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mini-vla

a minimal, beginner-friendly VLA to show how robot policies can fuse images, text, and states to generate actions

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Learn how robots can combine images, text, and states to perform actions with a simple model.

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a minimal, beginner-friendly VLA to show how robot policies can fuse images, text, and states to generate actions

mini-vla has 358 stars on GitHub. It has been forked 52 times. mini-vla is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2025. mini-vla is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are ai, diffusion-models, imitation-learning, robotics.

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a minimal, beginner-friendly VLA to show how robot policies can fuse images, text, and states to generate actions

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