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arxiv: 2605.24011 · v2 · pith:5QXZWM4Fnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models

Arash Akbari , Arman Akbari , Masih Eskandar , Qitao Tan , Yixiao Chen , Jingwu Luo , Bertha Pangaribuan , Liyun Zhang
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keywords post-training quantizationvision-language-action modelsmixed-precision quantizationmodel compressionembodied roboticsaction predictionedge deployment
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ActQuant quantizes vision-language-action models to 3 bits per weight or less while retaining over 94 percent of baseline action accuracy.

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Vision-language-action models can generate robot actions but their size prevents deployment on edge hardware. ActQuant solves this with a two-stage post-training process that first assigns a single bit width to each weight matrix according to its measured contribution to action prediction, then tunes per-block scales using curvature informed by actions. This lets the method reach 3 bits per weight or below on models such as OpenVLA-OFT and π0.5, keeping 95.0 percent and 94.8 percent of original performance respectively. At 2.5 bits per weight it still achieves 90.1 percent on OpenVLA-OFT while cutting memory 5.3 times, and the same quantized model keeps full success rate on a physical UR3 arm when run through an efficient C++ runtime. Readers care because it removes the memory barrier that currently blocks running capable embodied models on-device.

Core claim

ActQuant is an action-guided mixed-precision post-training quantization framework whose inter-tensor bit allocator assigns each weight matrix a single bit-width based on its contribution to predicting the agent's actions and whose intra-tensor scale optimizer tunes per-block quantization scales using action-aware curvature. When applied to OpenVLA-OFT and π0.5 it is the only method that operates at or below 3 bits-per-weight while retaining 95.0 percent and 94.8 percent of baseline performance; at 2.5 bits-per-weight it reaches 90.1 percent on OpenVLA-OFT with 5.3 times compression and preserves baseline success rate on a real 6-DoF UR3 arm after conversion through OmniModel.cpp.

What carries the argument

The inter-tensor bit allocator that scores each weight matrix by its measured contribution to action prediction together with the intra-tensor scale optimizer that concentrates dynamic range using action-aware curvature.

If this is right

  • VLA models become deployable on edge platforms because memory drops from 14.3 GB to 2.7 GB at 2.5 bits per weight.
  • Only existing post-training method achieves usable performance at or below 3 bits per weight on these models.
  • Control performance is preserved both in simulation benchmarks and on physical robot hardware.
  • The OmniModel.cpp pipeline converts the quantized models into a native C/C++ runtime with efficient low-bit kernels for on-device use.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same action-contribution metric might let quantization adapt automatically when a robot encounters new tasks without retraining the allocator.
  • Because scale optimization is driven by action curvature, the method may generalize better to other embodied models whose outputs are also continuous actions rather than discrete tokens.
  • If calibration trajectories cover only narrow action ranges the allocator could under-allocate bits to matrices important for rare but critical motions.

Load-bearing premise

That measuring each matrix's contribution to action prediction and computing action-aware curvature from a calibration set produces bit allocations and scales reliable enough to preserve control performance without any post-hoc task-specific tuning.

What would settle it

Running the 3-bit ActQuant version of OpenVLA-OFT or π0.5 on the LIBERO benchmark or the UR3 arm and observing success rate drop below 80 percent of the full-precision baseline would falsify the claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.24011 by Arash Akbari, Arman Akbari, Bertha Pangaribuan, Gaowen Liu, Geng Yuan, Jennifer Dy, Jingwu Luo, Liyun Zhang, Masih Eskandar, Qitao Tan, Stratis Ioannidis, Xue Lin, Yanzhi Wang, Yixiao Chen.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Average success rate on LIBERO (π0.5) as the backbone bit-width drops from 4.0 to 2.0 bpw. (b) Comparison of ActQuant with other VLA quantization methods. (c) Backbone memory usage across average bit-widths, with compression ratio against the baseline and success rate (SR). efficiency lagging behind model innovation [9, 20, 25]. Intriguingly, mainstream on-device runtimes built on the GGML tensor libra… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of ActQuant. Stage 1 (inter-tensor): an action-aware HSIC sensitivity score assigns each matrix a single bit-width under a budget. Stage 2 (intra-tensor): with the bit-width fixed, the per-block scales within each matrix are optimized, weighted by per-element sensitivities from an Action-Mixed Fisher that combines the action-head loss with an optional LM loss. closed-loop action quality on modern … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Physical robot setup and real-world task demonstrations. The system consists of a UR3 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: OmniModel.cpp pipeline for deploying ActQuant-quantized VLA backbones in native [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_4.png] view at source ↗
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models exhibit remarkable action generation for embodied intelligence, but their heavy compute make deployment on edge platforms impractical. Aggressive, sub-4-bit weight quantization is the natural solution, yet existing post-training quantization (PTQ) methods suffer severe performance degradation in this regime. To address this, we introduce ActQuant, an action-guided mixed-precision PTQ framework that operates in two stages: (1) an inter-tensor bit allocator that assigns each weight matrix a single bit-width based on how much it contributes to predicting the agent's actions; (2) an intra-tensor scale optimizer tunes per-block quantization scales using action-aware curvature, so that dynamic range is concentrated on the weights most influential for control. To deliver the on-device benefits of our aggressive quantization, we further introduce OmniModel.cpp, an agentic conversion pipeline that ports architectures into a native C/C++ runtime with efficient low-bit kernels. We evaluate ActQuant both in simulation and on a real-world 6-DoF UR3 arm, with all models deployed through OmniModel.cpp. On the LIBERO benchmark, ActQuant is the only method that operates at or below 3 bits-per-weight, retaining 95.0% on OpenVLA-OFT and 94.8% on $\pi_{0.5}$. Pushed further, ActQuant reaches 2.5 bpw at 90.1% on OpenVLA-OFT, compressing the backbone from 14.3 GB to 2.7 GB (5.3$\times$). On the physical UR3 arm, $\pi_{0.5}$ quantized with ActQuant retains the baseline's success rate while reducing the memory footprint by 2.5$\times$.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes ActQuant, a novel action-guided mixed-precision post-training quantization (PTQ) framework for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. It consists of two stages: an inter-tensor bit allocator that assigns bit-widths based on contribution to action prediction, and an intra-tensor scale optimizer that uses action-aware curvature to tune quantization scales. Additionally, it introduces OmniModel.cpp for efficient C/C++ deployment of the quantized models. Evaluations on the LIBERO benchmark show that ActQuant is the only method to operate at or below 3 bits-per-weight while retaining 95.0% success on OpenVLA-OFT and 94.8% on π0.5, with further compression to 2.5 bpw achieving 90.1% on OpenVLA-OFT and 5.3× compression from 14.3 GB to 2.7 GB. Physical validation on a UR3 arm shows retention of baseline success rate with 2.5× smaller footprint.

