Add GR00T N1.7 support

Add GR00T N1.7 policy configuration, checkpoint compatibility, processor parity, LIBERO documentation, and focused tests.

Co-authored-by: Ryan Halabi <ryhalabi@nvidia.com>

docs/source/_toctree.yml

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
   - local: eo1
     title: EO-1
   - local: groot
-    title: NVIDIA GR00T N1.5
+    title: NVIDIA GR00T
   - local: xvla
     title: X-VLA
   - local: multi_task_dit

docs/source/groot.mdx

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-# GR00T N1.5 Policy
+# GR00T Policy
 
-GR00T N1.5 is an open foundation model from NVIDIA designed for generalized humanoid robot reasoning and skills. It is a cross-embodiment model that accepts multimodal input, including language and images, to perform manipulation tasks in diverse environments.
+GR00T is an NVIDIA foundation model family for generalized humanoid robot reasoning and skills. It is a cross-embodiment policy that accepts multimodal input, including language, images, and proprioception, to perform manipulation tasks in diverse environments.
 
-This document outlines the specifics of its integration and usage within the LeRobot framework.
+LeRobot integrates GR00T through the `groot` policy type. The default model family is GR00T N1.5, and GR00T N1.7 can be selected with `policy.model_version=n1.7`.
 
 ## Model Overview
 
-NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.5 is an upgraded version of the GR00T N1 foundation model. It is built to improve generalization and language-following abilities for humanoid robots.
+NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.5 is an upgraded version of the GR00T N1 foundation model. GR00T N1.7 extends the family with a Cosmos-Reason2/Qwen3-VL backbone and N1.7 checkpoints for SimplerEnv, DROID, and LIBERO.
 
-Developers and researchers can post-train GR00T N1.5 with their own real or synthetic data to adapt it for specific humanoid robots or tasks.
+Developers and researchers can post-train GR00T with their own real or synthetic data to adapt it for specific humanoid robots or tasks.
 
-GR00T N1.5 (specifically the GR00T-N1.5-3B model) is built using pre-trained vision and language encoders. It utilizes a flow matching action transformer to model a chunk of actions, conditioned on vision, language, and proprioception.
+GR00T uses pre-trained vision and language encoders with a flow matching action transformer to model a chunk of actions conditioned on vision, language, and proprioception.
 
 <img
   src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/lerobot/lerobot-groot-paper1%20(1).png"
@@ -28,33 +28,35 @@ This approach allows the model to be highly adaptable through post-training for
 
 ## Installation Requirements
 
-As of today, GR00T N1.5 requires flash attention for it's internal working.
-
-We are working on making this optional, but in the meantime that means that we require an extra installation step and it can only be used in CUDA enabled devices.
-
-1. Following the Environment Setup of our [Installation Guide](./installation). **Attention** don't install `lerobot` in this step.
-2. Install [Flash Attention](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention) by running:
+Install LeRobot with the GR00T extra:
 
 ```bash
-# Check https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/ for your system
-pip install "torch>=2.2.1,<2.8.0" "torchvision>=0.21.0,<0.23.0" # --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu1XX
-pip install ninja "packaging>=24.2,<26.0" # flash attention dependencies
-pip install "flash-attn>=2.5.9,<3.0.0" --no-build-isolation
-python -c "import flash_attn; print(f'Flash Attention {flash_attn.__version__} imported successfully')"
+pip install "lerobot[groot]"
 ```
 
-3. Install LeRobot by running:
+GR00T is intended for NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. The `groot` extra installs the policy dependencies, including `transformers`, `diffusers`, `peft`, `dm-tree`, and Flash Attention where available. If Flash Attention is unavailable or incompatible, LeRobot falls back to SDPA attention in supported GR00T paths, with lower expected throughput.
+
+For a source checkout, follow the Environment Setup in the [Installation Guide](./installation), then install the extra:
 
 ```bash
-pip install lerobot[groot]
+uv sync --locked --extra groot
 ```
 
+If you need to install Flash Attention manually for your CUDA/PyTorch build, use the wheel or source build recommended by the [Flash Attention project](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention).
+
 ## Usage
 
