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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Misc
+.git
+tmp
+wandb
+data
+outputs
+.vscode
+rl
+media
+
+
+# Logging
+logs
+
+# HPC
+nautilus/*.yaml
+*.key
+
+# Slurm
+sbatch*.sh
+
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+pip-wheel-metadata/
+share/python-wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+!tests/artifacts
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+*.py,cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+
+# Ignore .cache except calibration
+.cache/*
+!.cache/calibration/
+!.cache/calibration/**
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+db.sqlite3-journal
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+# pyenv
+.python-version
+
+# pipenv
+#   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
+#   However, in case of collaboration, if having platform-specific dependencies or dependencies
+#   having no cross-platform support, pipenv may install dependencies that don't work, or not
+#   install all needed dependencies.
+#Pipfile.lock
+
+# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow
+__pypackages__/
+
+# Celery stuff
+celerybeat-schedule
+celerybeat.pid
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+dmypy.json
+
+# Pyre type checker
+.pyre/

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+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug-report.yml

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: "\U0001F41B Bug Report"
+description: Submit a bug report to help us improve LeRobot
+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+        Thanks for taking the time to submit a bug report! 🐛
+        If this is not a bug related to the LeRobot library directly, but instead a general question about your code or the library specifically please use our [discord](https://discord.gg/s3KuuzsPFb).
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: system-info
+    attributes:
+      label: System Info
+      description: If needed, you can share your lerobot configuration with us by running `python -m lerobot.scripts.display_sys_info` and copy-pasting its outputs below
+      render: Shell
+      placeholder: lerobot version, OS, python version, numpy version, torch version, and lerobot's configuration
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: checkboxes
+    id: information-scripts-examples
+    attributes:
+      label: Information
+      description: 'The problem arises when using:'
+      options:
+        - label: "One of the scripts in the examples/ folder of LeRobot"
+        - label: "My own task or dataset (give details below)"
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: reproduction
+    validations:
+      required: true
+    attributes:
+      label: Reproduction
+      description: |
+        If needed, provide a simple code sample that reproduces the problem you ran into. It can be a Colab link or just a code snippet.
+        Sharing error messages or stack traces could be useful as well!
+        Important! Use code tags to correctly format your code. See https://help.github.com/en/github/writing-on-github/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks#syntax-highlighting
+        Try to avoid screenshots, as they are hard to read and don't allow copy-and-pasting.
+
+      placeholder: |
+        Steps to reproduce the behavior:
+
+          1.
+          2.
+          3.
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: expected-behavior
+    validations:
+      required: true
+    attributes:
+      label: Expected behavior
+      description: "A clear and concise description of what you would expect to happen."

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

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+## What this does
+Explain what this PR does. Feel free to tag your PR with the appropriate label(s).
+
+Examples:
+|  Title               | Label           |
+|----------------------|-----------------|
+| Fixes #[issue]       | (🐛 Bug)        |
+| Adds new dataset     | (🗃️ Dataset)    |
+| Optimizes something  | (⚡️ Performance) |
+
+## How it was tested
+Explain/show how you tested your changes.
+
+Examples:
+- Added `test_something` in `tests/test_stuff.py`.
+- Added `new_feature` and checked that training converges with policy X on dataset/environment Y.
+- Optimized `some_function`, it now runs X times faster than previously.
+
+## How to checkout & try? (for the reviewer)
+Provide a simple way for the reviewer to try out your changes.
+
+Examples:
+```bash
+pytest -sx tests/test_stuff.py::test_something
+```
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py --some.option=true
+```
+
+## SECTION TO REMOVE BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR PR
+**Note**: Anyone in the community is free to review the PR once the tests have passed. Feel free to tag
+members/contributors who may be interested in your PR. Try to avoid tagging more than 3 people.
+
+**Note**: Before submitting this PR, please read the [contributor guideline](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#submitting-a-pull-request-pr).

.github/workflows/build-docker-images.yml

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Inspired by
+# https://github.com/huggingface/peft/blob/main/.github/workflows/build_docker_images.yml
+name: Builds
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  workflow_call:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 1 * * *"
+
+permissions: {}
+
+env:
+  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.10"
+
+jobs:
+  latest-cpu:
+    name: CPU
+    runs-on:
+      group: aws-general-8-plus
+    steps:
+      - name: Install Git LFS
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install git-lfs
+          git lfs install
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@b5ca514318bd6ebac0fb2aedd5d36ec1b5c232a2 # v3.10.0
+        with:
+          cache-binary: false
+
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          lfs: true
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Login to DockerHub
+        uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+
+      - name: Build and Push CPU
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@ca052bb54ab0790a636c9b5f226502c73d547a25 # v5.4.0
+        with:
+          context: .
+          file: ./docker/lerobot-cpu/Dockerfile
+          push: true
+          tags: huggingface/lerobot-cpu
+          build-args: PYTHON_VERSION=${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
+
+
+  latest-cuda:
+    name: GPU
+    runs-on:
+      group: aws-general-8-plus
+    steps:
+      - name: Install Git LFS
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install git-lfs
+          git lfs install
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@b5ca514318bd6ebac0fb2aedd5d36ec1b5c232a2 # v3.10.0
+        with:
+          cache-binary: false
+
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          lfs: true
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Login to DockerHub
+        uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+
+      - name: Build and Push GPU
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@ca052bb54ab0790a636c9b5f226502c73d547a25 # v5.4.0
+        with:
+          context: .
+          file: ./docker/lerobot-gpu/Dockerfile
+          push: true
+          tags: huggingface/lerobot-gpu
+          build-args: PYTHON_VERSION=${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
+
+
+  latest-cuda-dev:
+    name: GPU Dev
+    runs-on:
+      group: aws-general-8-plus
+    steps:
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@b5ca514318bd6ebac0fb2aedd5d36ec1b5c232a2 # v3.10.0
+        with:
+          cache-binary: false
+
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Login to DockerHub
+        uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+
+      - name: Build and Push GPU dev
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@ca052bb54ab0790a636c9b5f226502c73d547a25 # v5.4.0
+        with:
+          context: .
+          file: ./docker/lerobot-gpu-dev/Dockerfile
+          push: true
+          tags: huggingface/lerobot-gpu:dev
+          build-args: PYTHON_VERSION=${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}

.github/workflows/build_documentation.yml

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+name: Build documentation
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - "docs/**"
+    branches:
+    - main
+    - doc-builder*
+    - v*-release
+
+
+jobs:
+  build:  # zizmor: ignore[excessive-permissions] We follow the same pattern as in Transformers
+    uses: huggingface/doc-builder/.github/workflows/build_main_documentation.yml@main
+    with:
+      commit_sha: ${{ github.sha }}
+      package: lerobot
+      additional_args: --not_python_module
+    secrets:
+      token: ${{ secrets.HUGGINGFACE_PUSH }}
+      hf_token: ${{ secrets.HF_DOC_BUILD_PUSH }}

.github/workflows/build_pr_documentation.yml

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+name: Build PR Documentation
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "docs/**"
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  build:  # zizmor: ignore[excessive-permissions] We follow the same pattern as in Transformers
+    uses: huggingface/doc-builder/.github/workflows/build_pr_documentation.yml@main
+    with:
+      commit_sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+      pr_number: ${{ github.event.number }}
+      package: lerobot
+      additional_args: --not_python_module

.github/workflows/nightly-tests.yml

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Inspired by
+# https://github.com/huggingface/peft/blob/main/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+name: Nightly
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 2 * * *"
+
+permissions: {}
+
+# env:
+  # SLACK_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_API_TOKEN }}
+jobs:
+  run_all_tests_cpu:
+    name: CPU
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+    runs-on:
+      group: aws-general-8-plus
+    container:
+      image: huggingface/lerobot-cpu:latest  # zizmor: ignore[unpinned-images]
+      options: --shm-size "16gb"
+      credentials:
+        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: /lerobot
+    steps:
+      - name: Tests
+        run: pytest -v --cov=./lerobot --disable-warnings tests
+
+      - name: Tests end-to-end
+        run: make test-end-to-end
+
+
+  run_all_tests_single_gpu:
+    name: GPU
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+    runs-on:
+      group: aws-g6-4xlarge-plus
+    env:
+      CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES: "0"
+      TEST_TYPE: "single_gpu"
+    container:
+      image: huggingface/lerobot-gpu:latest  # zizmor: ignore[unpinned-images]
+      options: --gpus all --shm-size "16gb"
+      credentials:
+        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: /lerobot
+    steps:
+      - name: Nvidia-smi
+        run: nvidia-smi
+
+      - name: Test
+        run: pytest -v --cov=./lerobot --cov-report=xml --disable-warnings tests
+      #   TODO(aliberts): Link with HF Codecov account
+      # - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov with GitHub Action
+      #   uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
+      #   with:
+      #     files: ./coverage.xml
+      #     verbose: true
+      - name: Tests end-to-end
+        env:
+          DEVICE: cuda
+        run: make test-end-to-end
+
+    #   - name: Generate Report
+    #     if: always()
+    #     run: |
+    #       pip install slack_sdk tabulate
+    #       python scripts/log_reports.py >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY

.github/workflows/quality.yml

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: Quality
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  workflow_call:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+permissions: {}
+
+env:
+  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.10"
+
+jobs:
+  style:
+    name: Style
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@7f4fc3e22c37d6ff65e88745f38bd3157c663f7c # v4.9.1
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
+
+      - name: Get Ruff Version from pre-commit-config.yaml
+        id: get-ruff-version
+        run: |
+          RUFF_VERSION=$(awk '/repo: https:\/\/github.com\/astral-sh\/ruff-pre-commit/{flag=1;next}/rev:/{if(flag){print $2;exit}}' .pre-commit-config.yaml)
+          echo "ruff_version=${RUFF_VERSION}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - name: Install Ruff
+        env:
+          RUFF_VERSION: ${{ steps.get-ruff-version.outputs.ruff_version }}
+        run: python -m pip install "ruff==${RUFF_VERSION}"
+
+      - name: Ruff check
+        run: ruff check --output-format=github
+
+      - name: Ruff format
+        run: ruff format --diff
+
+  typos:
+    name: Typos
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: typos-action
+        uses: crate-ci/typos@db35ee91e80fbb447f33b0e5fbddb24d2a1a884f # v1.29.10

.github/workflows/test-docker-build.yml

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Inspired by
+# https://github.com/huggingface/peft/blob/main/.github/workflows/test-docker-build.yml
+name: Test Dockerfiles
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      # Run only when DockerFile files are modified
+      - "docker/**"
+
+permissions: {}
+
+env:
+  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.10"
+
+jobs:
+  get_changed_files:
+    name: Detect modified Dockerfiles
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.matrix }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Get changed files
+        id: changed-files
+        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@3f54ebb830831fc121d3263c1857cfbdc310cdb9 #v42
+        with:
+          files: docker/**
+          json: "true"
+
+      - name: Run step if only the files listed above change  # zizmor: ignore[template-injection]
+        if: steps.changed-files.outputs.any_changed == 'true'
+        id: set-matrix
+        run: |
+          echo "matrix=${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.all_changed_files}}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+  build_modified_dockerfiles:
+    name: Build modified Docker images
+    needs: get_changed_files
+    runs-on:
+      group: aws-general-8-plus
+    if: needs.get_changed_files.outputs.matrix != ''
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        docker-file: ${{ fromJson(needs.get_changed_files.outputs.matrix) }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@b5ca514318bd6ebac0fb2aedd5d36ec1b5c232a2 # v3.10.0
+        with:
+          cache-binary: false
+
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Build Docker image
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@ca052bb54ab0790a636c9b5f226502c73d547a25 # v5.4.0
+        with:
+          file: ${{ matrix.docker-file }}
+          context: .
+          push: False
+          build-args: PYTHON_VERSION=${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}

.github/workflows/test.yml

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: Tests
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "lerobot/**"
+      - "tests/**"
+      - "examples/**"
+      - ".github/**"
+      - "pyproject.toml"
+      - ".pre-commit-config.yaml"
+      - "Makefile"
+      - ".cache/**"
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths:
+      - "lerobot/**"
+      - "tests/**"
+      - "examples/**"
+      - ".github/**"
+      - "pyproject.toml"
+      - ".pre-commit-config.yaml"
+      - "Makefile"
+      - ".cache/**"
+
+permissions: {}
+
+env:
+  UV_VERSION: "0.6.0"
+
+jobs:
+  pytest:
+    name: Pytest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      MUJOCO_GL: egl
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          lfs: true  # Ensure LFS files are pulled
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Install apt dependencies
+      # portaudio19-dev is needed to install pyaudio
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update && \
+          sudo apt-get install -y libegl1-mesa-dev ffmpeg portaudio19-dev
+
+      - name: Install uv and python
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@d4b2f3b6ecc6e67c4457f6d3e41ec42d3d0fcb86 # v5.4.2
+        with:
+          enable-cache: true
+          version: ${{ env.UV_VERSION }}
+          python-version: "3.10"
+
+      - name: Install lerobot (all extras)
+        run: uv sync --all-extras
+
+      - name: Test with pytest
+        run: |
+          uv run pytest tests -v --cov=./lerobot --durations=0 \
+            -W ignore::DeprecationWarning:imageio_ffmpeg._utils:7 \
+            -W ignore::UserWarning:torch.utils.data.dataloader:558 \
+            -W ignore::UserWarning:gymnasium.utils.env_checker:247 \
+            && rm -rf tests/outputs outputs
+
+  pytest-minimal:
+    name: Pytest (minimal install)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      MUJOCO_GL: egl
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          lfs: true  # Ensure LFS files are pulled
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Install apt dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y ffmpeg
+
+      - name: Install uv and python
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@d4b2f3b6ecc6e67c4457f6d3e41ec42d3d0fcb86 # v5.4.2
+        with:
+          enable-cache: true
+          version: ${{ env.UV_VERSION }}
+          python-version: "3.10"
+
+      - name: Install lerobot
+        run: uv sync --extra "test"
+
+      - name: Test with pytest
+        run: |
+          uv run pytest tests -v --cov=./lerobot --durations=0 \
+            -W ignore::DeprecationWarning:imageio_ffmpeg._utils:7 \
+            -W ignore::UserWarning:torch.utils.data.dataloader:558 \
+            -W ignore::UserWarning:gymnasium.utils.env_checker:247 \
+            && rm -rf tests/outputs outputs
+
+  end-to-end:
+    name: End-to-end
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      MUJOCO_GL: egl
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          lfs: true  # Ensure LFS files are pulled
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Install apt dependencies
+      # portaudio19-dev is needed to install pyaudio
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update && \
+          sudo apt-get install -y libegl1-mesa-dev ffmpeg portaudio19-dev
+
+      - name: Install uv and python
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@d4b2f3b6ecc6e67c4457f6d3e41ec42d3d0fcb86 # v5.4.2
+        with:
+          enable-cache: true
+          version: ${{ env.UV_VERSION }}
+          python-version: "3.10"
+
+      - name: Install lerobot (all extras)
+        run: |
+          uv venv
+          uv sync --all-extras
+
+      - name: venv
+        run: |
+          echo "PYTHON_PATH=${{ github.workspace }}/.venv/bin/python" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Test end-to-end
+        run: |
+          make test-end-to-end \
+            && rm -rf outputs

.github/workflows/trufflehog.yml

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+on:
+  push:
+
+name: Secret Leaks
+
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  trufflehog:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout code
+      uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
+        persist-credentials: false
+
+    - name: Secret Scanning
+      uses: trufflesecurity/trufflehog@90694bf9af66e7536abc5824e7a87246dbf933cb # v3.88.35
+      with:
+        extra_args: --only-verified

.github/workflows/upload_pr_documentation.yml

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+name: Upload PR Documentation
+
+on: # zizmor: ignore[dangerous-triggers] We follow the same pattern as in Transformers
+  workflow_run:
+    workflows: [ "Build PR Documentation" ]
+    types:
+    - completed
+
+jobs:
+  build:  # zizmor: ignore[excessive-permissions] We follow the same pattern as in Transformers
+    uses: huggingface/doc-builder/.github/workflows/upload_pr_documentation.yml@main
+    with:
+      package_name: lerobot
+    secrets:
+      hf_token: ${{ secrets.HF_DOC_BUILD_PUSH }}
+      comment_bot_token: ${{ secrets.COMMENT_BOT_TOKEN }}

.gitignore

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Dev scripts
+.dev
+
+# Logging
+logs
+tmp
+wandb
+
+# Data
+data
+outputs
+
+# Apple
+.DS_Store
+
+# VS Code
+.vscode
+.devcontainer
+
+# HPC
+nautilus/*.yaml
+*.key
+
+# Slurm
+sbatch*.sh
+
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+pip-wheel-metadata/
+share/python-wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+# uv/poetry lock files
+poetry.lock
+uv.lock
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+!tests/artifacts
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+*.py,cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+
+# Ignore .cache
+.cache/*
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+db.sqlite3-journal
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+.pybuilder/
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+# pyenv
+.python-version
+
+# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow
+__pypackages__/
+
+# Celery stuff
+celerybeat-schedule
+celerybeat.pid
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+dmypy.json
+
+# Pyre type checker
+.pyre/
+
+# pytype static type analyzer
+.pytype/
+
+# Cython debug symbols
+cython_debug/

.pre-commit-config.yaml

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+exclude: "tests/artifacts/.*\\.safetensors$"
+default_language_version:
+    python: python3.10
+repos:
+  ##### Meta #####
+  - repo: meta
+    hooks:
+      - id: check-useless-excludes
+      - id: check-hooks-apply
+
+
+  ##### Style / Misc. #####
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v5.0.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: check-added-large-files
+      - id: debug-statements
+      - id: check-merge-conflict
+      - id: check-case-conflict
+      - id: check-yaml
+      - id: check-toml
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/adhtruong/mirrors-typos
+    rev: v1.33.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: typos
+        args: [--force-exclude]
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
+    rev: v3.20.0
+    hooks:
+    -   id: pyupgrade
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
+    rev: v0.11.13
+    hooks:
+      - id: ruff
+        args: [--fix]
+      - id: ruff-format
+
+
+  ##### Security #####
+  - repo: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks
+    rev: v8.27.2
+    hooks:
+      - id: gitleaks
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/woodruffw/zizmor-pre-commit
+    rev: v1.9.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: zizmor
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit
+    rev: 1.8.3
+    hooks:
+    - id: bandit
+      args: ["-c", "pyproject.toml"]
+      additional_dependencies: ["bandit[toml]"]

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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+
+# Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
+
+## Our Pledge
+
+We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our
+community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
+size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender
+identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status,
+nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual
+identity and orientation.
+
+We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming,
+diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
+
+## Our Standards
+
+Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our
+community include:
+
+* Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
+* Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
+* Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
+* Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes,
+  and learning from the experience
+* Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall
+  community
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior include:
+
+* The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of
+  any kind
+* Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
+* Public or private harassment
+* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or email address,
+  without their explicit permission
+* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
+  professional setting
+
+## Enforcement Responsibilities
+
+Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of
+acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in
+response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive,
+or harmful.
+
+Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject
+comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are
+not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation
+decisions when appropriate.
+
+## Scope
+
+This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when
+an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces.
+Examples of representing our community include using an official email address,
+posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed
+representative at an online or offline event.
+
+## Enforcement
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be
+reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at
+[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
+All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.
+
+All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the
+reporter of any incident.
+
+## Enforcement Guidelines
+
+Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining
+the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:
+
+### 1. Correction
+
+**Community Impact**: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed
+unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.
+
+**Consequence**: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing
+clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the
+behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.
+
+### 2. Warning
+
+**Community Impact**: A violation through a single incident or series of
+actions.
+
+**Consequence**: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No
+interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with
+those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This
+includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels
+like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent
+ban.
+
+### 3. Temporary Ban
+
+**Community Impact**: A serious violation of community standards, including
+sustained inappropriate behavior.
+
+**Consequence**: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public
+communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or
+private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction
+with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period.
+Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.
+
+### 4. Permanent Ban
+
+**Community Impact**: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community
+standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an
+individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.
+
+**Consequence**: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the
+community.
+
+## Attribution
+
+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage],
+version 2.1, available at
+[https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html][v2.1].
+
+Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by
+[Mozilla's code of conduct enforcement ladder][Mozilla CoC].
+
+For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see the FAQ at
+[https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq][FAQ]. Translations are available at
+[https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations][translations].
+
+[homepage]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org
+[v2.1]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html
+[Mozilla CoC]: https://github.com/mozilla/diversity
+[FAQ]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq
+[translations]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# How to contribute to 🤗 LeRobot?
+
+Everyone is welcome to contribute, and we value everybody's contribution. Code
+is thus not the only way to help the community. Answering questions, helping
+others, reaching out and improving the documentations are immensely valuable to
+the community.
+
+It also helps us if you spread the word: reference the library from blog posts
+on the awesome projects it made possible, shout out on Twitter when it has
+helped you, or simply ⭐️ the repo to say "thank you".
+
+Whichever way you choose to contribute, please be mindful to respect our
+[code of conduct](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
+
+## You can contribute in so many ways!
+
+Some of the ways you can contribute to 🤗 LeRobot:
+* Fixing outstanding issues with the existing code.
+* Implementing new models, datasets or simulation environments.
+* Contributing to the examples or to the documentation.
+* Submitting issues related to bugs or desired new features.
+
+Following the guides below, feel free to open issues and PRs and to coordinate your efforts with the community on our [Discord Channel](https://discord.gg/VjFz58wn3R). For specific inquiries, reach out to [Remi Cadene](mailto:[email protected]).
+
+If you are not sure how to contribute or want to know the next features we working on, look on this project page: [LeRobot TODO](https://github.com/orgs/huggingface/projects/46)
+
+## Submitting a new issue or feature request
+
+Do your best to follow these guidelines when submitting an issue or a feature
+request. It will make it easier for us to come back to you quickly and with good
+feedback.
+
+### Did you find a bug?
+
+The 🤗 LeRobot library is robust and reliable thanks to the users who notify us of
+the problems they encounter. So thank you for reporting an issue.
+
+First, we would really appreciate it if you could **make sure the bug was not
+already reported** (use the search bar on Github under Issues).
+
+Did not find it? :( So we can act quickly on it, please follow these steps:
+
+* Include your **OS type and version**, the versions of **Python** and **PyTorch**.
+* A short, self-contained, code snippet that allows us to reproduce the bug in
+  less than 30s.
+* The full traceback if an exception is raised.
+* Attach any other additional information, like screenshots, you think may help.
+
+### Do you want a new feature?
+
+A good feature request addresses the following points:
+
+1. Motivation first:
+* Is it related to a problem/frustration with the library? If so, please explain
+  why. Providing a code snippet that demonstrates the problem is best.
+* Is it related to something you would need for a project? We'd love to hear
+  about it!
+* Is it something you worked on and think could benefit the community?
+  Awesome! Tell us what problem it solved for you.
+2. Write a *paragraph* describing the feature.
+3. Provide a **code snippet** that demonstrates its future use.
+4. In case this is related to a paper, please attach a link.
+5. Attach any additional information (drawings, screenshots, etc.) you think may help.
+
+If your issue is well written we're already 80% of the way there by the time you
+post it.
+
+## Adding new policies, datasets or environments
+
+Look at our implementations for [datasets](./lerobot/common/datasets/), [policies](./lerobot/common/policies/),
+environments ([aloha](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-aloha),
+[xarm](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-xarm),
+[pusht](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-pusht))
+and follow the same api design.
+
+When implementing a new dataset loadable with LeRobotDataset follow these steps:
+- Update `available_datasets_per_env` in `lerobot/__init__.py`
+
+When implementing a new environment (e.g. `gym_aloha`), follow these steps:
+- Update `available_tasks_per_env` and `available_datasets_per_env` in `lerobot/__init__.py`
+
+When implementing a new policy class (e.g. `DiffusionPolicy`) follow these steps:
+- Update `available_policies` and `available_policies_per_env`, in `lerobot/__init__.py`
+- Set the required `name` class attribute.
+- Update variables in `tests/test_available.py` by importing your new Policy class
+
+## Submitting a pull request (PR)
+
+Before writing code, we strongly advise you to search through the existing PRs or
+issues to make sure that nobody is already working on the same thing. If you are
+unsure, it is always a good idea to open an issue to get some feedback.
+
+You will need basic `git` proficiency to be able to contribute to
+🤗 LeRobot. `git` is not the easiest tool to use but it has the greatest
+manual. Type `git --help` in a shell and enjoy. If you prefer books, [Pro
+Git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) is a very good reference.
+
+Follow these steps to start contributing:
+
+1. Fork the [repository](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot) by
+   clicking on the 'Fork' button on the repository's page. This creates a copy of the code
+   under your GitHub user account.
+
+2. Clone your fork to your local disk, and add the base repository as a remote. The following command
+   assumes you have your public SSH key uploaded to GitHub. See the following guide for more
+   [information](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/cloning-a-repository).
+
+   ```bash
+   git clone [email protected]:<your Github handle>/lerobot.git
+   cd lerobot
+   git remote add upstream https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot.git
+   ```
+
+3. Create a new branch to hold your development changes, and do this for every new PR you work on.
+
+   Start by synchronizing your `main` branch with the `upstream/main` branch (more details in the [GitHub Docs](https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/syncing-a-fork)):
+
+   ```bash
+   git checkout main
+   git fetch upstream
+   git rebase upstream/main
+   ```
+
+   Once your `main` branch is synchronized, create a new branch from it:
+
+   ```bash
+   git checkout -b a-descriptive-name-for-my-changes
+   ```
+
+   🚨 **Do not** work on the `main` branch.
+
+4. for development, we advise to use a tool like `poetry` or `uv` instead of just `pip` to easily track our dependencies.
+   Follow the instructions to [install poetry](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation) (use a version >=2.1.0) or to [install uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/#installation-methods) if you don't have one of them already.
+
+   Set up a development environment with conda or miniconda:
+   ```bash
+   conda create -y -n lerobot-dev python=3.10 && conda activate lerobot-dev
+   ```
+
+   If you're using `uv`, it can manage python versions so you can instead do:
+   ```bash
+   uv venv --python 3.10 && source .venv/bin/activate
+   ```
+
+   To develop on 🤗 LeRobot, you will at least need to install the `dev` and `test` extras dependencies along with the core library:
+
+   using `poetry`
+   ```bash
+   poetry sync --extras "dev test"
+   ```
+
+   using `uv`
+   ```bash
+   uv sync --extra dev --extra test
+   ```
+
+   You can also install the project with all its dependencies (including environments):
+
+   using `poetry`
+   ```bash
+   poetry sync --all-extras
+   ```
+
+   using `uv`
+   ```bash
+   uv sync --all-extras
+   ```
+
+   > **Note:** If you don't install simulation environments with `--all-extras`, the tests that require them will be skipped when running the pytest suite locally. However, they *will* be tested in the CI. In general, we advise you to install everything and test locally before pushing.
+
+   Whichever command you chose to install the project (e.g. `poetry sync --all-extras`), you should run it again when pulling code with an updated version of `pyproject.toml` and `poetry.lock` in order to synchronize your virtual environment with the new dependencies.
+
+   The equivalent of `pip install some-package`, would just be:
+
+   using `poetry`
+   ```bash
+   poetry add some-package
+   ```
+
+   using `uv`
+   ```bash
+   uv add some-package
+   ```
+
+   When making changes to the poetry sections of the `pyproject.toml`, you should run the following command to lock dependencies.
+   using `poetry`
+   ```bash
+   poetry lock
+   ```
+
+   using `uv`
+   ```bash
+   uv lock
+   ```
+
+
+5. Develop the features on your branch.
+
+   As you work on the features, you should make sure that the test suite
+   passes. You should run the tests impacted by your changes like this (see
+   below an explanation regarding the environment variable):
+
+   ```bash
+   pytest tests/<TEST_TO_RUN>.py
+   ```
+
+6. Follow our style.
+
+   `lerobot` relies on `ruff` to format its source code
+   consistently. Set up [`pre-commit`](https://pre-commit.com/) to run these checks
+   automatically as Git commit hooks.
+
+   Install `pre-commit` hooks:
+   ```bash
+   pre-commit install
+   ```
+
+   You can run these hooks whenever you need on staged files with:
+   ```bash
+   pre-commit
+   ```
+
+   Once you're happy with your changes, add changed files using `git add` and
+   make a commit with `git commit` to record your changes locally:
+
+   ```bash
+   git add modified_file.py
+   git commit
+   ```
+
+   Note, if you already committed some changes that have a wrong formatting, you can use:
+   ```bash
+   pre-commit run --all-files
+   ```
+
+   Please write [good commit messages](https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/).
+
+   It is a good idea to sync your copy of the code with the original
+   repository regularly. This way you can quickly account for changes:
+
+   ```bash
+   git fetch upstream
+   git rebase upstream/main
+   ```
+
+   Push the changes to your account using:
+
+   ```bash
+   git push -u origin a-descriptive-name-for-my-changes
+   ```
+
+6. Once you are satisfied (**and the checklist below is happy too**), go to the
+   webpage of your fork on GitHub. Click on 'Pull request' to send your changes
+   to the project maintainers for review.
+
+7. It's ok if maintainers ask you for changes. It happens to core contributors
+   too! So everyone can see the changes in the Pull request, work in your local
+   branch and push the changes to your fork. They will automatically appear in
+   the pull request.
+
+
+### Checklist
+
+1. The title of your pull request should be a summary of its contribution;
+2. If your pull request addresses an issue, please mention the issue number in
+   the pull request description to make sure they are linked (and people
+   consulting the issue know you are working on it);
+3. To indicate a work in progress please prefix the title with `[WIP]`, or preferably mark
+   the PR as a draft PR. These are useful to avoid duplicated work, and to differentiate
+   it from PRs ready to be merged;
+4. Make sure existing tests pass;
+
+### Tests
+
+An extensive test suite is included to test the library behavior and several examples. Library tests can be found in the [tests folder](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/tree/main/tests).
+
+Install [git lfs](https://git-lfs.com/) to retrieve test artifacts (if you don't have it already).
+
+On Mac:
+```bash
+brew install git-lfs
+git lfs install
+```
+
+On Ubuntu:
+```bash
+sudo apt-get install git-lfs
+git lfs install
+```
+
+Pull artifacts if they're not in [tests/artifacts](tests/artifacts)
+```bash
+git lfs pull
+```
+
+We use `pytest` in order to run the tests. From the root of the
+repository, here's how to run tests with `pytest` for the library:
+
+```bash
+python -m pytest -sv ./tests
+```
+
+
+You can specify a smaller set of tests in order to test only the feature
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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+.PHONY: tests
+
+PYTHON_PATH := $(shell which python)
+
+# If uv is installed and a virtual environment exists, use it
+UV_CHECK := $(shell command -v uv)
+ifneq ($(UV_CHECK),)
+	PYTHON_PATH := $(shell .venv/bin/python)
+endif
+
+export PATH := $(dir $(PYTHON_PATH)):$(PATH)
+
+DEVICE ?= cpu
+
+build-cpu:
+	docker build -t lerobot:latest -f docker/lerobot-cpu/Dockerfile .
+
+build-gpu:
+	docker build -t lerobot:latest -f docker/lerobot-gpu/Dockerfile .
+
+test-end-to-end:
+	${MAKE} DEVICE=$(DEVICE) test-act-ete-train
+	${MAKE} DEVICE=$(DEVICE) test-act-ete-train-resume
+	${MAKE} DEVICE=$(DEVICE) test-act-ete-eval
+	${MAKE} DEVICE=$(DEVICE) test-diffusion-ete-train
+	${MAKE} DEVICE=$(DEVICE) test-diffusion-ete-eval
+	${MAKE} DEVICE=$(DEVICE) test-tdmpc-ete-train
+	${MAKE} DEVICE=$(DEVICE) test-tdmpc-ete-eval
+
+test-act-ete-train:
+	python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+		--policy.type=act \
+		--policy.dim_model=64 \
+		--policy.n_action_steps=20 \
+		--policy.chunk_size=20 \
+		--policy.device=$(DEVICE) \
+		--env.type=aloha \
+		--env.episode_length=5 \
+		--dataset.repo_id=lerobot/aloha_sim_transfer_cube_human \
+		--dataset.image_transforms.enable=true \
+		--dataset.episodes="[0]" \
+		--batch_size=2 \
+		--steps=4 \
+		--eval_freq=2 \
+		--eval.n_episodes=1 \
+		--eval.batch_size=1 \
+		--save_freq=2 \
+		--save_checkpoint=true \
+		--log_freq=1 \
+		--wandb.enable=false \
+		--output_dir=tests/outputs/act/
+
+test-act-ete-train-resume:
+	python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+		--config_path=tests/outputs/act/checkpoints/000002/pretrained_model/train_config.json \
+		--resume=true
+
+test-act-ete-eval:
+	python lerobot/scripts/eval.py \
+		--policy.path=tests/outputs/act/checkpoints/000004/pretrained_model \
+		--policy.device=$(DEVICE) \
+		--env.type=aloha \
+		--env.episode_length=5 \
+		--eval.n_episodes=1 \
+		--eval.batch_size=1
+
+test-diffusion-ete-train:
+	python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+		--policy.type=diffusion \
+		--policy.down_dims='[64,128,256]' \
+		--policy.diffusion_step_embed_dim=32 \
+		--policy.num_inference_steps=10 \
+		--policy.device=$(DEVICE) \
+		--env.type=pusht \
+		--env.episode_length=5 \
+		--dataset.repo_id=lerobot/pusht \
+		--dataset.image_transforms.enable=true \
+		--dataset.episodes="[0]" \
+		--batch_size=2 \
+		--steps=2 \
+		--eval_freq=2 \
+		--eval.n_episodes=1 \
+		--eval.batch_size=1 \
+		--save_checkpoint=true \
+		--save_freq=2 \
+		--log_freq=1 \
+		--wandb.enable=false \
+		--output_dir=tests/outputs/diffusion/
+
+test-diffusion-ete-eval:
+	python lerobot/scripts/eval.py \
+		--policy.path=tests/outputs/diffusion/checkpoints/000002/pretrained_model \
+		--policy.device=$(DEVICE) \
+		--env.type=pusht \
+		--env.episode_length=5 \
+		--eval.n_episodes=1 \
+		--eval.batch_size=1
+
+test-tdmpc-ete-train:
+	python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+		--policy.type=tdmpc \
+		--policy.device=$(DEVICE) \
+		--env.type=xarm \
+		--env.task=XarmLift-v0 \
+		--env.episode_length=5 \
+		--dataset.repo_id=lerobot/xarm_lift_medium \
+		--dataset.image_transforms.enable=true \
+		--dataset.episodes="[0]" \
+		--batch_size=2 \
+		--steps=2 \
+		--eval_freq=2 \
+		--eval.n_episodes=1 \
+		--eval.batch_size=1 \
+		--save_checkpoint=true \
+		--save_freq=2 \
+		--log_freq=1 \
+		--wandb.enable=false \
+		--output_dir=tests/outputs/tdmpc/
+
+test-tdmpc-ete-eval:
+	python lerobot/scripts/eval.py \
+		--policy.path=tests/outputs/tdmpc/checkpoints/000002/pretrained_model \
+		--policy.device=$(DEVICE) \
+		--env.type=xarm \
+		--env.episode_length=5 \
+		--env.task=XarmLift-v0 \
+		--eval.n_episodes=1 \
+		--eval.batch_size=1

