vla.cpp: A Unified Inference Runtime for Vision-Language-Action Models
Researchers present vla.cpp, a C++ inference runtime that enables Vision-Language-Action AI models to run efficiently on robot hardware rather than requiring high-end GPUs. The system achieves comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art models while reducing memory footprint to 1.3 GB and demonstrating 4.5x latency improvements through optimized inference techniques.