Introducing TacitVLA — the benefits of reasoning, without the latency! There is now conclusive evidence that #reasoning# supervision can improve the performance of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. More broadly, reasoning is a promising tool for building more capable and safer autonomy stacks. But generating a chain of thought token by token adds latency—a major bottleneck for real-time robotics and autonomous driving. TacitVLA introduces a training approach that captures the benefits of reasoning without requiring actions to wait for it. The key insight: reasoning traces improve the model’s backbone representations during training, allowing actions to benefit from this supervision without waiting for or conditioning on generated reasoning at inference time. For long-horizon tasks, reasoning traces can serve as episodic memory, generated asynchronously during action execution without adding latency when generation finishes within the execution window. 📈 Across four manipulation and autonomous-driving benchmarks, TacitVLA matches the performance of its explicit-reasoning counterpart at up to 3.4× lower latency and achieves up to 17.1 percentage points higher success than the same architecture trained without reasoning, at comparable latency. 🌐 Project page: 📄 Paper: This work was led by @Jacklu_me, in collaboration with @YurongYou @Boyiliee @yulong_c @tianran_ @ChaoweiX Xiangyu Chen, Wenjie Luo, @iamborisi @yan_wang_9 . @NVIDIAAI @NVIDIADRIVE @NVIDIARobotics #Robotics# #PhysicalAI# #EmbodiedAI# #Reasoning#

There is a classic tacit understanding in political economy: when conflicts cannot be resolved by cutting into existing vested interests, the best approach is to elevate the conflict into a kind of "sublime inevitability."

A first encounter is a pleasant surprise; a second reunion speaks of tacit understanding. From the first meeting to a lasting partnership, from running in to perfect harmony. Stay tuned on June 18th, #2026AdventuresonDragonBoatFestival#

Historians noted, the Druidess was nothing like Roman or Greek women, she was learned in the philosophy of nature and morality. Tacitus mentions female Druids in Wales called Banduri and in Ireland called Banfilid. art: 'Autumn Spirit' by Romany Soup