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+<p align="center">
+  <picture>
+    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="media/lerobot-logo-thumbnail.png">
+    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="media/lerobot-logo-thumbnail.png">
+    <img alt="LeRobot, Hugging Face Robotics Library" src="media/lerobot-logo-thumbnail.png" style="max-width: 100%;">
+  </picture>
+  <br/>
+  <br/>
+</p>
+
+<div align="center">
+
+[![Tests](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/actions/workflows/nightly-tests.yml/badge.svg?branch=main)](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/actions/workflows/nightly-tests.yml?query=branch%3Amain)
+[![Coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/huggingface/lerobot/branch/main/graph/badge.svg?token=TODO)](https://codecov.io/gh/huggingface/lerobot)
+[![Python versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/lerobot)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/LICENSE)
+[![Status](https://img.shields.io/pypi/status/lerobot)](https://pypi.org/project/lerobot/)
+[![Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/lerobot)](https://pypi.org/project/lerobot/)
+[![Examples](https://img.shields.io/badge/Examples-green.svg)](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/tree/main/examples)
+[![Contributor Covenant](https://img.shields.io/badge/Contributor%20Covenant-v2.1%20adopted-ff69b4.svg)](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
+[![Discord](https://dcbadge.vercel.app/api/server/C5P34WJ68S?style=flat)](https://discord.gg/s3KuuzsPFb)
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 align="center">
+    <p><a href="https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/so101">
+        Build Your Own SO-101 Robot!</a></p>
+</h2>
+
+<div align="center">
+  <div style="display: flex; gap: 1rem; justify-content: center; align-items: center;" >
+    <img
+      src="media/so101/so101.webp?raw=true"
+      alt="SO-101 follower arm"
+      title="SO-101 follower arm"
+      style="width: 40%;"
+    />
+    <img
+      src="media/so101/so101-leader.webp?raw=true"
+      alt="SO-101 leader arm"
+      title="SO-101 leader arm"
+      style="width: 40%;"
+    />
+  </div>
+
+
+  <p><strong>Meet the updated SO100, the SO-101 – Just €114 per arm!</strong></p>
+  <p>Train it in minutes with a few simple moves on your laptop.</p>
+  <p>Then sit back and watch your creation act autonomously! 🤯</p>
+
+  <p><a href="https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/so101">
+      See the full SO-101 tutorial here.</a></p>
+
+  <p>Want to take it to the next level? Make your SO-101 mobile by building LeKiwi!</p>
+  <p>Check out the <a href="https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/lekiwi">LeKiwi tutorial</a> and bring your robot to life on wheels.</p>
+
+  <img src="media/lekiwi/kiwi.webp?raw=true" alt="LeKiwi mobile robot" title="LeKiwi mobile robot" width="50%">
+</div>
+
+<br/>
+
+<h3 align="center">
+    <p>LeRobot: State-of-the-art AI for real-world robotics</p>
+</h3>
+
+---
+
+🤗 LeRobot aims to provide models, datasets, and tools for real-world robotics in PyTorch. The goal is to lower the barrier to entry to robotics so that everyone can contribute and benefit from sharing datasets and pretrained models.
+
+🤗 LeRobot contains state-of-the-art approaches that have been shown to transfer to the real-world with a focus on imitation learning and reinforcement learning.
+
+🤗 LeRobot already provides a set of pretrained models, datasets with human collected demonstrations, and simulation environments to get started without assembling a robot. In the coming weeks, the plan is to add more and more support for real-world robotics on the most affordable and capable robots out there.
+
+🤗 LeRobot hosts pretrained models and datasets on this Hugging Face community page: [huggingface.co/lerobot](https://huggingface.co/lerobot)
+
+#### Examples of pretrained models on simulation environments
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td><img src="media/gym/aloha_act.gif" width="100%" alt="ACT policy on ALOHA env"/></td>
+    <td><img src="media/gym/simxarm_tdmpc.gif" width="100%" alt="TDMPC policy on SimXArm env"/></td>
+    <td><img src="media/gym/pusht_diffusion.gif" width="100%" alt="Diffusion policy on PushT env"/></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td align="center">ACT policy on ALOHA env</td>
+    <td align="center">TDMPC policy on SimXArm env</td>
+    <td align="center">Diffusion policy on PushT env</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+### Acknowledgment
+
+- The LeRobot team 🤗 for building SmolVLA [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01844), [Blog](https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvla).
+- Thanks to Tony Zhao, Zipeng Fu and colleagues for open sourcing ACT policy, ALOHA environments and datasets. Ours are adapted from [ALOHA](https://tonyzhaozh.github.io/aloha) and [Mobile ALOHA](https://mobile-aloha.github.io).
+- Thanks to Cheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu and colleagues for open sourcing Diffusion policy, Pusht environment and datasets, as well as UMI datasets. Ours are adapted from [Diffusion Policy](https://diffusion-policy.cs.columbia.edu) and [UMI Gripper](https://umi-gripper.github.io).
+- Thanks to Nicklas Hansen, Yunhai Feng and colleagues for open sourcing TDMPC policy, Simxarm environments and datasets. Ours are adapted from [TDMPC](https://github.com/nicklashansen/tdmpc) and [FOWM](https://www.yunhaifeng.com/FOWM).
+- Thanks to Antonio Loquercio and Ashish Kumar for their early support.
+- Thanks to [Seungjae (Jay) Lee](https://sjlee.cc/), [Mahi Shafiullah](https://mahis.life/) and colleagues for open sourcing [VQ-BeT](https://sjlee.cc/vq-bet/) policy and helping us adapt the codebase to our repository. The policy is adapted from [VQ-BeT repo](https://github.com/jayLEE0301/vq_bet_official).
+
+
+## Installation
+
+Download our source code:
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot.git
+cd lerobot
+```
+
+Create a virtual environment with Python 3.10 and activate it, e.g. with [`miniconda`](https://docs.anaconda.com/free/miniconda/index.html):
+```bash
+conda create -y -n lerobot python=3.10
+conda activate lerobot
+```
+
+When using `miniconda`, install `ffmpeg` in your environment:
+```bash
+conda install ffmpeg -c conda-forge
+```
+
+> **NOTE:** This usually installs `ffmpeg 7.X` for your platform compiled with the `libsvtav1` encoder. If `libsvtav1` is not supported (check supported encoders with `ffmpeg -encoders`), you can:
+>  - _[On any platform]_ Explicitly install `ffmpeg 7.X` using:
+>  ```bash
+>  conda install ffmpeg=7.1.1 -c conda-forge
+>  ```
+>  - _[On Linux only]_ Install [ffmpeg build dependencies](https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu#GettheDependencies) and [compile ffmpeg from source with libsvtav1](https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu#libsvtav1), and make sure you use the corresponding ffmpeg binary to your install with `which ffmpeg`.
+
+Install 🤗 LeRobot:
+```bash
+pip install -e .
+```
+
+> **NOTE:** If you encounter build errors, you may need to install additional dependencies (`cmake`, `build-essential`, and `ffmpeg libs`). On Linux, run:
+`sudo apt-get install cmake build-essential python3-dev pkg-config libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libswresample-dev libavfilter-dev pkg-config`. For other systems, see: [Compiling PyAV](https://pyav.org/docs/develop/overview/installation.html#bring-your-own-ffmpeg)
+
+For simulations, 🤗 LeRobot comes with gymnasium environments that can be installed as extras:
+- [aloha](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-aloha)
+- [xarm](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-xarm)
+- [pusht](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-pusht)
+
+For instance, to install 🤗 LeRobot with aloha and pusht, use:
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[aloha, pusht]"
+```
+
+To use [Weights and Biases](https://docs.wandb.ai/quickstart) for experiment tracking, log in with
+```bash
+wandb login
+```
+
+(note: you will also need to enable WandB in the configuration. See below.)
+
+## Walkthrough
+
+```
+.
+├── examples             # contains demonstration examples, start here to learn about LeRobot
+|   └── advanced         # contains even more examples for those who have mastered the basics
+├── lerobot
+|   ├── configs          # contains config classes with all options that you can override in the command line
+|   ├── common           # contains classes and utilities
+|   |   ├── datasets       # various datasets of human demonstrations: aloha, pusht, xarm
+|   |   ├── envs           # various sim environments: aloha, pusht, xarm
+|   |   ├── policies       # various policies: act, diffusion, tdmpc
+|   |   ├── robot_devices  # various real devices: dynamixel motors, opencv cameras, koch robots
+|   |   └── utils          # various utilities
+|   └── scripts          # contains functions to execute via command line
+|       ├── eval.py                 # load policy and evaluate it on an environment
+|       ├── train.py                # train a policy via imitation learning and/or reinforcement learning
+|       ├── control_robot.py        # teleoperate a real robot, record data, run a policy
+|       ├── push_dataset_to_hub.py  # convert your dataset into LeRobot dataset format and upload it to the Hugging Face hub
+|       └── visualize_dataset.py    # load a dataset and render its demonstrations
+├── outputs               # contains results of scripts execution: logs, videos, model checkpoints
+└── tests                 # contains pytest utilities for continuous integration
+```
+
+### Visualize datasets
+
+Check out [example 1](./examples/1_load_lerobot_dataset.py) that illustrates how to use our dataset class which automatically downloads data from the Hugging Face hub.
+
+You can also locally visualize episodes from a dataset on the hub by executing our script from the command line:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/visualize_dataset.py \
+    --repo-id lerobot/pusht \
+    --episode-index 0
+```
+
+or from a dataset in a local folder with the `root` option and the `--local-files-only` (in the following case the dataset will be searched for in `./my_local_data_dir/lerobot/pusht`)
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/visualize_dataset.py \
+    --repo-id lerobot/pusht \
+    --root ./my_local_data_dir \
+    --local-files-only 1 \
+    --episode-index 0
+```
+
+
+It will open `rerun.io` and display the camera streams, robot states and actions, like this:
+
+https://github-production-user-asset-6210df.s3.amazonaws.com/4681518/328035972-fd46b787-b532-47e2-bb6f-fd536a55a7ed.mov?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAVCODYLSA53PQK4ZA%2F20240505%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240505T172924Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=d680b26c532eeaf80740f08af3320d22ad0b8a4e4da1bcc4f33142c15b509eda&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=24889239&key_id=0&repo_id=748713144
+
+
+Our script can also visualize datasets stored on a distant server. See `python lerobot/scripts/visualize_dataset.py --help` for more instructions.
+
+### The `LeRobotDataset` format
+
+A dataset in `LeRobotDataset` format is very simple to use. It can be loaded from a repository on the Hugging Face hub or a local folder simply with e.g. `dataset = LeRobotDataset("lerobot/aloha_static_coffee")` and can be indexed into like any Hugging Face and PyTorch dataset. For instance `dataset[0]` will retrieve a single temporal frame from the dataset containing observation(s) and an action as PyTorch tensors ready to be fed to a model.
+
+A specificity of `LeRobotDataset` is that, rather than retrieving a single frame by its index, we can retrieve several frames based on their temporal relationship with the indexed frame, by setting `delta_timestamps` to a list of relative times with respect to the indexed frame. For example, with `delta_timestamps = {"observation.image": [-1, -0.5, -0.2, 0]}`  one can retrieve, for a given index, 4 frames: 3 "previous" frames 1 second, 0.5 seconds, and 0.2 seconds before the indexed frame, and the indexed frame itself (corresponding to the 0 entry). See example [1_load_lerobot_dataset.py](examples/1_load_lerobot_dataset.py) for more details on `delta_timestamps`.
+
+Under the hood, the `LeRobotDataset` format makes use of several ways to serialize data which can be useful to understand if you plan to work more closely with this format. We tried to make a flexible yet simple dataset format that would cover most type of features and specificities present in reinforcement learning and robotics, in simulation and in real-world, with a focus on cameras and robot states but easily extended to other types of sensory inputs as long as they can be represented by a tensor.
+
+Here are the important details and internal structure organization of a typical `LeRobotDataset` instantiated with `dataset = LeRobotDataset("lerobot/aloha_static_coffee")`. The exact features will change from dataset to dataset but not the main aspects:
+
+```
+dataset attributes:
+  ├ hf_dataset: a Hugging Face dataset (backed by Arrow/parquet). Typical features example:
+  │  ├ observation.images.cam_high (VideoFrame):
+  │  │   VideoFrame = {'path': path to a mp4 video, 'timestamp' (float32): timestamp in the video}
+  │  ├ observation.state (list of float32): position of an arm joints (for instance)
+  │  ... (more observations)
+  │  ├ action (list of float32): goal position of an arm joints (for instance)
+  │  ├ episode_index (int64): index of the episode for this sample
+  │  ├ frame_index (int64): index of the frame for this sample in the episode ; starts at 0 for each episode
+  │  ├ timestamp (float32): timestamp in the episode
+  │  ├ next.done (bool): indicates the end of an episode ; True for the last frame in each episode
+  │  └ index (int64): general index in the whole dataset
+  ├ episode_data_index: contains 2 tensors with the start and end indices of each episode
+  │  ├ from (1D int64 tensor): first frame index for each episode — shape (num episodes,) starts with 0
+  │  └ to: (1D int64 tensor): last frame index for each episode — shape (num episodes,)
+  ├ stats: a dictionary of statistics (max, mean, min, std) for each feature in the dataset, for instance
+  │  ├ observation.images.cam_high: {'max': tensor with same number of dimensions (e.g. `(c, 1, 1)` for images, `(c,)` for states), etc.}
+  │  ...
+  ├ info: a dictionary of metadata on the dataset
+  │  ├ codebase_version (str): this is to keep track of the codebase version the dataset was created with
+  │  ├ fps (float): frame per second the dataset is recorded/synchronized to
+  │  ├ video (bool): indicates if frames are encoded in mp4 video files to save space or stored as png files
+  │  └ encoding (dict): if video, this documents the main options that were used with ffmpeg to encode the videos
+  ├ videos_dir (Path): where the mp4 videos or png images are stored/accessed
+  └ camera_keys (list of string): the keys to access camera features in the item returned by the dataset (e.g. `["observation.images.cam_high", ...]`)
+```
+
+A `LeRobotDataset` is serialised using several widespread file formats for each of its parts, namely:
+- hf_dataset stored using Hugging Face datasets library serialization to parquet
+- videos are stored in mp4 format to save space
+- metadata are stored in plain json/jsonl files
+
+Dataset can be uploaded/downloaded from the HuggingFace hub seamlessly. To work on a local dataset, you can specify its location with the `root` argument if it's not in the default `~/.cache/huggingface/lerobot` location.
+
+### Evaluate a pretrained policy
+
+Check out [example 2](./examples/2_evaluate_pretrained_policy.py) that illustrates how to download a pretrained policy from Hugging Face hub, and run an evaluation on its corresponding environment.
+
+We also provide a more capable script to parallelize the evaluation over multiple environments during the same rollout. Here is an example with a pretrained model hosted on [lerobot/diffusion_pusht](https://huggingface.co/lerobot/diffusion_pusht):
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/eval.py \
+    --policy.path=lerobot/diffusion_pusht \
+    --env.type=pusht \
+    --eval.batch_size=10 \
+    --eval.n_episodes=10 \
+    --policy.use_amp=false \
+    --policy.device=cuda
+```
+
+Note: After training your own policy, you can re-evaluate the checkpoints with:
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/eval.py --policy.path={OUTPUT_DIR}/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model
+```
+
+See `python lerobot/scripts/eval.py --help` for more instructions.
+
+### Train your own policy
+
+Check out [example 3](./examples/3_train_policy.py) that illustrates how to train a model using our core library in python, and [example 4](./examples/4_train_policy_with_script.md) that shows how to use our training script from command line.
+
+To use wandb for logging training and evaluation curves, make sure you've run `wandb login` as a one-time setup step. Then, when running the training command above, enable WandB in the configuration by adding `--wandb.enable=true`.
+
+A link to the wandb logs for the run will also show up in yellow in your terminal. Here is an example of what they look like in your browser. Please also check [here](./examples/4_train_policy_with_script.md#typical-logs-and-metrics) for the explanation of some commonly used metrics in logs.
+
+![](media/wandb.png)
+
+Note: For efficiency, during training every checkpoint is evaluated on a low number of episodes. You may use `--eval.n_episodes=500` to evaluate on more episodes than the default. Or, after training, you may want to re-evaluate your best checkpoints on more episodes or change the evaluation settings. See `python lerobot/scripts/eval.py --help` for more instructions.
+
+#### Reproduce state-of-the-art (SOTA)
+
+We provide some pretrained policies on our [hub page](https://huggingface.co/lerobot) that can achieve state-of-the-art performances.
+You can reproduce their training by loading the config from their run. Simply running:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py --config_path=lerobot/diffusion_pusht
+```
+reproduces SOTA results for Diffusion Policy on the PushT task.
+
+## Contribute
+
+If you would like to contribute to 🤗 LeRobot, please check out our [contribution guide](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+<!-- ### Add a new dataset
+
+To add a dataset to the hub, you need to login using a write-access token, which can be generated from the [Hugging Face settings](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens):
+```bash
+huggingface-cli login --token ${HUGGINGFACE_TOKEN} --add-to-git-credential
+```
+
+Then point to your raw dataset folder (e.g. `data/aloha_static_pingpong_test_raw`), and push your dataset to the hub with:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/push_dataset_to_hub.py \
+--raw-dir data/aloha_static_pingpong_test_raw \
+--out-dir data \
+--repo-id lerobot/aloha_static_pingpong_test \
+--raw-format aloha_hdf5
+```
+
+See `python lerobot/scripts/push_dataset_to_hub.py --help` for more instructions.
+
+If your dataset format is not supported, implement your own in `lerobot/common/datasets/push_dataset_to_hub/${raw_format}_format.py` by copying examples like [pusht_zarr](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/datasets/push_dataset_to_hub/pusht_zarr_format.py), [umi_zarr](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/datasets/push_dataset_to_hub/umi_zarr_format.py), [aloha_hdf5](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/datasets/push_dataset_to_hub/aloha_hdf5_format.py), or [xarm_pkl](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/datasets/push_dataset_to_hub/xarm_pkl_format.py). -->
+
+
+### Add a pretrained policy
+
+Once you have trained a policy you may upload it to the Hugging Face hub using a hub id that looks like `${hf_user}/${repo_name}` (e.g. [lerobot/diffusion_pusht](https://huggingface.co/lerobot/diffusion_pusht)).
+
+You first need to find the checkpoint folder located inside your experiment directory (e.g. `outputs/train/2024-05-05/20-21-12_aloha_act_default/checkpoints/002500`). Within that there is a `pretrained_model` directory which should contain:
+- `config.json`: A serialized version of the policy configuration (following the policy's dataclass config).
+- `model.safetensors`: A set of `torch.nn.Module` parameters, saved in [Hugging Face Safetensors](https://huggingface.co/docs/safetensors/index) format.
+- `train_config.json`: A consolidated configuration containing all parameters used for training. The policy configuration should match `config.json` exactly. This is useful for anyone who wants to evaluate your policy or for reproducibility.
+
+To upload these to the hub, run the following:
+```bash
+huggingface-cli upload ${hf_user}/${repo_name} path/to/pretrained_model
+```
+
+See [eval.py](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/scripts/eval.py) for an example of how other people may use your policy.
+
+
+### Improve your code with profiling
+
+An example of a code snippet to profile the evaluation of a policy:
+```python
+from torch.profiler import profile, record_function, ProfilerActivity
+
+def trace_handler(prof):
+    prof.export_chrome_trace(f"tmp/trace_schedule_{prof.step_num}.json")
+
+with profile(
+    activities=[ProfilerActivity.CPU, ProfilerActivity.CUDA],
+    schedule=torch.profiler.schedule(
+        wait=2,
+        warmup=2,
+        active=3,
+    ),
+    on_trace_ready=trace_handler
+) as prof:
+    with record_function("eval_policy"):
+        for i in range(num_episodes):
+            prof.step()
+            # insert code to profile, potentially whole body of eval_policy function
+```
+
+## Citation
+
+If you want, you can cite this work with:
+```bibtex
+@misc{cadene2024lerobot,
+    author = {Cadene, Remi and Alibert, Simon and Soare, Alexander and Gallouedec, Quentin and Zouitine, Adil and Palma, Steven and Kooijmans, Pepijn and Aractingi, Michel and Shukor, Mustafa and Aubakirova, Dana and Russi, Martino and Capuano, Francesco and Pascale, Caroline and Choghari, Jade and Moss, Jess and Wolf, Thomas},
+    title = {LeRobot: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Real-World Robotics in Pytorch},
+    howpublished = "\url{https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot}",
+    year = {2024}
+}
+```
+
+Additionally, if you are using any of the particular policy architecture, pretrained models, or datasets, it is recommended to cite the original authors of the work as they appear below:
+- [SmolVLA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01844)
+```bibtex
+@article{shukor2025smolvla,
+  title={SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics},
+  author={Shukor, Mustafa and Aubakirova, Dana and Capuano, Francesco and Kooijmans, Pepijn and Palma, Steven and Zouitine, Adil and Aractingi, Michel and Pascal, Caroline and Russi, Martino and Marafioti, Andres and Alibert, Simon and Cord, Matthieu and Wolf, Thomas and Cadene, Remi},
+  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.01844},
+  year={2025}
+}
+```
+
+- [Diffusion Policy](https://diffusion-policy.cs.columbia.edu)
+```bibtex
+@article{chi2024diffusionpolicy,
+	author = {Cheng Chi and Zhenjia Xu and Siyuan Feng and Eric Cousineau and Yilun Du and Benjamin Burchfiel and Russ Tedrake and Shuran Song},
+	title ={Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion},
+	journal = {The International Journal of Robotics Research},
+	year = {2024},
+}
+```
+- [ACT or ALOHA](https://tonyzhaozh.github.io/aloha)
+```bibtex
+@article{zhao2023learning,
+  title={Learning fine-grained bimanual manipulation with low-cost hardware},
+  author={Zhao, Tony Z and Kumar, Vikash and Levine, Sergey and Finn, Chelsea},
+  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.13705},
+  year={2023}
+}
+```
+
+- [TDMPC](https://www.nicklashansen.com/td-mpc/)
+
+```bibtex
+@inproceedings{Hansen2022tdmpc,
+	title={Temporal Difference Learning for Model Predictive Control},
+	author={Nicklas Hansen and Xiaolong Wang and Hao Su},
+	booktitle={ICML},
+	year={2022}
+}
+```
+
+- [VQ-BeT](https://sjlee.cc/vq-bet/)
+```bibtex
+@article{lee2024behavior,
+  title={Behavior generation with latent actions},
+  author={Lee, Seungjae and Wang, Yibin and Etukuru, Haritheja and Kim, H Jin and Shafiullah, Nur Muhammad Mahi and Pinto, Lerrel},
+  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03181},
+  year={2024}
+}
+```
+
+
+- [HIL-SERL](https://hil-serl.github.io/)
+```bibtex
+@Article{luo2024hilserl,
+title={Precise and Dexterous Robotic Manipulation via Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning},
+author={Jianlan Luo and Charles Xu and Jeffrey Wu and Sergey Levine},
+year={2024},
+eprint={2410.21845},
+archivePrefix={arXiv},
+primaryClass={cs.RO}
+}
+```
+## Star History
+
+[![Star History Chart](https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=huggingface/lerobot&type=Timeline)](https://star-history.com/#huggingface/lerobot&Timeline)

