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When Faster VLA Deployment Changes Closed-Loop Behavior: Task Success-Latency Analysis of SmolVLA Across PyTorch and ONNX Variants

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 12, 2026 · UTC

Vision-language-action (VLA) deployment can reduce inference latency while changing closed-loop task behavior. We evaluate HuggingFaceVLA/smolvla_libero on an RTX 2060 (6 GB) in LIBERO Spatial and Object (MuJoCo 3.3.2, LeRobot 0.6.1, seed 42), comparing PyTorch+AMP with ONNX Runtime CUDA Execution Provider (CUDA EP). The main evaluation uses 100 episodes/suite; a paired rollout uses 300 episodes/suite. PyTorch+AMP reaches 70.0%/88.0% Spatial/Object success at 1181 ms p99. Requested-FP16 and requested-INT8 ONNX reduce tether-inspect p99 to 601 ms and 532 ms, while Spatial success falls to 41.0%

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