAs using a latent visual foresight bottleneck and two-stage training, reaching SOTA on RoboCasa with 10x fewer demonstrations and zero-shot real-world transfer.
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Global Prior Meets Local Consistency: Dual-Memory Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for Efficient Robotic Manipulation
OptimusVLA augments hierarchical VLA models with Global Prior Memory for shorter generative paths and Local Consistency Memory for temporal coherence, yielding higher success rates and 2.9x faster inference on simulation and real-world robotic benchmarks.
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PALM: Progress-Aware Policy Learning via Affordance Reasoning for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
PALM improves long-horizon robotic manipulation success by distilling affordance representations for object interaction and predicting within-subtask progress in a VLA model.
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InternVLA-M1: A Spatially Guided Vision-Language-Action Framework for Generalist Robot Policy
InternVLA-M1 uses spatially guided pre-training on 2.3M examples followed by action post-training to deliver up to 17% gains on robot manipulation benchmarks and 20.6% on unseen objects.
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AnyPos: Automated Task-Agnostic Actions for Bimanual Manipulation
AnyPos automates task-agnostic action collection and inverse-dynamics modeling with arm/end-effector decoupling plus a direction-aware decoder, delivering 51% higher test accuracy and 30-40% better success rates on bimanual tasks.
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Interactive Post-Training for Vision-Language-Action Models
RIPT-VLA applies RL with dynamic rollout sampling and leave-one-out advantage estimation to fine-tune VLA models, achieving up to 97.5% success rates and recovering from 4% to 97% success with one demonstration in 15 iterations.
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GraspVLA: a Grasping Foundation Model Pre-trained on Billion-scale Synthetic Action Data
GraspVLA shows that pretraining a grasping model on a billion synthetic action frames enables zero-shot open-vocabulary performance and sim-to-real transfer.
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Fine-Tuning Vision-Language-Action Models: Optimizing Speed and Success
OpenVLA-OFT fine-tuning boosts LIBERO success rate from 76.5% to 97.1%, speeds action generation 26x, and outperforms baselines on real bimanual dexterous tasks.
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LEEVLA: Seeing What Matters in Latent Environment Evolution for Vision-Language-Action
LEEVLA improves VLA robot policies by training-time prioritization of dynamic instruction-relevant patches plus structured latent future-feature prediction with topology constraints.
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S$^2$-VLA: State-Space Guided Vision-Language-Action Models for Long-Horizon Manipulation
S²-VLA uses a state-space model to maintain a belief state that produces dynamic gating weights for fusing visual, language, and action features, claiming better long-horizon manipulation than 7B models with only 2B parameters.
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MV-WAM: Manifold-Aware World Action Model with Value Augmentation
MV-WAM reports 55.7% simulation and 77.5% real-world success rates by aligning heterogeneous visual and action manifolds through causal masking and value-guided rollback.
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World Models for Robotic Manipulation: A Survey
Survey organizing world models for robotic manipulation into representation families, a functional taxonomy, and infrastructure roles across pretraining, post-training, and inference, while reviewing 34 datasets and evaluation protocols.
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DyGRO-VLA: Cross-Task Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models via Dynamic Grouped Residual Optimization
DyGRO-VLA is a two-stage optimization framework for cross-task scaling of Vision-Language-Action models via dynamic grouped residual optimization in RL.
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StableIDM: Stabilizing Inverse Dynamics Model against Manipulator Truncation via Spatio-Temporal Refinement
StableIDM stabilizes inverse dynamics models under manipulator truncation by combining robot-centric masking, directional spatial feature aggregation, and temporal dynamics refinement, yielding 12.1% higher strict action accuracy on AgiBot and 9.7-17.6% gains in real-robot tasks.
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Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model
Motus unifies understanding, video generation, and action in one latent world model via MoT experts and optical-flow latent actions, reporting gains over prior methods in simulation and real robots.
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AVA-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action models with Active Visual Attention
AVA-VLA reformulates VLA learning as a POMDP using recurrent states and active visual attention to achieve state-of-the-art results on LIBERO, CALVIN, and real dual-arm tasks.
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Geometry-aware 4D Video Generation for Robot Manipulation
A geometry-aware 4D video generation model trained with cross-view pointmap alignment to produce spatio-temporally consistent future videos from novel viewpoints for robot manipulation.
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WorldVLA: Towards Autoregressive Action World Model
WorldVLA unifies VLA and world models in one autoregressive system, shows they boost each other, and adds an attention mask to stop error buildup when generating action chunks.
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MemoryWAM: Efficient World Action Modeling with Persistent Memory
MemoryWAM is a world action model with a hybrid memory design using recent frames, anchor frames, and gist tokens for efficient long-horizon robotic manipulation.
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General Covariant Action Modeling: Constructing Generalized Manifolds via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling
GAM framework uses arc-length parameterization for temporal invariance and schema-affine factorization for geometric invariance to build a covariant action manifold integrated into VLA models for improved generalization from sparse data.
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From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model
BehaviorVLA learns long-horizon behavioral representations via causal Mamba encoder and phase-conditioned decoder, reporting SOTA results of 58% on RoboTwin 2.0, 98% on LIBERO, 4.36 on CALVIN, and matching OpenVLA-OFT performance with 50% data in sim-to-real transfer.