BlockVLA accelerates autoregressive VLA models by 3.3x using block diffusion finetuning, with faster training convergence and better early performance on long-horizon robotic tasks.
Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models benefit from chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but existing approaches incur high inference overhead and rely on discrete reasoning representations that mismatch continuous perception and control. We propose Latent Reasoning VLA (LaRA-VLA), a unified VLA framework that internalizes multi-modal CoT reasoning into continuous latent representations for embodied action. LaRA-VLA performs unified reasoning and prediction in latent space, eliminating explicit CoT generation at inference time and enabling efficient, action-oriented control. To realize latent embodied reasoning, we introduce a curriculum-based training paradigm that progressively transitions from explicit textual and visual CoT supervision to latent reasoning, and finally adapts latent reasoning dynamics to condition action generation. We construct two structured CoT datasets and evaluate LaRA-VLA on both simulation benchmarks and long-horizon real-robot manipulation tasks. Experimental results show that LaRA-VLA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art VLA methods while reducing inference latency by up to 90\% compared to explicit CoT-based approaches, demonstrating latent reasoning as an effective and efficient paradigm for real-time embodied control. Project Page: https://loveju1y.github.io/Latent-Reasoning-VLA/
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World models succeed when their latent states are built to meet task-specific sufficiency constraints rather than preserving the maximum amount of information.
LaST-R1 introduces a RL post-training method called LAPO that optimizes latent Chain-of-Thought reasoning in vision-language-action models, yielding 99.9% success on LIBERO and up to 22.5% real-world gains.
HEX introduces a state-centric framework with humanoid-aligned representations and mixture-of-experts proprioceptive prediction for coordinated whole-body control on bipedal humanoids.
AffordVLA improves VLA models for robotic manipulation by implicitly injecting affordance perception through feature alignment with a zero-shot teacher, claiming SOTA results in simulation and real-world tests.
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BlockVLA: Accelerating Autoregressive VLA via Block Diffusion Finetuning
BlockVLA accelerates autoregressive VLA models by 3.3x using block diffusion finetuning, with faster training convergence and better early performance on long-horizon robotic tasks.
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Latent State Design for World Models under Sufficiency Constraints
World models succeed when their latent states are built to meet task-specific sufficiency constraints rather than preserving the maximum amount of information.
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LaST-R1: Reinforcing Robotic Manipulation via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning
LaST-R1 introduces a RL post-training method called LAPO that optimizes latent Chain-of-Thought reasoning in vision-language-action models, yielding 99.9% success on LIBERO and up to 22.5% real-world gains.
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HEX: Humanoid-Aligned Experts for Cross-Embodiment Whole-Body Manipulation
HEX introduces a state-centric framework with humanoid-aligned representations and mixture-of-experts proprioceptive prediction for coordinated whole-body control on bipedal humanoids.
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AffordVLA: Injecting Affordance Representations into Vision-Language-Action Models via Implicit Feature Alignment
AffordVLA improves VLA models for robotic manipulation by implicitly injecting affordance perception through feature alignment with a zero-shot teacher, claiming SOTA results in simulation and real-world tests.