-To use GR00T in your LeRobot configuration, specify the policy type as:
+To use GR00T N1.5 in your LeRobot configuration, specify the policy type:
 
-```python
-policy.type=groot
+```bash
+--policy.type=groot
+```
+
+To use GR00T N1.7:
+
+```bash
+--policy.type=groot \
+--policy.model_version=n1.7
 ```
 
 ## Training
@@ -85,14 +87,20 @@ accelerate launch \
   --job_name=$JOB_NAME
 ```
 
+For N1.7, add:
+
+```bash
+--policy.model_version=n1.7
+```
+
 ## Performance Results
 
-### Libero Benchmark Results
+### LIBERO Benchmark Results
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> Follow our instructions for Libero usage: [Libero](./libero)
+> Follow the [LIBERO](./libero) setup instructions before running `lerobot-eval`.
 
-GR00T has demonstrated strong performance on the Libero benchmark suite. To compare and test its LeRobot implementation, we finetuned the GR00T N1.5 model for 30k steps on the Libero dataset and compared the results to the GR00T reference results.
+GR00T has demonstrated strong performance on the LIBERO benchmark suite. To compare and test its LeRobot implementation, we finetuned the GR00T N1.5 model for 30k steps on the LIBERO dataset and compared the results to the GR00T reference results.
 
 | Benchmark          | LeRobot Implementation | GR00T Reference |
 | ------------------ | ---------------------- | --------------- |
@@ -101,7 +109,49 @@ GR00T has demonstrated strong performance on the Libero benchmark suite. To comp
 | **Libero Long**    | 82.0%                  | 76.0%           |
 | **Average**        | 87.0%                  | 87.0%           |
 
-These results demonstrate GR00T's strong generalization capabilities across diverse robotic manipulation tasks. To reproduce these results, you can follow the instructions in the [Libero](https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/libero) section.
+These results demonstrate GR00T's strong generalization capabilities across diverse robotic manipulation tasks. To reproduce these results, follow the instructions in the [LIBERO](./libero) section.
+
+### GR00T N1.7 LIBERO Checkpoints
+
+NVIDIA publishes GR00T N1.7 LIBERO checkpoints at [`nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-LIBERO`](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-LIBERO), with one subdirectory per LIBERO suite:
+
+| Suite          | Checkpoint subdirectory |
+| -------------- | ----------------------- |
+| LIBERO Spatial | `libero_spatial`        |
+| LIBERO Object  | `libero_object`         |
+| LIBERO Goal    | `libero_goal`           |
+| LIBERO 10      | `libero_10`             |
+
+Preliminary LeRobot integration results:
+
+| Suite          | Status | Success rate | n_episodes |
+| -------------- | ------ | -----------: | ---------: |
+| LIBERO Spatial | ✓      |         ~95% |         XX |
+| LIBERO Object  | ✓      |          XX% |         XX |
+| LIBERO Goal    | ✓      |          XX% |         XX |
+| LIBERO 10      | ✓      |          XX% |         XX |
+| **Average**    | ✓      |      **XX%** |     **XX** |
+
+Replace the `XX` placeholders with final eval artifacts before merge.
+
+Download the suite checkpoint locally, then point `--policy.base_model_path` at the downloaded subdirectory. `--policy.path` is reserved for LeRobot checkpoints that contain a LeRobot `config.json` with a `type` field.
+
+```bash
+huggingface-cli download nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-LIBERO \
+  --include "libero_spatial/*" \
+  --local-dir ./GR00T-N1.7-LIBERO
+
+lerobot-eval \
+  --policy.type=groot \
+  --policy.model_version=n1.7 \
+  --policy.base_model_path=./GR00T-N1.7-LIBERO/libero_spatial \
+  --policy.embodiment_tag=libero_sim \
+  --env.type=libero \
+  --env.task=libero_spatial \
+  --eval.n_episodes=50
+```
+
+Use `eval.n_episodes >= 50` per suite when reporting success rates.
 
