Decoupling the Declarative from the Procedural in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606.21496 · cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-06-19 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-06-19

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Procedural Knowledge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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