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π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control

A pretrained vision-language backbone is combined with flow-based action generation for diverse robot tasks.

Kevin Black et al.
2024-10 · Physical Intelligence · Research paper
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Compare continuous action generation with discrete action-token prediction.

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@misc{black2024vision,
  title = {π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control},
  author = {Kevin Black and Noah Brown and Danny Driess and Adnan Esmail and Michael Equi and Chelsea Finn and Niccolo Fusai and Lachy Groom and Karol Hausman and Brian Ichter and Szymon Jakubczak and Tim Jones and Liyiming Ke and Sergey Levine and Adrian Li-Bell and Mohith Mothukuri and Suraj Nair and Karl Pertsch and Lucy Xiaoyang Shi and James Tanner and Quan Vuong and Anna Walling and Haohuan Wang and Ury Zhilinsky},
  year = {2024},
  eprint = {2410.24164},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.LG},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24164}
}

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