Learning What to Say to Your VLA: Mostly Harmless Vision Language Action Model Steering

arXiv:2606.12299 · cs.RO, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-06-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-06-10

Updated: 2026-10-16

Comments: CoRL 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Steering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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