Matteo Cercola

Do Vision-Language-Action Models Mean What They Say? On the Role of Faithfulness in Embodied Reasoning

Matthew Foutter, Matteo Cercola, Lena Wild, Yunshan Wang, Michelle Li, Daniele Gammelli, et al.

Embodied Chain-of-Thought has emerged as a promising mechanism to enhance robot decision-making and interpretability in black-box Vision-Language Action (VLA) models. However, whether this verbalized Chain-of-Thought truthfully reflects the policy's underlying decision process re…Read more