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The two vocabulary heads no action chunk reads are dropped, and a checkpoint is built in host memory so what reaches the GPU is what runs there. On the shipped Kinova checkpoint the server holds 8593 MiB where it held 10103. An int8 knob in vla_serving.yaml holds the language backbone and the vision tower at eight bits, taking that to 5375 MiB for 0.14s per 50-step chunk against 0.13s, both inside the real-time budget at 10 fps. /health reports which of the two is running. What eight bits costs in success rate is unmeasured on this checkpoint. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JFNEZkKa2NN7LMWbzM37Nq
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WalkthroughThe inference server adds optional torchao int8 support for pi0.5 policies. It validates YAML and CLI settings, trims vocabulary heads before quantization, reports int8 state, updates the container image, and documents checkpoint generation. ChangesInt8 serving pipeline
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Tried this on an RTX 4060 Laptop (8 GB) today, since it's exactly the case the PR unlocks. It works — but adding a dependency to this layer surfaced how expensive a rebuild is, and I think that's worth addressing while this file is already open.
--no-cache-dir makes every rebuild re-download the whole CUDA wheel set. Adding torchao invalidates the pip layer, so the rebuild pulled ~3.5 GB across 154 wheels — torch 530 MB, cublas 423 MB, cufft 214 MB, cusolver 201 MB, cusparse 146 MB, and the rest of nvidia-cu*. On wifi at ~8 MB/s that's ~7 minutes of pure download, and it saturated the link while it ran.
Two things came out of that:
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pip's 15s default read timeout is too tight for this layer. My first attempt died at 565s with
ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443)— ten minutes of downloading thrown away, since the failed layer restarts from zero.ENV PIP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT=120andPIP_RETRIES=10fixed it for me. Cheap insurance on a layer this large. -
A BuildKit cache mount would make rebuilds nearly free, and is the more interesting fix:
RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip \ pip install "lerobot[pi,smolvla]==0.6.0" ...
The cache lives outside the image, so image size is unchanged — which I assume is what
--no-cache-dirwas protecting. The difference is that the next version bump costs a few hundred KB instead of 3.5 GB.
Neither blocks the PR, and if you'd rather keep the diff tight I'd understand — but (1) in particular bit me on the first try and cost more time than the change would.
Separately, two notes from running it, not review comments:
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/appbind mount is a trap for this change specifically.docker-compose.yamlmountssrc/vla_sim/docker:/app:ro, so the newvla_inference_server.pyruns against whatever image already exists. Anyone who pulls this branch and starts the server without forcing a rebuild getsModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'torchao'at line 85, which reads like a broken PR rather than a stale image. The launcher only builds that profile-gated image when it's missing, somoveit_pro run --only-inference-serveralone isn't enough — I had todocker rmithe old image first. Might be worth a line in the PR description. -
On the accuracy question you flagged in
vla_serving.yaml("What it costs in success rate is unmeasured on this checkpoint") — I'll be running the cube-stacking objective againstint8: trueon the 4060 and can report back what I see. Happy to have that data point live somewhere more durable than a PR thread if useful.
Adding a package to the pip layer re-downloads every wheel it already had, 3.5 GB of CUDA across 154 of them, because --no-cache-dir leaves nothing to reuse. A BuildKit cache mount keeps them outside the image instead of deleting them, so the image is the same size and the next version bump costs only what moved. pip's 15s read timeout is too tight for that layer besides: a stall fails it, and a failed layer restarts from zero rather than from where it stopped. The image is also only ever built when missing, and moveit_pro build skips a profile-gated service, so nothing rebuilds it when this directory changes. The server script is mounted rather than baked, which turns that into an import error against a stale image; README.md now says so and how to force the build. Reported by @rlpratt12 on #871. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
Adding a package to the pip layer re-downloads every wheel it already had, 3.5 GB of CUDA across 154 of them, because --no-cache-dir leaves nothing to reuse. A BuildKit cache mount keeps them outside the image instead of deleting them, so the image is the same size and the next version bump costs only what moved. pip's 15s read timeout is too tight for that layer besides: a stall fails it, and a failed layer restarts from zero rather than from where it stopped. The image is also only ever built when missing, and moveit_pro build skips a profile-gated service, so nothing rebuilds it when this directory changes. The server script is mounted rather than baked, which turns that into an import error against a stale image; README.md now says so and how to force the build. Reported by @rlpratt12 on #871. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
