FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models
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FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models Karl Pertsch ∗,1,2,3 , Kyle Stachowicz ∗,2 , Brian Ichter 1 , Danny Driess 1 , Suraj Nair 1 , Quan Vuong 1 , Oier Mees 2 , Chelsea Finn 1,3 , Sergey Levine 1,2 1 Physical Intelligence, 2 UC Berkeley, 3 Stanford https://pi.website/research/fast ∗ : Core contributors Correspondence to: research@physicalintelligence.company Abstract Autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformer-based vision-language action (VLA) policies, can be tremendously effective for capturing complex and generalizable robotic behaviors. However, suc
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