VLAct_Qwen3PI_Robotwin_Finetune

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VLAct · Qwen3-VL-4B PI · RoboTwin 2.0 (Clean)

This repository contains the 50K-step VLAct downstream fine-tuning checkpoint for RoboTwin 2.0 Clean, introduced in Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models. It starts from StarVLA/VLAct_Qwen3_Pretrain and adapts the shared VLAct backbone with a randomly initialized PI (QwenPI_v4) action head for the target benchmark.

[!IMPORTANT] This is a StarVLA training / evaluation checkpoint, not a standard transformers.AutoModel package. Load it with the matching StarVLA framework (QwenPI_v4) and the packaged config.yaml / dataset_statistics.json. Safe robot deployment still requires embodiment-specific action mapping, normalization, camera calibration, control-rate handling, workspace constraints, and independent safety systems.

What is VLAct?

VLAct is a representation-centric continued-pretraining recipe for vision-language-action models. It preserves the VLM prior, co-trains multiple continuous action heads on a shared latent, and shares action semantics across embodiments with a partially unified padded layout and wrap-aware joint loss. Downstream policies discard the pretraining heads, randomly initialize a target action head, and fine-tune from the VLAct backbone.

The complete method, ablations, and evaluation protocols are documented in the paper and code repository.

Checkpoint details

Fine-tuning data

Fine-tuning uses RoboTwin 2.0 Clean (robotwin_wrap_32) with absolute-joint actions and a CoT object-grounding prompt. The PI flow-matching head is randomly initialized and trained on top of the VLAct backbone.

Recommended use: download and evaluate

1. Install StarVLA / VLAct

git clone https://github.com/starVLA/VLAct.git
cd VLAct

conda create -n vlact python=3.10 -y
conda activate vlact

# Install a CUDA-compatible PyTorch build first.
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m pip install flash-attn==2.7.4.post1 --no-build-isolation
python -m pip install -e .

2. Download the checkpoint

Run from the VLAct repository root:

hf download StarVLA/VLAct_Qwen3PI_Robotwin_Finetune \
  --local-dir playground/Pretrained_models/VLAct-Qwen3VL4B-PI-Robotwin

The checkpoint path is then:

playground/Pretrained_models/VLAct-Qwen3VL4B-PI-Robotwin/checkpoints/steps_50000_pytorch_model.pt

Keep the downloaded directory structure unchanged. StarVLA resolves config.yaml and dataset_statistics.json from the run directory two levels above the checkpoint file.

Action un-normalization

The policy predicts actions normalized to roughly [-1, 1]. StarVLA maps them back to physical units using the q01 / q99 / mask statistics stored in dataset_statistics.json, and the unnorm_key selects which statistics block to use.

This run packages a single key, new_embodiment. StarVLA resolves it automatically when only one key is present, so you normally do not need to set anything. If your evaluation config exposes an unnorm_key field (for example DOMINO's examples/DOMINO/eval_files/deploy_policy.yml or the eval config generated by the RoboTwin launcher), set it to new_embodiment.

Changing the normalization statistics, camera ordering, state usage, action ordering, or execution horizon can materially change results.

3. Evaluate with the StarVLA / VLAct scripts

Follow examples/Robotwin/README.md for evaluation setup.

Reproduce training with:

bash scripts/run_scripts/RoboTwin/train_robotwin_qwen3pi.sh

Loading the policy

Reconstruct the policy with the matching StarVLA framework (QwenPI_v4) and the packaged configuration. The .pt file contains model parameters only; it does not package optimizer or scheduler state.

This checkpoint is intended for evaluation or further fine-tuning on the same embodiment / action contract. Transferring it to a different robot, camera setup, or action space usually requires additional adaptation.

Files

VLAct-Qwen3VL4B-PI-Robotwin/
├── README.md
├── config.yaml
├── training_config.original.yaml
├── dataset_statistics.json
├── summary.jsonl
└── checkpoints/
    └── steps_50000_pytorch_model.pt

Checkpoint SHA-256:

287cb36f9851063220d0eba53f2d684755b4ffe8214d35e99fbd260bad45511e

Benchmark results

VLAct's published RoboTwin 2.0 results:

[!NOTE] The released artifact head can differ from the head used in the paper's headline table for the same benchmark. The numbers above are the published VLAct results for this benchmark; they are not a re-evaluation of this specific checkpoint.

The RoboTwin headline numbers above use the OFT head, while this checkpoint uses the PI head. No separate RoboTwin success rate is reported for this PI artifact.

This checkpoint is the VLAct-initialized PI RoboTwin Clean policy for head / architecture comparison. To reproduce the headline RoboTwin Base numbers, use VLAct_Qwen3OFT_Robotwin_Finetune.

Intended use and limitations

This checkpoint is intended for research on VLA representation transfer and benchmark evaluation on RoboTwin 2.0 Clean.

• It has not been validated as a universal zero-shot policy across arbitrary robots.
• Safe deployment requires embodiment-specific action mapping, normalization, camera calibration, control-rate handling, workspace constraints, and independent safety systems.
• Performance depends on evaluation protocol, simulator / real-robot setup, observation configuration, and action execution settings.
• The model may inherit limitations and biases from its base VLM, the VLAct pretraining mixture, and the downstream fine-tuning data.

Citation

@article{yang2026beyond,
  title={Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models},
  author={Yang, Senqiao and Wang, Chengyao and Chen, Yuxin and Wang, Zixuan and Tang, Longxiang and Gui, Haokun and Ye, Jinhui and Lu, Changsheng and Wu, Xiaoyang and Zhu, Mingkang and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.27550},
  year={2026}
}

License and acknowledgements

The checkpoint is released under the Apache License 2.0. The VLAct code repository is released separately under the MIT License. Users must also comply with the licenses and terms of the base model, the VLAct pretraining checkpoint, and the training / evaluation datasets.

VLAct builds on StarVLA, LeRobot, GR00T, and Qwen3-VL.

For questions, email [email protected] or open an issue in the VLAct repository.