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In `@src/vla_sim/docker/quantize_checkpoint.py`:
- Around line 80-86: Before calling load_full_policy, detect whether the source
checkpoint is already quantized by using INT8_MARKER with read_quantization and
resolve_weights_file. Reject marked checkpoints with the existing
error-and-return flow, while preserving the current pi05 policy-type validation
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Adding a package to the pip layer re-downloads every wheel it already had, 3.5 GB of CUDA across 154 of them, because --no-cache-dir leaves nothing to reuse. A BuildKit cache mount keeps them outside the image instead of deleting them, so the image is the same size and the next version bump costs only what moved. pip's 15s read timeout is too tight for that layer besides: a stall fails it, and a failed layer restarts from zero rather than from where it stopped. The image is also only ever built when missing, and moveit_pro build skips a profile-gated service, so nothing rebuilds it when this directory changes. The server script is mounted rather than baked, which turns that into an import error against a stale image; README.md now says so and how to force the build. Reported by @rlpratt12 on #871. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
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Thanks, exciting! I tested it, and it works fine. However, I have two points. First, we add ~700/800 lines to this to serve the quantized checkpoint directly. If the numbers below are correct, I don't see the advantage of doing this wrt all the complexity it adds. Second, @rlpratt12 also reported this, if we can get around the manual removing of the docker image for our users, we should do that. Here is the agent with details:
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I ran this branch against the real checkpoint on a gfx1151 GPU, serving host-side. Your numbers hold up. Two claims the PR makes without tests turn out to be provable, so I measured those too.
What I measured
| configuration | weights on GPU | median s/chunk |
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| untrimmed | 8922.6 MiB | 0.912 |
| trimmed, full width (what ships) | 7415.5 MiB | 0.932 |
| trimmed + int8 | 4363.2 MiB | 1.046 |
The trim saves 1507.1 MiB.
The trim changes nothing. The same observation through trimmed and untrimmed gives the same 50x8 chunk, byte for byte. So trim_vocabulary_heads is provably safe. That is a cheap test to add.
A written checkpoint matches quantize-on-load exactly. Same chunks, same memory. /health reports int8: true even when the config says false. quantize_checkpoint.py wrote 4.25 GiB from a 7.72 GiB source. It also copied LICENSE_GEMMA.txt and NOTICE, so the Gemma licence travels with the new checkpoint.
The success-rate question you flagged as unmeasured. I ran it 60 times. Stack Cubes with the VLA Policy, alternating blocks of 10, scored from cube TFs instead of the objective result. Full width 24/30. int8 22/30.
First point
Three separable changes here. They are not equal.
The trim is two lines. It saves 1507 MiB, changes no action, and is on by default, so everyone gets it for free.
The int8 knob is the bigger win. Serving drops from 7415 MiB to 4363. Against what main serves today that is 8922 down to 4363, roughly half. Your own process-level numbers make the point better: 8593 MiB overflows an 8 GB card, 5375 fits. So the trim alone does not unlock the 4060 Rich was testing. int8 does. It also has 30 runs per arm behind it now showing no measurable success-rate cost. I would not want that read as a minor addition.
The third piece is the one I would question. It lets you write a quantized checkpoint to disk and serve it directly instead of quantizing on every load. That is quantize_checkpoint.py plus the marker and loader machinery behind it, all in commit a9217a58.
What it buys, measured against simply setting int8: true:
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| serving memory | 4363 MiB | 4363 MiB |
| action chunks | baseline | bit-identical |
| load time | 68.6s | 62.6s |
| download | 7.72 GiB | 4.25 GiB |
So it buys 6 seconds and 3.5 GiB. Nothing at serve time.
What it costs:
- 734 of the PR's 885 added lines, so 83% of the diff
- 8 new functions and a 113-line CLI
- a marker protocol in the weights metadata, and a second loader path beside the existing one
- a format only this server reads, since it is torchao's
prototypesafetensors layout - the file has to record the torchao version, because a mismatch raises. A routine dependency bump then invalidates every checkpoint already written.
- a second artifact per policy to publish and keep in sync
83% of the diff for 6 seconds and a smaller download. I would drop this piece and keep the trim and the int8 knob.
Second point
The torchao imports sit at module scope (vla_inference_server.py:88-93). Compose mounts this directory over /app (docker-compose.yaml:87). So anyone who already built moveit_pro-inference_server:latest runs this branch's code inside an image with no torchao in it. The server dies at import with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'torchao'. That happens at the shipped int8: false too.
Nothing rebuilds the image for them. It is built only when missing, and moveit_pro build skips the service behind its inference profile. First-time users are fine, because they get a fresh build.
