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 **Yuanzhe Liu, Jingyuan Zhu, Yuchen Mo, Gen Li, Xu Cao, Jin Jin, Yifan Shen, Zhengyuan Li, Tianjiao Yu, Wenzhen Yuan, Fangqiang Ding, Ismini Lourentzou**
 
-Recent advancements in vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in robotic manipulation, yet they continue to struggle with long-horizon, multi-step tasks. Existing methods lack internal reasoning mechanisms that can identify task-relevant interaction cues or track progress within a subtask, leading to critical execution errors such as repeated actions, missed steps, and premature termination. To address these challenges, we introduce PALM, a VLA framework that structures policy learning around interaction-centric affordance reasoning and subtask progress cues. PALM distills complementary affordance representations that capture object relevance, contact geometry, spatial placements, and motion dynamics, and serve as task-relevant anchors for visuomotor control. To further stabilize long-horizon execution, PALM predicts continuous within-subtask progress, enabling seamless subtask transitions. Across extensive simulation and real-world experiments, PALM consistently outperforms baselines, achieving a $91.8 \%$ success rate on LIBERO-LONG, a $12.5 \%$ improvement in average length on CALVIN ABC → D , and a $2 \times$ improvement over real-world baselines across three long-horizon generalization settings.
+Recent advancements in vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in robotic manipulation, yet they continue to struggle with long-horizon, multi-step tasks. Existing methods lack internal reasoning mechanisms that can identify task-relevant interaction cues or track progress within a subtask, leading to critical execution errors such as repeated actions, missed steps, and premature termination. To address these challenges, we introduce PALM, a VLA framework that structures policy learning around interaction-centric affordance reasoning and subtask progress cues. PALM distills complementary affordance representations that capture object relevance, contact geometry, spatial placements, and motion dynamics, and serve as task-relevant anchors for visuomotor control. To further stabilize long-horizon execution, PALM predicts continuous within-subtask progress, enabling seamless subtask transitions. Across extensive simulation and real-world experiments, PALM consistently outperforms baselines, achieving a 91.8 \% success rate on LIBERO-LONG, a 12.5 \% improvement in average length on CALVIN ABC → D , and a 2 \times improvement over real-world baselines across three long-horizon generalization settings.