 ### Evaluate in your hardware setup
 
@@ -131,4 +181,4 @@ lerobot-rollout\
 
 ## License
 
-This model follows NVIDIA's proprietary license, consistent with the original [GR00T repository](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T). Future versions (starting from N1.7) will follow **Apache 2.0 License**.
+GR00T N1.5 follows NVIDIA's license terms, consistent with the original [GR00T repository](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T). GR00T N1.7 is released under the [NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license/).

docs/source/policy_groot_README.md

@@ -24,4 +24,8 @@ Code: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T
 
 Blog: https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac/gr00t
 
-Hugging Face Model: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1.5-3B
+Hugging Face Models:
+
+- GR00T N1.5: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1.5-3B
+- GR00T N1.7: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B
+- GR00T N1.7 LIBERO checkpoints: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-LIBERO

src/lerobot/policies/factory.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import importlib
 import logging
+from copy import copy
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, TypedDict, Unpack
 
 import torch
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ from .act.configuration_act import ACTConfig
 from .diffusion.configuration_diffusion import DiffusionConfig
 from .eo1.configuration_eo1 import EO1Config
 from .gaussian_actor.configuration_gaussian_actor import GaussianActorConfig
-from .groot.configuration_groot import GrootConfig
+from .groot.configuration_groot import GROOT_N1_7, GrootConfig
 from .molmoact2.configuration_molmoact2 import MolmoAct2Config
 from .multi_task_dit.configuration_multi_task_dit import MultiTaskDiTConfig
 from .pi0.configuration_pi0 import PI0Config
@@ -273,24 +274,47 @@ def make_pre_post_processors(
             policy configuration type.
     """
     if pretrained_path:
+        if isinstance(policy_cfg, GrootConfig):
+            from .groot.configuration_groot import is_raw_groot_n1_7_checkpoint
+
+            if is_raw_groot_n1_7_checkpoint(pretrained_path):
+                from .groot.processor_groot import make_groot_pre_post_processors
+
+                processor_cfg = copy(policy_cfg)
+                processor_cfg.base_model_path = str(pretrained_path)
+                return make_groot_pre_post_processors(
+                    config=processor_cfg,
+                    dataset_stats=kwargs.get("dataset_stats"),
+                )
+
         # TODO(Steven): Temporary patch, implement correctly the processors for Gr00t
         if isinstance(policy_cfg, GrootConfig):
-            # GROOT handles normalization in groot_pack_inputs_v3 step
+            # GROOT handles normalization in its pack-inputs step
             # Need to override both stats AND normalize_min_max since saved config might be empty
-            preprocessor_overrides = {}
-            postprocessor_overrides = {}
-            preprocessor_overrides["groot_pack_inputs_v3"] = {
-                "stats": kwargs.get("dataset_stats"),
-                "normalize_min_max": True,
-            }
+            dataset_stats = kwargs.get("dataset_stats")
+            preprocessor_overrides = dict(kwargs.get("preprocessor_overrides", {}))
+            postprocessor_overrides = dict(kwargs.get("postprocessor_overrides", {}))
+            pack_inputs_key = (
+                "groot_n1_7_pack_inputs_v1"
+                if policy_cfg.model_version == GROOT_N1_7
+                else "groot_pack_inputs_v3"
+            )
+            pack_input_overrides = dict(preprocessor_overrides.get(pack_inputs_key, {}))
+            pack_input_overrides["normalize_min_max"] = True
+            if dataset_stats is not None and policy_cfg.model_version != GROOT_N1_7:
+                pack_input_overrides["stats"] = dataset_stats
+            preprocessor_overrides[pack_inputs_key] = pack_input_overrides
 
             # Also ensure postprocessing slices to env action dim and unnormalizes with dataset stats
             env_action_dim = policy_cfg.output_features[ACTION].shape[0]
-            postprocessor_overrides["groot_action_unpack_unnormalize_v1"] = {
-                "stats": kwargs.get("dataset_stats"),
-                "normalize_min_max": True,
-                "env_action_dim": env_action_dim,
-            }
+            action_unpack_overrides = dict(
+                postprocessor_overrides.get("groot_action_unpack_unnormalize_v1", {})
+            )
+            action_unpack_overrides["normalize_min_max"] = True
+            action_unpack_overrides["env_action_dim"] = env_action_dim
+            if dataset_stats is not None and policy_cfg.model_version != GROOT_N1_7:
+                action_unpack_overrides["stats"] = dataset_stats
+            postprocessor_overrides["groot_action_unpack_unnormalize_v1"] = action_unpack_overrides
             kwargs["preprocessor_overrides"] = preprocessor_overrides
             kwargs["postprocessor_overrides"] = postprocessor_overrides
 

