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Agile-VLA: Few-Shot Industrial Pose Rectification via Implicit Affordance Anchoring

arXiv 2603.22899 ↗First posted 24 Mar 2026cs.ROcited by 1

On the map: Vision-language-action models → Efficient VLA inference and adaptation

Abstract (arXiv)

Deploying Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on resource-constrained edge platforms encounters a fundamental conflict between high-latency semantic inference and the high-frequency control required for dynamic manipulation. To address the challenge, this paper presents Agile-VLA, a hierarchical framework designed for industrial pose reorientation tasks on edge devices such as the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. The core innovation is an Implicit Affordance Anchoring mechanism that directly maps geometric visual cues, specifically centroid and rim keypoint anchors, into structured parametric action primitives, thereby substantially reducing reliance on high-latency semantic inference during closed-loop control. By decoupling perception (10 Hz) from control (50 Hz) via an asynchronous dual-stream architecture, the system effectively mitigates the frequency mismatch inherent in edge-based robot learning. Experimental results on a standard 6-DoF manipulator demonstrate that Agile-VLA achieves robust rectification of complex, irregular workpieces using only 5-shot demonstrations through extrinsic dexterity.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Efficient VLA inference and adaptation, one of 13 directions in Vision-language-action models. Builds on 16 of its 21 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 24 Mar 2026.

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  1. 2025EdgeVLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models18 Jul
  2. 2025Dita: Scaling Diffusion Transformer for Generalist Vision-Language-Action Policy25 Mar

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  2. 2025Open-World Deepfake Attribution via Confidence-Aware Asymmetric Learningcited by 5

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  1. 2026AffordVLA: Injecting Affordance Representations into Vision-Language-Action Models via Implicit Feature Alignment
  2. 2026AnchorRefine: Synergy-Manipulation Based on Trajectory Anchor and Residual Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models
  3. 2025SemanticVLA: Semantic-Aligned Sparsification and Enhancement for Efficient Robotic Manipulation
  4. 2025Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Embodied Manipulation: A Systematic Survey
  5. 2026AffordanceVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Empowering Action Generation through Affordance-Aware Understanding
  6. 2026Afford-VLA: Action-Aligned Visual Planning via Internalized Affordance
  7. 2026SAVLA: Symmetry-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
  8. 2026AC^2-VLA: Action-Context-Aware Adaptive Computation in Vision-Language-Action Models for Efficient Robotic Manipulation