Reinforcement learning (RL) can refine Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies beyond behavior cloning, but real-world RL remains expensive due to extensive rollouts, resets, supervision, and safety risks. Action-conditioned video world models offer an option to train in virtual environments, yet they exhibit imprecise action following, particularly on subtle near-success failures. Besides, they lack native reward signals for RL. Computing rewards based on inaccurate visual predictions remain unreliable. We introduce World-VLA-Loop, structured around two foundational designs and a higher-level co-evolving paradigm. We first curate SANS, dedicatedly mixing successful and near-success trajectories to improve action-outcome alignment. Then, we train a state-aware video world model that jointly predicts future frames and binary rewards from diffusion latents. It couples reward estimation to the generator rather than a separate module, and in turn, benefits visual prediction. Since VLA behavior shifts during RL, a fixed simulator can misalign with the updated policy, World-VLA-Loop therefore closes the loop by using the refined world model for iterative VLA post-training while feeding rollouts from each improved policy back to augment and fine-tune the world model. Across simulation and real-robot experiments, World-VLA-Loop substantially improves VLA performance while reducing reliance on costly physical interaction.
SLIP-VLA: Single-Step Latent Imagination for Policy Learning in Vision-Language-Action Models
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学)
WoVR+: World Model as Reliable Simulator for Versatile VLA Policy Optimization with RL
Institute of Automation, 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);Zhongguancun Academy(中关村学院);Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University(西交利物浦大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Anyverse Dynamics
TORL-VLA: Tactile Guided Online Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Meituan(美团);Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);State Key Lab of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, CAS(中国科学院自动化研究所多模态人工智能系统国家重点实验室);China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing)(中国矿业大学(北京))
Towards Deploying VLA without Fine-Tuning: Plug-and-Play Inference-Time VLA Policy Steering via Embodied Evolutionary Diffusion
Collaborative and Versatile Robots (CLOVER) Laboratory, T-Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong(协作与多功能机器人实验室,T-Stone机器人研究所,香港中文大学,香港);Φ \Phi -Institute for Physical Human Intelligence(物理人机智能研究所);Center for Embodied Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen, China(具身人工智能与计算机视觉中心,深圳环园研究院,深圳,中国);Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy(先进机器人系,意大利理工学院,热那亚,意大利)
TTT-VLA: Test-Time Latent Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
ByteDance Seed(字节跳动种子);The University of Adelaide(阿德莱德大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);The University of Hong Kong(香港大学);CSIRO Data61
ConRFT: A Reinforced Fine-tuning Method for VLA Models via Consistency Policy
Institute of Automation, 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)
Devil is in Narrow Policy: Unleashing Exploration in Driving VLA Models
National Superior College for Engineers, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学工程师学院);School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学电子信息工程学院);Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University(清华大学人工智能产业研究院);Lenovo Group Limited(联想集团有限公司);State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China(中国传媒大学媒体融合与传播国家重点实验室)
RePO-VLA: Recovery-Driven Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学);South China University of Technology(华南理工大学);Peng Cheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室);Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab(华为诺亚实验室)