StarVLA-$\alpha$: Reducing Complexity in Vision-Language-Action Systems

arXiv:2604.11757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for building general-purpose robotic agents. However, the VLA landscape remains highly fragmented and complex: as existing approaches vary substantially in architectures, training data, embodiment configurations, and benchmark-specific engineering. In this work, we introduce StarVLA-$\alpha$, a simple yet strong baseline designed to study VLA design choices under co