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Yanyong Zhang

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Preprint Aug 2026

GenFirst: Generation Before Reconstruction for Stable End-to-End Latent Generative Modeling

Latent generative models typically follow a two-stage pipeline, training a variational autoencoder for reconstruction and then a generative model on the frozen latent space. Since reconstruction-optimized latents are not necessarily generation-friendly, jointly training both models is an appealing alternative. However,...

Guangting Zheng, Yiyuan Zhang, Tao Yang et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1
Preprint Aug 2026

DriftingVLA: Native One-Step Vision-Language-Action Generation via Per-Dimension Temporal Drifting

Conventional flow-based vision-language-action (VLA) models support expressive continuous action generation but rely on multi-step refinement to produce each action chunk, increasing latency in online robot control. To address this issue, we introduce DriftingVLA, a native one-step VLA that generates a complete action...

Yuxuan Gao, Shi-Qi Zhang, Yedong Shen et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1
Preprint Aug 2026

ReTouch: Empowering Contact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation with Online-Refined Tactile Prediction

ReTouch is introduced, a vision-language-action model (VLA) that supports contact-rich dexterous manipulation through tactile predictions continually refined online using execution-time feedback, and keeps tactile predictions aligned with evolving physical interactions, enabling responsive action correction and improvi...

Shi-Qi Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yedong Shen et al. · 4 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

ThinkAfford: Affordance-Centric Reasoning for Fine-Grained 3D Grounding in Cluttered Scenes

This work introduces ThinkAfford, which decouples high-recall affordance proposal generation from instruction-grounded reasoning and outperforming comparable 3D open-vocabulary and vision-language-model-based 2D-to-3D baselines.

Xinrui Lin, Sha Zhang, Shu-Min Wang et al. · 0 citations

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