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arXiv:2609.18623 (cs)
[Submitted on 16 Sep 2026]
Title:FIVE-VLA: Fast and EffectIVE Autonomous Driving with Recurrent Action Memory
Authors:Kemal Oksuz, Alexandru Buburuzan, Yuhan Yao, Puneet K. Dokania
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Abstract:State-of-the-art vision-language-action models (VLA) for autonomous driving face critical limitations: excessive parameter counts, inefficient high-resolution image processing, and lack of temporal memory. We introduce Fast and EffectIVE VLA (FIVE-VLA) to address these through two key contributions. First, we employ an efficient vision encoder that processes high-resolution ($448 \times 896$) images while generating only 98 tokens, over $5\times$ fewer than existing approaches, and bypass text generation entirely for single-pass trajectory prediction. Second, we propose Recurrent Action Memory (RAM), a lightweight module that conditions action prediction on previous action tokens, providing temporal context critical for manoeuvres such as overtaking and emergency braking. With only 641M parameters, FIVE-VLA completes $\sim$10% more routes without traffic rule infractions than the previous state-of-the-art VLA on the challenging Bench2Drive closed-loop driving benchmark. Non-reactive open-loop simulation on the large-scale real-world NVIDIA Physical AI AV dataset shows 10.2% and 7.7% lower collision-violation rates than SimLingo in single- and four-view settings, respectively. Additionally, FIVE-VLA runs at $\sim$30 fps on an A100 and $\sim$4 fps on a T4 GPU (proxy to an edge device), representing an 8-30$\times$ speedup over previous methods.
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.18623
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From: Kemal Oksuz [view email]
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