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+# Video benchmark
+
+
+## Questions
+What is the optimal trade-off between:
+- maximizing loading time with random access,
+- minimizing memory space on disk,
+- maximizing success rate of policies,
+- compatibility across devices/platforms for decoding videos (e.g. video players, web browsers).
+
+How to encode videos?
+- Which video codec (`-vcodec`) to use? h264, h265, AV1?
+- What pixel format to use (`-pix_fmt`)? `yuv444p` or `yuv420p`?
+- How much compression (`-crf`)? No compression with `0`, intermediate compression with `25` or extreme with `50+`?
+- Which frequency to chose for key frames (`-g`)? A key frame every `10` frames?
+
+How to decode videos?
+- Which `decoder`? `torchvision`, `torchaudio`, `ffmpegio`, `decord`, or `nvc`?
+- What scenarios to use for the requesting timestamps during benchmark? (`timestamps_mode`)
+
+
+## Variables
+**Image content & size**
+We don't expect the same optimal settings for a dataset of images from a simulation, or from real-world in an apartment, or in a factory, or outdoor, or with lots of moving objects in the scene, etc. Similarly, loading times might not vary linearly with the image size (resolution).
+For these reasons, we run this benchmark on four representative datasets:
+- `lerobot/pusht_image`: (96 x 96 pixels) simulation with simple geometric shapes, fixed camera.
+- `aliberts/aloha_mobile_shrimp_image`: (480 x 640 pixels) real-world indoor, moving camera.
+- `aliberts/paris_street`: (720 x 1280 pixels) real-world outdoor, moving camera.
+- `aliberts/kitchen`: (1080 x 1920 pixels) real-world indoor, fixed camera.
+
+Note: The datasets used for this benchmark need to be image datasets, not video datasets.
+
+**Data augmentations**
+We might revisit this benchmark and find better settings if we train our policies with various data augmentations to make them more robust (e.g. robust to color changes, compression, etc.).
+
+### Encoding parameters
+| parameter   | values                                                       |
+|-------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **vcodec**  | `libx264`, `libx265`, `libsvtav1`                            |
+| **pix_fmt** | `yuv444p`, `yuv420p`                                         |
+| **g**       | `1`, `2`, `3`, `4`, `5`, `6`, `10`, `15`, `20`, `40`, `None` |
+| **crf**     | `0`, `5`, `10`, `15`, `20`, `25`, `30`, `40`, `50`, `None`   |
+
+Note that `crf` value might be interpreted differently by various video codecs. In other words, the same value used with one codec doesn't necessarily translate into the same compression level with another codec. In fact, the default value (`None`) isn't the same amongst the different video codecs. Importantly, it is also the case for many other ffmpeg arguments like `g` which specifies the frequency of the key frames.
+
+For a comprehensive list and documentation of these parameters, see the ffmpeg documentation depending on the video codec used:
+- h264: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264
+- h265: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.265
+- AV1: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AV1
+
+### Decoding parameters
+**Decoder**
+We tested two video decoding backends from torchvision:
+- `pyav`
+- `video_reader` (requires to build torchvision from source)
+
+**Requested timestamps**
+Given the way video decoding works, once a keyframe has been loaded, the decoding of subsequent frames is fast.
+This of course is affected by the `-g` parameter during encoding, which specifies the frequency of the keyframes. Given our typical use cases in robotics policies which might request a few timestamps in different random places, we want to replicate these use cases with the following scenarios:
+- `1_frame`: 1 frame,
+- `2_frames`: 2 consecutive frames (e.g. `[t, t + 1 / fps]`),
+- `6_frames`: 6 consecutive frames (e.g. `[t + i / fps for i in range(6)]`)
+
+Note that this differs significantly from a typical use case like watching a movie, in which every frame is loaded sequentially from the beginning to the end and it's acceptable to have big values for `-g`.
+
+Additionally, because some policies might request single timestamps that are a few frames apart, we also have the following scenario:
+- `2_frames_4_space`: 2 frames with 4 consecutive frames of spacing in between (e.g `[t, t + 5 / fps]`),
+
+However, due to how video decoding is implemented with `pyav`, we don't have access to an accurate seek so in practice this scenario is essentially the same as `6_frames` since all 6 frames between `t` and `t + 5 / fps` will be decoded.
+
+
+## Metrics
+**Data compression ratio (lower is better)**
+`video_images_size_ratio` is the ratio of the memory space on disk taken by the encoded video over the memory space taken by the original images. For instance, `video_images_size_ratio=25%` means that the video takes 4 times less memory space on disk compared to the original images.
+
+**Loading time ratio (lower is better)**
+`video_images_load_time_ratio` is the ratio of the time it takes to decode frames from the video at a given timestamps over the time it takes to load the exact same original images. Lower is better. For instance, `video_images_load_time_ratio=200%` means that decoding from video is 2 times slower than loading the original images.
+
+**Average Mean Square Error (lower is better)**
+`avg_mse` is the average mean square error between each decoded frame and its corresponding original image over all requested timestamps, and also divided by the number of pixels in the image to be comparable when switching to different image sizes.
+
+**Average Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (higher is better)**
+`avg_psnr` measures the ratio between the maximum possible power of a signal and the power of corrupting noise that affects the fidelity of its representation. Higher PSNR indicates better quality.
+
+**Average Structural Similarity Index Measure (higher is better)**
+`avg_ssim` evaluates the perceived quality of images by comparing luminance, contrast, and structure. SSIM values range from -1 to 1, where 1 indicates perfect similarity.
+
+One aspect that can't be measured here with those metrics is the compatibility of the encoding across platforms, in particular on web browser, for visualization purposes.
+h264, h265 and AV1 are all commonly used codecs and should not pose an issue. However, the chroma subsampling (`pix_fmt`) format might affect compatibility:
+- `yuv420p` is more widely supported across various platforms, including web browsers.
+- `yuv444p` offers higher color fidelity but might not be supported as broadly.
+
+
+<!-- **Loss of a pretrained policy (higher is better)** (not available)
+`loss_pretrained` is the result of evaluating with the selected encoding/decoding settings a policy pretrained on original images. It is easier to understand than `avg_l2_error`.
+
+**Success rate after retraining (higher is better)** (not available)
+`success_rate` is the result of training and evaluating a policy with the selected encoding/decoding settings. It is the most difficult metric to get but also the very best. -->
+
+
+## How the benchmark works
+The benchmark evaluates both encoding and decoding of video frames on the first episode of each dataset.
+
+**Encoding:** for each `vcodec` and `pix_fmt` pair, we use a default value for `g` and `crf` upon which we change a single value (either `g` or `crf`) to one of the specified values (we don't test every combination of those as this would be computationally too heavy).
+This gives a unique set of encoding parameters which is used to encode the episode.
+
+**Decoding:** Then, for each of those unique encodings, we iterate through every combination of the decoding parameters `backend` and `timestamps_mode`. For each of them, we record the metrics of a number of samples (given by `--num-samples`). This is parallelized for efficiency and the number of processes can be controlled with `--num-workers`. Ideally, it's best to have a `--num-samples` that is divisible by `--num-workers`.
+
+Intermediate results saved for each `vcodec` and `pix_fmt` combination in csv tables.
+These are then all concatenated to a single table ready for analysis.
+
+## Caveats
+We tried to measure the most impactful parameters for both encoding and decoding. However, for computational reasons we can't test out every combination.
+
+Additional encoding parameters exist that are not included in this benchmark. In particular:
+- `-preset` which allows for selecting encoding presets. This represents a collection of options that will provide a certain encoding speed to compression ratio. By leaving this parameter unspecified, it is considered to be `medium` for libx264 and libx265 and `8` for libsvtav1.
+- `-tune` which allows to optimize the encoding for certain aspects (e.g. film quality, fast decoding, etc.).
+
+See the documentation mentioned above for more detailed info on these settings and for a more comprehensive list of other parameters.
+
+Similarly on the decoding side, other decoders exist but are not implemented in our current benchmark. To name a few:
+- `torchaudio`
+- `ffmpegio`
+- `decord`
+- `nvc`
+
+Note as well that since we are mostly interested in the performance at decoding time (also because encoding is done only once before uploading a dataset), we did not measure encoding times nor have any metrics regarding encoding.
+However, besides the necessity to build ffmpeg from source, encoding did not pose any issue and it didn't take a significant amount of time during this benchmark.
+
+
+## Install
+Building ffmpeg from source is required to include libx265 and libaom/libsvtav1 (av1) video codecs ([compilation guide](https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu)).
+
+**Note:** While you still need to build torchvision with a conda-installed `ffmpeg<4.3` to use the `video_reader` decoder (as described in [#220](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/pull/220)), you also need another version which is custom-built with all the video codecs for encoding. For the script to then use that version, you can prepend the command above with `PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"`, which is where ffmpeg should be built.
+
+
+## Adding a video decoder
+Right now, we're only benchmarking the two video decoder available with torchvision: `pyav` and `video_reader`.
+You can easily add a new decoder to benchmark by adding it to this function in the script:
+```diff
+def decode_video_frames(
+    video_path: str,
+    timestamps: list[float],
+    tolerance_s: float,
+    backend: str,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    if backend in ["pyav", "video_reader"]:
+        return decode_video_frames_torchvision(
+            video_path, timestamps, tolerance_s, backend
+        )
++    elif backend == ["your_decoder"]:
++        return your_decoder_function(
++            video_path, timestamps, tolerance_s, backend
++        )
+    else:
+        raise NotImplementedError(backend)
+```
+
+
+## Example
+For a quick run, you can try these parameters:
+```bash
+python benchmark/video/run_video_benchmark.py \
+    --output-dir outputs/video_benchmark \
+    --repo-ids \
+        lerobot/pusht_image \
+        aliberts/aloha_mobile_shrimp_image \
+    --vcodec libx264 libx265 \
+    --pix-fmt yuv444p yuv420p \
+    --g 2 20 None \
+    --crf 10 40 None \
+    --timestamps-modes 1_frame 2_frames \
+    --backends pyav video_reader \
+    --num-samples 5 \
+    --num-workers 5 \
+    --save-frames 0
+```
+
+
+## Results
+
+### Reproduce
+We ran the benchmark with the following parameters:
+```bash
+# h264 and h265 encodings
+python benchmark/video/run_video_benchmark.py \
+    --output-dir outputs/video_benchmark \
+    --repo-ids \
+        lerobot/pusht_image \
+        aliberts/aloha_mobile_shrimp_image \
+        aliberts/paris_street \
+        aliberts/kitchen \
+    --vcodec libx264 libx265 \
+    --pix-fmt yuv444p yuv420p \
+    --g 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 15 20 40 None \
+    --crf 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 40 50 None \
+    --timestamps-modes 1_frame 2_frames 6_frames \
+    --backends pyav video_reader \
+    --num-samples 50 \
+    --num-workers 5 \
+    --save-frames 1
+
+# av1 encoding (only compatible with yuv420p and pyav decoder)
+python benchmark/video/run_video_benchmark.py \
+    --output-dir outputs/video_benchmark \
+    --repo-ids \
+        lerobot/pusht_image \
+        aliberts/aloha_mobile_shrimp_image \
+        aliberts/paris_street \
+        aliberts/kitchen \
+    --vcodec libsvtav1 \
+    --pix-fmt yuv420p \
+    --g 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 15 20 40 None \
+    --crf 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 40 50 None \
+    --timestamps-modes 1_frame 2_frames 6_frames \
+    --backends pyav \
+    --num-samples 50 \
+    --num-workers 5 \
+    --save-frames 1
+```
+
+The full results are available [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OYJB43Qu8fC26k_OyoMFgGBBKfQRCi4BIuYitQnq3sw/edit?usp=sharing)
+
+
+### Parameters selected for LeRobotDataset
+Considering these results, we chose what we think is the best set of encoding parameter:
+- vcodec: `libsvtav1`
+- pix-fmt: `yuv420p`
+- g: `2`
+- crf: `30`
+
+Since we're using av1 encoding, we're choosing the `pyav` decoder as `video_reader` does not support it (and `pyav` doesn't require a custom build of `torchvision`).
+
+### Summary
+
+These tables show the results for `g=2` and `crf=30`, using `timestamps-modes=6_frames` and `backend=pyav`
+
+| video_images_size_ratio            | vcodec     | pix_fmt |           |           |           |
+|------------------------------------|------------|---------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
+|                                    | libx264    |         | libx265   |           | libsvtav1 |
+| repo_id                            | yuv420p    | yuv444p | yuv420p   | yuv444p   | yuv420p   |
+| lerobot/pusht_image                | **16.97%** | 17.58%  | 18.57%    | 18.86%    | 22.06%    |
+| aliberts/aloha_mobile_shrimp_image | 2.14%      | 2.11%   | 1.38%     | **1.37%** | 5.59%     |
+| aliberts/paris_street              | 2.12%      | 2.13%   | **1.54%** | **1.54%** | 4.43%     |
+| aliberts/kitchen                   | 1.40%      | 1.39%   | **1.00%** | **1.00%** | 2.52%     |
+
+| video_images_load_time_ratio       | vcodec  | pix_fmt |          |         |           |
+|------------------------------------|---------|---------|----------|---------|-----------|
+|                                    | libx264 |         | libx265  |         | libsvtav1 |
+| repo_id                            | yuv420p | yuv444p | yuv420p  | yuv444p | yuv420p   |
+| lerobot/pusht_image                | 6.45    | 5.19    | **1.90** | 2.12    | 2.47      |
+| aliberts/aloha_mobile_shrimp_image | 11.80   | 7.92    | 0.71     | 0.85    | **0.48**  |
+| aliberts/paris_street              | 2.21    | 2.05    | 0.36     | 0.49    | **0.30**  |
+| aliberts/kitchen                   | 1.46    | 1.46    | 0.28     | 0.51    | **0.26**  |
+
+|                                    |          | vcodec   | pix_fmt      |          |           |              |
+|------------------------------------|----------|----------|--------------|----------|-----------|--------------|
+|                                    |          | libx264  |              | libx265  |           | libsvtav1    |
+| repo_id                            | metric   | yuv420p  | yuv444p      | yuv420p  | yuv444p   | yuv420p      |
+| lerobot/pusht_image                | avg_mse  | 2.90E-04 | **2.03E-04** | 3.13E-04 | 2.29E-04  | 2.19E-04     |
+|                                    | avg_psnr | 35.44    | 37.07        | 35.49    | **37.30** | 37.20        |
+|                                    | avg_ssim | 98.28%   | **98.85%**   | 98.31%   | 98.84%    | 98.72%       |
+| aliberts/aloha_mobile_shrimp_image | avg_mse  | 2.76E-04 | 2.59E-04     | 3.17E-04 | 3.06E-04  | **1.30E-04** |
+|                                    | avg_psnr | 35.91    | 36.21        | 35.88    | 36.09     | **40.17**    |
+|                                    | avg_ssim | 95.19%   | 95.18%       | 95.00%   | 95.05%    | **97.73%**   |
+| aliberts/paris_street              | avg_mse  | 6.89E-04 | 6.70E-04     | 4.03E-03 | 4.02E-03  | **3.09E-04** |
+|                                    | avg_psnr | 33.48    | 33.68        | 32.05    | 32.15     | **35.40**    |
+|                                    | avg_ssim | 93.76%   | 93.75%       | 89.46%   | 89.46%    | **95.46%**   |
+| aliberts/kitchen                   | avg_mse  | 2.50E-04 | 2.24E-04     | 4.28E-04 | 4.18E-04  | **1.53E-04** |
+|                                    | avg_psnr | 36.73    | 37.33        | 36.56    | 36.75     | **39.12**    |
+|                                    | avg_ssim | 95.47%   | 95.58%       | 95.52%   | 95.53%    | **96.82%**   |

benchmarks/video/capture_camera_feed.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""Capture video feed from a camera as raw images."""
+
+import argparse
+import datetime as dt
+import os
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import cv2
+import rerun as rr
+
+# see https://rerun.io/docs/howto/visualization/limit-ram
+RERUN_MEMORY_LIMIT = os.getenv("LEROBOT_RERUN_MEMORY_LIMIT", "5%")
+
+
+def display_and_save_video_stream(output_dir: Path, fps: int, width: int, height: int, duration: int):
+    rr.init("lerobot_capture_camera_feed")
+    rr.spawn(memory_limit=RERUN_MEMORY_LIMIT)
+
+    now = dt.datetime.now()
+    capture_dir = output_dir / f"{now:%Y-%m-%d}" / f"{now:%H-%M-%S}"
+    if not capture_dir.exists():
+        capture_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    # Opens the default webcam
+    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
+    if not cap.isOpened():
+        print("Error: Could not open video stream.")
+        return
+
+    cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS, fps)
+    cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, width)
+    cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, height)
+
+    frame_index = 0
+    start_time = time.time()
+    while time.time() - start_time < duration:
+        ret, frame = cap.read()
+
+        if not ret:
+            print("Error: Could not read frame.")
+            break
+        rr.log("video/stream", rr.Image(frame.numpy()), static=True)
+        cv2.imwrite(str(capture_dir / f"frame_{frame_index:06d}.png"), frame)
+        frame_index += 1
+
+    # Release the capture
+    cap.release()
+
+    # TODO(Steven): Add a graceful shutdown via a close() method for the Viewer context, though not currently supported in the Rerun API.
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--output-dir",
+        type=Path,
+        default=Path("outputs/cam_capture/"),
+        help="Directory where the capture images are written. A subfolder named with the current date & time will be created inside it for each capture.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--fps",
+        type=int,
+        default=30,
+        help="Frames Per Second of the capture.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--width",
+        type=int,
+        default=1280,
+        help="Width of the captured images.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--height",
+        type=int,
+        default=720,
+        help="Height of the captured images.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--duration",
+        type=int,
+        default=20,
+        help="Duration in seconds for which the video stream should be captured.",
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    display_and_save_video_stream(**vars(args))

