When to Ask for Help: A Decision-Theoretic Account and Measurement Standard for Slow-Module Scheduling in Dual-System Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2610.21160 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-10-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO

Submitted: 2026-10-15

Updated: 2026-10-15

Comments: 41 pages, 7 figures. Preprint

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• AUC — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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