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Adaptive difficulty staircase 8 min read
Calibration Precedes Evaluation
How we calibrate real-world robot evaluations with an adaptive difficulty staircase to learn more, spend less, and iterate faster.
John Alvarez, Lucas Burgett
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Laundromat frontier 10 min read
Evaluation Precedes Capabilities
Integral to robotics development will be the art of evaluation: measuring where we are today, where we want to go, and the gap between those.
Cody Swain, John Newsom
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Token types in DROID 15 min read
Monosemantic Features in Vision-Language-Action Models
We trained transcoders on π₀-FAST to uncover interpretable features in robotics models, revealing two classes: "scene" features that highlight objectives and "ego" features focused on the robot itself.
John Newsom, Cody Swain