benchmarks/video/run_video_benchmark.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""Assess the performance of video decoding in various configurations.
+
+This script will benchmark different video encoding and decoding parameters.
+See the provided README.md or run `python benchmark/video/run_video_benchmark.py --help` for usage info.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import datetime as dt
+import random
+import shutil
+from collections import OrderedDict
+from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import einops
+import numpy as np
+import pandas as pd
+import PIL
+import torch
+from skimage.metrics import mean_squared_error, peak_signal_noise_ratio, structural_similarity
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+from lerobot.common.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset
+from lerobot.common.datasets.video_utils import (
+    decode_video_frames_torchvision,
+    encode_video_frames,
+)
+from lerobot.common.utils.benchmark import TimeBenchmark
+
+BASE_ENCODING = OrderedDict(
+    [
+        ("vcodec", "libx264"),
+        ("pix_fmt", "yuv444p"),
+        ("g", 2),
+        ("crf", None),
+        # TODO(aliberts): Add fastdecode
+        # ("fastdecode", 0),
+    ]
+)
+
+
+# TODO(rcadene, aliberts): move to `utils.py` folder when we want to refactor
+def parse_int_or_none(value) -> int | None:
+    if value.lower() == "none":
+        return None
+    try:
+        return int(value)
+    except ValueError as e:
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f"Invalid int or None: {value}") from e
+
+
+def check_datasets_formats(repo_ids: list) -> None:
+    for repo_id in repo_ids:
+        dataset = LeRobotDataset(repo_id)
+        if len(dataset.meta.video_keys) > 0:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Use only image dataset for running this benchmark. Video dataset provided: {repo_id}"
+            )
+
+
+def get_directory_size(directory: Path) -> int:
+    total_size = 0
+    for item in directory.rglob("*"):
+        if item.is_file():
+            total_size += item.stat().st_size
+    return total_size
+
+
+def load_original_frames(imgs_dir: Path, timestamps: list[float], fps: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+    frames = []
+    for ts in timestamps:
+        idx = int(ts * fps)
+        frame = PIL.Image.open(imgs_dir / f"frame_{idx:06d}.png")
+        frame = torch.from_numpy(np.array(frame))
+        frame = frame.type(torch.float32) / 255
+        frame = einops.rearrange(frame, "h w c -> c h w")
+        frames.append(frame)
+    return torch.stack(frames)
+
+
+def save_decoded_frames(
+    imgs_dir: Path, save_dir: Path, frames: torch.Tensor, timestamps: list[float], fps: int
+) -> None:
+    if save_dir.exists() and len(list(save_dir.glob("frame_*.png"))) == len(timestamps):
+        return
+
+    save_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    for i, ts in enumerate(timestamps):
+        idx = int(ts * fps)
+        frame_hwc = (frames[i].permute((1, 2, 0)) * 255).type(torch.uint8).cpu().numpy()
+        PIL.Image.fromarray(frame_hwc).save(save_dir / f"frame_{idx:06d}_decoded.png")
+        shutil.copyfile(imgs_dir / f"frame_{idx:06d}.png", save_dir / f"frame_{idx:06d}_original.png")
+
+
+def save_first_episode(imgs_dir: Path, dataset: LeRobotDataset) -> None:
+    ep_num_images = dataset.episode_data_index["to"][0].item()
+    if imgs_dir.exists() and len(list(imgs_dir.glob("frame_*.png"))) == ep_num_images:
+        return
+
+    imgs_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    hf_dataset = dataset.hf_dataset.with_format(None)
+
+    # We only save images from the first camera
+    img_keys = [key for key in hf_dataset.features if key.startswith("observation.image")]
+    imgs_dataset = hf_dataset.select_columns(img_keys[0])
+
+    for i, item in enumerate(
+        tqdm(imgs_dataset, desc=f"saving {dataset.repo_id} first episode images", leave=False)
+    ):
+        img = item[img_keys[0]]
+        img.save(str(imgs_dir / f"frame_{i:06d}.png"), quality=100)
+
+        if i >= ep_num_images - 1:
+            break
+
+
+def sample_timestamps(timestamps_mode: str, ep_num_images: int, fps: int) -> list[float]:
+    # Start at 5 to allow for 2_frames_4_space and 6_frames
+    idx = random.randint(5, ep_num_images - 1)
+    match timestamps_mode:
+        case "1_frame":
+            frame_indexes = [idx]
+        case "2_frames":
+            frame_indexes = [idx - 1, idx]
+        case "2_frames_4_space":
+            frame_indexes = [idx - 5, idx]
+        case "6_frames":
+            frame_indexes = [idx - i for i in range(6)][::-1]
+        case _:
+            raise ValueError(timestamps_mode)
+
+    return [idx / fps for idx in frame_indexes]
+
+
+def decode_video_frames(
+    video_path: str,
+    timestamps: list[float],
+    tolerance_s: float,
+    backend: str,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    if backend in ["pyav", "video_reader"]:
+        return decode_video_frames_torchvision(video_path, timestamps, tolerance_s, backend)
+    else:
+        raise NotImplementedError(backend)
+
+
+def benchmark_decoding(
+    imgs_dir: Path,
+    video_path: Path,
+    timestamps_mode: str,
+    backend: str,
+    ep_num_images: int,
+    fps: int,
+    num_samples: int = 50,
+    num_workers: int = 4,
+    save_frames: bool = False,
+) -> dict:
+    def process_sample(sample: int):
+        time_benchmark = TimeBenchmark()
+        timestamps = sample_timestamps(timestamps_mode, ep_num_images, fps)
+        num_frames = len(timestamps)
+        result = {
+            "psnr_values": [],
+            "ssim_values": [],
+            "mse_values": [],
+        }
+
+        with time_benchmark:
+            frames = decode_video_frames(video_path, timestamps=timestamps, tolerance_s=5e-1, backend=backend)
+        result["load_time_video_ms"] = time_benchmark.result_ms / num_frames
+
+        with time_benchmark:
+            original_frames = load_original_frames(imgs_dir, timestamps, fps)
+        result["load_time_images_ms"] = time_benchmark.result_ms / num_frames
+
+        frames_np, original_frames_np = frames.numpy(), original_frames.numpy()
+        for i in range(num_frames):
+            result["mse_values"].append(mean_squared_error(original_frames_np[i], frames_np[i]))
+            result["psnr_values"].append(
+                peak_signal_noise_ratio(original_frames_np[i], frames_np[i], data_range=1.0)
+            )
+            result["ssim_values"].append(
+                structural_similarity(original_frames_np[i], frames_np[i], data_range=1.0, channel_axis=0)
+            )
+
+        if save_frames and sample == 0:
+            save_dir = video_path.with_suffix("") / f"{timestamps_mode}_{backend}"
+            save_decoded_frames(imgs_dir, save_dir, frames, timestamps, fps)
+
+        return result
+
+    load_times_video_ms = []
+    load_times_images_ms = []
+    mse_values = []
+    psnr_values = []
+    ssim_values = []
+
+    # A sample is a single set of decoded frames specified by timestamps_mode (e.g. a single frame, 2 frames, etc.).
+    # For each sample, we record metrics (loading time and quality metrics) which are then averaged over all samples.
+    # As these samples are independent, we run them in parallel threads to speed up the benchmark.
+    with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=num_workers) as executor:
+        futures = [executor.submit(process_sample, i) for i in range(num_samples)]
+        for future in tqdm(as_completed(futures), total=num_samples, desc="samples", leave=False):
+            result = future.result()
+            load_times_video_ms.append(result["load_time_video_ms"])
+            load_times_images_ms.append(result["load_time_images_ms"])
+            psnr_values.extend(result["psnr_values"])
+            ssim_values.extend(result["ssim_values"])
+            mse_values.extend(result["mse_values"])
+
+    avg_load_time_video_ms = float(np.array(load_times_video_ms).mean())
+    avg_load_time_images_ms = float(np.array(load_times_images_ms).mean())
+    video_images_load_time_ratio = avg_load_time_video_ms / avg_load_time_images_ms
+
+    return {
+        "avg_load_time_video_ms": avg_load_time_video_ms,
+        "avg_load_time_images_ms": avg_load_time_images_ms,
+        "video_images_load_time_ratio": video_images_load_time_ratio,
+        "avg_mse": float(np.mean(mse_values)),
+        "avg_psnr": float(np.mean(psnr_values)),
+        "avg_ssim": float(np.mean(ssim_values)),
+    }
+
+
+def benchmark_encoding_decoding(
+    dataset: LeRobotDataset,
+    video_path: Path,
+    imgs_dir: Path,
+    encoding_cfg: dict,
+    decoding_cfg: dict,
+    num_samples: int,
+    num_workers: int,
+    save_frames: bool,
+    overwrite: bool = False,
+    seed: int = 1337,
+) -> list[dict]:
+    fps = dataset.fps
+
+    if overwrite or not video_path.is_file():
+        tqdm.write(f"encoding {video_path}")
+        encode_video_frames(
+            imgs_dir=imgs_dir,
+            video_path=video_path,
+            fps=fps,
+            vcodec=encoding_cfg["vcodec"],
+            pix_fmt=encoding_cfg["pix_fmt"],
+            g=encoding_cfg.get("g"),
+            crf=encoding_cfg.get("crf"),
+            # fast_decode=encoding_cfg.get("fastdecode"),
+            overwrite=True,
+        )
+
+    ep_num_images = dataset.episode_data_index["to"][0].item()
+    width, height = tuple(dataset[0][dataset.meta.camera_keys[0]].shape[-2:])
+    num_pixels = width * height
+    video_size_bytes = video_path.stat().st_size
+    images_size_bytes = get_directory_size(imgs_dir)
+    video_images_size_ratio = video_size_bytes / images_size_bytes
+
+    random.seed(seed)
+    benchmark_table = []
+    for timestamps_mode in tqdm(
+        decoding_cfg["timestamps_modes"], desc="decodings (timestamps_modes)", leave=False
+    ):
+        for backend in tqdm(decoding_cfg["backends"], desc="decodings (backends)", leave=False):
+            benchmark_row = benchmark_decoding(
+                imgs_dir,
+                video_path,
+                timestamps_mode,
+                backend,
+                ep_num_images,
+                fps,
+                num_samples,
+                num_workers,
+                save_frames,
+            )
+            benchmark_row.update(
+                **{
+                    "repo_id": dataset.repo_id,
+                    "resolution": f"{width} x {height}",
+                    "num_pixels": num_pixels,
+                    "video_size_bytes": video_size_bytes,
+                    "images_size_bytes": images_size_bytes,
+                    "video_images_size_ratio": video_images_size_ratio,
+                    "timestamps_mode": timestamps_mode,
+                    "backend": backend,
+                },
+                **encoding_cfg,
+            )
+            benchmark_table.append(benchmark_row)
+
+    return benchmark_table
+
+
+def main(
+    output_dir: Path,
+    repo_ids: list[str],
+    vcodec: list[str],
+    pix_fmt: list[str],
+    g: list[int],
+    crf: list[int],
+    # fastdecode: list[int],
+    timestamps_modes: list[str],
+    backends: list[str],
+    num_samples: int,
+    num_workers: int,
+    save_frames: bool,
+):
+    check_datasets_formats(repo_ids)
+    encoding_benchmarks = {
+        "g": g,
+        "crf": crf,
+        # "fastdecode": fastdecode,
+    }
+    decoding_benchmarks = {
+        "timestamps_modes": timestamps_modes,
+        "backends": backends,
+    }
+    headers = ["repo_id", "resolution", "num_pixels"]
+    headers += list(BASE_ENCODING.keys())
+    headers += [
+        "timestamps_mode",
+        "backend",
+        "video_size_bytes",
+        "images_size_bytes",
+        "video_images_size_ratio",
+        "avg_load_time_video_ms",
+        "avg_load_time_images_ms",
+        "video_images_load_time_ratio",
+        "avg_mse",
+        "avg_psnr",
+        "avg_ssim",
+    ]
+    file_paths = []
+    for video_codec in tqdm(vcodec, desc="encodings (vcodec)"):
+        for pixel_format in tqdm(pix_fmt, desc="encodings (pix_fmt)", leave=False):
+            benchmark_table = []
+            for repo_id in tqdm(repo_ids, desc="encodings (datasets)", leave=False):
+                dataset = LeRobotDataset(repo_id)
+                imgs_dir = output_dir / "images" / dataset.repo_id.replace("/", "_")
+                # We only use the first episode
+                save_first_episode(imgs_dir, dataset)
+                for key, values in tqdm(encoding_benchmarks.items(), desc="encodings (g, crf)", leave=False):
+                    for value in tqdm(values, desc=f"encodings ({key})", leave=False):
+                        encoding_cfg = BASE_ENCODING.copy()
+                        encoding_cfg["vcodec"] = video_codec
+                        encoding_cfg["pix_fmt"] = pixel_format
+                        encoding_cfg[key] = value
+                        args_path = Path("_".join(str(value) for value in encoding_cfg.values()))
+                        video_path = output_dir / "videos" / args_path / f"{repo_id.replace('/', '_')}.mp4"
+                        benchmark_table += benchmark_encoding_decoding(
+                            dataset,
+                            video_path,
+                            imgs_dir,
+                            encoding_cfg,
+                            decoding_benchmarks,
+                            num_samples,
+                            num_workers,
+                            save_frames,
+                        )
+
+            # Save intermediate results
+            benchmark_df = pd.DataFrame(benchmark_table, columns=headers)
+            now = dt.datetime.now()
+            csv_path = (
+                output_dir
+                / f"{now:%Y-%m-%d}_{now:%H-%M-%S}_{video_codec}_{pixel_format}_{num_samples}-samples.csv"
+            )
+            benchmark_df.to_csv(csv_path, header=True, index=False)
+            file_paths.append(csv_path)
+            del benchmark_df
+
+    # Concatenate all results
+    df_list = [pd.read_csv(csv_path) for csv_path in file_paths]
+    concatenated_df = pd.concat(df_list, ignore_index=True)
+    concatenated_path = output_dir / f"{now:%Y-%m-%d}_{now:%H-%M-%S}_all_{num_samples}-samples.csv"
+    concatenated_df.to_csv(concatenated_path, header=True, index=False)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--output-dir",
+        type=Path,
+        default=Path("outputs/video_benchmark"),
+        help="Directory where the video benchmark outputs are written.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--repo-ids",
+        type=str,
+        nargs="*",
+        default=[
+            "lerobot/pusht_image",
+            "aliberts/aloha_mobile_shrimp_image",
+            "aliberts/paris_street",
+            "aliberts/kitchen",
+        ],
+        help="Datasets repo-ids to test against. First episodes only are used. Must be images.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--vcodec",
+        type=str,
+        nargs="*",
+        default=["libx264", "hevc", "libsvtav1"],
+        help="Video codecs to be tested",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--pix-fmt",
+        type=str,
+        nargs="*",
+        default=["yuv444p", "yuv420p"],
+        help="Pixel formats (chroma subsampling) to be tested",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--g",
+        type=parse_int_or_none,
+        nargs="*",
+        default=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 20, 40, 100, None],
+        help="Group of pictures sizes to be tested.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--crf",
+        type=parse_int_or_none,
+        nargs="*",
+        default=[0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, None],
+        help="Constant rate factors to be tested.",
+    )
+    # parser.add_argument(
+    #     "--fastdecode",
+    #     type=int,
+    #     nargs="*",
+    #     default=[0, 1],
+    #     help="Use the fastdecode tuning option. 0 disables it. "
+    #         "For libx264 and libx265/hevc, only 1 is possible. "
+    #         "For libsvtav1, 1, 2 or 3 are possible values with a higher number meaning a faster decoding optimization",
+    # )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--timestamps-modes",
+        type=str,
+        nargs="*",
+        default=[
+            "1_frame",
+            "2_frames",
+            "2_frames_4_space",
+            "6_frames",
+        ],
+        help="Timestamps scenarios to be tested.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--backends",
+        type=str,
+        nargs="*",
+        default=["pyav", "video_reader"],
+        help="Torchvision decoding backend to be tested.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-samples",
+        type=int,
+        default=50,
+        help="Number of samples for each encoding x decoding config.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-workers",
+        type=int,
+        default=10,
+        help="Number of processes for parallelized sample processing.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--save-frames",
+        type=int,
+        default=0,
+        help="Whether to save decoded frames or not. Enter a non-zero number for true.",
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    main(**vars(args))

docker/lerobot-cpu/Dockerfile

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+# Configure image
+ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.10
+FROM python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-slim
+
+# Configure environment variables
+ARG PYTHON_VERSION
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+ENV MUJOCO_GL="egl"
+ENV PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH"
+
+# Install dependencies and set up Python in a single layer
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    build-essential cmake git \
+    libglib2.0-0 libgl1-mesa-glx libegl1-mesa ffmpeg \
+    speech-dispatcher libgeos-dev \
+    && ln -s /usr/bin/python${PYTHON_VERSION} /usr/bin/python \
+    && python -m venv /opt/venv \
+    && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
+    && echo "source /opt/venv/bin/activate" >> /root/.bashrc
+
+# Clone repository and install LeRobot in a single layer
+COPY . /lerobot
+WORKDIR /lerobot
+RUN /opt/venv/bin/pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir pip \
+    && /opt/venv/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir ".[test, aloha, xarm, pusht]" \
+        --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+
+# Execute in bash shell rather than python
+CMD ["/bin/bash"]

docker/lerobot-gpu-dev/Dockerfile

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+FROM nvidia/cuda:12.2.2-devel-ubuntu22.04
+
+# Configure image
+ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.10
+ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+# Install apt dependencies
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    build-essential cmake \
+    git git-lfs openssh-client \
+    nano vim less util-linux tree \
+    htop atop nvtop \
+    sed gawk grep curl wget zip unzip \
+    tcpdump sysstat screen tmux \
+    libglib2.0-0 libgl1-mesa-glx libegl1-mesa \
+    speech-dispatcher portaudio19-dev libgeos-dev \
+    python${PYTHON_VERSION} python${PYTHON_VERSION}-venv python${PYTHON_VERSION}-dev \
+    && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Install ffmpeg build dependencies. See:
+# https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu
+# TODO(aliberts): create image to build dependencies from source instead
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    autoconf automake yasm \
+    libass-dev \
+    libfreetype6-dev \
+    libgnutls28-dev \
+    libunistring-dev \
+    libmp3lame-dev \
+    libtool \
+    libvorbis-dev \
+    meson \
+    ninja-build \
+    pkg-config \
+    texinfo \
+    yasm \
+    zlib1g-dev \
+    nasm \
+    libx264-dev \
+    libx265-dev libnuma-dev \
+    libvpx-dev \
+    libfdk-aac-dev \
+    libopus-dev \
+    libsvtav1-dev libsvtav1enc-dev libsvtav1dec-dev \
+    libdav1d-dev
+
+# Install gh cli tool
+RUN (type -p wget >/dev/null || (apt update && apt-get install wget -y)) \
+    && mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings \
+    && wget -qO- https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null \
+    && chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
+    && echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null \
+    && apt update \
+    && apt install gh -y \
+    && apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Setup `python`
+RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
+
+# Install poetry
+RUN curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python -
+ENV PATH="/root/.local/bin:$PATH"
+RUN echo 'if [ "$HOME" != "/root" ]; then ln -sf /root/.local/bin/poetry $HOME/.local/bin/poetry; fi' >> /root/.bashrc
+RUN poetry config virtualenvs.create false
+RUN poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
+
+# Set EGL as the rendering backend for MuJoCo
+ENV MUJOCO_GL="egl"

docker/lerobot-gpu/Dockerfile

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+FROM nvidia/cuda:12.4.1-base-ubuntu22.04
+
+# Configure environment variables
+ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.10
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+ENV MUJOCO_GL="egl"
+ENV PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH"
+
+# Install dependencies and set up Python in a single layer
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    build-essential cmake git \
+    libglib2.0-0 libgl1-mesa-glx libegl1-mesa ffmpeg \
+    speech-dispatcher libgeos-dev \
+    python${PYTHON_VERSION}-dev python${PYTHON_VERSION}-venv \
+    && ln -s /usr/bin/python${PYTHON_VERSION} /usr/bin/python \
+    && python -m venv /opt/venv \
+    && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
+    && echo "source /opt/venv/bin/activate" >> /root/.bashrc
+
+# Clone repository and install LeRobot in a single layer
+COPY . /lerobot
+WORKDIR /lerobot
+RUN /opt/venv/bin/pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir pip \
+    && /opt/venv/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir ".[test, aloha, xarm, pusht, dynamixel]"

docs/README.md

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+<!---
+Copyright 2020 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+# Generating the documentation
+
+To generate the documentation, you first have to build it. Several packages are necessary to build the doc,
+you can install them with the following command, at the root of the code repository:
+
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[docs]"
+```
+
+You will also need `nodejs`. Please refer to their [installation page](https://nodejs.org/en/download)
+
+---
+**NOTE**
+
+You only need to generate the documentation to inspect it locally (if you're planning changes and want to
+check how they look before committing for instance). You don't have to `git commit` the built documentation.
+
+---
+
+## Building the documentation
+
+Once you have setup the `doc-builder` and additional packages, you can generate the documentation by
+typing the following command:
+
+```bash
+doc-builder build lerobot docs/source/ --build_dir ~/tmp/test-build
+```
+
+You can adapt the `--build_dir` to set any temporary folder that you prefer. This command will create it and generate
+the MDX files that will be rendered as the documentation on the main website. You can inspect them in your favorite
+Markdown editor.
+
+## Previewing the documentation
+
+To preview the docs, first install the `watchdog` module with:
+
+```bash
+pip install watchdog
+```
+
+Then run the following command:
+
+```bash
+doc-builder preview lerobot docs/source/
+```
+
+The docs will be viewable at [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000). You can also preview the docs once you have opened a PR. You will see a bot add a comment to a link where the documentation with your changes lives.
+
+---
+**NOTE**
+
+The `preview` command only works with existing doc files. When you add a completely new file, you need to update `_toctree.yml` & restart `preview` command (`ctrl-c` to stop it & call `doc-builder preview ...` again).
+
+---
+
+## Adding a new element to the navigation bar
+
+Accepted files are Markdown (.md).
+
+Create a file with its extension and put it in the source directory. You can then link it to the toc-tree by putting
+the filename without the extension in the [`_toctree.yml`](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/docs/source/_toctree.yml) file.
+
+## Renaming section headers and moving sections
+
+It helps to keep the old links working when renaming the section header and/or moving sections from one document to another. This is because the old links are likely to be used in Issues, Forums, and Social media and it'd make for a much more superior user experience if users reading those months later could still easily navigate to the originally intended information.
+
+Therefore, we simply keep a little map of moved sections at the end of the document where the original section was. The key is to preserve the original anchor.
+
+So if you renamed a section from: "Section A" to "Section B", then you can add at the end of the file:
+
+```
+Sections that were moved:
+
+[ <a href="#section-b">Section A</a><a id="section-a"></a> ]
+```
+and of course, if you moved it to another file, then:
+
+```
+Sections that were moved:
+
+[ <a href="../new-file#section-b">Section A</a><a id="section-a"></a> ]
+```
+
+Use the relative style to link to the new file so that the versioned docs continue to work.
+
+For an example of a rich moved sections set please see the very end of [the transformers Trainer doc](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/docs/source/en/main_classes/trainer.md).
+
+### Adding a new tutorial
+
+Adding a new tutorial or section is done in two steps:
+
+- Add a new file under `./source`. This file can either be ReStructuredText (.rst) or Markdown (.md).
+- Link that file in `./source/_toctree.yml` on the correct toc-tree.
+
+Make sure to put your new file under the proper section. If you have a doubt, feel free to ask in a Github Issue or PR.
+
+### Writing source documentation
+
+Values that should be put in `code` should either be surrounded by backticks: \`like so\`. Note that argument names
+and objects like True, None or any strings should usually be put in `code`.
+
+#### Writing a multi-line code block
+
+Multi-line code blocks can be useful for displaying examples. They are done between two lines of three backticks as usual in Markdown:
+
+
+````
+```
+# first line of code
+# second line
+# etc
+```
+````
+
+#### Adding an image
+
+Due to the rapidly growing repository, it is important to make sure that no files that would significantly weigh down the repository are added. This includes images, videos, and other non-text files. We prefer to leverage a hf.co hosted `dataset` like
+the ones hosted on [`hf-internal-testing`](https://huggingface.co/hf-internal-testing) in which to place these files and reference
+them by URL. We recommend putting them in the following dataset: [huggingface/documentation-images](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images).
+If an external contribution, feel free to add the images to your PR and ask a Hugging Face member to migrate your images
+to this dataset.

docs/source/_toctree.yml

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+- sections:
+  - local: index
+    title: LeRobot
+  - local: installation
+    title: Installation
+  title: Get started
+- sections:
+  - local: il_robots
+    title: Imitation Learning for Robots
+  - local: il_sim
+    title: Imitation Learning in Sim
+  - local: cameras
+    title: Cameras
+  - local: integrate_hardware
+    title: Bring Your Own Hardware
+  - local: hilserl
+    title: Train a Robot with RL
+  - local: hilserl_sim
+    title: Train RL in Simulation
+  title: "Tutorials"
+- sections:
+  - local: smolvla
+    title: Finetune SmolVLA
+  title: "Policies"
+- sections:
+  - local: so101
+    title: SO-101
+  - local: so100
+    title: SO-100
+  - local: koch
+    title: Koch v1.1
+  - local: lekiwi
+    title: LeKiwi
+  title: "Robots"
+- sections:
+  - local: notebooks
+    title: Notebooks
+  title: "Resources"
+- sections:
+  - local: contributing
+    title: Contribute to LeRobot
+  - local: backwardcomp
+    title: Backward compatibility
+  title: "About"

docs/source/backwardcomp.mdx

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+# Backward compatibility
+
+## Hardware API redesign
+
+PR [#777](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/pull/777) improves the LeRobot calibration but is **not backward-compatible**. Below is a overview of what changed and how you can continue to work with datasets created before this pull request.
+
+### What changed?
+
+|                                   | Before PR #777                                    | After PR #777                                                               |
+| --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **Joint range**                   | Degrees `-180...180°`                              | **Normalised range** Joints: `–100...100` Gripper: `0...100` |
+| **Zero position (SO100 / SO101)** | Arm fully extended horizontally                   | **In middle of the range for each joint**                                        |
+| **Boundary handling**             | Software safeguards to detect ±180 ° wrap-arounds | No wrap-around logic needed due to mid-range zero                           |
+
+---
+
+### Impact on existing datasets
+
+* Recorded trajectories created **before** PR #777 will replay incorrectly if loaded directly:
+  * Joint angles are offset and incorrectly normalized.
+* Any models directly finetuned or trained on the old data will need their inputs and outputs converted.
+
+### Using datasets made with the previous calibration system
+We provide a migration example script for replaying an episode recorded with the previous calibration here: `examples/backward_compatibility/replay.py`.
+Below we take you through the modifications that are done in the example script to make the previous calibration datasets work.
+
+```diff
++   key = f"{name.removeprefix('main_')}.pos"
+    action[key] = action_array[i].item()
++   action["shoulder_lift.pos"] = -(action["shoulder_lift.pos"] - 90)
++   action["elbow_flex.pos"] -= 90
+```
+
+Let's break this down.
+New codebase uses `.pos` suffix for the position observations and we have removed `main_` prefix:
+```python
+key = f"{name.removeprefix('main_')}.pos"
+```
+
+For `"shoulder_lift"` (id = 2), the 0 position is changed by -90 degrees and the direction is reversed compared to old calibration/code.
+```python
+action["shoulder_lift.pos"] = -(action["shoulder_lift.pos"] - 90)
+```
+For `"elbow_flex"` (id = 3), the 0 position is changed by -90 degrees compared to old calibration/code.
+```python
+action["elbow_flex.pos"] -= 90
+```
+
+To use degrees normalization we then set the `--robot.use_degrees` option to `true`.
+```diff
+python examples/backward_compatibility/replay.py \
+    --robot.type=so101_follower \
+    --robot.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem5A460814411 \
+    --robot.id=blue \
++   --robot.use_degrees=true \
+    --dataset.repo_id=my_dataset_id \
+    --dataset.episode=0
+```
+
+### Using policies trained with the previous calibration system
+
+Policies output actions in the same format as the datasets (`torch.Tensors`). Therefore, the same transformations should be applied.
+
+To find these transformations, we recommend to first try and and replay an episode of the dataset your policy was trained on using the section above.
+Then, add these same transformations on your inference script (shown here in the `record.py` script):
+```diff
+action_values = predict_action(
+    observation_frame,
+    policy,
+    get_safe_torch_device(policy.config.device),
+    policy.config.use_amp,
+    task=single_task,
+    robot_type=robot.robot_type,
+    )
+    action = {key: action_values[i].item() for i, key in enumerate(robot.action_features)}
+
++   action["shoulder_lift.pos"] = -(action["shoulder_lift.pos"] - 90)
++   action["elbow_flex.pos"] -= 90
+    robot.send_action(action)
+```
+
+If you have questions or run into migration issues, feel free to ask them on [Discord](https://discord.gg/s3KuuzsPFb)

