LoopQ: 量子化VLAモデルの公平な閉ループ評価
LoopQ: Fair, Closed-Loop Evaluation of Quantized Vision-Language-Action Models
複数のポストトレーニング量子化手法を同一条件で比較する閉ループベンチマークを提案し、VLA特化手法が単純な汎用手法に劣ることを示した。
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著者: Syed Umer Bukhari, Magnus Almgren, Ahmed Ali-Eldin
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Post-training quantization (PTQ) for vision-language-action (VLA) models promises smaller and faster VLA deployments. However, when analyzing existing VLA quantization works, we realised that it is hard to reason about the performance of the suggested quantization method compared to existing, similar, or in many cases, simpler PTQ methods. We present LoopQ, a closed-loop benchmark that compares multiple quantization policies on the same checkpoint, layers and engine, varying only the method and the kernels. We evaluate RTN, AWQ, GPTQ, ActQuant and QuantVLA on four VLAs with more than 180,000 episodes of LIBERO and LIBERO-plus, compare against QVLA's reported results on the same layers, and benchmark whether the four public VLA-quantization releases can be reproduced. We benchmark the methods on an NVIDIA H100, an L4, and a Jetson AGX Thor. Our results show that while quantization reliably saves memory, 2-3x for real low-bit models, VLA-specific PTQ methods underperform compared to simpler generic baselines. At 4 bits, RTN, AWQ and GPTQ match or exceed ActQuant and QuantVLA, plain RTN matches the calibrated methods, and plain AWQ matches the success QVLA reports for itself. Standard LIBERO hides the losses that do exist: configurations with no significant LIBERO loss lose 1.5-4.3 points under paired LIBERO-plus perturbations. Speed is a weaker story. At batch 1 on the H100, no quantized pi0.5 or OpenVLA-OFT configuration is faster than its 16-bit model (1.06-1.58x slower on library kernels); only the L4 with int8 kernels gains (4-14%), the Thor is slower on every 4-bit configuration, and the engine alone changes latency by 2.1x. Profiling explains why: pi0.5's quantized backbone is compute-bound, while its memory-bound action expert, 63% of GPU time and 13% of the parameters, stays in 16 bits.