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Lei Zhang

ROLE CORRESPONDING AUTHOR / RESEARCH GROUP HEADAT IDEA (INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ECONOMY ACADEMY)MENTIONS 3LAST SEEN MAY 25, 2026
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Corresponding author of GTA-VLA and head of the research group at IDEA.

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product·arXiv Physical AI·MAY 25, 2026

GTA-VLA introduces a third input channel — sparse visual cues like a click (affordance point), a drawn box, or a sketched path — that directly conditions the robot's reasoning chain before action is generated.

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mention·arXiv Physical AI·MAY 25, 2026

Lei Zhang | IDEA (International Digital Economy Academy) | Corresponding author; head of the research group producing GTA-VLA | leizhang@idea.edu.cn; previously associated with foundational work on T-Rex2 [15] and Rex-Omni [14] for interactive detection

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mention·arXiv Physical AI·MAY 25, 2026

previously associated with foundational work on T-Rex2 [15] and Rex-Omni [14] for interactive detection — this group has a consistent research thread on interactive visual grounding now extended to robotics

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