Urgent Actions Go First: Urgency-Aware Denoising for Real-Time VLA Control
From the abstract
Diffusion and flow-matching Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies generate action chunks through iterative denoising, incurring substantial inference latency that severely limits real-time robotic control. Existing acceleration methods treat an action chunk as a monolithic computational unit, ignoring a crucial physical reality of receding-horizon control: actions are generated jointly but consumed sequentially, resulting in inherently heterogeneous execution urgencies.
From the abstract. Our summary is in progress.