docs/source/cameras.mdx

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+# Cameras
+
+LeRobot offers multiple options for video capture, including phone cameras, built-in laptop cameras, external webcams, and Intel RealSense cameras. To efficiently record frames from most cameras, you can use either the `OpenCVCamera` or `RealSenseCamera` class. For additional compatibility details on the `OpenCVCamera` class, refer to the [Video I/O with OpenCV Overview](https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/d0/da7/videoio_overview.html).
+
+### Finding your camera
+
+To instantiate a camera, you need a camera identifier. This identifier might change if you reboot your computer or re-plug your camera, a behavior mostly dependant on your operating system.
+
+To find the camera indices of the cameras plugged into your system, run the following script:
+```bash
+python lerobot/find_cameras.py opencv # or realsense for Intel Realsense cameras
+```
+
+The output will look something like this if you have two cameras connected:
+```
+--- Detected Cameras ---
+Camera #0:
+  Name: OpenCV Camera @ 0
+  Type: OpenCV
+  Id: 0
+  Backend api: AVFOUNDATION
+  Default stream profile:
+    Format: 16.0
+    Width: 1920
+    Height: 1080
+    Fps: 15.0
+--------------------
+(more cameras ...)
+```
+
+> [!WARNING]
+> When using Intel RealSense cameras in `macOS`, you could get this [error](https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/12307): `Error finding RealSense cameras: failed to set power state`, this can be solved by running the same command with `sudo` permissions. Note that using RealSense cameras in `macOS` is unstable.
+
+
+## Use Cameras
+
+Below are two examples, demonstrating how to work with the API.
+
+- **Asynchronous frame capture** using an OpenCV-based camera
+- **Color and depth capture** using an Intel RealSense camera
+
+
+<hfoptions id="shell_restart">
+<hfoption id="Open CV Camera">
+
+```python
+from lerobot.common.cameras.opencv.configuration_opencv import OpenCVCameraConfig
+from lerobot.common.cameras.opencv.camera_opencv import OpenCVCamera
+from lerobot.common.cameras.configs import ColorMode, Cv2Rotation
+
+# Construct an `OpenCVCameraConfig` with your desired FPS, resolution, color mode, and rotation.
+config = OpenCVCameraConfig(
+    index_or_path=0,
+    fps=15,
+    width=1920,
+    height=1080,
+    color_mode=ColorMode.RGB,
+    rotation=Cv2Rotation.NO_ROTATION
+)
+
+# Instantiate and connect an `OpenCVCamera`, performing a warm-up read (default).
+camera = OpenCVCamera(config)
+camera.connect()
+
+# Read frames asynchronously in a loop via `async_read(timeout_ms)`
+try:
+    for i in range(10):
+        frame = camera.async_read(timeout_ms=200)
+        print(f"Async frame {i} shape:", frame.shape)
+finally:
+    camera.disconnect()
+```
+
+</hfoption>
+<hfoption id="Intel Realsense Camera">
+
+```python
+from lerobot.common.cameras.realsense.configuration_realsense import RealSenseCameraConfig
+from lerobot.common.cameras.realsense.camera_realsense import RealSenseCamera
+from lerobot.common.cameras.configs import ColorMode, Cv2Rotation
+
+# Create a `RealSenseCameraConfig` specifying your camera’s serial number and enabling depth.
+config = RealSenseCameraConfig(
+    serial_number_or_name="233522074606",
+    fps=15,
+    width=640,
+    height=480,
+    color_mode=ColorMode.RGB,
+    use_depth=True,
+    rotation=Cv2Rotation.NO_ROTATION
+)
+
+# Instantiate and connect a `RealSenseCamera` with warm-up read (default).
+camera = RealSenseCamera(config)
+camera.connect()
+
+# Capture a color frame via `read()` and a depth map via `read_depth()`.
+try:
+    color_frame = camera.read()
+    depth_map = camera.read_depth()
+    print("Color frame shape:", color_frame.shape)
+    print("Depth map shape:", depth_map.shape)
+finally:
+    camera.disconnect()
+```
+</hfoption>
+</hfoptions>
+
+
+## Use your phone
+<hfoptions id="use phone">
+<hfoption id="Mac">
+
+To use your iPhone as a camera on macOS, enable the Continuity Camera feature:
+- Ensure your Mac is running macOS 13 or later, and your iPhone is on iOS 16 or later.
+- Sign in both devices with the same Apple ID.
+- Connect your devices with a USB cable or turn on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for a wireless connection.
+
+For more details, visit [Apple support](https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl77879b8a/mac).
+
+Your iPhone should be detected automatically when running the camera setup script in the next section.
+
+</hfoption>
+<hfoption id="Linux">
+
+If you want to use your phone as a camera on Linux, follow these steps to set up a virtual camera
+
+1. *Install `v4l2loopback-dkms` and `v4l-utils`*. Those packages are required to create virtual camera devices (`v4l2loopback`) and verify their settings with the `v4l2-ctl` utility from `v4l-utils`. Install them using:
+```python
+sudo apt install v4l2loopback-dkms v4l-utils
+```
+2. *Install [DroidCam](https://droidcam.app) on your phone*. This app is available for both iOS and Android.
+3. *Install [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com)*. This software will help you manage the camera feed. Install it using [Flatpak](https://flatpak.org):
+```python
+flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio
+```
+4. *Install the DroidCam OBS plugin*. This plugin integrates DroidCam with OBS Studio. Install it with:
+```python
+flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio.Plugin.DroidCam
+```
+5. *Start OBS Studio*. Launch with:
+```python
+flatpak run com.obsproject.Studio
+```
+6. *Add your phone as a source*. Follow the instructions [here](https://droidcam.app/obs/usage). Be sure to set the resolution to `640x480`.
+7. *Adjust resolution settings*. In OBS Studio, go to `File > Settings > Video`. Change the `Base(Canvas) Resolution` and the `Output(Scaled) Resolution` to `640x480` by manually typing it in.
+8. *Start virtual camera*. In OBS Studio, follow the instructions [here](https://obsproject.com/kb/virtual-camera-guide).
+9. *Verify the virtual camera setup*. Use `v4l2-ctl` to list the devices:
+```python
+v4l2-ctl --list-devices
+```
+You should see an entry like:
+```
+VirtualCam (platform:v4l2loopback-000):
+/dev/video1
+```
+10. *Check the camera resolution*. Use `v4l2-ctl` to ensure that the virtual camera output resolution is `640x480`. Change `/dev/video1` to the port of your virtual camera from the output of `v4l2-ctl --list-devices`.
+```python
+v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video1 --get-fmt-video
+```
+You should see an entry like:
+```
+>>> Format Video Capture:
+>>>	Width/Height      : 640/480
+>>>	Pixel Format      : 'YUYV' (YUYV 4:2:2)
+```
+
+Troubleshooting: If the resolution is not correct you will have to delete the Virtual Camera port and try again as it cannot be changed.
+
+If everything is set up correctly, you can proceed with the rest of the tutorial.
+
+</hfoption>
+</hfoptions>

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+# HIL-SERL Real Robot Training Workflow Guide
+
+In this tutorial you will go through the full Human-in-the-Loop Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning (HIL-SERL) workflow using LeRobot. You will master training a policy with RL on a real robot in just a few hours.
+
+HIL-SERL is a sample-efficient reinforcement learning algorithm that combines human demonstrations with online learning and human interventions. The approach starts from a small set of human demonstrations, uses them to train a reward classifier, and then employs an actor-learner architecture where humans can intervene during policy execution to guide exploration and correct unsafe behaviors. In this tutorial, you'll use a gamepad to provide interventions and control the robot during the learning process.
+
+It combines three key ingredients:
+	1.	**Offline demonstrations & reward classifier:** a handful of human-teleop episodes plus a vision-based success detector give the policy a shaped starting point.
+	2.	**On-robot actor / learner loop with human interventions:** a distributed Soft Actor Critic (SAC) learner updates the policy while an actor explores on the physical robot; the human can jump in at any time to correct dangerous or unproductive behaviour.
+	3.	**Safety & efficiency tools:** joint/end-effector (EE) bounds, crop region of interest (ROI) preprocessing and WandB monitoring keep the data useful and the hardware safe.
+
+Together these elements let HIL-SERL reach near-perfect task success and faster cycle times than imitation-only baselines.
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/hilserl-main-figure.png" alt="HIL-SERL workflow" title="HIL-SERL workflow" width="100%"></img>
+</p>
+
+<p align="center"><i>HIL-SERL workflow, Luo et al. 2024</i></p>
+
+This guide provides step-by-step instructions for training a robot policy using LeRobot's HilSerl implementation to train on a real robot.
+
+## What do I need?
+
+- A gamepad (recommended) or keyboard to control the robot
+- A Nvidia GPU
+- A real robot with a follower and leader arm (optional if you use the keyboard or the gamepad)
+
+## What kind of tasks can I train?
+
+One can use HIL-SERL to train on a variety of manipulation tasks. Some recommendations:
+- Start with a simple task to understand how the system works.
+  - Push cube to a goal region
+  - Pick and lift cube with the gripper
+- Avoid extremely long horizon tasks. Focus on tasks that can be completed in 5-10 seconds.
+- Once you have a good idea of how the system works, you can try more complex tasks and longer horizons.
+  - Pick and place cube
+  - Bimanual tasks to pick objects with two arms
+  - Hand-over tasks to transfer objects from one arm to another
+  - Go crazy!
+
+## Install LeRobot with HIL-SERL
+
+To install LeRobot with HIL-SERL, you need to install the `hilserl` extra.
+
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[hilserl]"
+```
+
+## Real Robot Training Workflow
+
+### Understanding Configuration
+
+The training process begins with proper configuration for the HILSerl environment. The configuration class of interest is `HILSerlRobotEnvConfig` in `lerobot/common/envs/configs.py`. Which is defined as:
+
+```python
+class HILSerlRobotEnvConfig(EnvConfig):
+    robot: RobotConfig | None = None    # Main robot agent (defined in `lerobot/common/robots`)
+    teleop: TeleoperatorConfig | None = None    # Teleoperator agent, e.g., gamepad or leader arm, (defined in `lerobot/common/teleoperators`)
+    wrapper: EnvTransformConfig | None = None    # Environment wrapper settings; check `lerobot/scripts/server/gym_manipulator.py`
+    fps: int = 10    # Control frequency
+    name: str = "real_robot"    # Environment name
+    mode: str = None    # "record", "replay", or None (for training)
+    repo_id: str | None = None    # LeRobot dataset repository ID
+    dataset_root: str | None = None    # Local dataset root (optional)
+    task: str = ""    # Task identifier
+    num_episodes: int = 10    # Number of episodes for recording
+    episode: int = 0    # episode index for replay
+    device: str = "cuda"    # Compute device
+    push_to_hub: bool = True    # Whether to push the recorded datasets to Hub
+    pretrained_policy_name_or_path: str | None = None    # For policy loading
+    reward_classifier_pretrained_path: str | None = None    # For reward model
+    number_of_steps_after_success: int = 0    # For reward classifier, collect more positive examples after a success to train a classifier
+```
+
+
+### Finding Robot Workspace Bounds
+
+Before collecting demonstrations, you need to determine the appropriate operational bounds for your robot.
+
+This helps simplify the problem of learning on the real robot in two ways: 1) by limiting the robot's operational space to a specific region that solves the task and avoids unnecessary or unsafe exploration, and 2) by allowing training in end-effector space rather than joint space. Empirically, learning in joint space for reinforcement learning in manipulation is often a harder problem - some tasks are nearly impossible to learn in joint space but become learnable when the action space is transformed to end-effector coordinates.
+
+**Using find_joint_limits.py**
+
+This script helps you find the safe operational bounds for your robot's end-effector. Given that you have a follower and leader arm, you can use the script to find the bounds for the follower arm that will be applied during training.
+Bounding the action space will reduce the redundant exploration of the agent and guarantees safety.
+
+```bash
+python -m lerobot.scripts.find_joint_limits \
+    --robot.type=so100_follower \
+    --robot.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431541 \
+    --robot.id=black \
+    --teleop.type=so100_leader \
+    --teleop.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431551 \
+    --teleop.id=blue
+```
+
+**Workflow**
+
+1. Run the script and move the robot through the space that solves the task
+2. The script will record the minimum and maximum end-effector positions and the joint angles and prints them to the console, for example:
+   ```
+   Max ee position [0.2417 0.2012 0.1027]
+   Min ee position [0.1663 -0.0823 0.0336]
+   Max joint positions [-20.0, -20.0, -20.0, -20.0, -20.0, -20.0]
+   Min joint positions [50.0, 50.0, 50.0, 50.0, 50.0, 50.0]
+   ```
+3. Use these values in the configuration of your teleoperation device (TeleoperatorConfig) under the `end_effector_bounds` field
+
+**Example Configuration**
+
+```json
+"end_effector_bounds": {
+    "max": [0.24, 0.20, 0.10],
+    "min": [0.16, -0.08, 0.03]
+}
+```
+
+### Collecting Demonstrations
+
+With the bounds defined, you can safely collect demonstrations for training. Training RL with off-policy algorithm allows us to use offline datasets collected in order to improve the efficiency of the learning process.
+
+**Setting Up Record Mode**
+
+Create a configuration file for recording demonstrations (or edit an existing one like [env_config_so100.json](https://huggingface.co/datasets/aractingi/lerobot-example-config-files/blob/main/env_config_so100.json)):
+
+1. Set `mode` to `"record"`
+2. Specify a unique `repo_id` for your dataset (e.g., "username/task_name")
+3. Set `num_episodes` to the number of demonstrations you want to collect
+4. Set `crop_params_dict` to `null` initially (we'll determine crops later)
+5. Configure `robot`, `cameras`, and other hardware settings
+
+Example configuration section:
+```json
+"mode": "record",
+"repo_id": "username/pick_lift_cube",
+"dataset_root": null,
+"task": "pick_and_lift",
+"num_episodes": 15,
+"episode": 0,
+"push_to_hub": true
+```
+
+### Using a Teleoperation Device
+
+Along with your robot, you will need a teleoperation device to control it in order to collect datasets of your task and perform interventions during the online training.
+We support using a gamepad or a keyboard or the leader arm of the robot.
+
+HIL-Serl learns actions in the end-effector space of the robot. Therefore, the teleoperation will control the end-effector's x,y,z displacements.
+
+For that we need to define a version of the robot that takes actions in the end-effector space. Check the robot class `SO100FollowerEndEffector` and its configuration `SO100FollowerEndEffectorConfig` for the default parameters related to the end-effector space.
+
+```python
+class SO100FollowerEndEffectorConfig(SO100FollowerConfig):
+    """Configuration for the SO100FollowerEndEffector robot."""
+
+    # Default bounds for the end-effector position (in meters)
+    end_effector_bounds: dict[str, list[float]] = field( # bounds for the end-effector in x,y,z direction
+        default_factory=lambda: {
+            "min": [-1.0, -1.0, -1.0],  # min x, y, z
+            "max": [1.0, 1.0, 1.0],  # max x, y, z
+        }
+    )
+
+    max_gripper_pos: float = 50 # maximum gripper position that the gripper will be open at
+
+    end_effector_step_sizes: dict[str, float] = field( # maximum step size for the end-effector in x,y,z direction
+        default_factory=lambda: {
+            "x": 0.02,
+            "y": 0.02,
+            "z": 0.02,
+        }
+    )
+```
+
+The `Teleoperator` defines the teleoperation device. You can check the list of available teleoperators in `lerobot/common/teleoperators`.
+
+**Setting up the Gamepad**
+
+The gamepad provides a very convenient way to control the robot and the episode state.
+
+To setup the gamepad, you need to set the `control_mode` to `"gamepad"` and define the `teleop` section in the configuration file.
+
+```json
+    "teleop": {
+        "type": "gamepad",
+        "use_gripper": true
+    },
+```
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/gamepad_guide.jpg?raw=true" alt="Figure shows the control mappings on a Logitech gamepad." title="Gamepad Control Mapping" width="100%"></img>
+</p>
+<p align="center"><i>Gamepad button mapping for robot control and episode management</i></p>
+
+**Setting up the SO101 leader**
+
+The SO101 leader arm has reduced gears that allows it to move and track the follower arm during exploration. Therefore, taking over is much smoother than the gearless SO100.
+
+To setup the SO101 leader, you need to set the `control_mode` to `"leader"` and define the `teleop` section in the configuration file.
+
+```json
+    "teleop": {
+        "type": "so101_leader",
+        "port": "/dev/tty.usbmodem585A0077921", # check your port number
+        "use_degrees": true
+    },
+```
+
+In order to annotate the success/failure of the episode, **you will need** to use a keyboard to press `s` for success, `esc` for failure.
+During the online training, press `space` to take over the policy and `space` again to give the control back to the policy.
+
+<details>
+<summary><strong>Video: SO101 leader teleoperation</strong></summary>
+
+<div class="video-container">
+  <video controls width="600">
+    <source src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/so101_leader_tutorial.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
+  </video>
+</div>
+
+<p align="center"><i>SO101 leader teleoperation example, the leader tracks the follower, press `space` to intervene</i></p>
+</details>
+
+**Recording Demonstrations**
+
+Start the recording process, an example of the config file can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/aractingi/lerobot-example-config-files/blob/main/env_config_so100.json):
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/gym_manipulator.py --config_path lerobot/configs/env_config_so100.json
+```
+
+During recording:
+1. The robot will reset to the initial position defined in the configuration file `fixed_reset_joint_positions`
+2. Complete the task successfully
+3. The episode ends with a reward of 1 when you press the "success" button
+4. If the time limit is reached, or the fail button is pressed, the episode ends with a reward of 0
+5. You can rerecord an episode by pressing the "rerecord" button
+6. The process automatically continues to the next episode
+7. After recording all episodes, the dataset is pushed to the Hugging Face Hub (optional) and saved locally
+
+
+### Processing the Dataset
+
+After collecting demonstrations, process them to determine optimal camera crops.
+Reinforcement learning is sensitive to background distractions, so it is important to crop the images to the relevant workspace area.
+
+Visual RL algorithms learn directly from pixel inputs, making them vulnerable to irrelevant visual information. Background elements like changing lighting, shadows, people moving, or objects outside the workspace can confuse the learning process. Good ROI selection should:
+- Include only the essential workspace where the task happens
+- Capture the robot's end-effector and all objects involved in the task
+- Exclude unnecessary background elements and distractions
+
+Note: If you already know the crop parameters, you can skip this step and just set the `crop_params_dict` in the configuration file during recording.
+
+**Determining Crop Parameters**
+
+Use the `crop_dataset_roi.py` script to interactively select regions of interest in your camera images:
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/crop_dataset_roi.py --repo-id username/pick_lift_cube
+```
+
+1. For each camera view, the script will display the first frame
+2. Draw a rectangle around the relevant workspace area
+3. Press 'c' to confirm the selection
+4. Repeat for all camera views
+5. The script outputs cropping parameters and creates a new cropped dataset
+
+Example output:
+```
+Selected Rectangular Regions of Interest (top, left, height, width):
+observation.images.side: [180, 207, 180, 200]
+observation.images.front: [180, 250, 120, 150]
+```
+
+<p align="center">
+<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/crop_dataset.gif" width="600"/>
+</p>
+
+<p align="center"><i>Interactive cropping tool for selecting regions of interest</i></p>
+
+
+**Updating Configuration**
+
+Add these crop parameters to your training configuration:
+
+```json
+"crop_params_dict": {
+    "observation.images.side": [180, 207, 180, 200],
+    "observation.images.front": [180, 250, 120, 150]
+},
+"resize_size": [128, 128]
+```
+
+**Recommended image resolution**
+
+Most vision-based policies have been validated on square inputs of either **128×128** (default) or **64×64** pixels.  We therefore advise setting the resize_size parameter to [128, 128] – or [64, 64] if you need to save GPU memory and bandwidth.  Other resolutions are possible but have not been extensively tested.
+
+
+### Training a Reward Classifier
+
+The reward classifier plays an important role in the HIL-SERL workflow by automating reward assignment and automatically detecting episode success. Instead of manually defining reward functions or relying on human feedback for every timestep, the reward classifier learns to predict success/failure from visual observations. This enables the RL algorithm to learn efficiently by providing consistent and automated reward signals based on the robot's camera inputs.
+
+This guide explains how to train a reward classifier for human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning implementation of LeRobot. Reward classifiers learn to predict the reward value given a state which can be used in an RL setup to train a policy.
+
+**Note**: Training a reward classifier is optional. You can start the first round of RL experiments by annotating the success manually with your gamepad or keyboard device.
+
+The reward classifier implementation in `modeling_classifier.py` uses a pretrained vision model to process the images. It can output either a single value for binary rewards to predict success/fail cases or multiple values for multi-class settings.
+
+**Collecting a Dataset for the reward classifier**
+
+Before training, you need to collect a dataset with labeled examples. The `record_dataset` function in `gym_manipulator.py` enables the process of collecting a dataset of observations, actions, and rewards.
+
+To collect a dataset, you need to modify some parameters in the environment configuration based on HILSerlRobotEnvConfig.
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/gym_manipulator.py --config_path lerobot/configs/reward_classifier_train_config.json
+```
+
+**Key Parameters for Data Collection**
+
+- **mode**: set it to `"record"` to collect a dataset
+- **repo_id**: `"hf_username/dataset_name"`, name of the dataset and repo on the hub
+- **num_episodes**: Number of episodes to record
+- **number_of_steps_after_success**: Number of additional frames to record after a success (reward=1) is detected
+- **fps**: Number of frames per second to record
+- **push_to_hub**: Whether to push the dataset to the hub
+
+The `number_of_steps_after_success` parameter is crucial as it allows you to collect more positive examples. When a success is detected, the system will continue recording for the specified number of steps while maintaining the reward=1 label. Otherwise, there won't be enough states in the dataset labeled to 1 to train a good classifier.
+
+Example configuration section for data collection:
+
+```json
+{
+    "mode": "record",
+    "repo_id": "hf_username/dataset_name",
+    "dataset_root": "data/your_dataset",
+    "num_episodes": 20,
+    "push_to_hub": true,
+    "fps": 10,
+    "number_of_steps_after_success": 15
+}
+```
+
+**Reward Classifier Configuration**
+
+The reward classifier is configured using `configuration_classifier.py`. Here are the key parameters:
+
+- **model_name**: Base model architecture (e.g., we mainly use `"helper2424/resnet10"`)
+- **model_type**: `"cnn"` or `"transformer"`
+- **num_cameras**: Number of camera inputs
+- **num_classes**: Number of output classes (typically 2 for binary success/failure)
+- **hidden_dim**: Size of hidden representation
+- **dropout_rate**: Regularization parameter
+- **learning_rate**: Learning rate for optimizer
+
+Example configuration for training the [reward classifier](https://huggingface.co/datasets/aractingi/lerobot-example-config-files/blob/main/reward_classifier_train_config.json):
+
+```json
+{
+  "policy": {
+    "type": "reward_classifier",
+    "model_name": "helper2424/resnet10",
+    "model_type": "cnn",
+    "num_cameras": 2,
+    "num_classes": 2,
+    "hidden_dim": 256,
+    "dropout_rate": 0.1,
+    "learning_rate": 1e-4,
+    "device": "cuda",
+    "use_amp": true,
+    "input_features": {
+      "observation.images.front": {
+        "type": "VISUAL",
+        "shape": [3, 128, 128]
+      },
+      "observation.images.side": {
+        "type": "VISUAL",
+        "shape": [3, 128, 128]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+**Training the Classifier**
+
+To train the classifier, use the `train.py` script with your configuration:
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py --config_path path/to/reward_classifier_train_config.json
+```
+
+**Deploying and Testing the Model**
+
+To use your trained reward classifier, configure the `HILSerlRobotEnvConfig` to use your model:
+
+```python
+env_config = HILSerlRobotEnvConfig(
+    reward_classifier_pretrained_path="path_to_your_pretrained_trained_model",
+    # Other environment parameters
+)
+```
+or set the argument in the json config file.
+
+```json
+{
+    "reward_classifier_pretrained_path": "path_to_your_pretrained_model"
+}
+```
+
+Run `gym_manipulator.py` to test the model.
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/gym_manipulator.py --config_path path/to/env_config.json
+```
+
+The reward classifier will automatically provide rewards based on the visual input from the robot's cameras.
+
+**Example Workflow for training the reward classifier**
+
+1. **Create the configuration files**:
+   Create the necessary json configuration files for the reward classifier and the environment. Check the examples [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/aractingi/lerobot-example-config-files/tree/main).
+
+2. **Collect a dataset**:
+   ```bash
+   python lerobot/scripts/rl/gym_manipulator.py --config_path lerobot/configs/env_config.json
+   ```
+
+3. **Train the classifier**:
+   ```bash
+   python lerobot/scripts/train.py --config_path lerobot/configs/reward_classifier_train_config.json
+   ```
+
+4. **Test the classifier**:
+   ```bash
+   python lerobot/scripts/rl/gym_manipulator.py --config_path lerobot/configs/env_config.json
+   ```
+
+### Training with Actor-Learner
+
+The LeRobot system uses a distributed actor-learner architecture for training. This architecture decouples robot interactions from the learning process, allowing them to run concurrently without blocking each other. The actor server handles robot observations and actions, sending interaction data to the learner server. The learner server performs gradient descent and periodically updates the actor's policy weights. You will need to start two processes: a learner and an actor.
+
+**Configuration Setup**
+
+Create a training configuration file (example available [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/aractingi/lerobot-example-config-files/blob/main/train_config_hilserl_so100.json)). The training config is based on the main `TrainRLServerPipelineConfig` class in `lerobot/configs/train.py`.
+
+1. Configure the policy settings (`type="sac"`, `device`, etc.)
+2. Set `dataset` to your cropped dataset
+3. Configure environment settings with crop parameters
+4. Check the other parameters related to SAC in [configuration_sac.py](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/19bb621a7d0a31c20cd3cc08b1dbab68d3031454/lerobot/common/policies/sac/configuration_sac.py#L79).
+5. Verify that the `policy` config is correct with the right `input_features` and `output_features` for your task.
+
+**Starting the Learner**
+
+First, start the learner server process:
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/learner.py --config_path lerobot/configs/train_config_hilserl_so100.json
+```
+
+The learner:
+- Initializes the policy network
+- Prepares replay buffers
+- Opens a `gRPC` server to communicate with actors
+- Processes transitions and updates the policy
+
+**Starting the Actor**
+
+In a separate terminal, start the actor process with the same configuration:
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/actor.py --config_path lerobot/configs/train_config_hilserl_so100.json
+```
+
+The actor:
+- Connects to the learner via `gRPC`
+- Initializes the environment
+- Execute rollouts of the policy to collect experience
+- Sends transitions to the learner
+- Receives updated policy parameters
+
+**Training Flow**
+
+The training proceeds automatically:
+
+1. The actor executes the policy in the environment
+2. Transitions are collected and sent to the learner
+3. The learner updates the policy based on these transitions
+4. Updated policy parameters are sent back to the actor
+5. The process continues until the specified step limit is reached
+
+**Human in the Loop**
+
+- The key to learning efficiently is to have human interventions to provide corrective feedback and completing the task to aide the policy learning and exploration.
+- To perform human interventions, you can press the upper right trigger button on the gamepad (or the `space` key on the keyboard). This will pause the policy actions and allow you to take over.
+- A successful experiment is one where the human has to intervene at the start but then reduces the amount of interventions as the policy improves. You can monitor the intervention rate in the `wandb` dashboard.
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/hil_effect.png?raw=true" alt="Figure shows the control mappings on a Logitech gamepad." title="Gamepad Control Mapping" width="100%"></img>
+</p>
+
+<p align="center"><i>Example showing how human interventions help guide policy learning over time</i></p>
+
+- The figure shows the plot of the episodic reward over interaction step. The figure shows the effect of human interventions on the policy learning.
+- The orange curve is an experiment without any human interventions. While the pink and blue curves are experiments with human interventions.
+- We can observe that the number of steps where the policy starts achieving the maximum reward is cut by a quarter when human interventions are present.
+
+**Monitoring and Debugging**
+
+If you have `wandb.enable` set to `true` in your configuration, you can monitor training progress in real-time through the [Weights & Biases](https://wandb.ai/site/) dashboard.
+
+### Guide to Human Interventions
+The learning process is very sensitive to the intervention strategy. It will takes a few runs to understand how to intervene effectively. Some tips and hints:
+- Allow the policy to explore for a few episodes at the start of training.
+- Avoid intervening for long periods of time. Try to intervene in situation to correct the robot's behaviour when it goes off track.
+- Once the policy starts achieving the task, even if its not perfect, you can limit your interventions to simple quick actions like a simple grasping commands.
+
+The ideal behaviour is that your intervention rate should drop gradually during training as shown in the figure below.
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/intervention_rate_tutorial_rl.png?raw=true" alt="Intervention rate" title="Intervention rate during training" width="100%"></img>
+</p>
+
+<p align="center"><i>Plot of the intervention rate during a training run on a pick and lift cube task</i></p>
+
+### Key hyperparameters to tune
+
+Some configuration values have a disproportionate impact on training stability and speed:
+
+- **`temperature_init`** (`policy.temperature_init`) – initial entropy temperature in SAC. Higher values encourage more exploration; lower values make the policy more deterministic early on. A good starting point is `1e-2`. We observed that setting it too high can make human interventions ineffective and slow down learning.
+- **`policy_parameters_push_frequency`** (`policy.actor_learner_config.policy_parameters_push_frequency`) – interval in *seconds* between two weight pushes from the learner to the actor. The default is `4 s`. Decrease to **1-2 s** to provide fresher weights (at the cost of more network traffic); increase only if your connection is slow, as this will reduce sample efficiency.
+- **`storage_device`** (`policy.storage_device`) – device on which the learner keeps the policy parameters. If you have spare GPU memory, set this to `"cuda"` (instead of the default `"cpu"`). Keeping the weights on-GPU removes CPU→GPU transfer overhead and can significantly increase the number of learner updates per second.
+
+
+Congrats 🎉, you have finished this tutorial!
+
+> [!TIP]
+>  If you have any questions or need help, please reach out on [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/s3KuuzsPFb).
+
+Paper citation:
+```
+@article{luo2024precise,
+  title={Precise and Dexterous Robotic Manipulation via Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning},
+  author={Luo, Jianlan and Xu, Charles and Wu, Jeffrey and Levine, Sergey},
+  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21845},
+  year={2024}
+}
+```

