DeeAD: Dynamic Early Exit of Vision-Language Action for Efficient Autonomous Driving
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| author | HU, Haibo Huang, Lianming Guan, Nan Xue, Chun Jason |
| author_facet | HU, Haibo Huang, Lianming Guan, Nan Xue, Chun Jason |
| contents | Vision-Language Action (VLA) models unify perception, reasoning, and trajectory generation for autonomous driving, but suffer from significant inference latency due to deep transformer stacks. We present DeeAD, a training-free, action-guided early-exit framework that accelerates VLA planning by evaluating the physical feasibility of intermediate trajectories. Instead of relying on confidence scores, DeeAD terminates inference when predicted trajectories align with lightweight planning priors (e.g., Navigation or Low-precision Planning) within a tolerable deviation (<2m). To improve efficiency, we introduce a multi-hop controller that adaptively skips redundant layers based on the change rate of scores. DeeAD integrates into existing VLA models, such as ORION, without requiring retraining. Experiments on the Bench2Drive benchmark demonstrate up to 28% transformer-layer sparsity and 29% latency reduction, while preserving planning quality and safety. |
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| spellingShingle | DeeAD: Dynamic Early Exit of Vision-Language Action for Efficient Autonomous Driving HU, Haibo Huang, Lianming Guan, Nan Xue, Chun Jason Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Robotics Vision-Language Action (VLA) models unify perception, reasoning, and trajectory generation for autonomous driving, but suffer from significant inference latency due to deep transformer stacks. We present DeeAD, a training-free, action-guided early-exit framework that accelerates VLA planning by evaluating the physical feasibility of intermediate trajectories. Instead of relying on confidence scores, DeeAD terminates inference when predicted trajectories align with lightweight planning priors (e.g., Navigation or Low-precision Planning) within a tolerable deviation (<2m). To improve efficiency, we introduce a multi-hop controller that adaptively skips redundant layers based on the change rate of scores. DeeAD integrates into existing VLA models, such as ORION, without requiring retraining. Experiments on the Bench2Drive benchmark demonstrate up to 28% transformer-layer sparsity and 29% latency reduction, while preserving planning quality and safety. |
| title | DeeAD: Dynamic Early Exit of Vision-Language Action for Efficient Autonomous Driving |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20720 |