A robot's flash memory degrades with each write, forming a non-renewable asset. A wear-aware pricing model uses a shadow price $η$ to guide memory placement across RAM, NVM, and cloud, with optimal routing depending on whether task value increases with memory persistence. The sign of the value-write association $χ$ varies by deployment: positive in long-horizon manipulation, null in short-horizon tasks, and negative in teleoperation. The endurance budget is binding only on low-end QLC/eMMC memory, and while wear-aware routing aligns with task value, actual performance improvements remain unverified in data.
arxiv
arXiv cs.LG
·
90d ago
·
research
Flash Endurance as Depreciating Capital in Robot Memory
from English
Related articles
arxiv
arXiv cs.AI
·
90d ago
·
3 views
Flash Endurance as Depreciating Capital in Robot Memory
A robot's flash memory endurance is a non-renewable asset that degrades with each write. A wear-aware pricing model introduces a shadow price $η$ to guide memory placement across RAM, NVM, and cloud, with optimal routing depending on the value-write association $χ$. Empirical measurements show $χ$ is positive in long-horizon manipulation, null in short-horizon tasks, and negative in teleoperation, and the endurance budget is binding only on low-end QLC/eMMC memory, where wear-aware control influences routing based on task value without improving performance.
arxiv
arXiv cs.LG
·
88d ago
·
8 views
Probe-and-Refine Tuning Improves Coding Agent Performance
A new method called probe-and-refine tuning uses synthetic bug-fix probes to iteratively improve repository guidance files with single-shot LLM calls, without agent loops or tool use. On SWE-bench Verified, it achieves a 33.0% mean resolve rate—14.5 percentage points higher than the initial static knowledge base—showing improved coverage rather than patch precision. The method enables agents to use larger step budgets effectively, and performance remains stable across models when diagnostic output is sufficient.
arxiv
arXiv cs.CL
·
88d ago
·
3 views
H-RePlan: Hierarchical Recovery for Cross-Device Agent Systems
H-RePlan introduces a hierarchical replanning framework that separates device-local strategy recovery from global orchestrator replanning. It outperforms existing baselines by achieving higher completion and instruction adherence, with reduced token cost, through scope-aware recovery in multi-device agent systems.
arxiv
arXiv cs.AI
·
88d ago
·
5 views
Finetuning VLA Models Requires Fewer Layers Than Thought
Vision-Language-Action models show severe layer-wise redundancy despite large parameter counts. A training-free compression method using Centered Kernel Alignment removes twin layers, reducing model depth by up to 50% and enabling 40-50% faster training and up to 30% faster inference without performance loss, validated across simulation and real-world robotic tasks.
arxiv
arXiv cs.AI
·
88d ago
·
6 views
CRAX: Fast Safe Reinforcement Learning Benchmarking
CRAX introduces a high-fidelity, accelerated safety benchmark for reinforcement learning using MuJoCo XLA. It achieves up to 100x speedups over CPU-based benchmarks via vectorization and hardware acceleration, featuring six environment suites and three agent-specific tasks across three difficulty levels. Evaluation of six safe RL methods shows no single approach dominates, highlighting trade-offs between performance and safety, with curriculum learning and safety transfer improving results.