arXiv AI

Latency-Tolerant Cloud-Edge Collaborative Vision-Language-Action Models via Emergent Representational Specialization

The paper introduces CloudEdgeVLA, a cloud‑edge policy for Vision‑Language‑Action models that treats temporal misalignment as a representation‑learning problem. It encodes delayed observations into slowly varying task features on the cloud while a lightweight edge head fuses the latest cloud feature with current local vision. Experiments on four LIBERO suites show that CloudEdgeVLA retains 63.8–78.0% success under a 40‑step delay window, far outperforming VLASH and single‑path baselines.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

LayerRoute: Action-Conditioned Mixture-of-Layers Routing for Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2609.06079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies leverage pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to guide action generation for robot control. VLMs provide hier...

By Zheng Lu, Haoran Liao, Wanqi Zhong, Yunhe Ni, Lijie Wang, Xingjie Fan, Zhisheng Chen, Yantang Qu, Meijia Chen, Tianyu Xin, Zirui Song, Yiming Li
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Efficient Vision-Language-Action Management and Serving for Robot Factories

Robion is a new serving and management system designed to run Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) models on multi‑GPU edge servers for robot factories. It splits the VLM and ADiT stages within a single GPU, shares streams across multiple models, and prioritizes requests by remaining SLO time, enabling high robot load while meeting strict latency requirements. In experiments, Robion achieves 6.7× higher robot load than vLLM‑Omni and 1.5× higher than a monolithic pipeline, and can serve 64 robots on a 4‑GPU server with 98% SLO attainment.

By Dionysios Adamopoulos, Nattapol Chanpaisit, Basel Fakhri, Christina Giannoula
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Efficient VLA Inference via Speculative Inference and Verification

arXiv:2608. 15636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in the field of embodied AI, but their high computational cost and limited predicted action length hinder real-time deployment.

By Chunyu Qi, Zhuoran Song, Jian Weng, Haozhe Jiang, Xueyuan Liu, Naifeng Jing, Guanghui He, Xiaoyao Liang, Haibing Guan
arXiv AI
Jun 2

CoMIC: Collaborative Memory and Insights Circulation for Long-Horizon LLM Agents in Cloud-Edge Systems

arXiv:2606. 00756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying lightweight Large Language Model (LLM) agents on edge servers can reduce latency and move agentic services closer to users, but resource-constrained edge models often struggle with long-horizon tasks that require persistent memory, subgoal tracking, and reflection.

By Yannan Wang, Longli Yang, Zhen Liu, Abhishek Kumar, Carsten Maple
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models

The paper introduces VLAct, a Vision‑Language‑Action model that focuses on representation‑centric continued pre‑training rather than merely scaling robot data. VLAct is trained on diverse, multi‑embodiment robot data and preserves a broad VLM prior while encouraging shared action semantics across embodiments. Experiments across simulation, real‑world, and unseen‑embodiment settings show that VLAct consistently outperforms existing industrial VLA systems, achieving high success rates with only a modest compute budget and open‑source data.

By Senqiao Yang, Chengyao Wang, Yuxin Chen, Zixuan Wang, Longxiang Tang, Haokun Gui, Jinhui Ye, Changsheng Lu, Xiaoyang Wu, Mingkang Zhu, Pengguang Chen, Shu Liu, Zhuotao Tian, Hengshuang Zhao, Bei Yu, Jiaya Jia