Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them

As of 7 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 27 of 27 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.01402.

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This paper cites $\pi_0$: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them $\pi_0$: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control

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This paper cites $\pi_{0.5}$: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them $\pi_{0.5}$: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization

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This paper cites Zitkovich, T.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Zitkovich, T

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Observation 25315d99-5328-45c3-aa76-28e4c5c177dd · outbound

This paper cites GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots

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Observation 51cdcc52-f549-44b4-b509-bbaabe8b8641 · outbound

This paper cites OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

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Observation c549faa3-1e45-441a-b906-7156e0896273 · outbound

This paper cites SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics

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This paper cites O’Neill, A.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them O’Neill, A

Reference 7

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Observation a49582dc-149a-4857-85f7-ad370bfe0888 · outbound

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

Reference 8

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This paper cites Zhang, H.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Zhang, H

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Zhang, Y.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Zhang, Y

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

Reference 12

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Lefebvre, H.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Lefebvre, H

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Noseworthy, B.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Noseworthy, B

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Unresolved cited work

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them VLA-Touch: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Models with Dual-Level Tactile Feedback

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This paper cites FACTR: Force-Attending Curriculum Training for Contact-Rich Policy Learning.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them FACTR: Force-Attending Curriculum Training for Contact-Rich Policy Learning

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Observation 2efacb3b-f710-4f82-815a-54cf6f85796e · outbound

This paper cites Flow Matching for Generative Modeling.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Flow Matching for Generative Modeling

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This paper cites Esser, S.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Esser, S

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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them An Empirical Evaluation of Generic Convolutional and Recurrent Networks for Sequence Modeling

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Observation 7507412f-2b3e-4c0d-9487-d9847b377834 · outbound

This paper cites Added parameters.

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them Added parameters

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