pi0.5
“How can we enable better generalization?” - By training on many surrogate tasks

Training in Lerobot
python src/lerobot/scripts/lerobot_train.py \
--dataset.repo_id=Gongsta/koch-tshirt-folding-v3 \
--dataset.video_backend=pyav \
--policy.type=pi05 \
--output_dir=./outputs/pi05_training \
--job_name=pi05_training \
--policy.repo_id="Gongsta/pi05-koch-tshirt" \
--policy.pretrained_path=lerobot/pi05_base \
--policy.compile_model=true \
--policy.gradient_checkpointing=true \
--wandb.enable=true \
--policy.dtype=bfloat16 \
--policy.freeze_vision_encoder=false \
--policy.train_expert_only=false \
--steps=6000 \
--save_freq=2000 \
--policy.device=cuda \
--batch_size=32 \
--num_workers=4
python src/lerobot/scripts/lerobot_train.py\
--dataset.repo_id=Gongsta/koch-tshirt-folding-v3 \
--policy.type=pi05 \
--output_dir=./outputs/pi05_training \
--job_name=pi05_training \
--policy.repo_id="Gongsta/pi05-koch-tshirt" \
--policy.pretrained_path=lerobot/pi05_base \
--policy.compile_model=true \
--policy.gradient_checkpointing=true \
--wandb.enable=true \
--policy.dtype=bfloat16 \
--policy.freeze_vision_encoder=false \
--policy.train_expert_only=false \
--steps=6000 \
--save_freq=2000 \
--policy.device=cuda \
--batch_size=32
Citation
(Intelligence et al., 2025)
Intelligence, P., Black, K., Brown, N., Darpinian, J., Dhabalia, K., Driess, D., Esmail, A., Equi, M., Finn, C., Fusai, N., Galliker, M. Y., Ghosh, D., Groom, L., Hausman, K., Ichter, B., Jakubczak, S., Jones, T., Ke, L., LeBlanc, D., … Zhilinsky, U. (2025). π0.5: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.16054