ME-VLM: A Unified VLM for Embodied Cognition and Agent Coordination

arXiv:2609.24526 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/MachEmbodied/ME-VLM

Project page: https://machembodied.com/ME-Brain/ME-VLM.html

Terminology

• Benchmark — 41× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Task Planning — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 14× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 12× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Distillation — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• On-Policy Distillation — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Affordance — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Edge Devices — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Edge Deployment — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Action Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Loop — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Credit assignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Group Sequence Policy Optimization — 2× in this paper
• Multimodal Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Redundancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• VLA Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verifier — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Closed-Loop System — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embodied AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaboration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Physical Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
• GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
• Mach-Mind-4-Flash Technical Report
• $\pi_{0.5}$: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization
• MindGPT-4ov: An Enhanced MLLM via a Multi-Stage Post-Training Paradigm
• RynnBrain 1.1: Towards More Capable and Generalizable Embodied Foundation Model
• Hy-Embodied-VLM-1.0: Efficient Physical-World Agents
• MiMo-Embodied: X-Embodied Foundation Model Technical Report
• Vesta: A Generalist Embodied Reasoning Model
• Towards the Harness of Embodied Agents
• Guava: Distilling Frontier VLMs into a Compact Agent through a Robotic Manipulation Harness
• RoboOS: A Hierarchical Embodied Framework for Cross-Embodiment and Multi-Agent Collaboration
• PhyAgentOS: A Self-Evolving Operating System for Embodied Agents with Decoupled Cognitive Planning and Physical Execution
• EmbodiSkill: Skill-Aware Reflection for Self-Evolving Embodied Agents
• A Pragmatic VLA Foundation Model
• From Foundation to Application: Improving VLA Models in Practice
• OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model
• Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
• Robotic Control via Embodied Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

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