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ARXIV:2603.26320 · ROBOT MANIPULATION · SUBMITTED 30 MAR · 22:22 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.26320ROBOT MANIPULATIONSUBMITTED 30 MAR · 22:22 UTCFRESHNESS STALEJiayi Chen · Wenxuan Song · Shuai Chen · Jingbo Wang · Zhijun Li · Haoang Li · arXiv
A novel VLA model that iteratively refines robot action sequences for improved manipulation performance, outperforming existing methods.
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A novel VLA model that iteratively refines robot action sequences for improved manipulation performance, outperforming existing methods. Whether actions are decoded sequentially by autoregressive VLAs or in parallel by discrete diffusion VLAs, once a…
Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models that encode actions using a discrete tokenization scheme are increasingly adopted for robotic manipulation, but existing decoding paradigms remain fundamentally limited. Whether actions are decoded sequentially by autoregressive VLAs or in…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments on CALVIN, LIBERO, and real-world manipulation tasks show that DFM-VLA consistently outperforms strong autoregressive, discrete diffusion, and continuous diffusion baselines in manipulation…
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A novel VLA model that iteratively refines robot action sequences for improved manipulation performance, outperforming existing methods.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.26320A novel VLA model that iteratively refines robot action sequences for improved manipulation performance, outperforming existing methods.
Abstract
Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models that encode actions using a discrete tokenization scheme are increasingly adopted for robotic manipulation, but existing decoding paradigms remain fundamentally limited. Whether actions are decoded sequentially by autoregressive VLAs or in parallel by discrete diffusion VLAs, once a token is generated, it is typically fixed and cannot be revised in subsequent iterations, so early token errors cannot be effectively corrected later. We propose DFM-VLA, a discrete flow matching VLA for iterative refinement of action tokens. DFM-VLA~models a token-level probability velocity field that dynamically updates the full action sequence across refinement iterations. We investigate two ways to construct the velocity field: an auxiliary velocity-head formulation and an action-embedding-guided formulation. Our framework further adopts a two-stage decoding strategy with an iterative refinement stage followed by deterministic validation for stable convergence. Extensive experiments on CALVIN, LIBERO, and real-world manipulation tasks show that DFM-VLA consistently outperforms strong autoregressive, discrete diffusion, and continuous diffusion baselines in manipulation performance while retaining high inference efficiency. In particular, DFM-VLA achieves an average success length of 4.44 on CALVIN and an average success rate of 95.7\% on LIBERO, highlighting the value of action refinement via discrete flow matching for robotic manipulation. Our project is available \url{https://chris1220313648.github.io/DFM-VLA/}
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A novel VLA model that iteratively refines robot action sequences for improved manipulation performance, outperforming existing methods. Whether actions are decoded sequentially by autoregressive VLAs or in parallel by discrete diffusion VLAs, once a token is generated, it is ty...
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Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models that encode actions using a discrete tokenization scheme are increasingly adopted for robotic manipulation, but existing decoding paradigms remain fundamentally limited. Whether actions are decoded sequentially by autoregressive VLAs or in p...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments on CALVIN, LIBERO, and real-world manipulation tasks show that DFM-VLA consistently outperforms strong autoregressive, discrete diffusion, and continuous diffusion baselines in manip...
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Robot Manipulation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
DFM-VLA achieves an average success length of 4.44 on CALVIN
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and an average success rate of 95.7% on LIBERO
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existing decoding paradigms remain fundamentally limited. Whether actions are decoded sequentially by autoregressive VLAs or in parallel by discrete diffusion VLAs, once a token is generated, it is typically fixed and cannot be revised in subsequent iterations, so early token errors cannot be effectively corrected later.
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DFM-VLA~models a token-level probability velocity field that dynamically updates the full action sequence across refinement iterations.
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DFM-VLA consistently outperforms strong autoregressive, discrete diffusion, and continuous diffusion baselines in manipulation performance
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These results indicate that DFM provides a favorable quality–efficiency trade-off under matched decoding steps.
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DFM-VLA consistently outperforms both autoregressive and discrete diffusion baselines across all data scales on CALVIN ABCD→D.
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Overall, the average success rate of DFM-VLA is 70.8%, which surpasses RDT at 60.0% by 10.8 percentage points and Dream-VLA at 54.2% by 16.6 percentage points.
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