src/lerobot/policies/groot/__init__.py

@@ -18,4 +18,12 @@ from .configuration_groot import GrootConfig
 from .modeling_groot import GrootPolicy
 from .processor_groot import make_groot_pre_post_processors
 
-__all__ = ["GrootConfig", "GrootPolicy", "make_groot_pre_post_processors"]
+__all__ = ["GR00TN17", "GR00TN17Config", "GrootConfig", "GrootPolicy", "make_groot_pre_post_processors"]
+
+
+def __getattr__(name: str):
+    if name in {"GR00TN17", "GR00TN17Config"}:
+        from .groot_n1_7 import GR00TN17, GR00TN17Config
+
+        return {"GR00TN17": GR00TN17, "GR00TN17Config": GR00TN17Config}[name]
+    raise AttributeError(f"module {__name__!r} has no attribute {name!r}")

src/lerobot/policies/groot/action_head/cross_attention_dit.py

@@ -181,8 +181,7 @@ class BasicTransformerBlock(nn.Module):
         attn_output = self.attn1(
             norm_hidden_states,
             encoder_hidden_states=encoder_hidden_states,
-            attention_mask=attention_mask,
-            # encoder_attention_mask=encoder_attention_mask,
+            attention_mask=encoder_attention_mask if encoder_hidden_states is not None else attention_mask,
         )
         if self.final_dropout:
             attn_output = self.final_dropout(attn_output)
@@ -318,6 +317,71 @@ class DiT(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin):
             return self.proj_out_2(hidden_states)
 
 
+class AlternateVLDiT(DiT):
+    """N1.7 DiT variant that alternates cross-attention over image and text tokens."""
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, attend_text_every_n_blocks: int = 2, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.attend_text_every_n_blocks = attend_text_every_n_blocks
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        encoder_hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        timestep: torch.LongTensor | None = None,
+        encoder_attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        return_all_hidden_states: bool = False,
+        image_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        backbone_attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    ):
+        if image_mask is None:
+            raise ValueError("image_mask is required for AlternateVLDiT.")
+        if backbone_attention_mask is None:
+            raise ValueError("backbone_attention_mask is required for AlternateVLDiT.")
+
+        temb = self.timestep_encoder(timestep)
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.contiguous()
+        encoder_hidden_states = encoder_hidden_states.contiguous()
+
+        image_attention_mask = image_mask & backbone_attention_mask
+        non_image_attention_mask = (~image_mask) & backbone_attention_mask
+
+        all_hidden_states = [hidden_states]
+        if not self.config.interleave_self_attention:
+            raise ValueError("AlternateVLDiT requires interleave_self_attention=True.")
+
+        for idx, block in enumerate(self.transformer_blocks):
+            if idx % 2 == 1:
+                hidden_states = block(
+                    hidden_states,
+                    attention_mask=None,
+                    encoder_hidden_states=None,
+                    encoder_attention_mask=None,
+                    temb=temb,
+                )
+            else:
+                curr_encoder_attention_mask = (
+                    non_image_attention_mask
+                    if idx % (2 * self.attend_text_every_n_blocks) == 0
+                    else image_attention_mask
+                )
+                hidden_states = block(
+                    hidden_states,
+                    attention_mask=None,
+                    encoder_hidden_states=encoder_hidden_states,
+                    encoder_attention_mask=curr_encoder_attention_mask,
+                    temb=temb,
+                )
+            all_hidden_states.append(hidden_states)
+
+        conditioning = temb
+        shift, scale = self.proj_out_1(F.silu(conditioning)).chunk(2, dim=1)
+        hidden_states = self.norm_out(hidden_states) * (1 + scale[:, None]) + shift[:, None]
+        if return_all_hidden_states:
+            return self.proj_out_2(hidden_states), all_hidden_states
+        return self.proj_out_2(hidden_states)
+
+
 class SelfAttentionTransformer(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin):
     _supports_gradient_checkpointing = True
 

src/lerobot/policies/groot/configuration_groot.py

@@ -14,12 +14,295 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+import json
+import os
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from pathlib import Path
 
 from lerobot.configs import FeatureType, NormalizationMode, PolicyFeature, PreTrainedConfig
 from lerobot.optim import AdamWConfig, CosineDecayWithWarmupSchedulerConfig
 from lerobot.utils.constants import ACTION, OBS_STATE
 
