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Model model--smolvla

SmolVLA

Compact open VLA distributed through the LeRobot ecosystem.

Reviewed relationships 1

  1. Verified

    SmolVLA distributed through LeRobot Software

    Scope public model distribution

    Boundary The public base weights are published in the LeRobot namespace.

    First observed · reviewed · [M6] · Show in graph

Canonical evidence claims 7

Claims are projected from authored tables. A dash remains an explicit missing value; it is never filled from a neighboring product or name match.

Robot foundation models — policy weights, not URDF assets Policy Model Open 7 rows · 1 declared gap

MetricValue and evidence
Kindcompact VLA on LeRobot; SmolVLM-2 plus a flow-matching action expert [R7]
Named resulttrains on a single GPU; paper also says consumer-GPU or CPU deploy [R7]
PaperarXiv:2506.01844 [R7]
Parameter count0.5B on the Hugging Face card; paper says less than 0.5 billion [M6] [R7]
Public API Declared gap
Stated training datafewer than 30k community episodes [R7]
WeightsHF lerobot/smolvla_base [M6]

Source ledger 2

  1. [M6]ManualLeRobot — Hugging Face lerobot/smolvla_base. Type: official weights card. Retrieved: 2026-08-29.Retrieved
  2. [R7]ResearchCadene et al. — SmolVLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models. Type: research paper. ID: arXiv:2506.01844. Retrieved: 2026-08-29.Retrieved

What is not inferred

No fuzzy entity matching, adjacent-column borrowing, universal compatibility, commercial maturity, or checkpoint-to-product identity. Absence of a relation means unreviewed or unsupported here—not proven incompatibility.