arxivcs.ROcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-15
Never Too Late for Force: Accelerating VLA Post-Training with Reactive Force Injection
Yi Wang, Wendi Chen, Zimo Wen, Han Xue, Xueqi Li, Wenye Yu, et al.
Pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies provide strong language-conditioned manipulation knowledge, but they remain largely vision-driven and can struggle once manipulation enters contact states where the scene is occluded, depth is ambiguous, or small force errors push…