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+# Train RL in Simulation
+
+This guide explains how to use the `gym_hil` simulation environments as an alternative to real robots when working with the LeRobot framework for Human-In-the-Loop (HIL) reinforcement learning.
+
+`gym_hil` is a package that provides Gymnasium-compatible simulation environments specifically designed for Human-In-the-Loop reinforcement learning. These environments allow you to:
+
+- Train policies in simulation to test the RL stack before training on real robots
+
+- Collect demonstrations in sim using external devices like gamepads or keyboards
+- Perform human interventions during policy learning
+
+Currently, the main environment is a Franka Panda robot simulation based on MuJoCo, with tasks like picking up a cube.
+
+
+## Installation
+
+First, install the `gym_hil` package within the LeRobot environment:
+
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[hilserl]"
+```
+
+## What do I need?
+
+- A gamepad or keyboard to control the robot
+- A Nvidia GPU
+
+
+
+## Configuration
+
+To use `gym_hil` with LeRobot, you need to create a configuration file. An example is provided [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/aractingi/lerobot-example-config-files/blob/main/gym_hil_env.json). Key configuration sections include:
+
+### Environment Type and Task
+
+```json
+{
+    "type": "hil",
+    "name": "franka_sim",
+    "task": "PandaPickCubeGamepad-v0",
+    "device": "cuda"
+}
+```
+
+Available tasks:
+- `PandaPickCubeBase-v0`: Basic environment
+- `PandaPickCubeGamepad-v0`: With gamepad control
+- `PandaPickCubeKeyboard-v0`: With keyboard control
+
+### Gym Wrappers Configuration
+
+```json
+"wrapper": {
+    "gripper_penalty": -0.02,
+    "control_time_s": 15.0,
+    "use_gripper": true,
+    "fixed_reset_joint_positions": [0.0, 0.195, 0.0, -2.43, 0.0, 2.62, 0.785],
+    "end_effector_step_sizes": {
+        "x": 0.025,
+        "y": 0.025,
+        "z": 0.025
+    },
+    "control_mode": "gamepad"
+    }
+```
+
+Important parameters:
+- `gripper_penalty`: Penalty for excessive gripper movement
+- `use_gripper`: Whether to enable gripper control
+- `end_effector_step_sizes`: Size of the steps in the x,y,z axes of the end-effector
+- `control_mode`: Set to `"gamepad"` to use a gamepad controller
+
+## Running with HIL RL of LeRobot
+
+### Basic Usage
+
+To run the environment, set mode to null:
+
+```python
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/gym_manipulator.py --config_path path/to/gym_hil_env.json
+```
+
+### Recording a Dataset
+
+To collect a dataset, set the mode to `record` whilst defining the repo_id and number of episodes to record:
+
+```python
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/gym_manipulator.py --config_path path/to/gym_hil_env.json
+```
+
+### Training a Policy
+
+To train a policy, checkout the configuration example available [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/aractingi/lerobot-example-config-files/blob/main/train_gym_hil_env.json) and run the actor and learner servers:
+
+```python
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/actor.py --config_path path/to/train_gym_hil_env.json
+```
+
+In a different terminal, run the learner server:
+
+```python
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/learner.py --config_path path/to/train_gym_hil_env.json
+```
+
+The simulation environment provides a safe and repeatable way to develop and test your Human-In-the-Loop reinforcement learning components before deploying to real robots.
+
+Congrats 🎉, you have finished this tutorial!
+
+> [!TIP]
+>  If you have any questions or need help, please reach out on [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/s3KuuzsPFb).
+
+Paper citation:
+```
+@article{luo2024precise,
+  title={Precise and Dexterous Robotic Manipulation via Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning},
+  author={Luo, Jianlan and Xu, Charles and Wu, Jeffrey and Levine, Sergey},
+  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21845},
+  year={2024}
+}
+```

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+# Imitation Learning on Real-World Robots
+
+This tutorial will explain how to train a neural network to control a real robot autonomously.
+
+**You'll learn:**
+1. How to record and visualize your dataset.
+2. How to train a policy using your data and prepare it for evaluation.
+3. How to evaluate your policy and visualize the results.
+
+By following these steps, you'll be able to replicate tasks, such as picking up a Lego block and placing it in a bin with a high success rate, as shown in the video below.
+
+<details>
+<summary><strong>Video: pickup lego block task</strong></summary>
+
+<div class="video-container">
+  <video controls width="600">
+    <source src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/lerobot_task.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
+  </video>
+</div>
+
+</details>
+
+This tutorial isn’t tied to a specific robot: we walk you through the commands and API snippets you can adapt for any supported platform.
+
+During data collection, you’ll use a “teloperation” device, such as a leader arm or keyboard to teleoperate the robot and record its motion trajectories.
+
+Once you’ve gathered enough trajectories, you’ll train a neural network to imitate these trajectories and deploy the trained model so your robot can perform the task autonomously.
+
+If you run into any issues at any point, jump into our [Discord community](https://discord.com/invite/s3KuuzsPFb) for support.
+
+## Set up and Calibrate
+
+If you haven't yet set up and calibrated your robot and teleop device, please do so by following the robot-specific tutorial.
+
+## Teleoperate
+
+In this example, we’ll demonstrate how to teleoperate the SO101 robot. For each command, we also provide a corresponding API example.
+
+Note that the `id` associated with a robot is used to store the calibration file. It's important to use the same `id` when teleoperating, recording, and evaluating when using the same setup.
+
+<hfoptions id="teleoperate_so101">
+<hfoption id="Command">
+```bash
+python -m lerobot.teleoperate \
+    --robot.type=so101_follower \
+    --robot.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431541 \
+    --robot.id=my_awesome_follower_arm \
+    --teleop.type=so101_leader \
+    --teleop.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431551 \
+    --teleop.id=my_awesome_leader_arm
+```
+</hfoption>
+<hfoption id="API example">
+```python
+from lerobot.common.teleoperators.so101_leader import SO101LeaderConfig, SO101Leader
+from lerobot.common.robots.so101_follower import SO101FollowerConfig, SO101Follower
+
+robot_config = SO101FollowerConfig(
+    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431541",
+    id="my_red_robot_arm",
+)
+
+teleop_config = SO101LeaderConfig(
+    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431551",
+    id="my_blue_leader_arm",
+)
+
+robot = SO101Follower(robot_config)
+teleop_device = SO101Leader(teleop_config)
+robot.connect()
+teleop_device.connect()
+
+while True:
+    action = teleop_device.get_action()
+    robot.send_action(action)
+```
+</hfoption>
+</hfoptions>
+
+The teleoperate command will automatically:
+1. Identify any missing calibrations and initiate the calibration procedure.
+2. Connect the robot and teleop device and start teleoperation.
+
+## Cameras
+
+To add cameras to your setup, follow this [Guide](./cameras#setup-cameras).
+
+## Teleoperate with cameras
+
+With `rerun`, you can teleoperate again while simultaneously visualizing the camera feeds and joint positions. In this example, we’re using the Koch arm.
+
+<hfoptions id="teleoperate_koch_camera">
+<hfoption id="Command">
+```bash
+python -m lerobot.teleoperate \
+    --robot.type=koch_follower \
+    --robot.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431541 \
+    --robot.id=my_awesome_follower_arm \
+    --robot.cameras="{ front: {type: opencv, index_or_path: 0, width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 30}}" \
+    --teleop.type=koch_leader \
+    --teleop.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431551 \
+    --teleop.id=my_awesome_leader_arm \
+    --display_data=true
+```
+</hfoption>
+<hfoption id="API example">
+```python
+from lerobot.common.cameras.opencv.configuration_opencv import OpenCVCameraConfig
+from lerobot.common.teleoperators.koch_leader import KochLeaderConfig, KochLeader
+from lerobot.common.robots.koch_follower import KochFollowerConfig, KochFollower
+
+camera_config = {
+    "front": OpenCVCameraConfig(index_or_path=0, width=1920, height=1080, fps=30)
+}
+
+robot_config = KochFollowerConfig(
+    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem585A0076841",
+    id="my_red_robot_arm",
+    cameras=camera_config
+)
+
+teleop_config = KochLeaderConfig(
+    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431551",
+    id="my_blue_leader_arm",
+)
+
+robot = KochFollower(robot_config)
+teleop_device = KochLeader(teleop_config)
+robot.connect()
+teleop_device.connect()
+
+while True:
+    observation = robot.get_observation()
+    action = teleop_device.get_action()
+    robot.send_action(action)
+```
+</hfoption>
+</hfoptions>
+
+## Record a dataset
+
+Once you're familiar with teleoperation, you can record your first dataset.
+
+We use the Hugging Face hub features for uploading your dataset. If you haven't previously used the Hub, make sure you can login via the cli using a write-access token, this token can be generated from the [Hugging Face settings](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens).
+
+Add your token to the CLI by running this command:
+```bash
+huggingface-cli login --token ${HUGGINGFACE_TOKEN} --add-to-git-credential
+```
+
+Then store your Hugging Face repository name in a variable:
+```bash
+HF_USER=$(huggingface-cli whoami | head -n 1)
+echo $HF_USER
+```
+
+Now you can record a dataset. To record 2 episodes and upload your dataset to the hub, execute this command tailored to the SO101.
+```bash
+python -m lerobot.record \
+    --robot.type=so101_follower \
+    --robot.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem585A0076841 \
+    --robot.id=my_awesome_follower_arm \
+    --robot.cameras="{ front: {type: opencv, index_or_path: 0, width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 30}}" \
+    --teleop.type=so101_leader \
+    --teleop.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431551 \
+    --teleop.id=my_awesome_leader_arm \
+    --display_data=true \
+    --dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/record-test \
+    --dataset.num_episodes=2 \
+    --dataset.single_task="Grab the black cube"
+```
+
+#### Dataset upload
+Locally, your dataset is stored in this folder: `~/.cache/huggingface/lerobot/{repo-id}`. At the end of data recording, your dataset will be uploaded on your Hugging Face page (e.g. https://huggingface.co/datasets/cadene/so101_test) that you can obtain by running:
+```bash
+echo https://huggingface.co/datasets/${HF_USER}/so101_test
+```
+Your dataset will be automatically tagged with `LeRobot` for the community to find it easily, and you can also add custom tags (in this case `tutorial` for example).
+
+You can look for other LeRobot datasets on the hub by searching for `LeRobot` [tags](https://huggingface.co/datasets?other=LeRobot).
+
+#### Record function
+
+The `record` function provides a suite of tools for capturing and managing data during robot operation:
+
+##### 1. Data Storage
+- Data is stored using the `LeRobotDataset` format and is stored on disk during recording.
+- By default, the dataset is pushed to your Hugging Face page after recording.
+  - To disable uploading, use `--dataset.push_to_hub=False`.
+
+##### 2. Checkpointing and Resuming
+- Checkpoints are automatically created during recording.
+- If an issue occurs, you can resume by re-running the same command with `--control.resume=true`.
+- To start recording from scratch, **manually delete** the dataset directory.
+
+##### 3. Recording Parameters
+Set the flow of data recording using command-line arguments:
+- `--dataset.episode_time_s=60`
+  Duration of each data recording episode (default: **60 seconds**).
+- `--dataset.reset_time_s=60`
+  Duration for resetting the environment after each episode (default: **60 seconds**).
+- `--dataset.num_episodes=50`
+  Total number of episodes to record (default: **50**).
+
+##### 4. Keyboard Controls During Recording
+Control the data recording flow using keyboard shortcuts:
+- Press **Right Arrow (`→`)**: Early stop the current episode or reset time and move to the next.
+- Press **Left Arrow (`←`)**: Cancel the current episode and re-record it.
+- Press **Escape (`ESC`)**: Immediately stop the session, encode videos, and upload the dataset.
+
+#### Tips for gathering data
+
+Once you're comfortable with data recording, you can create a larger dataset for training. A good starting task is grasping an object at different locations and placing it in a bin. We suggest recording at least 50 episodes, with 10 episodes per location. Keep the cameras fixed and maintain consistent grasping behavior throughout the recordings. Also make sure the object you are manipulating is visible on the camera's. A good rule of thumb is you should be able to do the task yourself by only looking at the camera images.
+
+In the following sections, you’ll train your neural network. After achieving reliable grasping performance, you can start introducing more variations during data collection, such as additional grasp locations, different grasping techniques, and altering camera positions.
+
+Avoid adding too much variation too quickly, as it may hinder your results.
+
+If you want to dive deeper into this important topic, you can check out the [blog post](https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-datasets#what-makes-a-good-dataset) we wrote on what makes a good dataset.
+
+
+#### Troubleshooting:
+- On Linux, if the left and right arrow keys and escape key don't have any effect during data recording, make sure you've set the `$DISPLAY` environment variable. See [pynput limitations](https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/limitations.html#linux).
+
+## Visualize a dataset
+
+If you uploaded your dataset to the hub with `--control.push_to_hub=true`, you can [visualize your dataset online](https://huggingface.co/spaces/lerobot/visualize_dataset) by copy pasting your repo id given by:
+```bash
+echo ${HF_USER}/so101_test
+```
+
+## Replay an episode
+
+A useful feature is the `replay` function, which allows you to replay any episode that you've recorded or episodes from any dataset out there. This function helps you test the repeatability of your robot's actions and assess transferability across robots of the same model.
+
+You can replay the first episode on your robot with:
+```bash
+python -m lerobot.replay \
+    --robot.type=so101_follower \
+    --robot.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431541 \
+    --robot.id=my_awesome_follower_arm \
+    --dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/record-test \
+    --dataset.episode=0 # choose the episode you want to replay
+```
+
+Your robot should replicate movements similar to those you recorded. For example, check out [this video](https://x.com/RemiCadene/status/1793654950905680090) where we use `replay` on a Aloha robot from [Trossen Robotics](https://www.trossenrobotics.com).
+
+## Train a policy
+
+To train a policy to control your robot, use the [`python lerobot/scripts/train.py`](../lerobot/scripts/train.py) script. A few arguments are required. Here is an example command:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+  --dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/so101_test \
+  --policy.type=act \
+  --output_dir=outputs/train/act_so101_test \
+  --job_name=act_so101_test \
+  --policy.device=cuda \
+  --wandb.enable=true
+```
+
+Let's explain the command:
+1. We provided the dataset as argument with `--dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/so101_test`.
+2. We provided the policy with `policy.type=act`. This loads configurations from [`configuration_act.py`](../lerobot/common/policies/act/configuration_act.py). Importantly, this policy will automatically adapt to the number of motor states, motor actions and cameras of your robot (e.g. `laptop` and `phone`) which have been saved in your dataset.
+4. We provided `policy.device=cuda` since we are training on a Nvidia GPU, but you could use `policy.device=mps` to train on Apple silicon.
+5. We provided `wandb.enable=true` to use [Weights and Biases](https://docs.wandb.ai/quickstart) for visualizing training plots. This is optional but if you use it, make sure you are logged in by running `wandb login`.
+
+Training should take several hours. You will find checkpoints in `outputs/train/act_so101_test/checkpoints`.
+
+To resume training from a checkpoint, below is an example command to resume from `last` checkpoint of the `act_so101_test` policy:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+  --config_path=outputs/train/act_so101_test/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model/train_config.json \
+  --resume=true
+```
+
+#### Train using Collab
+If your local computer doesn't have a powerful GPU you could utilize Google Collab to train your model by following the [ACT training notebook](./notebooks#training-act).
+
+#### Upload policy checkpoints
+
+Once training is done, upload the latest checkpoint with:
+```bash
+huggingface-cli upload ${HF_USER}/act_so101_test \
+  outputs/train/act_so101_test/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model
+```
+
+You can also upload intermediate checkpoints with:
+```bash
+CKPT=010000
+huggingface-cli upload ${HF_USER}/act_so101_test${CKPT} \
+  outputs/train/act_so101_test/checkpoints/${CKPT}/pretrained_model
+```
+
+## Evaluate your policy
+
+You can use the `record` script from [`lerobot/record.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/record.py) but with a policy checkpoint as input. For instance, run this command to record 10 evaluation episodes:
+```bash
+python -m lerobot.record  \
+  --robot.type=so100_follower \
+  --robot.port=/dev/ttyACM1 \
+  --robot.cameras="{ up: {type: opencv, index_or_path: /dev/video10, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}, side: {type: intelrealsense, serial_number_or_name: 233522074606, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}}" \
+  --robot.id=my_awesome_follower_arm \
+  --display_data=false \
+  --dataset.repo_id=$HF_USER/eval_so100 \
+  --dataset.single_task="Put lego brick into the transparent box" \
+  --policy.path=${HF_USER}/my_policy
+```
+
+As you can see, it's almost the same command as previously used to record your training dataset. Two things changed:
+1. There is an additional `--control.policy.path` argument which indicates the path to your policy checkpoint with  (e.g. `outputs/train/eval_act_so101_test/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model`). You can also use the model repository if you uploaded a model checkpoint to the hub (e.g. `${HF_USER}/act_so101_test`).
+2. The name of dataset begins by `eval` to reflect that you are running inference (e.g. `${HF_USER}/eval_act_so101_test`).

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+# Imitation Learning in Sim
+
+This tutorial will explain how to train a neural network to control a robot in simulation with imitation learning.
+
+**You'll learn:**
+1. How to record a dataset in simulation with [gym-hil](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-hil) and visualize the dataset.
+2. How to train a policy using your data.
+3. How to evaluate your policy in simulation and visualize the results.
+
+For the simulation environment we use the same [repo](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-hil) that is also being used by the Human-In-the-Loop (HIL) reinforcement learning algorithm.
+This environment is based on [MuJoCo](https://mujoco.org) and allows you to record datasets in LeRobotDataset format.
+Teleoperation is easiest with a controller like the Logitech F710, but you can also use your keyboard if you are up for the challenge.
+
+## Installation
+
+First, install the `gym_hil` package within the LeRobot environment, go to your LeRobot folder and run this command:
+
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[hilserl]"
+```
+
+## Teleoperate and Record a Dataset
+
+To use `gym_hil` with LeRobot, you need to use a configuration file. An example config file can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/aractingi/lerobot-example-config-files/blob/main/env_config_gym_hil_il.json).
+
+To teleoperate and collect a dataset, we need to modify this config file and you should add your `repo_id` here: `"repo_id": "il_gym",` and `"num_episodes": 30,` and make sure you set `mode` to `record`, "mode": "record".
+
+If you do not have a Nvidia GPU also change `"device": "cuda"` parameter in the config file (for example to `mps` for MacOS).
+
+By default the config file assumes you use a controller. To use your keyboard please change the envoirment specified at `"task"` in the config file and set it to `"PandaPickCubeKeyboard-v0"`.
+
+Then we can run this command to start:
+
+<hfoptions id="teleop_sim">
+<hfoption id="Linux">
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/gym_manipulator.py --config_path path/to/env_config_gym_hil_il.json
+```
+
+</hfoption>
+<hfoption id="MacOS">
+
+```bash
+mjpython lerobot/scripts/rl/gym_manipulator.py --config_path path/to/env_config_gym_hil_il.json
+```
+
+</hfoption>
+</hfoptions>
+
+Once rendered you can teleoperate the robot with the gamepad or keyboard, below you can find the gamepad/keyboard controls.
+
+Note that to teleoperate the robot you have to hold the "Human Take Over Pause Policy" Button `RB` to enable control!
+
+**Gamepad Controls**
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/gamepad_guide.jpg?raw=true" alt="Figure shows the control mappings on a Logitech gamepad." title="Gamepad Control Mapping" width="100%"></img>
+</p>
+<p align="center"><i>Gamepad button mapping for robot control and episode management</i></p>
+
+**Keyboard controls**
+
+For keyboard controls use the `spacebar` to enable control and the following keys to move the robot:
+```bash
+  Arrow keys: Move in X-Y plane
+  Shift and Shift_R: Move in Z axis
+  Right Ctrl and Left Ctrl: Open and close gripper
+  ESC: Exit
+```
+
+## Visualize a dataset
+
+If you uploaded your dataset to the hub you can [visualize your dataset online](https://huggingface.co/spaces/lerobot/visualize_dataset) by copy pasting your repo id.
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/dataset_visualizer_sim.png" alt="Figure shows the dataset visualizer" title="Dataset visualization" width="100%"></img>
+</p>
+<p align="center"><i>Dataset visualizer</i></p>
+
+
+## Train a policy
+
+To train a policy to control your robot, use the [`python lerobot/scripts/train.py`](../lerobot/scripts/train.py) script. A few arguments are required. Here is an example command:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+  --dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/il_gym \
+  --policy.type=act \
+  --output_dir=outputs/train/il_sim_test \
+  --job_name=il_sim_test \
+  --policy.device=cuda \
+  --wandb.enable=true
+```
+
+Let's explain the command:
+1. We provided the dataset as argument with `--dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/il_gym`.
+2. We provided the policy with `policy.type=act`. This loads configurations from [`configuration_act.py`](../lerobot/common/policies/act/configuration_act.py). Importantly, this policy will automatically adapt to the number of motor states, motor actions and cameras of your robot (e.g. `laptop` and `phone`) which have been saved in your dataset.
+4. We provided `policy.device=cuda` since we are training on a Nvidia GPU, but you could use `policy.device=mps` to train on Apple silicon.
+5. We provided `wandb.enable=true` to use [Weights and Biases](https://docs.wandb.ai/quickstart) for visualizing training plots. This is optional but if you use it, make sure you are logged in by running `wandb login`.
+
+Training should take several hours, 100k steps (which is the default) will take about 1h on Nvidia A100. You will find checkpoints in `outputs/train/il_sim_test/checkpoints`.
+
+#### Train using Collab
+If your local computer doesn't have a powerful GPU you could utilize Google Collab to train your model by following the [ACT training notebook](./notebooks#training-act).
+
+#### Upload policy checkpoints
+
+Once training is done, upload the latest checkpoint with:
+```bash
+huggingface-cli upload ${HF_USER}/il_sim_test \
+  outputs/train/il_sim_test/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model
+```
+
+You can also upload intermediate checkpoints with:
+```bash
+CKPT=010000
+huggingface-cli upload ${HF_USER}/il_sim_test${CKPT} \
+  outputs/train/il_sim_test/checkpoints/${CKPT}/pretrained_model
+```
+
+## Evaluate your policy in Sim
+
+To evaluate your policy we have to use the config file that can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/aractingi/lerobot-example-config-files/blob/main/eval_config_gym_hil.json).
+
+Make sure to replace the `repo_id` with the dataset you trained on, for example `pepijn223/il_sim_dataset` and replace the `pretrained_policy_name_or_path` with your model id, for example `pepijn223/il_sim_model`
+
+Then you can run this command to visualize your trained policy
+
+<hfoptions id="eval_policy">
+<hfoption id="Linux">
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/rl/eval_policy.py --config_path=path/to/eval_config_gym_hil.json
+```
+
+</hfoption>
+<hfoption id="MacOS">
+
+```bash
+mjpython lerobot/scripts/rl/eval_policy.py --config_path=path/to/eval_config_gym_hil.json
+```
+
+</hfoption>
+</hfoptions>
+
+> [!WARNING]
+> While the main workflow of training ACT in simulation is straightforward, there is significant room for exploring  how to set up the task, define the initial state of the environment, and determine the type of data required during collection to learn the most effective policy. If your trained policy doesn't perform well, investigate the quality of the dataset it was trained on using our visualizers, as well as the action values and various hyperparameters related to ACT and the simulation.
+
+Congrats 🎉, you have finished this tutorial. If you want to continue with using LeRobot in simulation follow this [Tutorial on reinforcement learning in sim with HIL-SERL](https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/hilserl_sim)
+
+> [!TIP]
+>  If you have any questions or need help, please reach out on [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/s3KuuzsPFb).

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+<div class="flex justify-center">
+  <a target="_blank" href="https://huggingface.co/lerobot">
+      <img alt="HuggingFace Expert Acceleration Program" src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/lerobot-logo-thumbnail.png" style="width: 100%"></img>
+  </a>
+</div>
+
+# LeRobot
+
+**State-of-the-art machine learning for real-world robotics**
+
+🤗 LeRobot aims to provide models, datasets, and tools for real-world robotics in PyTorch. The goal is to lower the barrier for entry to robotics so that everyone can contribute and benefit from sharing datasets and pretrained models.
+
+🤗 LeRobot contains state-of-the-art approaches that have been shown to transfer to the real-world with a focus on imitation learning and reinforcement learning.
+
+🤗 LeRobot already provides a set of pretrained models, datasets with human collected demonstrations, and simulated environments so that everyone can get started.
+
+🤗 LeRobot hosts pretrained models and datasets on the LeRobot HuggingFace page.
+
+Join the LeRobot community on [Discord](https://discord.gg/s3KuuzsPFb)

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+# Installation
+
+## Install LeRobot
+
+Currently only available from source.
+
+Download our source code:
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot.git
+cd lerobot
+```
+
+Create a virtual environment with Python 3.10, using [`Miniconda`](https://docs.anaconda.com/miniconda/install/#quick-command-line-install)
+```bash
+conda create -y -n lerobot python=3.10
+```
+
+Then activate your conda environment, you have to do this each time you open a shell to use lerobot:
+```bash
+conda activate lerobot
+```
+
+When using `miniconda`, install `ffmpeg` in your environment:
+```bash
+conda install ffmpeg -c conda-forge
+```
+
+> [!TIP]
+> This usually installs `ffmpeg 7.X` for your platform compiled with the `libsvtav1` encoder. If `libsvtav1` is not supported (check supported encoders with `ffmpeg -encoders`), you can:
+>  - _[On any platform]_ Explicitly install `ffmpeg 7.X` using:
+>  ```bash
+>  conda install ffmpeg=7.1.1 -c conda-forge
+>  ```
+>  - _[On Linux only]_ If you want to bring your own ffmpeg: Install [ffmpeg build dependencies](https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu#GettheDependencies) and [compile ffmpeg from source with libsvtav1](https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu#libsvtav1), and make sure you use the corresponding ffmpeg binary to your install with `which ffmpeg`.
+
+Install 🤗 LeRobot:
+```bash
+pip install -e .
+```
+
+### Troubleshooting
+If you encounter build errors, you may need to install additional dependencies: `cmake`, `build-essential`, and `ffmpeg libs`.
+To install these for linux run:
+```bash
+sudo apt-get install cmake build-essential python-dev pkg-config libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libswresample-dev libavfilter-dev pkg-config
+```
+For other systems, see: [Compiling PyAV](https://pyav.org/docs/develop/overview/installation.html#bring-your-own-ffmpeg)
+
+## Optional dependencies
+
+LeRobot provides optional extras for specific functionalities. Multiple extras can be combined (e.g., `.[aloha,feetech]`). For all available extras, refer to `pyproject.toml`.
+
+### Simulations
+Install environment packages: `aloha` ([gym-aloha](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-aloha)), `xarm` ([gym-xarm](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-xarm)), or `pusht` ([gym-pusht](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-pusht))
+Example:
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[aloha]" # or "[pusht]" for example
+```
+
+### Motor Control
+For Koch v1.1 install the Dynamixel SDK, for SO100/SO101/Moss install the Feetech SDK.
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[feetech]" # or "[dynamixel]" for example
+```
+
+### Experiment Tracking
+To use [Weights and Biases](https://docs.wandb.ai/quickstart) for experiment tracking, log in with
+```bash
+wandb login
+```
+
+You can now assemble your robot if it's not ready yet, look for your robot type on the left. Then follow the link below to use Lerobot with your robot.

