ヒューマノイド向け分離非同期システムDASH:VLAモデルの遅延非依存スケーリング
Decoupled Asynchronous System for Humanoids (DASH): Latency-Agnostic Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models for Humanoid Manipulation
VLAモデルを遅い視覚言語バックボーンと速いアクションヘッドに分離し、非同期並列実行によりバックボーン規模に依存しない制御レートを実現したヒューマノイド操作用システム。
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著者: Bingzhang Wang, Nathan Zhao, Jialeng Ni, Jiajin Zheng, Yin Zhang, Kehua Chen, Jian Yao
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI
原文アブストラクト
Vision-language-action (VLA) models pair a vision-language backbone with an action head, but in closed-loop control the backbone sits on the control-critical path: while it computes, the robot keeps moving, so each executed action is conditioned on an increasingly stale observation. A larger backbone therefore directly blocks reactivity, especially in humanoid dexterous manipulation. We present DASH, a Decoupled Asynchronous System for Humanoids that removes this coupling. DASH splits the policy into a slow vision-language model (System 2) and a fast flow-matching action head (System 1) that run as concurrent processes over the LCM communication protocol, so the control rate is set by the action head alone, independent of backbone size. The action head fuses stale semantics from a frozen backbone with fresh vision from its own ResNet encoder, desynchronized training exposes it to the staleness it meets at deployment, and an adaptive temporal aggregator aligns overlapping action chunks under variable inference latency. On an asynchronous RoboTwin benchmark that charges inference latency in simulated time, DASH holds 20 Hz control rate from 0.8B to 8B backbones while the synchronous rate falls from 9.7 to 4.1 Hz, with higher success at every size. On a real humanoid with dexterous hands, DASH achieves clearly higher pick-and-place success than the synchronous pipeline.