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Porting TurboVLA into LeRobot as a policy plugin #5

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@ravediamond

Hi guys,

First off nice work, the V+L→A framing (dropping the LLM backbone and using DINOv3 + BERT directly instead) is a super nice change from the usual "stack a bigger VLM" trend, especially with the RTX 4090 / <1GB VRAM numbers.

I contribute to LeRobot and I'm planning to port TurboVLA in as a lerobot_policy_turbovla plugin (LeRobot's out-of-tree policy mechanism — no core PR needed to use it, just a pip-installable package that auto-registers).

Wanted to open this to:

  • give a heads-up in case it's useful context on your end (adoption signal, or if anyone else is already doing something similar),
  • ask if there's a preferred way to reference/cite the released checkpoints (H-EmbodVis/TurboVLA on the Hub) once I re-publish a converted version in LeRobot's checkpoint format,
  • flag that the plugin will initially carry over the sim-only training scope (LIBERO / RoboTwin) as-is, and note that clearly rather than imply real-robot validation that isn't there.

Tracking issue on the LeRobot side, for anyone who wants the details: huggingface/lerobot#4400

No action needed from you, just didn't want to do this silently.
Happy to link back here once there's something runnable.

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