Investigating Information Flow Between VLM and Action Experts in VLAs
mathildepapillo · x · 2026-08-05
The dominant paradigm for today's Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is to pair a pretrained VLM with a continuous action expert and connect them densely. The author raises the question: which parts of that interface actually carry the information that determines robot behavior?
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