NarrativeFlow: Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Model Using Robot Velocity Fields

Published October 2, 2026 · Category: Robotics

Overview

arXiv:2610.00981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We focus on language-conditioned flow-based manipulation, where robot flows (robot velocity fields) serve as embodiment-agnostic, motion-centric representations for leveraging data collected from multiple robot platforms. This task is crucial because language-conditioned manipulation is essential for practical robotic systems, yet scaling robot foundation models remains limited by the labor-intensive collection of embodiment-specific data. Existing methods either coarsely approximate robot flows with sparse keypoint displacements, or cannot handle language-conditioned manipulation. To address this limitation, we propose NarrativeFlow, which models robot flows as continuous velocity fields using a flow-matching formulation conditioned on language. Accordingly, NarrativeFlow generates robot flows that are physically consistent with real-world manipulation. To validate NarrativeFlow, we have conducted experiments on standard datasets for language-conditioned manipulation. The experimental results show that NarrativeFlow outperforms representative baseline methods on standard evaluation metrics. Furthermore, through real-world experiments, we show that NarrativeFlow achieves higher success rates than baseline methods across multiple manipulation tasks. The project page is available at https://shota0520.github.io/NarrativeFlow-project-page/

Source

Originally published at arxiv.org.

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