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TLDR

A personal research workspace that collects and configures several open source vision-language-action robotics models for simulation testing and comparison.

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    What it does
      Local VLA research archive
      Simulation based evaluation
      LIBERO benchmarks
    Tech stack
      Python
      PyTorch
      Conda
      uv
    Use cases
      Compare VLA models
      Benchmark on LIBERO
      Refine configs
    Audience
      Robotics researchers
      Model tuners

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Compare vision-language-action approaches like OpenVLA, OpenVLA-OFT, and OpenPI in simulation.

USE CASE 2

Fine-tune and evaluate VLA models on the LIBERO and LIBERO-Plus robotics benchmarks.

USE CASE 3

Reuse tested environment setup scripts as a starting point for your own VLA research.

What is it built with?

PythonPyTorchCondauv

How does it compare?

johnjaejunlee95/vla-finetuning-workspace0xhassaan/nn-from-scratch3ks/embedoc
Stars00
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Last pushed2023-06-08
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultyhardmoderatehard
Complexity5/54/51/5
Audienceresearcherdeveloperdeveloper

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1day+

Requires separate Conda or uv environments per subproject and likely a GPU for training.

In plain English

This repository is a personal workspace for research into vision-language-action (VLA) models, which are AI systems that let robots understand instructions and turn them into physical actions. The author does not have access to real robot hardware, so the project focuses on testing these models in simulation, particularly through a benchmark called LIBERO, along with a related benchmark called LIBERO-Plus that tests performance under more difficult conditions. Inside the repository are local copies of several existing open source projects: openpi (from Physical Intelligence, covering models called pi_0, pi_0-FAST, and pi_0.5), openvla (a codebase for training and evaluating VLA models), and openvla-oft (a version of OpenVLA built for more efficient fine-tuning). A copy of the ALOHA robot codebase is also included for reference, though the author has not yet tested it in their own setup. The stated goal is to compare these different approaches and refine their settings over time, so the configuration files and setup scripts included here should be seen as starting points rather than final answers. The author plans to update them as better settings are found. To use any of the included projects, you would move into its specific subfolder and follow the instructions in that project's own README or setup files, since each one has its own dependencies and is meant to be installed separately from the others. Setup scripts such as installation.sh are provided for some of the included codebases, and openpi uses a uv-based setup instead. This is best understood as a research archive rather than a polished tool. It was not built with a general audience or onboarding materials for newcomers in mind, but it collects a related family of robotics research code in one place for comparison. Questions about code from the original upstream projects should go to those projects directly, while questions about this specific archive or its local setup can be raised through this repository's own issue tracker.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Explain how OpenVLA, OpenVLA-OFT, and OpenPI differ based on this repository's structure.
Prompt 2
Walk me through setting up the openvla-oft subdirectory using its installation script.
Prompt 3
Summarize what the LIBERO and LIBERO-Plus benchmarks test for robot models.
Prompt 4
Help me adapt the Conda-based installation.sh in openvla-oft for my own environment.

Frequently asked questions

What is vla-finetuning-workspace?

A personal research workspace that collects and configures several open source vision-language-action robotics models for simulation testing and comparison.

What language is vla-finetuning-workspace written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, PyTorch, Conda.

How hard is vla-finetuning-workspace to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1day+ to a first successful run.

Who is vla-finetuning-workspace for?

Mainly researcher.

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