WA-SpecDec: 世界認識型投機的デコーディングによる視覚言語行動モデルの高速化
WA-SpecDec: World-Aware Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language-Action Models
視覚言語行動モデルの推論を高速化するため、世界モデル由来の物理シーン認識を投機的デコードに組み込み、接触付近での誤りを減らしつつ成功率を維持する手法を提案した。
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著者: Zikang Wen, Yuning Zhang, Dong Yuan
分類: cs.RO
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Vision-language-action (VLA) policies generate robot controls autoregressively, making closed-loop latency dominated by repeated target-model forward passes. Speculative decoding reduces this cost by verifying blocks of draft action tokens in parallel, and recent VLA methods further relax token-level acceptance because small differences in action-token space often map to similar continuous controls. However, this relaxation remains scene-agnostic. A fixed token-distance tolerance treats the same action-token deviation as equally safe across states, although deviations that are harmless in free space can cause collisions or grasp failures near contact. We propose WA-SpecDec, a world-aware speculative decoding framework that injects world-model-derived physical scene awareness during the VLA prefill stage, producing shared world-aware prefill states for draft proposal and target verification without changing the relaxed acceptance rule. Across three state-of-the-art relaxed acceptance schemes, WA-SpecDec preserves higher task success under looser relaxation and enables longer accepted prefixes. At comparable-success operating points, WA-SpecDec achieves a 1.5x matched-success speedup over VLA speculative decoding alone and reduces near-contact failure (NCF) by 18.6% on average relative to the corresponding speculative baselines.