arXiv AI

Real-Time Execution with Autoregressive Policies

arXiv:2606. 13355v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time execution, enabled by asynchronous inference that ensures both smooth action trajectories and fast reactivity, is critical for realistic deployments of large-scale Vision-Language-Action models.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

C$^3$ache: Accelerating World Action Models with Cross Inference Chunk Cache

arXiv:2606. 08962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) generalize better than standard Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies to novel motions and environments, because a video-modeling objective lets them learn from abundant unlabeled video rather than scarce labeled robot demonstrations.

By Weisen Zhao, Lam Nguyen, Zhicong Lu, Yuzhang Shang
arXiv AI
Jul 3

CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation

arXiv:2607. 02222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map construction, and instruction decomposition, while the low-level action representation remains comparatively underexplored.

By Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen, Wentao Zhang, Masaki Kitagawa, Zicen Xiong, Jinjie Li, Moju Zhao
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 26

RT-NeuS: Towards Real-Time Neuro-Symbolic Video Understanding via Adaptive Temporal Verification

RT-NeuS is a neuro‑symbolic framework for long‑form video question answering that retains the accuracy and formal guarantees of temporal‑logic‑guided methods while dramatically reducing inference latency. It achieves this by using coarse‑to‑fine adaptive sampling to focus on query‑relevant frames and batched proposition detection with KV‑cache reuse, enabling all propositions to be evaluated in a single forward pass. Experiments on LongVideoBench, Video‑MME, and MLVU show up to a 13× speed‑up on an NVIDIA H200 GPU while matching or surpassing prior neuro‑symbolic accuracy.

By Shawn Liang, Sahil Shah, Chengwei Zhou, S P Sharan, Harsh Goel, Arnab Sanyal, Sandeep Chinchali, Gourav Datta
arXiv AI
Sep 1

CF-VLA: Efficient Coarse-to-Fine Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Policies

CF‑VLA introduces a two‑stage coarse‑to‑fine approach for vision‑language‑action policies, replacing multi‑step sampling with a coarse initialization that constructs an action‑aware starting point and a single‑step refinement that corrects residual errors. The coarse stage learns a conditional posterior over endpoint velocity to transform Gaussian noise into a structured initialization, while the fine stage performs a fixed‑time refinement. Experiments on CALVIN and LIBERO demonstrate that CF‑VLA achieves a strong efficiency‑performance trade‑off, reducing action sampling latency by 75.4 % and achieving an 83.0 % real‑robot success rate, outperforming existing NFE=2 methods and matching or surpassing NFE=10 baselines.

By Fan Du, Feng Yan, Jianxiong Wu, Xinrun Xu, Weiye Zhang, Weinong Wang, Yu Guo, Bin Qian, Zhihai He, Fei Wang, Heng Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Continuous Actions from Discrete Minds: Latent-Aligned Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

The paper introduces LaPla, a Vision‑Language‑Action framework that uses a latent‑aligned planning approach to convert discrete semantic reasoning into continuous, physics‑constrained driving actions. It employs a residual VQ‑VAE to encode vehicle kinematics into a structured latent space, then projects multimodal inputs—images, past actions, and text—directly into this latent space, allowing a frozen decoder to generate physically plausible trajectories without quantization errors. Experiments on nuScenes and NVIDIA AlpaSim show LaPla reduces long‑horizon L2 error by 15.52% and improves closed‑loop success rates by 33.34 percentage points while cutting inference latency.

By Ruoyu Yao, Yusen Xie, Qingzhao Liu, Pei Liu, Zewei Yang, Yipeng Zhu, Xiaolong Wang, Jun Ma