Zhi Wang

2papers

2 Papers

12.1ROAug 3
ChainVLA: Chaining Vision-Language-Action Queries through a Unified Execution State for Long-Horizon Manipulation

Yuzhi Huang, Weijue Bu, Ziyi Xiong et al.

Humans perform long-horizon manipulation by retaining knowledge of what earlier actions have established while continuously adapting the motion underway. By contrast, action-chunked vision-language-action (VLA) policies repeatedly replan from the current input at each query. Existing methods preserve either long-term task evidence through memory or short-term motion through action reuse and ensembling, leaving the cross-query handoff incomplete. We introduce ChainVLA, a 1.2B-parameter VLA policy that chains successive queries through a joint and revisable execution state. Progress Context combines a recurrent Working State with sparse event memory to carry observation-derived task progress, while Motion Tail feeds the preceding prediction's unexecuted continuation into state construction and action generation. Together, the two components condition a decoder that regenerates each action horizon under the latest observation, allowing the carried state to guide the next prediction without fixing it. ChainVLA reaches 62.8% average success on RMBench and 98.8% across four LIBERO suites, while removing Motion Tail or Progress Context reduces RMBench success to 11.2% and 3.0%, respectively. These asymmetric ablations are consistent with motion continuity helping preserve the observation stream from which task progress is inferred.

7.0GRAug 1
Hi-TOPS: Hierarchical Topology-aware Scoring Prior for 3D Part Decomposition

Ruoyu Wu, Zhenhong Sun, Xiaoming Gong et al.

Accurate 3D part decomposition requires separating shapes into structurally meaningful components with precise boundaries while preserving articulation seams and thin attachments. Existing approaches often suffer from a structural-scale mismatch: geometric evidence for separation is most reliable at the meso scale, yet many pipelines operate either too globally to respect joints or too locally to remain robust to noise. We propose Hi-TOPS, a Hierarchical Topology-aware Scoring Prior that aggregates complementary intrinsic cues into a multi-resolution Flow-Freeze field. Flow regions provide expandable support for primitive coverage, while Freeze regions restrict growth near articulations and thin structures. A TSDF-guided body-surface superquadric fitter then captures dominant cores and residual surface structures, followed by SQ-to-mesh assignment for connected, boundary-aligned parts. Across diverse benchmarks, Hi-TOPS delivers stable, editable decompositions without semantic supervision or 2D foundation priors.