POINav-Bench provides the first high-fidelity real-world benchmark for POI-goal VLN using 3DGS reconstructions of 126k m² with 163 POIs, supported by a Brain-Action framework and 70K real signage-entrance dataset.
Tic-vla: A think-in-control vision-language-action model for robot navigation in dynamic environments
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Robots in dynamic, human-centric environments must follow language instructions while maintaining real-time reactive control. Vision-language-action (VLA) models offer a promising framework, but they assume temporally aligned reasoning and control, despite semantic inference being inherently delayed relative to real-time action. We introduce Think-in-Control (TIC)-VLA, a latency-aware framework that explicitly models delayed semantic reasoning during action generation. TIC-VLA defines a delayed semantic-control interface that conditions action generation on delayed vision-language semantic states and explicit latency metadata, in addition to current observations, enabling policies to compensate for asynchronous reasoning. We further propose a latency-consistent training pipeline that injects reasoning inference delays during imitation learning and online reinforcement learning, aligning training with asynchronous deployment. To support realistic evaluation, we present DynaNav, a physics-accurate, photo-realistic simulation suite for language-guided navigation in dynamic environments. Extensive experiments in simulation and on a real robot show that TIC-VLA consistently outperforms prior VLA models while maintaining robust real-time control under multi-second reasoning latency. Project website: https://ucla-mobility.github.io/TIC-VLA/
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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.
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.
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.
SALSA aligns social features and adds future-risk signals in VLA models to cut near-collisions by 86.4% and raise social accuracy from 53% to 93% on SCAND and real robots.
REIS reduces inference redundancy in embodied robotic planning via lightweight gating and routing while preserving task performance on ALFRED and real robots.
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POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigation
POINav-Bench provides the first high-fidelity real-world benchmark for POI-goal VLN using 3DGS reconstructions of 126k m² with 163 POIs, supported by a Brain-Action framework and 70K real signage-entrance dataset.
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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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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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Act on What You See: Unlocking Safe Social Navigation in Vision-Language-Action Models
SALSA aligns social features and adds future-risk signals in VLA models to cut near-collisions by 86.4% and raise social accuracy from 53% to 93% on SCAND and real robots.
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On-Device Robotic Planning: Eliminating Inference Redundancy for Efficient Decision-Making
REIS reduces inference redundancy in embodied robotic planning via lightweight gating and routing while preserving task performance on ALFRED and real robots.