SmolVLA
Compact open VLA distributed through the LeRobot ecosystem.
Identity and state
- Public base weights Public openness · reviewed 2026-08-29
Reviewed relationships
| State | Related entity | Relation | Scope | Boundary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verified | → LeRobot | distributed through | public model distribution | The public base weights are published in the LeRobot namespace. |
Canonical evidence claims
Claims are projected from authored tables. A dash remains an explicit missing value; it is never filled from a neighboring product or name match.
| Metric | Value | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | compact VLA on LeRobot; SmolVLM-2 plus a flow-matching action expert [foundation-models-r7] | policy-model-open |
| Named result | trains on a single GPU; paper also says consumer-GPU or CPU deploy [foundation-models-r7] | policy-model-open |
| Paper | arXiv:2506.01844 [foundation-models-r7] | policy-model-open |
| Parameter count | 0.5B on the Hugging Face card; paper says less than 0.5 billion [foundation-models-m6] [foundation-models-r7] | policy-model-open |
| Public API | — | policy-model-open |
| Stated training data | fewer than 30k community episodes [foundation-models-r7] | policy-model-open |
| Weights | HF lerobot/smolvla_base [foundation-models-m6] | policy-model-open |
Source ledger
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.