Cross-Platform Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models from Edge to Cloud GPUs
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| author | Taherin, Amir Lin, Juyi Akbari, Arash Akbari, Arman Zhao, Pu Chen, Weiwei Kaeli, David Wang, Yanzhi |
| author_facet | Taherin, Amir Lin, Juyi Akbari, Arash Akbari, Arman Zhao, Pu Chen, Weiwei Kaeli, David Wang, Yanzhi |
| contents | Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful generalist policies for robotic control, yet their performance scaling across model architectures and hardware platforms, as well as their associated power budgets, remain poorly understood. This work presents an evaluation of five representative VLA models -- spanning state-of-the-art baselines and two newly proposed architectures -- targeting edge and datacenter GPU platforms. Using the LIBERO benchmark, we measure accuracy alongside system-level metrics, including latency, throughput, and peak memory usage, under varying edge power constraints and high-performance datacenter GPU configurations. Our results identify distinct scaling trends: (1) architectural choices, such as action tokenization and model backbone size, strongly influence throughput and memory footprint; (2) power-constrained edge devices exhibit non-linear performance degradation, with some configurations matching or exceeding older datacenter GPUs; and (3) high-throughput variants can be achieved without significant accuracy loss. These findings provide actionable insights when selecting and optimizing VLAs across a range of deployment constraints. Our work challenges current assumptions about the superiority of datacenter hardware for robotic inference. |
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| spellingShingle | Cross-Platform Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models from Edge to Cloud GPUs Taherin, Amir Lin, Juyi Akbari, Arash Akbari, Arman Zhao, Pu Chen, Weiwei Kaeli, David Wang, Yanzhi Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Emerging Technologies Machine Learning Robotics Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful generalist policies for robotic control, yet their performance scaling across model architectures and hardware platforms, as well as their associated power budgets, remain poorly understood. This work presents an evaluation of five representative VLA models -- spanning state-of-the-art baselines and two newly proposed architectures -- targeting edge and datacenter GPU platforms. Using the LIBERO benchmark, we measure accuracy alongside system-level metrics, including latency, throughput, and peak memory usage, under varying edge power constraints and high-performance datacenter GPU configurations. Our results identify distinct scaling trends: (1) architectural choices, such as action tokenization and model backbone size, strongly influence throughput and memory footprint; (2) power-constrained edge devices exhibit non-linear performance degradation, with some configurations matching or exceeding older datacenter GPUs; and (3) high-throughput variants can be achieved without significant accuracy loss. These findings provide actionable insights when selecting and optimizing VLAs across a range of deployment constraints. Our work challenges current assumptions about the superiority of datacenter hardware for robotic inference. |
| title | Cross-Platform Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models from Edge to Cloud GPUs |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Emerging Technologies Machine Learning Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11480 |