The Speedup Paradox: Rethinking Inference Speed-Quality Trade-off in Embodied Tasks

arXiv:2606.28529 · cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-06-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-06-26

Updated: 2026-10-11

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

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