Don't Run with Scissors: Pruning Breaks VLA Models but They Can Be Recovered

arXiv:2510.08464 · cs.RO, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-10-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-10-09

Updated: 2026-10-14

Terminology

• Pruning — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• VLA Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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