Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise to bring end-to-end reasoning to autonomous driving, but their computational cost remains far too high for real-time control. The core challenge is structural: VLA inference is not a single bottleneck but a cascade of four.
arXiv:2606.08684v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present BLUE, a minimal method for better language use in vision-language-action (VLA) models for autonomous driving (AD). Through extensive ana...
By George Ling, Lijin Yang, Hao Yang, Zhongzhan Huang
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
arXiv:2608. 14586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are becoming a promising paradigm for autonomous driving, but their deployment on existing vehicle platforms remains difficult because they introduce both high inference latency and strong GPU-side resource pressure.
By Haibo HU, Lianming Huang, Qiao Li, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue
arXiv:2608. 01035v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving; however, their efficient deployment is severely constrained by high computational latency and exposure bias arising from sequential autoregressive decoding.
By Zhihao Zhu, Hanlin Shang, Mingwang Xu, Feipeng Cai, Zhuolin He, Yaoyi Li, Jianhua Han, Hang Xu, Siyu Zhu
arXiv:2609.18623v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: State-of-the-art vision-language-action models (VLA) for autonomous driving face critical limitations: excessive parameter counts, inefficient high-res...
By Kemal Oksuz, Alexandru Buburuzan, Yuhan Yao, Puneet K. Dokania
arXiv:2608. 04428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as a key component in embodied AI.
By Zheng Liu, Zeyu Guo, Zihan Liu, Anbang Wu, Han Zhao, Fangxin Liu, Zhezhi He, Yinhe Han, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Yiming Gan, Yu Feng
arXiv:2607. 12659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance on diverse embodied tasks.
By Zebin Yang, Qi Wang, Yunhe Wang, Xiurui Guo, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu, Jiafeng Xu, Hao Dong, Meng Li
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:2606. 28758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting future states is essential for autonomous agents, yet current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models fundamentally lack this capability, relying instead on reactive perception-action mapping.
By Bohao Zhao, Chengrui Wei, Guangfeng Jiang, Ruixin Liu, Xuejie Lv, Liu Liang, Sutao Deng, Xiuyang Fan, Pengkun Zheng, Jinyun Zhou, Rui Guo, Hanpeng Liu, Yutong Zheng, Yi Guo, Xinlong Zheng, Qingyu Luo, Zhuangzhuang Ding, Yu Zhang, Hang Zhang, Xianming Liu
arXiv:2607. 12121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models have become the central backbone for modern image, video, and audio generation, but their efficient service remains a challenge.
By Yaqi Qiao, Ping He, Songrun Xie, Ayush Barik, Chensong Zhang, Zhengzhong Tu, Fan Lai
arXiv:2608. 10976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can connect scene understanding, semantic reasoning, and trajectory generation for autonomous driving.
By Foundation Model Team, XPeng Inc