+GROOT_N1_5 = "n1.5"
+GROOT_N1_7 = "n1.7"
+GROOT_N1_5_BASE_MODEL = "nvidia/GR00T-N1.5-3B"
+GROOT_N1_7_BASE_MODEL = "nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B"
+GROOT_N1_7_BACKBONE_MODEL = "nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-2B"
+GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_LIBERO = "libero"
+
+_GROOT_MODEL_VERSION_ALIASES = {
+    "n1.5": GROOT_N1_5,
+    "n1_5": GROOT_N1_5,
+    "n15": GROOT_N1_5,
+    "1.5": GROOT_N1_5,
+    "n1.7": GROOT_N1_7,
+    "n1_7": GROOT_N1_7,
+    "n1d7": GROOT_N1_7,
+    "n17": GROOT_N1_7,
+    "1.7": GROOT_N1_7,
+}
+
+_GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_ALIASES = {
+    "none": None,
+    "": None,
+    GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_LIBERO: GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_LIBERO,
+}
+
+
+def normalize_groot_model_version(model_version: str) -> str:
+    normalized = _GROOT_MODEL_VERSION_ALIASES.get(model_version.lower())
+    if normalized is None:
+        supported = ", ".join(sorted({GROOT_N1_5, GROOT_N1_7}))
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Unsupported GR00T model_version '{model_version}'. Supported versions: {supported}."
+        )
+    return normalized
+
+
+def normalize_groot_action_decode_transform(transform: str | None) -> str | None:
+    if transform is None:
+        return None
+    normalized = _GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_ALIASES.get(transform.lower())
+    if normalized is None and transform.lower() not in _GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_ALIASES:
+        supported = ", ".join(
+            sorted(key for key, value in _GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_ALIASES.items() if value is not None)
+        )
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Unsupported GR00T N1.7 action decode transform '{transform}'. "
+            f"Supported transforms: none, {supported}."
+        )
+    return normalized
+
+
+def infer_groot_model_version(model_path: str | None) -> str | None:
+    if not model_path:
+        return None
+    model_path_lower = model_path.lower()
+    if "gr00t-n1.7" in model_path_lower or "gr00t_n1.7" in model_path_lower:
+        return GROOT_N1_7
+    if "gr00t-n1.5" in model_path_lower or "gr00t_n1.5" in model_path_lower:
+        return GROOT_N1_5
+    config_version = _infer_groot_model_version_from_local_config(model_path)
+    if config_version is not None:
+        return config_version
+    return None
+
+
+def is_raw_groot_n1_7_checkpoint(model_path: str | Path | None) -> bool:
+    if model_path is None:
+        return False
+
+    path = Path(model_path).expanduser()
+    if path.is_dir():
+        config_path = path / "config.json"
+    elif path.name == "config.json":
+        config_path = path
+    else:
+        return False
+
+    try:
+        with config_path.open() as f:
+            config = json.load(f)
+    except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
+        return False
+
+    return "type" not in config and _infer_groot_model_version_from_config(config) == GROOT_N1_7
+
+
+def infer_groot_n1_7_embodiment_tag(model_path: str | Path | None) -> str | None:
+    if model_path is None:
+        return None
+
+    processor_config_path = Path(model_path).expanduser() / "processor_config.json"
+    try:
+        with processor_config_path.open() as f:
+            processor_config = json.load(f)
+    except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
+        return None
+
+    modality_configs = processor_config.get("processor_kwargs", {}).get("modality_configs", {})
+    if not isinstance(modality_configs, dict):
+        return None
+    if "libero_sim" in modality_configs:
+        return "libero_sim"
+    if len(modality_configs) == 1:
+        return next(iter(modality_configs))
+    return None
+
+
+def infer_groot_n1_7_action_horizon(
+    model_path: str | Path | None, embodiment_tag: str | None = None
+) -> int | None:
+    if model_path is None:
+        return None
+
+    processor_config_path = Path(model_path).expanduser() / "processor_config.json"
+    try:
+        with processor_config_path.open() as f:
+            processor_config = json.load(f)
+    except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
+        return None
+
+    processor_kwargs = processor_config.get("processor_kwargs", {})
+    if not isinstance(processor_kwargs, dict):
+        return None
+    modality_configs = processor_kwargs.get("modality_configs", {})
+    if not isinstance(modality_configs, dict):
+        return None
+
+    if embodiment_tag is None:
+        embodiment_tag = infer_groot_n1_7_embodiment_tag(model_path)
+    if embodiment_tag is None:
+        return None
+
+    embodiment_config = modality_configs.get(embodiment_tag, {})
+    if not isinstance(embodiment_config, dict):
+        return None
+    action_config = embodiment_config.get("action", {})
