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A Sim-to-Real Integration Pipeline for Training and Deployment of Chunk-Based VLA Manipulation Policies

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Recovering Aggressively Pruned Vision-Language-Action Models with Offline Hidden-State Distillation

Vision-language-action (VLA) models let robots follow language instructions, but their language backbones of several billion parameters are the main obstacle to running them on robot hardware. Structured pruning reduces that backbone, and removing 63% of it from OpenVLA-OFT drops LIBERO-Long success from 93.2% to 0.8%....

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TemporalFlow-VLA: Learning Physically Grounded Execution History for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

TemporalFlow-VLA provides a compact, physically grounded interface for exploiting ordered execution history without explicit motion estimation or geometric processing at deployment, and shows its clearest advantage over prior methods on longer-horizon, multi-stage manipulation.

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Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Policies

This work instantiates Real-Time EXPO-FT, an RL framework for finetuning real-time VLA policies that meets the real-time control requirements of dynamic real-world manipulation, demonstrating rapid, sample-efficient adaptation to challenging real-world dynamics.

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Efficient Vision-Language-Action Management and Serving for Robot Factories

Robion is designed, the first VLA serving and management system for multi-robot, multi-model requests on multi-GPU edge servers that meets SLOs and enables flexible model placements on multi-GPU servers, and integrates an intelligent traffic controller.

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WorldContact: A Contact-Centric World Model for Scalable Robot Learning

Adapting robots to new objects and tasks requires interaction experience that can be costly to obtain. We present WorldContact, a contact-centric world model for deformable-object manipulation, constructed from a limited set of high-quality trajectories to generate additional training data efficiently. It predicts obje...

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