Towards Efficient Robotic Manipulation Models with Self-Recursive Pruning

arXiv:2610.08555 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-10-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-06

Terminology

• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Shallow-{\pi}: Knowledge Distillation for Flow-based VLAs
• Don't Run with Scissors: Pruning Breaks VLA Models but They Can Be Recovered
• Learning Multi-Modal Trajectory Policies for Data-Efficient Robotic Manipulation

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