Deploying language-conditioned manipulation without a dedicated GPU requires efficient inference and action chunks that cover the delay between policy queries. We present vla.simd, a CPU inference eng...
arXiv:2607. 12659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance on diverse embodied tasks.
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.
arXiv:2606. 08094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies are typically shipped as Python/PyTorch stacks that assume a workstation-class GPU, a mismatch for the hardware on which robots actually run.
The paper introduces rMuscle, a real‑time Vision‑Language‑Action inference framework that mimics human muscle memory to accelerate robotic decision making. By exploiting repeated task similarity, rMuscle uses a dual‑phase cache: a Context Cache reuses visual‑token outputs and an Action Cache reuses neuron activation patterns, reducing computation and weight accesses. Experiments on RTX 4090 and Jetson Thor show 1.29–1.42× speedups on LIBERO, RoboTwin, and physical manipulation tasks while preserving success rates on real robots.
Factory work is a promising early scenario for embodied AI: assigning repetitive manual jobs to robots has clear economic payoff, and a structured station keeps the jobs tractable for current policies...
arXiv:2607. 24148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong potential for embodied AI, yet their high inference latency on GPUs limits real-time deployment.
Vision-language-action (VLA) models commonly adopt an LLM-centric $V \to L \to A$ pathway, where visual observations are projected into the representation space of a large language model before being decoded into robot actions. Although effective, this design incurs substantial computation and memory overhead at every policy invocation.
arXiv:2609.24170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI systems are often organized into System 1 and System 2. System 1 is typically a pretrained policy that generates actions at high frequency,...
arXiv:2609.22684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Memory-dependent robotic manipulation often requires later actions to use information from earlier interactions. Existing vision-language-action (VLA...
arXiv:2512. 01031v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are becoming increasingly capable across diverse robotic tasks.
arXiv:2607. 04171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong multimodal understanding and spatial grounding, but their computational cost limits real-time robotic control.