New paper benchmarks pi vs GR00T: how many demos do VLAs need to learn a task?

rahulshivchand · x · 2026-11-11

A new paper studies sample efficiency across vision-language-action models: with enough demos VLAs achieve high success rates, but how many demos and training steps does a new task actually take? The authors benchmark pi and GR00T to find out, with a detailed thread.

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