+    if not isinstance(action_config, dict):
+        return None
+    delta_indices = action_config.get("delta_indices", [])
+    if not isinstance(delta_indices, list):
+        return None
+    return len(delta_indices) or None
+
+
+def infer_groot_n1_7_action_execution_horizon(
+    model_path: str | Path | None, embodiment_tag: str | None = None
+) -> int | None:
+    action_horizon = infer_groot_n1_7_action_horizon(model_path, embodiment_tag)
+    if action_horizon is None:
+        return None
+
+    if embodiment_tag is None:
+        embodiment_tag = infer_groot_n1_7_embodiment_tag(model_path)
+    if embodiment_tag == "libero_sim":
+        # NVIDIA's N1.7 LIBERO rollout wrapper replans after 8 of the 16 decoded
+        # actions. Keeping that execution cadence avoids stale open-loop chunks.
+        return min(action_horizon, 8)
+    return action_horizon
+
+
+def resolve_groot_n1_7_backbone_model(model_name: str, cache_dir: str | Path | None = None) -> str:
+    model_path = Path(model_name).expanduser()
+    if model_path.exists():
+        return str(model_path)
+
+    cached_snapshot = _find_cached_hf_snapshot(model_name, cache_dir=cache_dir)
+    return str(cached_snapshot) if cached_snapshot is not None else model_name
+
+
+def _find_cached_hf_snapshot(repo_id: str, cache_dir: str | Path | None = None) -> Path | None:
+    repo_cache_name = f"models--{repo_id.replace('/', '--')}"
+    required_files = (
+        "config.json",
+        "tokenizer_config.json",
+        "preprocessor_config.json",
+        "video_preprocessor_config.json",
+    )
+
+    for hub_cache in _candidate_hf_hub_caches(cache_dir):
+        repo_cache = hub_cache / repo_cache_name
+        snapshots_dir = repo_cache / "snapshots"
+        if not snapshots_dir.is_dir():
+            continue
+
+        candidates: list[Path] = []
+        ref_path = repo_cache / "refs" / "main"
+        try:
+            ref = ref_path.read_text().strip()
+        except OSError:
+            ref = ""
+        if ref:
+            candidates.append(snapshots_dir / ref)
+        candidates.extend(
+            sorted(
+                (path for path in snapshots_dir.iterdir() if path.is_dir()),
+                key=lambda path: path.stat().st_mtime,
+                reverse=True,
+            )
+        )
+
+        seen: set[Path] = set()
+        for snapshot in candidates:
+            if snapshot in seen:
+                continue
+            seen.add(snapshot)
+            if all((snapshot / filename).exists() for filename in required_files):
+                return snapshot
+    return None
+
+
+def _candidate_hf_hub_caches(cache_dir: str | Path | None) -> list[Path]:
+    candidates: list[Path] = []
+    if cache_dir is not None:
+        cache_path = Path(cache_dir).expanduser()
+        candidates.append(cache_path)
+        candidates.append(cache_path / "hub")
+
+    hub_cache = os.environ.get("HUGGINGFACE_HUB_CACHE")
+    if hub_cache:
+        candidates.append(Path(hub_cache).expanduser())
+
+    hf_home = os.environ.get("HF_HOME")
+    if hf_home:
+        candidates.append(Path(hf_home).expanduser() / "hub")
+
+    candidates.append(Path.home() / ".cache" / "huggingface" / "hub")
+
+    deduped: list[Path] = []
+    seen: set[Path] = set()
+    for candidate in candidates:
+        resolved = candidate.resolve() if candidate.exists() else candidate
+        if resolved not in seen:
+            seen.add(resolved)
+            deduped.append(candidate)
+    return deduped
+
+
+def _infer_groot_model_version_from_local_config(model_path: str) -> str | None:
+    path = Path(model_path).expanduser()
+    if path.is_dir():
+        config_path = path / "config.json"
+    elif path.name == "config.json":
+        config_path = path
+    else:
+        return None
+
+    if not config_path.exists():
+        return None
+
+    try:
+        with config_path.open() as f:
+            config = json.load(f)
+    except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
+        return None
+
+    return _infer_groot_model_version_from_config(config)
+
+
+def _infer_groot_model_version_from_config(config: dict) -> str | None:
+    model_version = config.get("model_version")
+    if isinstance(model_version, str):
+        try:
+            return normalize_groot_model_version(model_version)
+        except ValueError:
+            return None
+
+    candidates = [config.get("model_type"), *(config.get("architectures") or [])]
+    for candidate in candidates:
+        if not isinstance(candidate, str):
+            continue
+        normalized = candidate.lower().replace("-", "_")
+        if normalized in {"gr00tn1d7", "gr00t_n1d7", "gr00t_n1_7"}:
+            return GROOT_N1_7
+        if normalized in {"gr00t_n1_5", "gr00tn15", "gr00t_n1d5"}:
+            return GROOT_N1_5
+
+    if config.get("model_name") == GROOT_N1_7_BACKBONE_MODEL:
+        return GROOT_N1_7
+    return None
+
 
