{
  "_comment": "Upstream paper results for SmolVLA (0.45B) on LIBERO benchmark. NOT locally reproduced \u2014 numbers sourced from arxiv:2506.01844 Table 2. Reproduction is achievable via lerobot-eval (see reproduction_cli below); deferred to a dedicated benchmark session due to ~8h GPU time per full run.",
  "schema_version": "0.1",
  "source": {
    "paper": "SmolVLA: A vision-language-action model for affordable and efficient robotics",
    "arxiv": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01844",
    "table": "Table 2 \u2014 Simulation benchmarks (LIBERO and Meta-World)",
    "model_variant": "SmolVLA (0.45B)",
    "evaluated_by": "upstream authors",
    "reproduced_locally": false,
    "reproduction_planned": "Deferred \u2014 use lerobot-eval CLI (see reproduction_cli). Requires ~8h GPU on A100-class hardware.",
    "reproduction_cli": {
      "description": "Re-run this benchmark inside the OpenRAL repo. openral benchmark run is the canonical producer of RSkillEvalResult JSONs with reproduced_locally=true.",
      "command": "openral benchmark run --suite libero_spatial --rskill smolvla-libero",
      "status": "in-tree (libero_spatial); libero_object / libero_goal / libero_10 catalogue YAMLs land in a follow-up",
      "notes": [
        "The 'results' block on this file is still the paper snapshot (reproduced_locally=false); re-running the command above and overwriting the file with its output flips that flag.",
        "libero_10 is the lerobot/upstream name for LIBERO-Long (what the SmolVLA paper calls 'Long').",
        "lerobot.envs.LiberoEnv auto-injects LiberoProcessorStep to remap LIBERO obs keys to observation.images.* / observation.state.*.",
        "No separate LIBERO gym install needed \u2014 lerobot bundles the adapter. Only lerobot + its sim extras required.",
        "For LIBERO-plus (robustness, ~10k variants): --env.type=libero_plus"
      ]
    }
  },
  "benchmark": {
    "name": "LIBERO",
    "dataset": "physical-intelligence/libero",
    "dataset_episodes": 1693,
    "protocol": "10 trials per task, binary success (task fully completed or not), multi-task training",
    "tasks_per_suite": 10,
    "suites": [
      "spatial",
      "object",
      "goal",
      "long"
    ],
    "total_tasks": 40,
    "robot": "Franka Panda (7-DOF)",
    "simulator": "LIBERO (MuJoCo-based)"
  },
  "eval_config": {
    "action_chunk_size": 50,
    "flow_matching_steps": 10,
    "image_size": [
      512,
      512
    ],
    "cameras": [
      "OBS_IMAGE_1",
      "OBS_IMAGE_2"
    ],
    "inference_mode": "synchronous",
    "vla_pretraining": false,
    "training_steps": 100000,
    "batch_size": 64
  },
  "results": {
    "libero_spatial": {
      "success_rate": 0.9,
      "n_tasks": 10,
      "n_trials_per_task": 10
    },
    "libero_object": {
      "success_rate": 0.96,
      "n_tasks": 10,
      "n_trials_per_task": 10
    },
    "libero_goal": {
      "success_rate": 0.92,
      "n_tasks": 10,
      "n_trials_per_task": 10
    },
    "libero_long": {
      "success_rate": 0.71,
      "n_tasks": 10,
      "n_trials_per_task": 10
    },
    "libero_avg": {
      "success_rate": 0.873,
      "note": "Average across all four LIBERO suites"
    }
  },
  "baselines": {
    "diffusion_policy": {
      "libero_spatial": 0.783,
      "libero_object": 0.925,
      "libero_goal": 0.683,
      "libero_long": 0.505,
      "avg": 0.724,
      "vla_pretraining": false
    },
    "octo_90M": {
      "libero_spatial": 0.789,
      "libero_object": 0.857,
      "libero_goal": 0.846,
      "libero_long": 0.511,
      "avg": 0.751,
      "vla_pretraining": true
    },
    "openvla_7b": {
      "libero_spatial": 0.847,
      "libero_object": 0.884,
      "libero_goal": 0.792,
      "libero_long": 0.537,
      "avg": 0.765,
      "vla_pretraining": true
    },
    "pi0_paligemma_3b": {
      "libero_spatial": 0.87,
      "libero_object": 0.63,
      "libero_goal": 0.89,
      "libero_long": 0.48,
      "avg": 0.718,
      "vla_pretraining": false
    },
    "pi0_3b_robotics_pretrained": {
      "libero_spatial": 0.9,
      "libero_object": 0.86,
      "libero_goal": 0.95,
      "libero_long": 0.73,
      "avg": 0.86,
      "vla_pretraining": true
    }
  }
}