ニューラル内省ゲーティングによる視覚言語行動モデルの適応的KVキャッシュ再利用
Neural Introspection Gating for Adaptive KV-Cache Reuse in Vision-Language-Action Models
視覚言語行動モデル(VLA)の推論コスト削減のため、視覚的類似性に基づくKVキャッシュ再利用に、モデル自身の不確実性(ロジットマージン)を監視してキャッシュを無効化する軽量なトレーニング不要の手法を提案した。
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著者: Zhijie Wu, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei Okada
分類: cs.RO, cs.CV
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Vision-Language-Action(VLA) models map camera images and language instructions directly to motor commands through a single autoregressive transformer. In real-time control, they still spend substantial compute recomputing key-value(KV) representations for visual tokens that barely change across neighboring frames. Recent work such as VLA-Cache reduces that cost by reusing KV states for visually static patches, but its policy relies only on observation-space heuristics and does not account for the model's own uncertainty. We propose Gated VLA-Cache, a lightweight, training-free extension that augments visual-similarity caching with neural introspection. The method monitors the logit margin between the top two predicted action tokens, a zero-cost confidence signal available during decoding. When the margin drops below a threshold, the cache is invalidated and a full recompute is triggered. Evaluated on four LIBERO benchmark suites with both OpenVLA and OpenVLA-OFT, Gated VLA-Cache improves reliability when blind caching hurts. On LIBERO-Goal and LIBERO-Long, it recovers over 100% of the lost accuracy while retaining 80% of the compute savings.