Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant potential for generalist robotic policies; however, they struggle to generalize to long-horizon complex tasks in novel real-world domains due to distribution shifts and the scarcity of high-quality demonstrations. Although reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising avenue for policy improvement, applying it to real-world VLA fine-tuning faces challenges regarding exploration efficiency, training stability, and sample cost. To address these issues, we propose IG-RFT, a novel Interaction-Guided Reinforced Fine-Tuning system designed for flow-based VLA models. Firstly, to facilitate effective policy optimization, we introduce Interaction-Guided Advantage Weighted Regression (IG-AWR), an RL algorithm that dynamically modulates exploration intensity based on the robot's interaction status. Furthermore, to address the limitations of sparse or task-specific rewards, we design a novel hybrid dense reward function that integrates the trajectory-level reward and the subtask-level reward. Finally, we construct a three-stage RL system comprising SFT, Offline RL, and Human-in-the-Loop RL for fine-tuning VLA models. Extensive real-world experiments on four challenging long-horizon tasks demonstrate that IG-RFT achieves an average success rate of 85.0%, significantly outperforming SFT (18.8%) and standard Offline RL baselines (40.0%). Ablation studies confirm the critical contributions of IG-AWR and hybrid reward shaping. In summary, our work establishes and validates a novel reinforced fine-tuning system for VLA models in real-world robotic manipulation.
Towards Human-Like Manipulation through RL-Augmented Teleoperation and Mixture-of-Dexterous-Experts VLA
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Sharpa;Shanghai AI Lab(上海人工智能实验室);Zhongguancun Academy(中关村学院);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Shanghai Innovation Institute(上海创新研究院)
ManualVLA: A Unified VLA Model for Chain-of-Thought Manual Generation and Robotic Manipulation
State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University(多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室,计算机学院,北京大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Simplexity Robotics Project(Simplexity机器人项目)
Goal-VLA: Image-Generative VLMs as Object-Centric World Models Empowering Zero-shot Robot Manipulation
School of Computing, National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学计算机学院);The HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science, The University of Hong Kong(香港大学数据科学研究院);Yuanpei College, Peking University(北京大学元培学院);Department of Automation, Tsinghua University(清华大学自动化系)
DEFT-VLA: Stage-Localized Force Specialization for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学苏州高等研究院);School of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学生命科学与医学部生物医学工程学院);School of Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University(西交利物浦大学机器人学院)
TemporalFlow-VLA: Learning Physically Grounded Execution History for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Simon Fraser University(西蒙菲莎大学);AgiBot(云圣智能科技(上海)有限公司)
VLA-RFT: Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Fine-tuning with Verified Rewards in World Simulators
Westlake University(西湖大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);OpenHelix Team(OpenHelix团队);Fudan University(复旦大学);Zhengzhou University(郑州大学);BUPT(北京邮电大学);Hebei University of Technology(河北工业大学)
KEMO: Event-Driven Keyframe Memory for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation with VLA Policies
Hong Kong Embodied AI Lab(香港具身智能实验室);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学)
ReactVLA: Fast and Lightweight Reactive Robot Manipulation via Improved Mean Flow Action Generation
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems (TAMS), Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg(汉堡大学信息学系多模态系统技术方面(TAMS))
NativeMEM: Native Memory Compression for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
The University of Hong Kong(香港大学);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);Peking University(北京大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Horizon Robotics(地平线机器人)
DFM-VLA: Iterative Action Refinement for Robot Manipulation via Discrete Flow Matching
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学);ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, CAS(中国科学院上海技术物理研究所)
RoboInter: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite Towards Robotic Manipulation
University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);Beihang University(北航);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学)
VLA-RL: Towards Masterful and General Robotic Manipulation with Scalable Reinforcement Learning
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院,清华大学);School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学电子与电气工程学院)
TGM-VLA: Task-Guided Mixup for Sampling-Efficient and Robust Robotic Manipulation
Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);The National and Local Co-Build Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center(国家级与地方共建人形机器人创新中心)
Cracking Mobile Manipulation: From Failure Diagnosis to Agentic Robot System
School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University(北京大学智能科学与技术学院);State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学通用人工智能国家重点实验室);Alibaba DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团达摩院);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Tsinghua University(清华大学);University of Technology Sydney(悉尼科技大学);University of Liverpool(利物浦大学)
GRAFT: Grounded and Efficient Online Reinforcement Adaptation for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation
Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学苏州高等研究院);School of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学生命科学与医学部生物医学工程学院)
VILAS: A VLA-Integrated Low-cost Architecture with Soft Grasping for Robotic Manipulation
Drexel University(德雷塞尔大学);Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center(弗吉尼亚海鲜农业研究与推广中心);Amazon Store Foundation AI (SFAI)(亚马逊商店基金会人工智能(SFAI))
VacuumVLA: Boosting VLA Capabilities via a Unified Suction and Gripping Tool for Complex Robotic Manipulation
The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);DiDi Global(滴滴出行)
Affordance Field Intervention: Enabling VLAs to Escape Memory Traps in Robotic Manipulation
School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney(悉尼大学计算机科学学院);John Hopcropt Center for Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学计算机科学中心)
World-to-Wrist: Task-Conditioned Future Wrist Modeling for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);Wuhan University(武汉大学);Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学);Xidian University(西安电子科技大学);Southeast University(东南大学)
Hand-in-the-Loop: Improving VLA Policies for Dexterous Manipulation via Seamless Hand-Arm Intervention
State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(机械系统与振动国家重点实验室,机械工程学院,上海交通大学);Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics, Meta Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China(智能机器人上海市重点实验室,元机器人研究院,上海交通大学,上海200240,中国);The University of Tokyo(东京大学)
ST-$π$: Structured SpatioTemporal VLA for Robotic Manipulation
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);School of Computing, National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学计算机学院);School of Computing, Macquarie University(麦考瑞大学计算机学院)
EvoMem-VLA: State-Evolution Memory for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学);The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Xbotics Embodied AI Community(Xbotics具身智能社区)
Non-Markovian Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Keyframe Chaining
Tongji University(同济大学);University of Technology Sydney(技术悉尼大学);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科学与技术大学);Advanced Institute of Big Data(大数据先进研究院)
REALM: A Real-to-Sim Validated Benchmark for Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics(捷克信息学、机器人学与自动化研究所);Czech Technical University in Prague(布拉格捷克技术大学);Faculty of Electrical Engineering(电气工程学院);University of Amsterdam(阿姆斯特丹大学)
VLA Model-Expert Collaboration for Bi-directional Manipulation Learning
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)
DAM-VLA: A Dynamic Action Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Framework for Robot Manipulation
Advanced Research Lab, Samsung R&D Institute China-Beijing (SRCB)(三星研发中心中国北京先进研究实验室);Samsung AI Center, DS Division(三星人工智能中心,DS部门);Hanyang University ERICA(翰洋大学ERICA)
AIR-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Systems for Aerial Manipulation
The Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学自动化学院);School of Information and Intelligent Engineering, University of Sanya(三亚大学信息与智能工程学院);School of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University(湖南大学机械与车辆工程学院);State Key Lab of Intelligent Transportation Systems, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学交通科学与工程学院)