When Listening Becomes Easier: Scrubbing Visual Cues for Shortcut-Free VLAs

arXiv:2610.10912 · cs.RO, cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Alignment — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 10× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 9× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Steering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• VLA Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Training — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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