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+# Bring Your Own Hardware
+
+This tutorial will explain how to integrate your own robot design into the LeRobot ecosystem and have it access all of our tools (data collection, control pipelines, policy training and inference).
+
+To that end, we provide the [`Robot`](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/robots/robot.py) base class in the LeRobot which specifies a standard interface for physical robot integration. Let's see how to implement it.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- Your own robot which exposes a communication interface (e.g. serial, CAN, TCP)
+- A way to read sensor data and send motor commands programmatically, e.g. manufacturer's SDK or API, or your own protocol implementation.
+- LeRobot installed in your environment. Follow our [Installation Guide](./installation).
+
+## Choose your motors
+
+If you're using Feetech or Dynamixel motors, LeRobot provides built-in bus interfaces:
+
+- [`FeetechMotorsBus`](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/motors/feetech/feetech.py) – for controlling Feetech servos
+- [`DynamixelMotorsBus`](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/motors/dynamixel/dynamixel.py) – for controlling Dynamixel servos
+
+Please refer to the [`MotorsBus`](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/motors/motors_bus.py) abstract class to learn about its API.
+For a good example of how it can be used, you can have a look at our own [SO101 follower implementation](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/robots/so101_follower/so101_follower.py)
+
+Use these if compatible. Otherwise, you'll need to find or write a Python interface (not covered in this tutorial):
+- Find an existing SDK in Python (or use bindings to C/C++)
+- Or implement a basic communication wrapper (e.g., via pyserial, socket, or CANopen)
+
+You're not alone—many community contributions use custom boards or firmware!
+
+For Feetech and Dynamixel, we currently support these servos:
+    - Feetech:
+        - STS & SMS series (protocol 0): `sts3215`, `sts3250`, `sm8512bl`
+        - SCS series (protocol 1): `scs0009`
+    - Dynamixel (protocol 2.0 only): `xl330-m077`, `xl330-m288`, `xl430-w250`, `xm430-w350`, `xm540-w270`, `xc430-w150`
+
+If you are using Feetech or Dynamixel servos that are not in this list, you can add those in the [Feetech table](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/motors/feetech/tables.py) or [Dynamixel table](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/motors/dynamixel/tables.py). Depending on the model, this will require you to add model-specific information. In most cases though, there shouldn't be a lot of additions to do.
+
+In the next sections, we'll use a `FeetechMotorsBus` as the motors interface for the examples. Replace it and adapt to your motors if necessary.
+
+## Step 1: Subclass the `Robot` Interface
+
+You’ll first need to specify the config class and a string identifier (`name`) for your robot. If your robot has special needs that you'd like to be able to change easily, it should go here (e.g. port/address, baudrate).
+
+Here, we'll add the port name and one camera by default for our robot:
+```python
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+
+from lerobot.common.cameras import CameraConfig
+from lerobot.common.cameras.opencv import OpenCVCameraConfig
+from lerobot.common.robots import RobotConfig
+
+
+@RobotConfig.register_subclass("my_cool_robot")
+@dataclass
+class MyCoolRobotConfig(RobotConfig):
+    port: str
+    cameras: dict[str, CameraConfig] = field(
+        default_factory={
+            "cam_1": OpenCVCameraConfig(
+                index_or_path=2,
+                fps=30,
+                width=480,
+                height=640,
+            ),
+        }
+    )
+```
+
+Have a look at our [Cameras tutorial](./cameras) to understand how to detect and add your camera.
+
+Next, we'll create our actual robot class which inherits from `Robot`. This abstract class defines a contract you must follow for your robot to be usable with the rest of the LeRobot tools.
+
+Here we'll create a simple 5-DoF robot with one camera. It could be a simple arm but notice that the `Robot` abstract class does not assume anything on your robot's form factor. You can let you imagination run wild when designing new robots!
+
+```python
+from lerobot.common.cameras import make_cameras_from_configs
+from lerobot.common.motors import Motor, MotorNormMode
+from lerobot.common.motors.feetech import FeetechMotorsBus
+from lerobot.common.robots import Robot
+
+class MyCoolRobot(Robot):
+    config_class = MyCoolRobotConfig
+    name = "my_cool_robot"
+
+    def __init__(self, config: MyCoolRobotConfig):
+        super().__init__(config)
+        self.bus = FeetechMotorsBus(
+            port=self.config.port,
+            motors={
+                "joint_1": Motor(1, "sts3250", MotorNormMode.RANGE_M100_100),
+                "joint_2": Motor(2, "sts3215", MotorNormMode.RANGE_M100_100),
+                "joint_3": Motor(3, "sts3215", MotorNormMode.RANGE_M100_100),
+                "joint_4": Motor(4, "sts3215", MotorNormMode.RANGE_M100_100),
+                "joint_5": Motor(5, "sts3215", MotorNormMode.RANGE_M100_100),
+            },
+            calibration=self.calibration,
+        )
+        self.cameras = make_cameras_from_configs(config.cameras)
+```
+
+## Step 2: Define Observation and Action Features
+
+These two properties define the *interface contract* between your robot and tools that consume it (such as data collection or learning pipelines).
+
+> [!WARNING]
+> Note that these properties must be callable even if the robot is not yet connected, so avoid relying on runtime hardware state to define them.
+
+### `observation_features`
+
+This property should return a dictionary describing the structure of sensor outputs from your robot. The keys match what `get_observation()` returns, and the values describe either the shape (for arrays/images) or the type (for simple values).
+
+Example for our 5-DoF arm with one camera:
+```python
+@property
+def _motors_ft(self) -> dict[str, type]:
+    return {
+        "joint_1.pos": float,
+        "joint_2.pos": float,
+        "joint_3.pos": float,
+        "joint_4.pos": float,
+        "joint_5.pos": float,
+    }
+
+@property
+def _cameras_ft(self) -> dict[str, tuple]:
+    return {
+        cam: (self.cameras[cam].height, self.cameras[cam].width, 3) for cam in self.cameras
+    }
+
+@property
+def observation_features(self) -> dict:
+    return {**self._motors_ft, **self._cameras_ft}
+```
+In this case, observations consist of a simple dict storing each motor's position and a camera image.
+
+### `action_features`
+
+This property describes the commands your robot expects via `send_action()`. Again, keys must match the expected input format, and values define the shape/type of each command.
+
+Here, we simply use the same joints proprioceptive features (`self._motors_ft`) as with `observation_features`: the action sent will simply the goal position for each motor.
+```python
+def action_features(self) -> dict:
+    return self._motors_ft
+```
+
+## Step 3: Handle Connection and Disconnection
+
+These methods should handle opening and closing communication with your hardware (e.g. serial ports, CAN interfaces, USB devices, cameras).
+
+### `is_connected`
+
+This property should simply reflect that communication with the robot's hardware is established. When this property is `True`, it should be possible to read and write to the hardware using `get_observation()` and `send_action()`.
+
+```python
+@property
+def is_connected(self) -> bool:
+    return self.bus.is_connected and all(cam.is_connected for cam in self.cameras.values())
+```
+
+### `connect()`
+
+This method should establish communication with the hardware. Moreover, if your robot needs calibration and is not calibrated, it should start a calibration procedure by default. If your robot needs some specific configuration, this should also be called here.
+
+```python
+def connect(self, calibrate: bool = True) -> None:
+    self.bus.connect()
+    if not self.is_calibrated and calibrate:
+        self.calibrate()
+
+    for cam in self.cameras.values():
+        cam.connect()
+
+    self.configure()
+```
+
+### `disconnect()`
+
+This method should gracefully terminate communication with the hardware: free any related resources (threads or processes), close ports, etc.
+
+Here, we already handle this in our `MotorsBus` and `Camera` classes so we just need to call their own `disconnect()` methods:
+```python
+def disconnect(self) -> None:
+    self.bus.disconnect()
+    for cam in self.cameras.values():
+        cam.disconnect()
+```
+
+## Step 4: Support Calibration and Configuration
+
+LeRobot supports saving and loading calibration data automatically. This is useful for joint offsets, zero positions, or sensor alignment.
+
+> Note that depending on your hardware, this may not apply. If that's the case, you can simply leave these methods as no-ops:
+> ```python
+> @property
+> def is_calibrated(self) -> bool:
+>    return True
+>
+> def calibrate(self) -> None:
+>    pass
+> ```
+
+### `is_calibrated`
+
+This should reflect whether your robot has the required calibration loaded.
+
+```python
+@property
+def is_calibrated(self) -> bool:
+    return self.bus.is_calibrated
+```
+
+### `calibrate()`
+
+The goal of the calibration is twofold:
+    - Know the physical range of motion of each motors in order to only send commands within this range.
+    - Normalize raw motors positions to sensible continuous values (e.g. percentages, degrees) instead of arbitrary discrete value dependant on the specific motor used that will not replicate elsewhere.
+
+It should implement the logic for calibration (if relevant) and update the `self.calibration` dictionary. If you are using Feetech or Dynamixel motors, our bus interfaces already include methods to help with this.
+
+```python
+def calibrate(self) -> None:
+    self.bus.disable_torque()
+    for motor in self.bus.motors:
+        self.bus.write("Operating_Mode", motor, OperatingMode.POSITION.value)
+
+    input(f"Move {self} to the middle of its range of motion and press ENTER....")
+    homing_offsets = self.bus.set_half_turn_homings()
+
+    print(
+        "Move all joints sequentially through their entire ranges "
+        "of motion.\nRecording positions. Press ENTER to stop..."
+    )
+    range_mins, range_maxes = self.bus.record_ranges_of_motion()
+
+    self.calibration = {}
+    for motor, m in self.bus.motors.items():
+        self.calibration[motor] = MotorCalibration(
+            id=m.id,
+            drive_mode=0,
+            homing_offset=homing_offsets[motor],
+            range_min=range_mins[motor],
+            range_max=range_maxes[motor],
+        )
+
+    self.bus.write_calibration(self.calibration)
+    self._save_calibration()
+    print("Calibration saved to", self.calibration_fpath)
+```
+
+### `configure()`
+
+Use this to set up any configuration for your hardware (servos control modes, controller gains, etc.). This should usually be run at connection time and be idempotent.
+
+```python
+def configure(self) -> None:
+    with self.bus.torque_disabled():
+        self.bus.configure_motors()
+        for motor in self.bus.motors:
+            self.bus.write("Operating_Mode", motor, OperatingMode.POSITION.value)
+            self.bus.write("P_Coefficient", motor, 16)
+            self.bus.write("I_Coefficient", motor, 0)
+            self.bus.write("D_Coefficient", motor, 32)
+```
+
+## Step 5: Implement Sensors Reading and Action Sending
+
+These are the most important runtime functions: the core I/O loop.
+
+### `get_observation()`
+
+Returns a dictionary of sensor values from the robot. These typically include motor states, camera frames, various sensors, etc. In the LeRobot framework, these observations are what will be fed to a policy in order to predict the actions to take. The dictionary keys and structure must match `observation_features`.
+
+```python
+def get_observation(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not self.is_connected:
+        raise ConnectionError(f"{self} is not connected.")
+
+    # Read arm position
+    obs_dict = self.bus.sync_read("Present_Position")
+    obs_dict = {f"{motor}.pos": val for motor, val in obs_dict.items()}
+
+    # Capture images from cameras
+    for cam_key, cam in self.cameras.items():
+        obs_dict[cam_key] = cam.async_read()
+
+    return obs_dict
+```
+
+### `send_action()`
+
+Takes a dictionary that matches `action_features`, and sends it to your hardware. You can add safety limits (clipping, smoothing) and return what was actually sent.
+
+For simplicity, we won't be adding any modification of the actions in our example here.
+
+```python
+def send_action(self, action: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    goal_pos = {key.removesuffix(".pos"): val for key, val in action.items()}
+
+    # Send goal position to the arm
+    self.bus.sync_write("Goal_Position", goal_pos)
+
+    return action
+```
+
+## Adding a Teleoperator
+
+For implementing teleoperation devices, we also provide a [`Teleoperator`](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/lerobot/common/teleoperators/teleoperator.py) base class. This class is very similar to the `Robot` base class and also doesn't assume anything on form factor.
+
+The main differences are in the I/O functions: a teleoperator allows you to produce action via `get_action` and can receive feedback actions via `send_feedback`. Feedback could be anything controllable on the teleoperation device that could help the person controlling it understand the consequences of the actions sent. Think motion/force feedback on a leader arm, vibrations on a gamepad controller for example. To implement a teleoperator, you can follow this same tutorial and adapt it for these two methods.
+
+## Wrapping Up
+
+Once your robot class is complete, you can leverage the LeRobot ecosystem:
+
+- Control your robot with available teleoperators or integrate directly your teleoperating device
+- Record training data and visualize it
+- Integrate it into RL or imitation learning pipelines
+
+Don't hesitate to reach out to the community for help on our [Discord](https://discord.gg/s3KuuzsPFb) 🤗

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+# 🤗 LeRobot Notebooks
+
+This repository contains example notebooks for using LeRobot. These notebooks demonstrate how to train policies on real or simulation datasets using standardized policies.
+
+---
+
+### Training ACT
+
+[ACT](https://huggingface.co/papers/2304.13705) (Action Chunking Transformer) is a transformer-based policy architecture for imitation learning that processes robot states and camera inputs to generate smooth, chunked action sequences.
+
+We provide a ready-to-run Google Colab notebook to help you train ACT policies using datasets from the Hugging Face Hub, with optional logging to Weights & Biases.
+
+| Notebook | Colab |
+|:---------|:------|
+| [Train ACT with LeRobot](https://github.com/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/lerobot/training-act.ipynb) | [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/lerobot/training-act.ipynb) |
+
+Expected training time for 100k steps: ~1.5 hours on an NVIDIA A100 GPU with batch size of `64`.
+
+### Training SmolVLA
+
+[SmolVLA](https://huggingface.co/papers/2506.01844) is a small but efficient Vision-Language-Action model. It is compact in size with 450 M-parameter and is developed by Hugging Face.
+
+We provide a ready-to-run Google Colab notebook to help you train SmolVLA policies using datasets from the Hugging Face Hub, with optional logging to Weights & Biases.
+
+| Notebook                                                                                                        | Colab                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| [Train SmolVLA with LeRobot](https://github.com/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/lerobot/training-smolvla.ipynb) | [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/lerobot/training-smolvla.ipynb) |
+
+Expected training time for 20k steps: ~5 hours on an NVIDIA A100 GPU with batch size of `64`.

docs/source/smolvla.mdx

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+# Finetune SmolVLA
+
+SmolVLA is Hugging Face’s lightweight foundation model for robotics. Designed for easy fine-tuning on LeRobot datasets, it helps accelerate your development!
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/640e21ef3c82bd463ee5a76d/aooU0a3DMtYmy_1IWMaIM.png" alt="SmolVLA architecture." width="500"/>
+  <br/>
+  <em>Figure 1. SmolVLA takes as input (i) multiple cameras views, (ii) the robot’s current sensorimotor state, and (iii) a natural language instruction, encoded into contextual features used to condition the action expert when generating an action chunk.</em>
+</p>
+
+## Set Up Your Environment
+
+1. Install LeRobot by following our [Installation Guide](./installation).
+2. Install SmolVLA dependencies by running:
+
+   ```bash
+   pip install -e ".[smolvla]"
+   ```
+
+## Collect a dataset
+
+SmolVLA is a base model, so fine-tuning on your own data is required for optimal performance in your setup.
+We recommend recording ~50 episodes of your task as a starting point. Follow our guide to get started: [Recording a Dataset](https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/getting_started_real_world_robot#record-a-dataset)
+
+<Tip>
+
+In your dataset, make sure to have enough demonstrations per each variation (e.g. the cube position on the table if it is cube pick-place task) you are introducing.
+
+We recommend checking out the dataset linked below for reference that was used in the [SmolVLA paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2506.01844):
+
+🔗 [SVLA SO100 PickPlace](https://huggingface.co/spaces/lerobot/visualize_dataset?path=%2Flerobot%2Fsvla_so100_pickplace%2Fepisode_0)
+
+In this dataset, we recorded 50 episodes across 5 distinct cube positions. For each position, we collected 10 episodes of pick-and-place interactions. This structure, repeating each variation several times, helped the model generalize better. We tried similar dataset with 25 episodes, and it was not enough leading to a bad performance. So, the data quality and quantity is definitely a key.
+After you have your dataset available on the Hub, you are good to go to use our finetuning script to adapt SmolVLA to your application.
+</Tip>
+
+## Finetune SmolVLA on your data
+
+Use [`smolvla_base`](https://hf.co/lerobot/smolvla_base), our pretrained 450M model, and fine-tune it on your data.
+Training the model for 20k steps will roughly take ~4 hrs on a single A100 GPU. You should tune the number of steps based on performance and your use-case.
+
+If you don't have a gpu device, you can train using our notebook on [![Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/lerobot/training-smolvla.ipynb)
+
+Pass your dataset to the training script using `--dataset.repo_id`. If you want to test your installation, run the following command where we use one of the datasets we collected for the [SmolVLA Paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2506.01844).
+
+```bash
+cd lerobot && python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+  --policy.path=lerobot/smolvla_base \
+  --dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/mydataset \
+  --batch_size=64 \
+  --steps=20000 \
+  --output_dir=outputs/train/my_smolvla \
+  --job_name=my_smolvla_training \
+  --policy.device=cuda \
+  --wandb.enable=true
+```
+
+<Tip>
+You can start with a small batch size and increase it incrementally, if the GPU allows it, as long as loading times remain short.
+</Tip>
+
+Fine-tuning is an art. For a complete overview of the options for finetuning, run
+
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py --help
+```
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/640e21ef3c82bd463ee5a76d/S-3vvVCulChREwHDkquoc.gif" alt="Comparison of SmolVLA across task variations." width="500"/>
+  <br/>
+  <em>Figure 2: Comparison of SmolVLA across task variations. From left to right: (1) pick-place cube counting, (2) pick-place cube counting, (3) pick-place cube counting under perturbations, and (4) generalization on pick-and-place of the lego block with real-world SO101.</em>
+</p>
+
+
+## Evaluate the finetuned model and run it in real-time
+
+Similarly for when recording an episode, it is recommended that you are logged in to the HuggingFace Hub. You can follow the corresponding steps: [Record a dataset](./getting_started_real_world_robot#record-a-dataset).
+Once you are logged in, you can run inference in your setup by doing:
+
+```bash
+python -m lerobot.record \
+  --robot.type=so101_follower \
+  --robot.port=/dev/ttyACM0 \ # <- Use your port
+  --robot.id=my_blue_follower_arm \ # <- Use your robot id
+  --robot.cameras="{ front: {type: opencv, index_or_path: 8, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}}" \ # <- Use your cameras
+  --dataset.single_task="Grasp a lego block and put it in the bin." \ # <- Use the same task description you used in your dataset recording
+  --dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/eval_DATASET_NAME_test \  # <- This will be the dataset name on HF Hub
+  --dataset.episode_time_s=50 \
+  --dataset.num_episodes=10 \
+  --policy.path=HF_USER/FINETUNE_MODEL_NAME # <- Use your fine-tuned model
+```
+
+Depending on your evaluation setup, you can configure the duration and the number of episodes to record for your evaluation suite.

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+../../lerobot/common/robots/so100_follower/so100.mdx

docs/source/so101.mdx

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+../../lerobot/common/robots/so101_follower/so101.mdx

examples/1_load_lerobot_dataset.py

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+This script demonstrates the use of `LeRobotDataset` class for handling and processing robotic datasets from Hugging Face.
+It illustrates how to load datasets, manipulate them, and apply transformations suitable for machine learning tasks in PyTorch.
+
+Features included in this script:
+- Viewing a dataset's metadata and exploring its properties.
+- Loading an existing dataset from the hub or a subset of it.
+- Accessing frames by episode number.
+- Using advanced dataset features like timestamp-based frame selection.
+- Demonstrating compatibility with PyTorch DataLoader for batch processing.
+
+The script ends with examples of how to batch process data using PyTorch's DataLoader.
+"""
+
+from pprint import pprint
+
+import torch
+from huggingface_hub import HfApi
+
+import lerobot
+from lerobot.common.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset, LeRobotDatasetMetadata
+
+# We ported a number of existing datasets ourselves, use this to see the list:
+print("List of available datasets:")
+pprint(lerobot.available_datasets)
+
+# You can also browse through the datasets created/ported by the community on the hub using the hub api:
+hub_api = HfApi()
+repo_ids = [info.id for info in hub_api.list_datasets(task_categories="robotics", tags=["LeRobot"])]
+pprint(repo_ids)
+
+# Or simply explore them in your web browser directly at:
+# https://huggingface.co/datasets?other=LeRobot
+
+# Let's take this one for this example
+repo_id = "lerobot/aloha_mobile_cabinet"
+# We can have a look and fetch its metadata to know more about it:
+ds_meta = LeRobotDatasetMetadata(repo_id)
+
+# By instantiating just this class, you can quickly access useful information about the content and the
+# structure of the dataset without downloading the actual data yet (only metadata files — which are
+# lightweight).
+print(f"Total number of episodes: {ds_meta.total_episodes}")
+print(f"Average number of frames per episode: {ds_meta.total_frames / ds_meta.total_episodes:.3f}")
+print(f"Frames per second used during data collection: {ds_meta.fps}")
+print(f"Robot type: {ds_meta.robot_type}")
+print(f"keys to access images from cameras: {ds_meta.camera_keys=}\n")
+
+print("Tasks:")
+print(ds_meta.tasks)
+print("Features:")
+pprint(ds_meta.features)
+
+# You can also get a short summary by simply printing the object:
+print(ds_meta)
+
+# You can then load the actual dataset from the hub.
+# Either load any subset of episodes:
+dataset = LeRobotDataset(repo_id, episodes=[0, 10, 11, 23])
+
+# And see how many frames you have:
+print(f"Selected episodes: {dataset.episodes}")
+print(f"Number of episodes selected: {dataset.num_episodes}")
+print(f"Number of frames selected: {dataset.num_frames}")
+
+# Or simply load the entire dataset:
+dataset = LeRobotDataset(repo_id)
+print(f"Number of episodes selected: {dataset.num_episodes}")
+print(f"Number of frames selected: {dataset.num_frames}")
+
+# The previous metadata class is contained in the 'meta' attribute of the dataset:
+print(dataset.meta)
+
+# LeRobotDataset actually wraps an underlying Hugging Face dataset
+# (see https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets for more information).
+print(dataset.hf_dataset)
+
+# LeRobot datasets also subclasses PyTorch datasets so you can do everything you know and love from working
+# with the latter, like iterating through the dataset.
+# The __getitem__ iterates over the frames of the dataset. Since our datasets are also structured by
+# episodes, you can access the frame indices of any episode using the episode_data_index. Here, we access
+# frame indices associated to the first episode:
+episode_index = 0
+from_idx = dataset.episode_data_index["from"][episode_index].item()
+to_idx = dataset.episode_data_index["to"][episode_index].item()
+
+# Then we grab all the image frames from the first camera:
+camera_key = dataset.meta.camera_keys[0]
+frames = [dataset[idx][camera_key] for idx in range(from_idx, to_idx)]
+
+# The objects returned by the dataset are all torch.Tensors
+print(type(frames[0]))
+print(frames[0].shape)
+
+# Since we're using pytorch, the shape is in pytorch, channel-first convention (c, h, w).
+# We can compare this shape with the information available for that feature
+pprint(dataset.features[camera_key])
+# In particular:
+print(dataset.features[camera_key]["shape"])
+# The shape is in (h, w, c) which is a more universal format.
+
+# For many machine learning applications we need to load the history of past observations or trajectories of
+# future actions. Our datasets can load previous and future frames for each key/modality, using timestamps
+# differences with the current loaded frame. For instance:
+delta_timestamps = {
+    # loads 4 images: 1 second before current frame, 500 ms before, 200 ms before, and current frame
+    camera_key: [-1, -0.5, -0.20, 0],
+    # loads 6 state vectors: 1.5 seconds before, 1 second before, ... 200 ms, 100 ms, and current frame
+    "observation.state": [-1.5, -1, -0.5, -0.20, -0.10, 0],
+    # loads 64 action vectors: current frame, 1 frame in the future, 2 frames, ... 63 frames in the future
+    "action": [t / dataset.fps for t in range(64)],
+}
+# Note that in any case, these delta_timestamps values need to be multiples of (1/fps) so that added to any
+# timestamp, you still get a valid timestamp.
+
+dataset = LeRobotDataset(repo_id, delta_timestamps=delta_timestamps)
+print(f"\n{dataset[0][camera_key].shape=}")  # (4, c, h, w)
+print(f"{dataset[0]['observation.state'].shape=}")  # (6, c)
+print(f"{dataset[0]['action'].shape=}\n")  # (64, c)
+
+# Finally, our datasets are fully compatible with PyTorch dataloaders and samplers because they are just
+# PyTorch datasets.
+dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(
+    dataset,
+    num_workers=0,
+    batch_size=32,
+    shuffle=True,
+)
+
+for batch in dataloader:
+    print(f"{batch[camera_key].shape=}")  # (32, 4, c, h, w)
+    print(f"{batch['observation.state'].shape=}")  # (32, 6, c)
+    print(f"{batch['action'].shape=}")  # (32, 64, c)
+    break

examples/2_evaluate_pretrained_policy.py

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+This script demonstrates how to evaluate a pretrained policy from the HuggingFace Hub or from your local
+training outputs directory. In the latter case, you might want to run examples/3_train_policy.py first.
+
+It requires the installation of the 'gym_pusht' simulation environment. Install it by running:
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[pusht]"
+```
+"""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import gym_pusht  # noqa: F401
+import gymnasium as gym
+import imageio
+import numpy
+import torch
+
+from lerobot.common.policies.diffusion.modeling_diffusion import DiffusionPolicy
+
+# Create a directory to store the video of the evaluation
+output_directory = Path("outputs/eval/example_pusht_diffusion")
+output_directory.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+# Select your device
+device = "cuda"
+
+# Provide the [hugging face repo id](https://huggingface.co/lerobot/diffusion_pusht):
+pretrained_policy_path = "lerobot/diffusion_pusht"
+# OR a path to a local outputs/train folder.
+# pretrained_policy_path = Path("outputs/train/example_pusht_diffusion")
+
+policy = DiffusionPolicy.from_pretrained(pretrained_policy_path)
+
+# Initialize evaluation environment to render two observation types:
+# an image of the scene and state/position of the agent. The environment
+# also automatically stops running after 300 interactions/steps.
+env = gym.make(
+    "gym_pusht/PushT-v0",
+    obs_type="pixels_agent_pos",
+    max_episode_steps=300,
+)
+
+# We can verify that the shapes of the features expected by the policy match the ones from the observations
+# produced by the environment
+print(policy.config.input_features)
+print(env.observation_space)
+
+# Similarly, we can check that the actions produced by the policy will match the actions expected by the
+# environment
+print(policy.config.output_features)
+print(env.action_space)
+
+# Reset the policy and environments to prepare for rollout
+policy.reset()
+numpy_observation, info = env.reset(seed=42)
+
+# Prepare to collect every rewards and all the frames of the episode,
+# from initial state to final state.
+rewards = []
+frames = []
+
+# Render frame of the initial state
+frames.append(env.render())
+
+step = 0
+done = False
+while not done:
+    # Prepare observation for the policy running in Pytorch
+    state = torch.from_numpy(numpy_observation["agent_pos"])
+    image = torch.from_numpy(numpy_observation["pixels"])
+
+    # Convert to float32 with image from channel first in [0,255]
+    # to channel last in [0,1]
+    state = state.to(torch.float32)
+    image = image.to(torch.float32) / 255
+    image = image.permute(2, 0, 1)
+
+    # Send data tensors from CPU to GPU
+    state = state.to(device, non_blocking=True)
+    image = image.to(device, non_blocking=True)
+
+    # Add extra (empty) batch dimension, required to forward the policy
+    state = state.unsqueeze(0)
+    image = image.unsqueeze(0)
+
+    # Create the policy input dictionary
+    observation = {
+        "observation.state": state,
+        "observation.image": image,
+    }
+
+    # Predict the next action with respect to the current observation
+    with torch.inference_mode():
+        action = policy.select_action(observation)
+
+    # Prepare the action for the environment
+    numpy_action = action.squeeze(0).to("cpu").numpy()
+
+    # Step through the environment and receive a new observation
+    numpy_observation, reward, terminated, truncated, info = env.step(numpy_action)
+    print(f"{step=} {reward=} {terminated=}")
+
+    # Keep track of all the rewards and frames
+    rewards.append(reward)
+    frames.append(env.render())
+
+    # The rollout is considered done when the success state is reached (i.e. terminated is True),
+    # or the maximum number of iterations is reached (i.e. truncated is True)
+    done = terminated | truncated | done
+    step += 1
+
+if terminated:
+    print("Success!")
+else:
+    print("Failure!")
+
+# Get the speed of environment (i.e. its number of frames per second).
+fps = env.metadata["render_fps"]
+
+# Encode all frames into a mp4 video.
+video_path = output_directory / "rollout.mp4"
+imageio.mimsave(str(video_path), numpy.stack(frames), fps=fps)
+
+print(f"Video of the evaluation is available in '{video_path}'.")

