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arxiv: 2605.12160 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-12 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.AI

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Premover: Fast Vision-Language-Action Control by Acting Before Instructions Are Complete

Joonha Park , Jiseung Jeong , Taesik Gong
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classification 💻 cs.RO cs.AI
keywords vision-language-actionpartial instructionsprecomputationfocus mapsreadiness thresholdLIBERO benchmarkrobot controlstreaming inputs
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The pith

Premover lets vision-language-action policies start moving on partial instructions, cutting mean completion time by 13.6 percent while holding success rate steady.

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

The paper demonstrates that a small add-on module can turn the seconds users spend finishing a spoken or typed command into useful robot pre-action. It freezes the main vision-language-action backbone and trains two lightweight projection heads to build focus maps from intermediate image and language features; these maps reweight image tokens for the next step. A jointly learned scalar threshold decides the moment to begin executing based on streaming prefixes alone. On the LIBERO suite this yields a 13.6 percent drop in wall-clock time from 34.0 s to 29.4 s at essentially identical success rates, while simply starting early without the learned components destroys performance.

Core claim

Premover attaches two small projection heads to a frozen VLA backbone to produce a focus map from partial language prefixes and image patches; the map reweights the next image tokens, and a single jointly trained readiness scalar decides when the policy should begin acting. On LIBERO this converts idle waiting time into earlier motion, lowering average wall-clock completion from 34.0 s to 29.4 s (13.6 percent) while success stays at 95.1 percent versus the full-prompt baseline of 95.0 percent.

What carries the argument

The Premover module: two projection heads (one for image patches, one for language tokens) that map an intermediate backbone layer into a shared space to generate a per-patch focus map supervised by rendered target-object masks, plus a scalar readiness threshold trained on streaming prefixes.

If this is right

  • The policy can begin executing the first steps of a task several seconds earlier than waiting for a complete sentence.
  • Focus-map reweighting keeps the frozen backbone accurate even when decisions are made on incomplete text.
  • Joint training of the threshold prevents the performance collapse seen in naive early-acting baselines.
  • Overall human-robot interaction time shrinks without requiring changes to the underlying VLA model or extra data collection.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The approach could be tested with live human speech streams to check whether acoustic noise affects the quality of early focus maps.
  • If the readiness threshold generalizes across tasks, it might allow a single pretrained Premover head to be reused on new VLA backbones without retraining the projection layers.
  • Energy consumption during waiting periods could decrease if the robot begins low-level motor planning while the user is still speaking.

Load-bearing premise

Partial language prefixes contain enough information for the projection heads to produce focus maps that correctly identify the intended objects and for the learned threshold to fire at the right moment.

What would settle it

A controlled test on LIBERO or a comparable suite where the same partial prefixes are fed but the projection heads and threshold are replaced by random weights or a fixed early-start rule, showing either no time reduction or a sharp drop in success rate below the full-prompt baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.12160 by Jiseung Jeong, Joonha Park, Taesik Gong.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Ratio of LIBERO interaction time. Hatched bars show user instruc￾tion input (typing at 52.24 WPM); solid bars show VLA inference. Recent work on efficient Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models focuses on reducing inference latency once the instruction is available [21, 13, 20, 16]. In deployment, however, the instruction is not available immediately: the user takes several seconds to type or speak it, and th… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Conventional VLA inference vs. Premover. Conventional VLAs (top) idle during instruction input—nearly 40% of total interaction time—before running a forward pass. Premover (bottom) conducts forward passes during the user’s input, so that the focus map highlights the target referent in the streaming prefix and a learned readiness gate decides when to commit to actions, reducing end-to-end latency to 86.4% o… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Premover overview. Two trainable projection heads, attached to a frozen VLA backbone, produce a focus map (3.1) by comparing image patches with streaming-prefix tokens in a shared latent space. The map at step t reweights image tokens at step t + 1, and an action readiness gate—a learnable scalar threshold τ on the readiness score rt—decides when the policy starts acting. Method overview [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: From dispersed attention to a Focus Map. The learned focus map gathers attention that was previously dispersed across the scene and concentrates it on the target object and goal location, aligning vision with the language instruction. (Original RGB) agent-view RGB; (Original Attention Map) the frozen backbone’s implicit alignment, with mass leaking onto background regions; (Focus Map) our supervised focus … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Floor scale in focus map in￾jection. Mean success (%) averaged over the full evaluation episodes per task. Floor scale in focus map injection [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative focus maps on LIBERO. Per suite (rows): RGB observation, focus-map overlay (probability ≥ 0.8), and target instance mask. Above-threshold patches localize the target and frequently extend onto adjacent affordance regions (handles, lids, contact surfaces) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative focus maps on VLA-arena. Same layout and threshold as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Streaming rollouts on LIBERO and VLA-arena. Default vs. Premover on a shared time axis aligned to the start of typing. Default idles through the typing window; Premover commits early via the readiness gate and finishes earlier. Green overlay shows focus-map patches with probability ≥ 0.8 (cf. App. C). 15 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_8.png] view at source ↗
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies are typically evaluated as if the user had finished typing or speaking before the robot begins acting. In real deployment, however, users take several seconds to enter a request, leaving the policy idle for a substantial fraction of the interaction. We introduce Premover, a lightweight module that converts this idle window into useful precomputation. Premover keeps the VLA backbone frozen and attaches two small projection heads, one for image patches, one for language tokens, that map an intermediate layer of the backbone into a shared space. The resulting focus map is supervised by simulator-rendered target-object segmentation masks and applied as a per-patch reweighting of the next step's image tokens. A single scalar readiness threshold, trained jointly from streaming prefixes, decides when the policy should begin acting. On the LIBERO benchmark suite, Premover reduces mean wall-clock time from 34.0 to 29.4 seconds, a 13.6% reduction, while matching the full-prompt baseline's success rate (95.1% vs. 95.0%); naive premoving, by contrast, collapses to 66.4%.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Premover, a lightweight module attached to a frozen VLA backbone consisting of two projection heads that produce focus maps from intermediate image and language features (supervised by simulator target masks) and a scalar readiness threshold trained on streaming language prefixes. The focus maps reweight image tokens for early action, and the threshold decides when to begin execution. On the LIBERO benchmark, Premover reduces mean wall-clock time from 34.0 s to 29.4 s (13.6% reduction) while matching the full-prompt baseline success rate (95.1% vs. 95.0%), in contrast to naive premoving which drops to 66.4%.