README.md:25-39 documents this and the moveit_pro down plus docker rmi fix, so I know it is deliberate. Treat this as a disagreement, not a bug report. I would rather not ship the manual step.
It looks avoidable. Every torchao use in the file sits inside a function body: quantize_int8, assign_quantized_weights, save_quantized_checkpoint. None sits in a constant, default argument, annotation or decorator. All three run only on the int8 or already-quantized paths. torchao is also the only new package in the import block. So three import lines moved into those bodies would make this a no-rebuild upgrade for everyone who does not opt in.
There is a case for keeping it eager. A stale image then fails at startup rather than later, at someone's first int8: true, which fits how this repo prefers failures. Worth a deliberate call either way. I would take the later failure. It still shows up as an error on /health at model load, not silently, and it costs nothing to everyone who never turns int8 on.
Smaller things
- The README's quantize command hardcodes
src/vla_sim/modelsandsrc/vla_sim/hf_cache, but compose honoursVLA_MODELS_DIRandVLA_HF_CACHE. Anyone who set either re-downloads 7.7 GiB into the wrong cache. save_quantized_checkpoint(:514) deletes<out>.partialwithout asking. The user never named that directory.
The int8 path is the only code here that touches torchao, so importing it at module scope made a package that nothing at the default setting needs into one every load requires. Serving this directory's scripts from an image that predates the dependency died at import, at int8: false, with no way out but dropping the image by hand. Importing it where it is used moves that failure onto the int8 path, where the package is actually wanted: turning int8 on against such an image reports the error on /health at model load, and everyone else serves as they did. Trimming the vocabulary heads becomes a function so the property it relies on can be tested: the two heads are the whole edit, and every weight an action chunk reads comes through unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YCk2yNsEQkVUSvhAmsJ4m
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[written by AI] Thanks for testing it, and for running the 60 episodes. Both points taken; the branch now does what you asked. Dropped the written-checkpoint piece. It is off this branch and pushed to What is left here is the trim and the int8 knob, 213 lines rather than 885, the trim test below included. Took the later failure on the imports. You are right that it is avoidable and right that it is a judgement call, and having to drop an image by hand is the worse end of it. After the split Added the trim test. Not the equivalence you measured, which needs a real checkpoint the unit suite cannot load, but the property that makes it true: trimming is now a function, and the test asserts the two heads are the whole edit and every weight an action chunk reads survives byte for byte. It fails if the trim reaches anything else. Your success-rate numbers. 24/30 against 22/30 is the first data on this at all, so thank you, and it now answers the @rlpratt12 this also closes out your offer to measure on the 4060 unless you would still like a second read. The |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDetect checkpoint quantization before calling
quantize_.
PolicyRunnerdoes not read checkpoint quantization metadata. Forpi05, it callsquantize_whenever the requestedint8value is true. A pre-quantized checkpoint can therefore be processed again. Whenint8is false,self.int8remains false even if the loaded checkpoint is quantized, and/healthreports that request-derived value.Read the effective checkpoint state before this branch. Skip
quantize_for an already-quantized checkpoint, select the appropriate loader, and setself.int8from the effective state. Add tests throughPolicyRunner; the current tests cover only argument parsing andFakeRunner.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The two vocabulary heads no action chunk reads are dropped, and a checkpoint is built in host memory so what reaches the GPU is what runs there. On the shipped Kinova checkpoint the server holds 8593 MiB where it held 10103.
An
int8knob invla_serving.yamlholds the language backbone and the vision tower at eight bits, taking that to 5375 MiB for 0.14s per 50-step chunk against 0.13s, both inside the real-time budget at 10 fps./healthreports which of the two is running. On the stacking objective eight bits has scored within noise of full width, over too few attempts per arm to resolve a small difference.torchao is imported on the int8 path rather than at module scope, so an image built before it was a dependency serves at the shipped
int8: falseand reports an error on/healthonly if int8 is turned on against it. Nothing here needs an image dropped by hand.The image's pip layer moves gigabytes of CUDA wheels. Its read timeout and retries are set on the install command, and a BuildKit cache mount keeps the downloaded wheels outside the image, so a version bump costs only the wheels that moved.
int8: falseand the full-width checkpoint are what ship here.Writing the quantized weights out as a checkpoint of their own is a separate change, on
vla-quantize-output, for review on its own terms. It buys a smaller download and a few seconds of load time and nothing at serve time, which is not obviously worth the format and loader machinery behind it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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