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Self-Correcting VLA: Online Action Refinement via Sparse World Imagination

Chenyv Liu, Wentao Tan, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li, Jingjing Li, Guoli Yang, Heng Tao Shen · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0

Coding Long Horizon Simulation Env
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Abstract

Standard vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on fitting statistical data priors, limiting their robust understanding of underlying physical dynamics. Reinforcement learning enhances physical grounding through exploration yet typically relies on external reward signals that remain isolated from the agent's internal states. World action models have emerged as a promising paradigm that integrates imagination and control to enable predictive planning. However, they rely on implicit context modeling, lacking explicit mechanisms for self-improvement. To solve these problems, we propose Self-Correcting VLA (SC-VLA), which achieve self-improvement by intrinsically guiding action refinement through sparse imagination. We first design sparse world imagination by integrating auxiliary predictive heads to forecast current task progress and future trajectory trends, thereby constraining the policy to encode short-term physical evolution. Then we introduce the online action refinement module to reshape progress-dependent dense rewards, adjusting trajectory orientation based on the predicted sparse future states. Evaluations on challenging robot manipulation tasks from simulation benchmarks and real-world settings demonstrate that SC-VLA achieve state-of-the-art performance, yielding the highest task throughput with 16% fewer steps and a 9% higher success rate than the best-performing baselines, alongside a 14% gain in real-world experiments. Code is available at https://github.com/Kisaragi0/SC-VLA.

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Extraction confidence is 0.45 (below strong-reference threshold).

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Eval-Fit Score

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Evidence snippet: Standard vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on fitting statistical data priors, limiting their robust understanding of underlying physical dynamics.

Evaluation Modes

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Simulation Env

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Evidence snippet: Standard vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on fitting statistical data priors, limiting their robust understanding of underlying physical dynamics.

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Evidence snippet: Standard vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on fitting statistical data priors, limiting their robust understanding of underlying physical dynamics.

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Evidence snippet: Standard vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on fitting statistical data priors, limiting their robust understanding of underlying physical dynamics.

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Evidence snippet: Evaluations on challenging robot manipulation tasks from simulation benchmarks and real-world settings demonstrate that SC-VLA achieve state-of-the-art performance, yielding the highest task throughput with 16% fewer steps and a 9% higher success rate than the best-performing baselines, alongside a 14% gain in real-world experiments.

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Evidence snippet: Standard vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on fitting statistical data priors, limiting their robust understanding of underlying physical dynamics.

Human Data Lens

  • Uses human feedback: No
  • Feedback types: None
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  • Unit of annotation: Trajectory
  • Expertise required: Coding
  • Extraction source: Persisted extraction

Evaluation Lens

  • Evaluation modes: Simulation Env
  • Agentic eval: Long Horizon
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  • Confidence: 0.45
  • Flags: ambiguous

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Research Brief

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Standard vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on fitting statistical data priors, limiting their robust understanding of underlying physical dynamics. HFEPX signals include Simulation Env, Long Horizon with confidence 0.45. Updated from current HFEPX corpus.

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Key Takeaways

  • Standard vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on fitting statistical data priors, limiting their robust understanding of underlying physical dynamics.
  • Reinforcement learning enhances physical grounding through exploration yet typically relies on external reward signals that remain isolated from the agent's internal states.

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • Standard vision-language-action (VLA) models rely on fitting statistical data priors, limiting their robust understanding of underlying physical dynamics.
  • Reinforcement learning enhances physical grounding through exploration yet typically relies on external reward signals that remain isolated from the agent's internal states.
  • World action models have emerged as a promising paradigm that integrates imagination and control to enable predictive planning.

Why It Matters For Eval

  • Reinforcement learning enhances physical grounding through exploration yet typically relies on external reward signals that remain isolated from the agent's internal states.
  • Evaluations on challenging robot manipulation tasks from simulation benchmarks and real-world settings demonstrate that SC-VLA achieve state-of-the-art performance, yielding the highest task throughput with 16% fewer steps and a 9% higher s

Researcher Checklist

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  • Gap: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

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  • Pass: Metric reporting is present

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