Efficient World Action Model Inference with Adaptive Intermediate States
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Abstract (arXiv)
World Action Models (WAMs) enable future-aware control by jointly modeling actions and environment dynamics. However, iterative diffusion or flow inference incurs substantial denoising latency. Prior inference state offers a natural opportunity for acceleration, yet changing planning contexts, observations, and intermediate representations can quickly render retained state stale. Preserving useful computation therefore requires adapting inference state rather than reusing it as-is. To this end, we present WAMscriptstyleACHINE, a training-free framework that accelerates WAM inference by preserving and adapting inference state for efficient and accurate continuation as the control loop evolves. Across closed-loop replans, Trajectory Remapping remaps replan state from the preceding replan to initialize the next replan, reducing redundant trajectory generation. Across denoising steps, Observation Rebinding performs anticipatory inference during action execution and rebinds retained denoising state to the real observation for continuation when consistency checks pass, reducing latency exposed to the control loop. Across Transformer layers, Residual Rescaling selectively rescales retained layer state and refreshes it through full computation of the middle layers when probe checks fail, reducing repeated Transformer computation. Evaluations of three representative WAM architectures on LIBERO and RoboTwin 2.0 show that WAMscriptstyleACHINE achieves 1.47-3.05× speedups in observation-to-action latency and 2.23-3.27× speedups in GPU inference time per replan, while preserving 96.69-99.54% of native WAM task success.
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- 2026Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?cited by 311
- 2024Diffusion Transformer Policycited by 41
- 2026τ0-WM: A Unified Video-Action World Model for Robotic Manipulationcited by 21
- 2026Faster-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Deep Action Modules?cited by 9
- 2026FutureRTC: Real-Time Robot Execution with Anticipatory-Conditioned Action Chunkingcited by 8
- 2026C3ache: Accelerating World Action Models with Cross Inference Chunk Cachecited by 6
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