Submission Guide

Call for Papers

The RL4VLA workshop will address a diverse range of topics and encourage discussion across key areas, including but not limited to:

• RL fine-tuning of multimodal foundation models for robotics 

• Offline and batch RL for language-conditioned policies 

• Reward modeling and preference-based RL for embodied agents

• Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for VLA 

• Hierarchical and model-based RL for multimodal planning 

• Sim-to-real transfer in RL-based VLA systems 

• Safety and robustness in RL-trained language-conditioned agents 

• Benchmarks for evaluating RL in Vision-Language-Action models

Important Dates

Submission Open: May 12th, 2026

Submission Deadline:  June 8th, 2026 (AOE)

Acceptance Notification: June 17th, 2026 (AOE)

Camera-ready submission deadline: June 30th, 2026 (AOE)

Workshop Day: Friday, July 17th, 2026 (Afternoon)

Submission Instructions

• Submission format: the paper must have 4-8 content pages (excluding the references and appendices).

• Format: RSS 2026 author kit .

• Submission portal: OpenReview. 

Review and Selection Process

• The review process will be double-blind.

• Accepted papers will be presented as posters at the workshop.

• For each accepted paper, at least one co-author must register for RSS 2026 and present the work during the poster sessions.

• We encourage submissions emphasizing new or in-progress research and forward-thinking ideas.

• Early-stage work, open problems, and novel perspectives are welcome.

• Previously published work, including main-conference RSS papers, are less encouraged.