Two CoRL papers speed up VLAs 2.4x and 4.7x, fast enough for real-time robot control

songhan_mit · x · 2026-11-10

A lab led by zhijianliu is presenting two VLA inference-acceleration papers at CoRL 2026: FlashVLA makes π0.5 2.4x faster on robot arms, and FlashDrive speeds up NVIDIA's Alpamayo 1.5 for self-driving by 4.7x — both fast enough for real-time control. Details in the linked thread.

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