JoyNexus: Service-Oriented Multi-Tenant Post-Training for VLA Models
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster ComputingArtificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering
Summary
The authors developed JoyNexus, a system that lets multiple users share GPU and CPU resources efficiently when training and evaluating vision-language-action models for robots. Instead of giving each user exclusive resources, JoyNexus allows users to run their tasks at the same time while keeping their data and settings separate. This sharing reduces wasted computing time and costs compared to traditional single-user setups. The system also groups similar tasks for faster processing. Tests showed that JoyNexus uses less GPU time and improves overall resource use.
Authors
Haoran Sun, Wentao Zhang, Junyang Hua, Hedan Yang, Yongjian Guo, Yifei Zhang, Xiaolong Xiang, Mingxi Luo, Jing Long, Chen Zhao, Chen Zhou, Wanting Xu, Qiming Yang, Hui Zhang, Song Wang, Xiaodong Bai, Shuai Di, Xu Chu, Xiaotie Deng, Yicheng Gong, Junwu Xiong
Abstract
The post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is essential due to the diversity of simulators, robot embodiments, and task objectives. Existing compute services, whether offered as direct accelerator rental or batch-workload submission, typically allocate an exclusive set of GPU and CPU resources to a single tenant. While this paradigm maximizes client flexibility, it burdens users with infrastructure adaptation, and the fixed card-hour accounting model renders short or bursty workloads both expensive for tenants and inefficient for the service provider. To address these challenges, we present JoyNexus, a unified service for multi-tenant VLA supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and evaluation. JoyNexus decouples the Training Model Service, Inference Model Service, and Environment Service, each accessed through APIs and backed by resident shared base models with tenant-specific slots. Tenants can directly invoke high-level semantic APIs for training, rollout, and evaluation, or compose custom algorithms using lower-level APIs and their assigned endpoints. Multiple tenants submit workloads concurrently; their action modules, optimizers, rollout records, and policy versions remain isolated, and the service is scheduled by the global Training Queue and Inference Queue. To further improve multi-tenant training efficiency, JoyNexus introduces group batching for heterogeneous VLA data schemas that share a compatible model-facing prefix, enabling a single shared backbone forward pass over grouped samples. Finally, we evaluate JoyNexus through workload simulation and a group-batching pipeline in a realistic embodied scenario. Results show that, compared with isolated single-tenant execution, JoyNexus reduces aggregate GPU time and improves service utilization via cross-tenant scheduling on shared resources.