MiniCPM-RobotManip is a 1.5B VLA that claims half the vision compute
iamfakhrealam · x · 2026-07-24
MiniCPM-RobotManip is a 1.5B general-purpose VLA that is positioned against Qwen-VLA and π0.5.
The post says it uses roughly half the visual-processing compute of those systems, with the main trick being efficient visual token compression. The accompanying chart frames the compute savings as history length grows.
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