SPAR: VLAモデルの構造的プルーニングと行動回復
SPAR: Structural Pruning and Action Recovery for Vision-Language-Action Models
VLAモデルのLLMバックボーンを構造的にプルーニングし、強化学習で操作性能を回復させる手法。パラメータを大幅削減しつつ成功率を向上させ、推論を約2倍高速化した。
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著者: Shenli Zheng, Zhou Fang, Yuan Du, Yijiang Liu, Li Du
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI
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The limited onboard computing resources of robots make the inference demands of vision-language-action (VLA) models costly to accommodate. Reducing these demands through aggressive compression, however, can degrade manipulation performance beyond what supervised fine-tuning alone recovers. We present SPAR (Structural Pruning and Action Recovery), which simultaneously prunes the hidden and feed-forward intermediate dimensions of the large language model (LLM) backbone through pruning-aware tuning, then applies reinforcement learning (RL) to recover policy performance. Applied to $π_{0.5}$, SPAR reduces the language backbone from 2.34B to 0.09B parameters and the full model from 3.37B to 1.12B, removing approximately 96% and 67% of their parameters, respectively. At this compression level, RL raises average success across the four LIBERO suites from 84.55% to 93.45%, an 8.90-percentage-point gain. The compressed policy achieves a $1.98\times$ full-policy inference speedup over the unpruned model. These results identify substantial intermediate-dimension redundancy and show that post-pruning RL can recover manipulation performance in compact policies.