C3ache: Accelerating World Action Models with Cross Inference Chunk Cache
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Abstract (arXiv)
World Action Models (WAMs) generalize better than standard Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies to novel motions and environments, because a video-modeling objective lets them learn from abundant unlabeled video rather than scarce labeled robot demonstrations. This generalization is computationally expensive. To complete a task, a WAM runs over multiple inference chunks, and each chunk requires a costly denoising process. Existing acceleration methods reduce this cost by caching and reusing computation within a single chunk's denoising trajectory. Our empirical analysis reveals a substantial source of redundancy they overlook: redundancy across chunks. When a robot executes a smooth behavior, the residuals computed at a given denoising step are strongly correlated from one chunk to the next. We introduce C3ache, a training-free method that caches and reuses these residuals across inference chunks at the same denoising step. Experiments on benchmarks with a Fast-WAM backbone show that C3ache achieves up to a 2.5× speedup in total wall-clock inference time, with negligible degradation in task success rate.
Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Embodied and robot world models, one of 11 directions in World models. Builds on 1 of its 34 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 8 Jun 2026.
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