Robotic VLA Benefits from Joint Learning with Motion Image Diffusion
Salesforce AI Research(Salesforce人工智能研究)
Yu Fang, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Le Xue, Honglu Zhou, Juntao Tan, Ran Xu, Shelby Heinecke, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Daniel Szafir, Mingyu Ding, Michael S. R… 展开作者
Yu Fang, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Le Xue, Honglu Zhou, Juntao Tan, Ran Xu, Shelby Heinecke, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Daniel Szafir, Mingyu Ding, Michael S. Ryoo, Juan Carlos Niebles
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved remarkable progress in robotic manipulation by mapping multimodal observations and instructions directly to actions. However, they typically mimic expert trajectories without predictive motion reasoning, which limits their ability to reason about what actions to take. To address this limitation, we propose joint learning with motion image diffusion, a novel strategy that enhances VLA models with motion reasoning capabilities. Our method extends the VLA architecture with a dual-head design: while the action head predicts action chunks as in vanilla VLAs, an additional motion head, implemented as a Diffusion Transformer (DiT), predicts optical-flow-based motion images that capture future dynamics. The two heads are trained jointly, enabling the shared VLM backbone to learn representations that couple robot control with motion knowledge. This joint learning builds temporally coherent and physically grounded representations without modifying the inference pathway of standard VLAs, thereby maintaining test-time latency. Experiments in both simulation and real-world environments demonstrate that joint learning with motion image diffusion improves the success rate of pi-series VLAs to 97.5% on the LIBERO benchmark and 58.0% on the RoboTwin benchmark, yielding a 23% improvement in real-world performance and validating its effectiveness in enhancing the motion reasoning capability of large-scale VLAs.
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Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);VinUniversity(文大学);Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);South China University of Technology(华南理工大学)
VLA-4D: Embedding 4D Awareness into Vision-Language-Action Models for SpatioTemporally Coherent Robotic Manipulation
School of Computing, National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学计算机学院);School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology(华中科技大学人工智能与自动化学院)
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Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS), Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates(卡利法大学自主机器人系统中心(KUCARS)、卡利法大学、阿拉伯联合酋长国);Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain(工业与控制工程研究所(IOC)、巴塞罗那技术大学、西班牙)
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School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology(信息科学与技术学院,北京理工大学);LiAuto Inc.(LiAuto公司);Beijing Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent System, Beijing University of Technology(计算智能与智能系统北京市重点实验室,北京理工大学)
ReFineVLA: Multimodal Reasoning-Aware Generalist Robotic Policies via Teacher-Guided Fine-Tuning
VinRobotics;University of Texas at Arlington(德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校);Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS)(智能系统Max Planck研究学校);Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab(智能自主系统实验室);TU Darmstadt(德累斯顿技术大学);Automation & Control Institute(自动化与控制研究所);TU Wien(维也纳技术大学);Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)(奥地利技术研究所)
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Westlake University(西湖大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Blockchain and Privacy Computing(北京未来区块链与隐私计算高精尖创新中心);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学)
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School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University(东华师范大学计算机科学与技术学院);School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University(东华师范大学数据科学与工程学院);School of Software Engineering, East China Normal University(东华师范大学软件工程学院);School of Computer Science, Fudan University(复旦大学计算机科学学院)
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East China Normal University(东华师范大学);Midea Group, AI Lab(美的集团人工智能实验室);Syracuse University(雪城大学);Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics(北京人形机器人创新中心);Shanghai University(上海大学)
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VLA-Cache: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation via Adaptive Token Caching
School of Computer Science, University of Sydney(悉尼大学计算机科学学院);John Hopcropt Center for Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学约翰·霍普克罗夫特计算机科学中心)
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Rochester Institute of Technology(罗切斯特技术研究所);University of Missouri - Kansas City(密苏里大学-凯撒城分校);U.S. Naval Research Laboratory(美国海军研究实验室);Lamar University(拉马尔大学);Meta AI;University of Rochester(罗切斯特大学);Rutgers University(新泽西罗格斯大学)
BitVLA: 1-bit Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotics Manipulation
Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(人工智能安全重点实验室,计算技术研究所,中国科学院,中国科学院大学)
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Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);University of Southern California(南加州大学);University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校);MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab(麻省理工学院-IBM沃森人工智能实验室)
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J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University(J. Mike Walker ’66 机械工程系,德克萨斯A&M大学);Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, University of Florida(可持续基础设施与环境工程学院,佛罗里达大学);Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University(土木与环境工程系,德克萨斯A&M大学)