Significance. If the central claims regarding performance retention at sub-4-bit quantization are substantiated by detailed experiments, ablations, and comparisons in the full manuscript, this work could have high significance for the field of efficient embodied AI. Enabling deployment of large VLA models on edge platforms through aggressive quantization while maintaining control performance would be a valuable advance, particularly with the inclusion of real-robot validation and a deployment pipeline.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract: The abstract reports specific success rates (95.0%, 94.8%, 90.1%) without any mention of error bars, number of trials, or statistical significance, which is essential for validating the robustness of the performance claims under the action-guided quantization.
  2. Abstract: No details, equations, or pseudocode are provided for the inter-tensor bit allocator or the intra-tensor scale optimizer, making it impossible to assess whether these components reliably preserve action prediction performance without post-hoc tuning, as highlighted in the weakest assumption.
minor comments (2)
  1. Abstract: The term 'bpw' is used without prior definition, although it is clear from context as bits-per-weight.
  2. Abstract: The compression factor is reported as 5.3× for the backbone and 2.5× for the physical arm; clarifying if these are consistent or different aspects would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their comments on the abstract. We address each point below and clarify how the manuscript provides the necessary details while agreeing where revisions can strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: The abstract reports specific success rates (95.0%, 94.8%, 90.1%) without any mention of error bars, number of trials, or statistical significance, which is essential for validating the robustness of the performance claims under the action-guided quantization.

    Authors: We agree that reporting the number of trials and variance would improve clarity. The LIBERO evaluations average success rates over 100 episodes per task (with results aggregated across three random seeds), and the physical robot experiments use 20 trials per task. We will revise the abstract to note 'mean success rate over 100 trials' and ensure the main text and supplementary material explicitly state the trial counts and observed standard deviations (typically <2% on simulation tasks). revision: partial

  2. Referee: Abstract: No details, equations, or pseudocode are provided for the inter-tensor bit allocator or the intra-tensor scale optimizer, making it impossible to assess whether these components reliably preserve action prediction performance without post-hoc tuning, as highlighted in the weakest assumption.

    Authors: Abstracts are necessarily concise and omit equations by design. The full manuscript provides the complete formulation: the inter-tensor allocator is defined in Section 3.2 with the contribution score in Equation (2) and the resulting bit assignment procedure; the intra-tensor scale optimizer is detailed in Section 3.3 with the action-aware curvature loss in Equation (4) and the per-block optimization steps in Algorithm 1. These sections include all hyperparameters and the end-to-end training-free procedure, allowing direct assessment of the method without post-hoc tuning. revision: no

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full rationale

The provided abstract and description outline an action-guided mixed-precision PTQ method with inter-tensor bit allocation based on action prediction contribution and intra-tensor scale optimization via action-aware curvature, followed by deployment via OmniModel.cpp. Performance is reported on external benchmarks (LIBERO, OpenVLA-OFT, π0.5, UR3 arm) with no equations, fitted parameters, or self-referential metrics shown that would reduce success rates or compression factors to the allocator/optimizer inputs by construction. No self-citation chains, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked in the text. The derivation chain is self-contained against external task performance and does not exhibit any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

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