FastOPD: On-Policy Distillation for Lightweight VLA Deployment

arXiv:2610.02832 · cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-02

Updated: 2026-10-02

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• On-Policy Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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