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rMuscle: Robotic Muscle Memory for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- rMuscle speeds up Vision-Language-Action robot inference by caching visual tokens and neuron activations across repeated tasks, achieving 1.29-1.42X speedup.
- Why it matters
- Engineers deploying VLA models on factory robots or repetitive manipulation tasks where inference latency affects responsiveness and motion smoothness matter.
- Watch out
- Speedup demonstrated on RTX 4090 and Jetson Thor; generalization to other hardware, non-repetitive tasks, or dynamic environments remains unclear from abstract.
- inference
- latency
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