VLANeXt codebase release reveals recipes for building strong VLA models
ccloy · x · 2026-08-31
Released VLANeXt, a research-oriented codebase for robotics research, aiming to address the fragmentation in the Vision-Language-Action (VLA) field and uncover what makes these models strong.
Key Highlights:
- Experimental Basis: Insights from over 500 controlled experiments, forming the basis of an ICML paper.
- Design Exploration: Systematically explored the VLA design space starting from a simple RT-2/OpenVLA baseline to distill practical recipes.
- Extended Scope: The codebase covers emerging directions in robotics foundation models, including various VLA backbones, latent action learning, latent-space predictive modeling, and world-action modeling.
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