EmbodiedMidtrain: Bridging the Gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via Mid-training

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Learn how EmbodiedMidtrain bridges the gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via mid-training, improving downstream performance

advanced Published 23 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Characterize the data distribution gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models
  2. Apply EmbodiedMidtrain to adapt Vision-Language Models to the embodied domain
  3. Fine-tune the adapted model on Vision-Language-Action tasks
  4. Evaluate the performance of the adapted model on downstream tasks
  5. Compare the results with off-the-shelf Vision-Language Models
Who Needs to Know This

AI researchers and engineers working on Vision-Language-Action Models can benefit from this approach to improve their model's performance, especially those working on embodied AI applications

Key Insight

💡 EmbodiedMidtrain adapts Vision-Language Models to the embodied domain, improving their performance on Vision-Language-Action tasks

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Learn how EmbodiedMidtrain bridges the gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via mid-training, improving downstream performance

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Title: EmbodiedMidtrain: Bridging the Gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via Mid-training

Abstract:
arXiv:2604.20012v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) inherit their visual and linguistic capabilities from Vision-Language Models (VLMs), yet most VLAs are built from off-the-shelf VLMs that are not adapted to the embodied domain, limiting their downstream performance. In this work, we propose EmbodiedMidtrain to bridge the gap between VLMs and VLAs. We first characterize the data distribution gap between them, showing that VLA data occupy compact regions that a
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