diff --git a/src/lerobot/policies/rlearn/modeling_rlearn.py b/src/lerobot/policies/rlearn/modeling_rlearn.py
index d5225d29d..3a28fa770 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/policies/rlearn/modeling_rlearn.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/policies/rlearn/modeling_rlearn.py
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ class RLearNPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
 
         # First-frame positional embedding (only applied to the first video frame)
         self.first_frame_pos = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, 1, config.dim_model))
+        # Full temporal positional embeddings (length = max_seq_len)
+        self.max_time = config.max_seq_len
+        self.time_pos = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, self.max_time, config.dim_model))
+        nn.init.trunc_normal_(self.time_pos, std=0.02)
 
         # Cross-modal sequential aggregator – causal transformer over
         # [language tokens | video frame tokens] using PyTorch TransformerEncoder
@@ -182,18 +186,30 @@ class RLearNPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
         if flat.max() > 1.0:
             flat = flat / 255.0
             
-        # Prepare inputs for processor: feed uint8 to avoid double-rescale; let processor rescale/normalize
-        flat_clamped = flat.clamp(0.0, 1.0)
-        flat_uint8 = (flat_clamped * 255.0).round().to(torch.uint8)  # (BT, C, H, W)
-        flat_numpy = flat_uint8.permute(0, 2, 3, 1).cpu().numpy()  # (BT, H, W, C) uint8
-        images_list = [flat_numpy[i] for i in range(B * T)]
-            
-        # Process images with SigLIP2 processor
-        inputs = self.processor(images=images_list, return_tensors="pt")
-        inputs = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
-        
-        # Process in batch through SigLIP2 vision tower
-        vision_outputs = self.vision_model(**inputs)
+        # GPU-friendly image preprocessing (resize + normalize) without Python loops
+        iproc = getattr(self.processor, 'image_processor', None)
+        if iproc is not None:
+            size_cfg = getattr(iproc, 'size', {})
+            if isinstance(size_cfg, dict):
+                target_h = size_cfg.get('height', size_cfg.get('shortest_edge', 224))
+                target_w = size_cfg.get('width', target_h)
+            else:
+                target_h = target_w = 224
+            mean = torch.tensor(getattr(iproc, 'image_mean', [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]), device=flat.device, dtype=flat.dtype).view(1, 3, 1, 1)
+            std = torch.tensor(getattr(iproc, 'image_std', [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]), device=flat.device, dtype=flat.dtype).view(1, 3, 1, 1)
+        else:
+            target_h = target_w = 224
+            mean = torch.tensor([0.5, 0.5, 0.5], device=flat.device, dtype=flat.dtype).view(1, 3, 1, 1)
+            std = torch.tensor([0.5, 0.5, 0.5], device=flat.device, dtype=flat.dtype).view(1, 3, 1, 1)
+
+        flat = flat.to(device, non_blocking=True)
+        flat = torch.nn.functional.interpolate(flat, size=(target_h, target_w), mode='bilinear', align_corners=False)
+        pixel_values = (flat - mean.to(device)) / std.to(device)
+        pixel_values = pixel_values.contiguous(memory_format=torch.channels_last)
+
+        use_amp = getattr(self.config, 'use_amp', False) and torch.cuda.is_available()
+        with torch.autocast(device_type='cuda', dtype=torch.float16, enabled=use_amp):
+            vision_outputs = self.vision_model(pixel_values=pixel_values)
         
         # Prefer CLS token from last_hidden_state at index 0
         if hasattr(vision_outputs, 'last_hidden_state') and vision_outputs.last_hidden_state is not None:
@@ -249,7 +265,7 @@ class RLearNPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
                         print(f"  ✓ Input frames are different. Diff: {raw_frame_diffs:.6f}")
                 
                 # Check processed pixel values
-                first_sample_pixels = inputs['pixel_values'][:T]  # First sample's pixels
+                first_sample_pixels = pixel_values[:T]
                 if T > 1:
                     # FIXED: Use proper tensor operations 
                     pixel_frame_diffs = (first_sample_pixels[1:] - first_sample_pixels[:-1]).pow(2).sum(dim=(1, 2, 3)).sqrt()
@@ -399,7 +415,9 @@ class RLearNPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
         # SigLIP2 CLS per-frame already returned
         video_frame_embeds = video_patch_embeds  # (B, T_eff, D_vision)
         video_tokens = self.to_video_tokens(video_frame_embeds)  # (B, T_eff, D)
-        # First-frame positional embedding only
+        # Add temporal positional embeddings
+        video_tokens = video_tokens + self.time_pos[:, :T_eff, :]
+        # Optional: keep a first-frame tag
         video_tokens[:, :1, :] = video_tokens[:, :1, :] + self.first_frame_pos
 
         # Build masks for TransformerEncoder
@@ -457,7 +475,8 @@ class RLearNPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
             target_expanded = target  # (B, T_eff)
             eps = self.config.logit_eps
             target_logits = torch.logit(target_expanded.clamp(eps, 1 - eps))
-            loss = F.mse_loss(raw_logits, target_logits)
+            # Robust Huber (Smooth L1) on logits
+            loss = F.smooth_l1_loss(raw_logits, target_logits, beta=0.5)
             total_loss = loss