NVIDIA GR00T N1.7 fine-tuned with just 50 demos beats pi0.5 by ~10% on VLA-Replica
YuXiang_IRVL · x · 2026-09-20
The VLA-Replica team evaluated NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7 VLA model after fine-tuning it with only 50 demos. It performed roughly on par with the top out-of-distribution model MolmoAct2 and about 10% better than pi0.5 on their benchmark. The leaderboard is live, with details in the linked post.
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