examples/3_train_policy.py

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""This script demonstrates how to train Diffusion Policy on the PushT environment.
+
+Once you have trained a model with this script, you can try to evaluate it on
+examples/2_evaluate_pretrained_policy.py
+"""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+
+from lerobot.common.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset, LeRobotDatasetMetadata
+from lerobot.common.datasets.utils import dataset_to_policy_features
+from lerobot.common.policies.diffusion.configuration_diffusion import DiffusionConfig
+from lerobot.common.policies.diffusion.modeling_diffusion import DiffusionPolicy
+from lerobot.configs.types import FeatureType
+
+
+def main():
+    # Create a directory to store the training checkpoint.
+    output_directory = Path("outputs/train/example_pusht_diffusion")
+    output_directory.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    # # Select your device
+    device = torch.device("cuda")
+
+    # Number of offline training steps (we'll only do offline training for this example.)
+    # Adjust as you prefer. 5000 steps are needed to get something worth evaluating.
+    training_steps = 5000
+    log_freq = 1
+
+    # When starting from scratch (i.e. not from a pretrained policy), we need to specify 2 things before
+    # creating the policy:
+    #   - input/output shapes: to properly size the policy
+    #   - dataset stats: for normalization and denormalization of input/outputs
+    dataset_metadata = LeRobotDatasetMetadata("lerobot/pusht")
+    features = dataset_to_policy_features(dataset_metadata.features)
+    output_features = {key: ft for key, ft in features.items() if ft.type is FeatureType.ACTION}
+    input_features = {key: ft for key, ft in features.items() if key not in output_features}
+
+    # Policies are initialized with a configuration class, in this case `DiffusionConfig`. For this example,
+    # we'll just use the defaults and so no arguments other than input/output features need to be passed.
+    cfg = DiffusionConfig(input_features=input_features, output_features=output_features)
+
+    # We can now instantiate our policy with this config and the dataset stats.
+    policy = DiffusionPolicy(cfg, dataset_stats=dataset_metadata.stats)
+    policy.train()
+    policy.to(device)
+
+    # Another policy-dataset interaction is with the delta_timestamps. Each policy expects a given number frames
+    # which can differ for inputs, outputs and rewards (if there are some).
+    delta_timestamps = {
+        "observation.image": [i / dataset_metadata.fps for i in cfg.observation_delta_indices],
+        "observation.state": [i / dataset_metadata.fps for i in cfg.observation_delta_indices],
+        "action": [i / dataset_metadata.fps for i in cfg.action_delta_indices],
+    }
+
+    # In this case with the standard configuration for Diffusion Policy, it is equivalent to this:
+    delta_timestamps = {
+        # Load the previous image and state at -0.1 seconds before current frame,
+        # then load current image and state corresponding to 0.0 second.
+        "observation.image": [-0.1, 0.0],
+        "observation.state": [-0.1, 0.0],
+        # Load the previous action (-0.1), the next action to be executed (0.0),
+        # and 14 future actions with a 0.1 seconds spacing. All these actions will be
+        # used to supervise the policy.
+        "action": [-0.1, 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4],
+    }
+
+    # We can then instantiate the dataset with these delta_timestamps configuration.
+    dataset = LeRobotDataset("lerobot/pusht", delta_timestamps=delta_timestamps)
+
+    # Then we create our optimizer and dataloader for offline training.
+    optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(policy.parameters(), lr=1e-4)
+    dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(
+        dataset,
+        num_workers=4,
+        batch_size=64,
+        shuffle=True,
+        pin_memory=device.type != "cpu",
+        drop_last=True,
+    )
+
+    # Run training loop.
+    step = 0
+    done = False
+    while not done:
+        for batch in dataloader:
+            batch = {k: (v.to(device) if isinstance(v, torch.Tensor) else v) for k, v in batch.items()}
+            loss, _ = policy.forward(batch)
+            loss.backward()
+            optimizer.step()
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+
+            if step % log_freq == 0:
+                print(f"step: {step} loss: {loss.item():.3f}")
+            step += 1
+            if step >= training_steps:
+                done = True
+                break
+
+    # Save a policy checkpoint.
+    policy.save_pretrained(output_directory)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

examples/4_train_policy_with_script.md

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+This tutorial will explain the training script, how to use it, and particularly how to configure everything needed for the training run.
+> **Note:** The following assumes you're running these commands on a machine equipped with a cuda GPU. If you don't have one (or if you're using a Mac), you can add `--policy.device=cpu` (`--policy.device=mps` respectively). However, be advised that the code executes much slower on cpu.
+
+
+## The training script
+
+LeRobot offers a training script at [`lerobot/scripts/train.py`](../lerobot/scripts/train.py). At a high level it does the following:
+
+- Initialize/load a configuration for the following steps using.
+- Instantiates a dataset.
+- (Optional) Instantiates a simulation environment corresponding to that dataset.
+- Instantiates a policy.
+- Runs a standard training loop with forward pass, backward pass, optimization step, and occasional logging, evaluation (of the policy on the environment), and checkpointing.
+
+## Overview of the configuration system
+
+In the training script, the main function `train` expects a `TrainPipelineConfig` object:
+```python
+# train.py
+@parser.wrap()
+def train(cfg: TrainPipelineConfig):
+```
+
+You can inspect the `TrainPipelineConfig` defined in [`lerobot/configs/train.py`](../lerobot/configs/train.py) (which is heavily commented and meant to be a reference to understand any option)
+
+When running the script, inputs for the command line are parsed thanks to the `@parser.wrap()` decorator and an instance of this class is automatically generated. Under the hood, this is done with [Draccus](https://github.com/dlwh/draccus) which is a tool dedicated to this purpose. If you're familiar with Hydra, Draccus can similarly load configurations from config files (.json, .yaml) and also override their values through command line inputs. Unlike Hydra, these configurations are pre-defined in the code through dataclasses rather than being defined entirely in config files. This allows for more rigorous serialization/deserialization, typing, and to manipulate configuration as objects directly in the code and not as dictionaries or namespaces (which enables nice features in an IDE such as autocomplete, jump-to-def, etc.)
+
+Let's have a look at a simplified example. Amongst other attributes, the training config has the following attributes:
+```python
+@dataclass
+class TrainPipelineConfig:
+    dataset: DatasetConfig
+    env: envs.EnvConfig | None = None
+    policy: PreTrainedConfig | None = None
+```
+in which `DatasetConfig` for example is defined as such:
+```python
+@dataclass
+class DatasetConfig:
+    repo_id: str
+    episodes: list[int] | None = None
+    video_backend: str = "pyav"
+```
+
+This creates a hierarchical relationship where, for example assuming we have a `cfg` instance of `TrainPipelineConfig`, we can access the `repo_id` value with `cfg.dataset.repo_id`.
+From the command line, we can specify this value by using a very similar syntax `--dataset.repo_id=repo/id`.
+
+By default, every field takes its default value specified in the dataclass. If a field doesn't have a default value, it needs to be specified either from the command line or from a config file – which path is also given in the command line (more in this below). In the example above, the `dataset` field doesn't have a default value which means it must be specified.
+
+
+## Specifying values from the CLI
+
+Let's say that we want to train [Diffusion Policy](../lerobot/common/policies/diffusion) on the [pusht](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lerobot/pusht) dataset, using the [gym_pusht](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-pusht) environment for evaluation. The command to do so would look like this:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --dataset.repo_id=lerobot/pusht \
+    --policy.type=diffusion \
+    --env.type=pusht
+```
+
+Let's break this down:
+- To specify the dataset, we just need to specify its `repo_id` on the hub which is the only required argument in the `DatasetConfig`. The rest of the fields have default values and in this case we are fine with those so we can just add the option `--dataset.repo_id=lerobot/pusht`.
+- To specify the policy, we can just select diffusion policy using `--policy` appended with `.type`. Here, `.type` is a special argument which allows us to select config classes inheriting from `draccus.ChoiceRegistry` and that have been decorated with the `register_subclass()` method. To have a better explanation of this feature, have a look at this [Draccus demo](https://github.com/dlwh/draccus?tab=readme-ov-file#more-flexible-configuration-with-choice-types). In our code, we use this mechanism mainly to select policies, environments, robots, and some other components like optimizers. The policies available to select are located in [lerobot/common/policies](../lerobot/common/policies)
+- Similarly, we select the environment with `--env.type=pusht`. The different environment configs are available in [`lerobot/common/envs/configs.py`](../lerobot/common/envs/configs.py)
+
+Let's see another example. Let's say you've been training [ACT](../lerobot/common/policies/act) on [lerobot/aloha_sim_insertion_human](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lerobot/aloha_sim_insertion_human) using the [gym-aloha](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-aloha) environment for evaluation with:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --policy.type=act \
+    --dataset.repo_id=lerobot/aloha_sim_insertion_human \
+    --env.type=aloha \
+    --output_dir=outputs/train/act_aloha_insertion
+```
+> Notice we added `--output_dir` to explicitly tell where to write outputs from this run (checkpoints, training state, configs etc.). This is not mandatory and if you don't specify it, a default directory will be created from the current date and time, env.type and policy.type. This will typically look like `outputs/train/2025-01-24/16-10-05_aloha_act`.
+
+We now want to train a different policy for aloha on another task. We'll change the dataset and use [lerobot/aloha_sim_transfer_cube_human](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lerobot/aloha_sim_transfer_cube_human) instead. Of course, we also need to change the task of the environment as well to match this other task.
+Looking at the [`AlohaEnv`](../lerobot/common/envs/configs.py) config, the task is `"AlohaInsertion-v0"` by default, which corresponds to the task we trained on in the command above. The [gym-aloha](https://github.com/huggingface/gym-aloha?tab=readme-ov-file#description) environment also has the `AlohaTransferCube-v0` task which corresponds to this other task we want to train on. Putting this together, we can train this new policy on this different task using:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --policy.type=act \
+    --dataset.repo_id=lerobot/aloha_sim_transfer_cube_human \
+    --env.type=aloha \
+    --env.task=AlohaTransferCube-v0 \
+    --output_dir=outputs/train/act_aloha_transfer
+```
+
+## Loading from a config file
+
+Now, let's assume that we want to reproduce the run just above. That run has produced a `train_config.json` file in its checkpoints, which serializes the `TrainPipelineConfig` instance it used:
+```json
+{
+    "dataset": {
+        "repo_id": "lerobot/aloha_sim_transfer_cube_human",
+        "episodes": null,
+        ...
+    },
+    "env": {
+        "type": "aloha",
+        "task": "AlohaTransferCube-v0",
+        "fps": 50,
+        ...
+    },
+    "policy": {
+        "type": "act",
+        "n_obs_steps": 1,
+        ...
+    },
+    ...
+}
+```
+
+We can then simply load the config values from this file using:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --config_path=outputs/train/act_aloha_transfer/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model/ \
+    --output_dir=outputs/train/act_aloha_transfer_2
+```
+`--config_path` is also a special argument which allows to initialize the config from a local config file. It can point to a directory that contains `train_config.json` or to the config file itself directly.
+
+Similarly to Hydra, we can still override some parameters in the CLI if we want to, e.g.:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --config_path=outputs/train/act_aloha_transfer/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model/ \
+    --output_dir=outputs/train/act_aloha_transfer_2
+    --policy.n_action_steps=80
+```
+> Note: While `--output_dir` is not required in general, in this case we need to specify it since it will otherwise take the value from the `train_config.json` (which is `outputs/train/act_aloha_transfer`). In order to prevent accidental deletion of previous run checkpoints, we raise an error if you're trying to write in an existing directory. This is not the case when resuming a run, which is what you'll learn next.
+
+`--config_path` can also accept the repo_id of a repo on the hub that contains a `train_config.json` file, e.g. running:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py --config_path=lerobot/diffusion_pusht
+```
+will start a training run with the same configuration used for training [lerobot/diffusion_pusht](https://huggingface.co/lerobot/diffusion_pusht)
+
+
+## Resume training
+
+Being able to resume a training run is important in case it crashed or aborted for any reason. We'll demonstrate how to do that here.
+
+Let's reuse the command from the previous run and add a few more options:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --policy.type=act \
+    --dataset.repo_id=lerobot/aloha_sim_transfer_cube_human \
+    --env.type=aloha \
+    --env.task=AlohaTransferCube-v0 \
+    --log_freq=25 \
+    --save_freq=100 \
+    --output_dir=outputs/train/run_resumption
+```
+
+Here we've taken care to set up the log frequency and checkpointing frequency to low numbers so we can showcase resumption. You should be able to see some logging and have a first checkpoint within 1 minute (depending on hardware). Wait for the first checkpoint to happen, you should see a line that looks like this in your terminal:
+```
+INFO 2025-01-24 16:10:56 ts/train.py:263 Checkpoint policy after step 100
+```
+Now let's simulate a crash by killing the process (hit `ctrl`+`c`). We can then simply resume this run from the last checkpoint available with:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --config_path=outputs/train/run_resumption/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model/ \
+    --resume=true
+```
+You should see from the logging that your training picks up from where it left off.
+
+Another reason for which you might want to resume a run is simply to extend training and add more training steps. The number of training steps is set by the option `--steps`, which is 100 000 by default.
+You could double the number of steps of the previous run with:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --config_path=outputs/train/run_resumption/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model/ \
+    --resume=true \
+    --steps=200000
+```
+
+## Outputs of a run
+In the output directory, there will be a folder called `checkpoints` with the following structure:
+```bash
+outputs/train/run_resumption/checkpoints
+├── 000100  # checkpoint_dir for training step 100
+│   ├── pretrained_model/
+│   │   ├── config.json  # policy config
+│   │   ├── model.safetensors  # policy weights
+│   │   └── train_config.json  # train config
+│   └── training_state/
+│       ├── optimizer_param_groups.json  #  optimizer param groups
+│       ├── optimizer_state.safetensors  # optimizer state
+│       ├── rng_state.safetensors  # rng states
+│       ├── scheduler_state.json  # scheduler state
+│       └── training_step.json  # training step
+├── 000200
+└── last -> 000200  # symlink to the last available checkpoint
+```
+
+## Fine-tuning a pre-trained policy
+
+In addition to the features currently in Draccus, we've added a special `.path` argument for the policy, which allows to load a policy as you would with `PreTrainedPolicy.from_pretrained()`. In that case, `path` can be a local directory that contains a checkpoint or a repo_id pointing to a pretrained policy on the hub.
+
+For example, we could fine-tune a [policy pre-trained on the aloha transfer task](https://huggingface.co/lerobot/act_aloha_sim_transfer_cube_human) on the aloha insertion task. We can achieve this with:
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --policy.path=lerobot/act_aloha_sim_transfer_cube_human \
+    --dataset.repo_id=lerobot/aloha_sim_insertion_human \
+    --env.type=aloha \
+    --env.task=AlohaInsertion-v0
+```
+
+When doing so, keep in mind that the features of the fine-tuning dataset would have to match the input/output features of the pretrained policy.
+
+## Typical logs and metrics
+
+When you start the training process, you will first see your full configuration being printed in the terminal. You can check it to make sure that you configured your run correctly. The final configuration will also be saved with the checkpoint.
+
+After that, you will see training log like this one:
+```
+INFO 2024-08-14 13:35:12 ts/train.py:192 step:0 smpl:64 ep:1 epch:0.00 loss:1.112 grdn:15.387 lr:2.0e-07 updt_s:1.738 data_s:4.774
+```
+or evaluation log:
+```
+INFO 2024-08-14 13:38:45 ts/train.py:226 step:100 smpl:6K ep:52 epch:0.25 ∑rwrd:20.693 success:0.0% eval_s:120.266
+```
+
+These logs will also be saved in wandb if `wandb.enable` is set to `true`. Here are the meaning of some abbreviations:
+- `smpl`: number of samples seen during training.
+- `ep`: number of episodes seen during training. An episode contains multiple samples in a complete manipulation task.
+- `epch`: number of time all unique samples are seen (epoch).
+- `grdn`: gradient norm.
+- `∑rwrd`: compute the sum of rewards in every evaluation episode and then take an average of them.
+- `success`: average success rate of eval episodes. Reward and success are usually different except for the sparsing reward setting, where reward=1 only when the task is completed successfully.
+- `eval_s`: time to evaluate the policy in the environment, in second.
+- `updt_s`: time to update the network parameters, in second.
+- `data_s`: time to load a batch of data, in second.
+
+Some metrics are useful for initial performance profiling. For example, if you find the current GPU utilization is low via the `nvidia-smi` command and `data_s` sometimes is too high, you may need to modify batch size or number of dataloading workers to accelerate dataloading. We also recommend [pytorch profiler](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot?tab=readme-ov-file#improve-your-code-with-profiling) for detailed performance probing.
+
+## In short
+
+We'll summarize here the main use cases to remember from this tutorial.
+
+#### Train a policy from scratch – CLI
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --policy.type=act \  # <- select 'act' policy
+    --env.type=pusht \  # <- select 'pusht' environment
+    --dataset.repo_id=lerobot/pusht  # <- train on this dataset
+```
+
+#### Train a policy from scratch - config file + CLI
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --config_path=path/to/pretrained_model \  # <- can also be a repo_id
+    --policy.n_action_steps=80  # <- you may still override values
+```
+
+#### Resume/continue a training run
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --config_path=checkpoint/pretrained_model/ \
+    --resume=true \
+    --steps=200000  # <- you can change some training parameters
+```
+
+#### Fine-tuning
+```bash
+python lerobot/scripts/train.py \
+    --policy.path=lerobot/act_aloha_sim_transfer_cube_human \  # <- can also be a local path to a checkpoint
+    --dataset.repo_id=lerobot/aloha_sim_insertion_human \
+    --env.type=aloha \
+    --env.task=AlohaInsertion-v0
+```
+
+---
+
+Now that you know the basics of how to train a policy, you might want to know how to apply this knowledge to actual robots, or how to record your own datasets and train policies on your specific task?
+If that's the case, head over to the next tutorial [`7_get_started_with_real_robot.md`](./7_get_started_with_real_robot.md).
+
+Or in the meantime, happy training! 🤗

examples/advanced/1_add_image_transforms.py

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+This script demonstrates how to use torchvision's image transformation with LeRobotDataset for data
+augmentation purposes. The transformations are passed to the dataset as an argument upon creation, and
+transforms are applied to the observation images before they are returned in the dataset's __getitem__.
+"""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from torchvision.transforms import ToPILImage, v2
+
+from lerobot.common.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset
+
+dataset_repo_id = "lerobot/aloha_static_screw_driver"
+
+# Create a LeRobotDataset with no transformations
+dataset = LeRobotDataset(dataset_repo_id, episodes=[0])
+# This is equivalent to `dataset = LeRobotDataset(dataset_repo_id, image_transforms=None)`
+
+# Get the index of the first observation in the first episode
+first_idx = dataset.episode_data_index["from"][0].item()
+
+# Get the frame corresponding to the first camera
+frame = dataset[first_idx][dataset.meta.camera_keys[0]]
+
+
+# Define the transformations
+transforms = v2.Compose(
+    [
+        v2.ColorJitter(brightness=(0.5, 1.5)),
+        v2.ColorJitter(contrast=(0.5, 1.5)),
+        v2.ColorJitter(hue=(-0.1, 0.1)),
+        v2.RandomAdjustSharpness(sharpness_factor=2, p=1),
+    ]
+)
+
+# Create another LeRobotDataset with the defined transformations
+transformed_dataset = LeRobotDataset(dataset_repo_id, episodes=[0], image_transforms=transforms)
+
+# Get a frame from the transformed dataset
+transformed_frame = transformed_dataset[first_idx][transformed_dataset.meta.camera_keys[0]]
+
+# Create a directory to store output images
+output_dir = Path("outputs/image_transforms")
+output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+# Save the original frame
+to_pil = ToPILImage()
+to_pil(frame).save(output_dir / "original_frame.png", quality=100)
+print(f"Original frame saved to {output_dir / 'original_frame.png'}.")
+
+# Save the transformed frame
+to_pil(transformed_frame).save(output_dir / "transformed_frame.png", quality=100)
+print(f"Transformed frame saved to {output_dir / 'transformed_frame.png'}.")

examples/advanced/2_calculate_validation_loss.py

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+# Copyright 2024 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""This script demonstrates how to slice a dataset and calculate the loss on a subset of the data.
+
+This technique can be useful for debugging and testing purposes, as well as identifying whether a policy
+is learning effectively.
+
+Furthermore, relying on validation loss to evaluate performance is generally not considered a good practice,
+especially in the context of imitation learning. The most reliable approach is to evaluate the policy directly
+on the target environment, whether that be in simulation or the real world.
+"""
+
+import math
+
+import torch
+
+from lerobot.common.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset, LeRobotDatasetMetadata
+from lerobot.common.policies.diffusion.modeling_diffusion import DiffusionPolicy
+
+
+def main():
+    device = torch.device("cuda")
+
+    # Download the diffusion policy for pusht environment
+    pretrained_policy_path = "lerobot/diffusion_pusht"
+    # OR uncomment the following to evaluate a policy from the local outputs/train folder.
+    # pretrained_policy_path = Path("outputs/train/example_pusht_diffusion")
+
+    policy = DiffusionPolicy.from_pretrained(pretrained_policy_path)
+    policy.eval()
+    policy.to(device)
+
+    # Set up the dataset.
+    delta_timestamps = {
+        # Load the previous image and state at -0.1 seconds before current frame,
+        # then load current image and state corresponding to 0.0 second.
+        "observation.image": [-0.1, 0.0],
+        "observation.state": [-0.1, 0.0],
+        # Load the previous action (-0.1), the next action to be executed (0.0),
+        # and 14 future actions with a 0.1 seconds spacing. All these actions will be
+        # used to calculate the loss.
+        "action": [-0.1, 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4],
+    }
+
+    # Load the last 10% of episodes of the dataset as a validation set.
+    # - Load dataset metadata
+    dataset_metadata = LeRobotDatasetMetadata("lerobot/pusht")
+    # - Calculate train and val episodes
+    total_episodes = dataset_metadata.total_episodes
+    episodes = list(range(dataset_metadata.total_episodes))
+    num_train_episodes = math.floor(total_episodes * 90 / 100)
+    train_episodes = episodes[:num_train_episodes]
+    val_episodes = episodes[num_train_episodes:]
+    print(f"Number of episodes in full dataset: {total_episodes}")
+    print(f"Number of episodes in training dataset (90% subset): {len(train_episodes)}")
+    print(f"Number of episodes in validation dataset (10% subset): {len(val_episodes)}")
+    # - Load train and val datasets
+    train_dataset = LeRobotDataset(
+        "lerobot/pusht", episodes=train_episodes, delta_timestamps=delta_timestamps
+    )
+    val_dataset = LeRobotDataset("lerobot/pusht", episodes=val_episodes, delta_timestamps=delta_timestamps)
+    print(f"Number of frames in training dataset (90% subset): {len(train_dataset)}")
+    print(f"Number of frames in validation dataset (10% subset): {len(val_dataset)}")
+
+    # Create dataloader for evaluation.
+    val_dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(
+        val_dataset,
+        num_workers=4,
+        batch_size=64,
+        shuffle=False,
+        pin_memory=device != torch.device("cpu"),
+        drop_last=False,
+    )
+
+    # Run validation loop.
+    loss_cumsum = 0
+    n_examples_evaluated = 0
+    for batch in val_dataloader:
+        batch = {k: v.to(device, non_blocking=True) for k, v in batch.items()}
+        loss, _ = policy.forward(batch)
+
+        loss_cumsum += loss.item()
+        n_examples_evaluated += batch["index"].shape[0]
+
+    # Calculate the average loss over the validation set.
+    average_loss = loss_cumsum / n_examples_evaluated
+
+    print(f"Average loss on validation set: {average_loss:.4f}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()