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/
Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models
Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学人工智能与机器人研究院);Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence(北京人工智能研究院);Institute of Automation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院)
Think Proprioceptively: State-Grounded Visual Token Selection for VLA Policies
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学);Eastern Institute of Technology(东区技术研究所);Great Bay University(大湾大学);Northeast Forestry University(东北林业大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学)
Chain of World: World Model Thinking in Latent Motion
Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学);Li Auto;Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)(北京人工智能研究院);University of New South Wales(新南威尔士大学);Chongqing Research Institute of HIT(哈尔滨工业大学重庆研究院);Peking University(北京大学)
Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
Futian Laboratory(福田实验室);Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学计算机学院);International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA)(国际数字经济学院(IDEA));School of Robotics, Hunan University(湖南大学机器人学院);South China University of Technology(华南理工大学);Visincept(Visincept公司);National Key Laboratory of Smart Farm Technologies and Systems(智能农业技术与系统国家重点实验室)
3DThinkVLA: Endowing Vision-Language-Action Models with Latent 3D Priors via 3D-Thinking-Guided Co-training
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);Fudan University(复旦大学);Nanjing University(南京大学);Daimon Robotics(达梦机器人);Great Bay University(大亚大学)
Finetuning Vision-Language-Action Models Requires Fewer Layers Than You Think
Center for AI Research, VinUniversity(VinUniversity人工智能研究中心);VinRobotics;University of Arkansas(阿肯色大学);Technical University of Denmark(丹麦技术大学);Hanoi University of Science and Technology(河内科技大学);KAIST(韩国科学技术院);Monash University(莫纳什大学);Oldenburg University(奥尔登堡大学);DFKI(德国人工智能研究中心);University of Stuttgart(斯图加特大学);IMPRS-IS(国际马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究学院);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);Technische Universität Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学)
Drift is a Sampling Error: SNR-Aware Power Distributions for Long-Horizon Robotic Planning
Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院重庆绿色智能技术研究院);Chongqing School, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学重庆学院)
Action-Sketcher: From Reasoning to Action via Visual Sketches for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University(1 多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室,计算机科学学院,北京大学);Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence(2 北京人工智能研究院);University of Sydney(3 新南威尔士大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(4 中国科学院自动化研究所)