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arxiv: 2605.31460 · v1 · pith:EUBXDN46new · submitted 2026-05-29 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.SY· eess.SY

On-Device Robotic Planning: Eliminating Inference Redundancy for Efficient Decision-Making

Joonhee Lee , Hyunseung Shin , Hyunmi Kim , Pei Zhang , Jeonggil Ko This is my paper

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keywords robotic planninginference optimizationtemporal redundancyon-device deploymentvision-language modelsALFRED benchmarkscene gating
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The pith

Robotic reasoning can skip most inferences when consecutive observations repeat the same actions and subgoals.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that large-model robotic planners waste compute on repeated decisions across time steps. It introduces REIS to detect and bypass this redundancy with lightweight checks before full reasoning. The method keeps task success rates competitive on ALFRED and real robots while cutting inference load. A sympathetic reader would see this as a practical route to real-time on-device control without retraining the underlying models.

Core claim

Robotic reasoning workloads contain substantial temporal redundancy where consecutive observations frequently produce identical actions and subgoals; REIS exploits this by combining lightweight scene gating, KV-steered affordance routing, and deliberative reasoning to minimize unnecessary inference while preserving semantic adaptability and competitive performance on ALFRED and real-world tasks.

What carries the argument

REIS framework, which uses lightweight scene gating to detect redundancy, KV-steered affordance routing to select routes, and deliberative reasoning only when needed.

If this is right

  • On-device robotic policies become feasible with lower latency under embodied constraints.
  • Task completion rates on ALFRED and physical robots stay close to full-reasoning baselines.
  • The same redundancy pattern can be exploited in other sequential embodied tasks without changing the base model.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • If temporal redundancy holds across a wider range of vision-language models, the approach could generalize beyond the tested planners.
  • Real-world deployment would still require verifying that the gating mechanism itself stays cheap on target hardware.
  • The same observation of repeated decisions might apply to non-robotic sequential planning problems such as game agents or autonomous vehicles.

Load-bearing premise

Robotic tasks produce enough repeated actions and subgoals across consecutive observations that skipping them does not hurt overall performance.

What would settle it

Measure the fraction of consecutive time steps that produce identical actions and subgoals in a new robotic environment or model; if the fraction is near zero, the claimed overhead reduction disappears.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.31460 by Hyunmi Kim, Hyunseung Shin, JeongGil Ko, Joonhee Lee, Pei Zhang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of REIS, illustrating the interaction between System One and System Two. Detailed illustration of System One and Two on the bottom row substantial structural scene changes are detected. Rather than using all visual features, EMA-HSVS selects transformer heads sensitive to geometric variation through a greedy calibration process on datasets such as ALFRED and LIBERO. For incoming frames, EMA-HSVS f… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Example of Datasets used for Optimization and Evaluation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: A Sample of Navigation Task (DNF: Did Not Finish) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Confusion Matrix of Vision Similarity Measure Methods [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Pipeline of Head Selection (Figure 3 from Main Text) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Visual pipelines for (Left) Contrastive Pair Generation (Figure 4) and (Right) Calculation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Positive and Negative Prompt for KV Steering Pair Generation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Sweep Result of EMA-HSVS Greedy Search [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Hallway with Bright Color and Complex Objects on The Wall [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Hallway with Monotone Color and Dynamic Pathway Appearing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Comparison of Other Transformer Based Vision Encoder Performance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_12.png] view at source ↗
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Reasoning-based robotic policies using large language and vision-language models achieve strong semantic planning capabilities but mostly suffer from a high inference latency that limits practical real-time deployment. In this work, we observe that robotic reasoning workloads contain substantial temporal redundancy, where consecutive observations frequently produce identical actions and subgoals. Based on this insight, we present REIS, a human cognition inspired robotic decision-making framework that minimizes unnecessary reasoning while preserving semantic adaptability. REIS combines lightweight scene gating, KV-steered affordance routing, and deliberative reasoning to accelerate robotic control under embodied constraints. Experiments on ALFRED, and real-world robotic tasks demonstrate that REIS significantly suppresses reasoning overhead while maintaining competitive task performance.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that robotic reasoning workloads exhibit substantial temporal redundancy (consecutive observations frequently yielding identical actions and subgoals), and introduces the REIS framework—combining lightweight scene gating, KV-steered affordance routing, and deliberative reasoning—to suppress inference overhead while preserving semantic adaptability and competitive task performance on ALFRED and real-world robotic tasks.

Significance. If the redundancy observation holds with independent quantification and the components deliver the claimed latency reductions without hidden costs to adaptability, the work would address a key barrier to real-time on-device deployment of VLM/LLM-based robotic planners, offering a practical path to lower-latency embodied decision-making.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that REIS 'significantly suppresses reasoning overhead' rests on the unquantified observation of 'substantial temporal redundancy'; no metrics (e.g., fraction of identical consecutive actions/subgoals across ALFRED trajectories or robot logs, or ablation across other VLMs) are reported, so it is impossible to verify whether the property is general or setup-specific.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: without baseline comparisons, error bars, or explicit measurement of redundancy and overhead (e.g., tokens or latency before/after each REIS component), the performance claims cannot be assessed for soundness or generality.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on the need to strengthen the abstract with explicit quantification. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested metrics and clarifications.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that REIS 'significantly suppresses reasoning overhead' rests on the unquantified observation of 'substantial temporal redundancy'; no metrics (e.g., fraction of identical consecutive actions/subgoals across ALFRED trajectories or robot logs, or ablation across other VLMs) are reported, so it is impossible to verify whether the property is general or setup-specific.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from explicit quantification of the temporal redundancy observation. The full manuscript provides supporting experimental analysis on ALFRED and real-robot trajectories, but we will revise the abstract (and add a dedicated quantification subsection) to report concrete metrics such as the fraction of identical consecutive actions and subgoals. Ablations across additional VLMs will be included where existing data permits; new experiments on further models are not feasible within the revision timeline but can be noted as future work. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: without baseline comparisons, error bars, or explicit measurement of redundancy and overhead (e.g., tokens or latency before/after each REIS component), the performance claims cannot be assessed for soundness or generality.

    Authors: The experimental section already contains baseline comparisons, latency/token measurements, and component-wise breakdowns. To directly address the abstract-level concern, we will revise the abstract to include key quantitative results (with error bars) and explicit before/after overhead numbers for each REIS component (scene gating, KV-steered routing, deliberative reasoning). This will make the performance claims immediately verifiable from the abstract. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; framework rests on empirical observation without self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper states an observation about temporal redundancy in robotic reasoning workloads and introduces REIS components (scene gating, KV-steered routing, deliberative reasoning) as engineering responses, validated empirically on ALFRED and real-robot tasks. No equations, parameter-fitting steps, self-citations, or uniqueness theorems appear in the provided text. The central claim of overhead suppression follows from experimental results rather than any reduction of outputs to inputs by construction, making the derivation self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract provides no equations, parameters, or explicit assumptions beyond the stated observation of temporal redundancy; no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities can be extracted.

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