GeomVLA: Unifying Scene, Motion, and Action in 3D
On the map: Vision-language-action models → 3D and spatial-aware VLA
Abstract (arXiv)
We present GeomVLA, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, latent scene motion prediction, and action generation within a shared robot-centric 3D coordinate frame. Our approach lifts pretrained VLM features into spatially grounded 3D scene tokens using depth and camera calibration, while retaining the semantic representations learned during VLM pretraining. We further introduce a 3D Scene Trajectory Denoiser, a task-conditioned module that learns a latent representation of how scene points are expected to move in 3D. Rather than executing the predicted trajectory as an open-loop plan, GeomVLA extracts intermediate motion tokens from the trajectory denoiser and uses them to condition a 3D flow-based action denoiser through geometry-aware attention. GeomVLA achieves state-of-the-art performance on CALVIN, competitive performance on LIBERO and RoboTwin2.0, and outperforms strong baselines in real-world manipulation settings without robot-action pretraining. Extensive ablations show that future-motion reasoning alone is insufficient: the primary gains are associated with maintaining geometric consistency among scene representation, motion prediction, and robot actions throughout the perception-to-action pipeline.
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- 2026PoseVLA: Universal Pose Pretraining for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Policies23 Feb
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- 2025QDepth-VLA: Quantized Depth Prediction as Auxiliary Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models16 Oct
- 2025GeoVLA: Empowering 3D Representations in Vision-Language-Action Models12 Aug
- 2025Evo-0: Vision-Language-Action Model with Implicit Spatial Understanding1 Jul
- 20254D-VLA: Spatiotemporal Vision-Language-Action Pretraining with Cross-Scene Calibration27 Jun
- 2025BridgeVLA: Input-Output Alignment for Efficient 3D Manipulation Learning with Vision-Language Models9 Jun
- 2025SpatialVLA: Exploring Spatial Representations for Visual-Language-Action Model27 Jan
- 2024TraceVLA: Visual Trace Prompting Enhances Spatial-Temporal Awareness for Generalist Robotic Policies13 Dec
- 20243D-VLA: A 3D Vision-Language-Action Generative World Model14 Mar
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- 2024π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Controlcited by 2,407
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- 2025Fine-Tuning Vision-Language-Action Models: Optimizing Speed and Successcited by 883
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- 2023Learning Universal Policies via Text-Guided Video Generationcited by 522
- 2025CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Modelscited by 451
- 2023Florence-2: Advancing a Unified Representation for a Variety of Vision Taskscited by 410
- 2024Robotic Control via Embodied Chain-of-Thought Reasoningcited by 346
- 2025X-VLA: Soft-Prompted Transformer as Scalable Cross-Embodiment Vision-Language-Action Modelcited by 303
- 20243D Diffuser Actor: Policy Diffusion with 3D Scene Representationscited by 282
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- 2023Act3D: 3D Feature Field Transformers for Multi-Task Robotic Manipulationcited by 138
- 2023RT-Trajectory: Robotic Task Generalization via Hindsight Trajectory Sketchescited by 133
- 2024Flow as the Cross-Domain Manipulation Interfacecited by 132
- 2025HAMSTER: Hierarchical Action Models For Open-World Robot Manipulationcited by 130
- 2024Track2Act: Predicting Point Tracks from Internet Videos enables Generalizable Robot Manipulationcited by 124
- 2025SpatialTrackerV2: 3D Point Tracking Made Easycited by 87
- 2024Learning Robotic Manipulation Policies from Point Clouds with Conditional Flow Matchingcited by 65
- 2025FLOWER: Democratizing Generalist Robot Policies with Efficient Vision-Language-Action Flow Policiescited by 57
- 2025FlowVLA: Visual Chain of Thought-based Motion Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Modelscited by 50
- 2024Lift3D Foundation Policy: Lifting 2D Large-Scale Pretrained Models for Robust 3D Robotic Manipulationcited by 46
- 2024SPOT: SE(3) Pose Trajectory Diffusion for Object-Centric Manipulationcited by 38
- 20253DFlowAction: Learning Cross-Embodiment Manipulation from 3D Flow World Modelcited by 37
- 2026GigaBrain-0.5M*: a VLA That Learns From World Model-Based Reinforcement Learningcited by 24
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- 2024Render and Diffuse: Aligning Image and Action Spaces for Diffusion-based Behaviour Cloningcited by 20
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