Nikita Kachaev

VLA Grounder: Language-Conditioning Space Optimization for Black-Box VLA Models

Damir Shodiev, Aleksei Staroverov, Nikita Kachaev, Alexey K. Kovalev, Aleksandr I. Panov

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are commonly treated as end-to-end action policies conditioned on natural-language task descriptions. In practice, however, their behavior often depends sharply on how the instruction is phrased, suggesting that language is not merely a task la…Read more