Robotics and embodied AI

Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.

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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
Aug 18

Efficient Block-Layer Parallel Inference for Vision-Language-Action on Hybrid Architectures

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 AI
Aug 18

FloodReasonBench: Benchmarking VLM Reasoning Segmentation for Embodied Flood Response at the Edge

arXiv:2608. 15410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning segmentation enables vision-language models (VLMs) to translate mission-relevant language requests into pixel-level visual grounding, offering a natural perception interface for embodied agents.

By Rajat Bhattacharjya, Yoomee Jung, Minwoo Kim, Sing-Yao Wu, Eli Bozorgzadeh, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Nikil Dutt