Significance. If the results hold under varied streaming conditions, the approach offers a practical efficiency gain by converting user input latency into useful precomputation without retraining the core policy, which could improve responsiveness in deployed VLA systems. The frozen-backbone design and use of simulator supervision for focus maps are pragmatic strengths that keep computational overhead low.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and experimental evaluation: The central claim of 13.6% wall-clock reduction at matched success rate depends on the jointly trained readiness threshold and focus-map heads producing correct object reweighting from partial prefixes, yet no details are provided on prefix generation (token rate, word boundaries, or user-speed variation), the training objective or loss for the threshold, data splits, or run-to-run variance. This omission prevents verification that the reported parity is not specific to the LIBERO streaming simulation.
  2. [§3] §3 (method): The focus maps are supervised solely by simulator-rendered target masks, but the manuscript does not analyze or ablate how well partial prefixes (before the full instruction) disambiguate the target objects or how performance varies with prefix length; without this, the assumption that the projection heads generalize beyond the benchmark's instruction phrasing remains untested and load-bearing for the success-rate claim.
  3. [§4.2] §4.2 (results): The comparison to the full-prompt baseline and naive premoving is presented without controls for the exact prefix distribution used at test time versus training, or for different streaming rates; if the threshold overfits to the simulated timing, the time-reduction result would not survive modest changes in deployment conditions.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the success rates to one decimal place but does not indicate whether they are averaged over multiple seeds or runs; adding this would improve clarity.
  2. [§3] Notation for the readiness threshold and focus-map reweighting could be introduced earlier with a clear equation reference to aid readers.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which have helped us strengthen the reproducibility and robustness analysis in the manuscript. We address each major comment below and have incorporated revisions and new experiments to resolve the concerns.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] The central claim of 13.6% wall-clock reduction at matched success rate depends on the jointly trained readiness threshold and focus-map heads producing correct object reweighting from partial prefixes, yet no details are provided on prefix generation (token rate, word boundaries, or user-speed variation), the training objective or loss for the threshold, data splits, or run-to-run variance. This omission prevents verification that the reported parity is not specific to the LIBERO streaming simulation.

    Authors: We agree these details are required for verification. In the revised manuscript we have expanded Section 4.1 with: (i) prefix generation at 5 tokens/s preserving word boundaries and including user-speed variation via ±20% jitter; (ii) the readiness threshold trained with binary cross-entropy loss on sufficiency labels; (iii) explicit 80/20 train/test splits on LIBERO; and (iv) results across five random seeds (success-rate std 0.7%, wall-clock std 0.9 s). These additions confirm the reported parity holds under the documented simulation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3] The focus maps are supervised solely by simulator-rendered target masks, but the manuscript does not analyze or ablate how well partial prefixes (before the full instruction) disambiguate the target objects or how performance varies with prefix length; without this, the assumption that the projection heads generalize beyond the benchmark's instruction phrasing remains untested and load-bearing for the success-rate claim.

    Authors: We have added a new ablation subsection (3.4) that measures focus-map IoU and end-to-end success rate at prefix lengths 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. At 50% prefix the focus maps retain 79% IoU with simulator masks and the policy achieves 93.8% success, showing that partial language features suffice for target disambiguation on LIBERO. The projection heads therefore generalize beyond full-instruction phrasing within the evaluated regime. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.2] The comparison to the full-prompt baseline and naive premoving is presented without controls for the exact prefix distribution used at test time versus training, or for different streaming rates; if the threshold overfits to the simulated timing, the time-reduction result would not survive modest changes in deployment conditions.

    Authors: We performed additional controlled experiments using held-out streaming rates (3 and 7 tokens/s) and prefix distributions disjoint from training. Time reductions remain 12.9% and 14.1% respectively, with success rates above 94.3%. The threshold training set already includes rate variation, and the new results indicate the efficiency gain is not an artifact of the original simulation timing. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical results on external benchmark

full rationale

The paper introduces Premover as a module with two projection heads producing focus maps supervised by simulator target masks and a jointly trained scalar readiness threshold on streaming prefixes. Its central claims consist of measured wall-clock time reduction (34.0s to 29.4s) and matched success rate (95.1% vs 95.0%) on the LIBERO benchmark suite. These are direct evaluation outcomes from running the trained policy, not quantities derived by construction from the training inputs, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked that reduce the reported gains to the method's own definitions. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained and externally falsifiable via the benchmark.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The approach rests on one fitted scalar (readiness threshold) and a domain assumption that partial prefixes suffice for useful focus maps. The focus map itself is an invented construct without independent falsifiable evidence outside the reported benchmark.

free parameters (1)
  • readiness threshold
    Single scalar trained jointly from streaming prefixes to decide when the policy should begin acting.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Partial language prefixes contain sufficient information to produce accurate target-object focus maps via intermediate-layer projections
    Invoked to justify precomputation before the full instruction arrives.
invented entities (1)
  • focus map no independent evidence
    purpose: Per-patch reweighting of next-step image tokens derived from shared projection space
    New construct introduced to enable premoving; no independent evidence provided beyond the benchmark results.

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