 @PreTrainedConfig.register_subclass("groot")
 @dataclass
@@ -52,12 +335,21 @@ class GrootConfig(PreTrainedConfig):
 
     # Groot-specific model parameters (from groot_finetune_script.py)
 
+    # Explicit GR00T model family selection. Defaults to N1.5 to preserve existing behavior.
+    model_version: str = GROOT_N1_5
+
     # Path or HuggingFace model ID for the base Groot model
-    base_model_path: str = "nvidia/GR00T-N1.5-3B"
+    base_model_path: str | None = None
 
     # HF repo ID (or local path) that hosts vocab.json and merges.txt for Eagle tokenizer.
     tokenizer_assets_repo: str = "lerobot/eagle2hg-processor-groot-n1p5"
 
+    # HF repo ID (or local path) for the GR00T N1.7 Cosmos/Qwen3-VL backbone processor.
+    n1_7_backbone_model: str = GROOT_N1_7_BACKBONE_MODEL
+
+    # Optional named action transform applied after raw N1.7 checkpoint decoding and before env.step().
+    action_decode_transform: str | None = None
+
     # Embodiment tag to use for training (e.g. 'new_embodiment', 'gr1')
     embodiment_tag: str = "new_embodiment"
 
@@ -117,6 +409,35 @@ class GrootConfig(PreTrainedConfig):
     resume: bool = False
 
     def __post_init__(self):
+        self.model_version = normalize_groot_model_version(self.model_version)
+        self.action_decode_transform = normalize_groot_action_decode_transform(self.action_decode_transform)
+        if self.base_model_path is None:
+            self.base_model_path = (
+                GROOT_N1_7_BASE_MODEL if self.model_version == GROOT_N1_7 else GROOT_N1_5_BASE_MODEL
+            )
+
+        if self.action_decode_transform is not None and self.model_version != GROOT_N1_7:
+            raise ValueError("action_decode_transform can only be used with model_version='n1.7'.")
+
+        if self.model_version == GROOT_N1_7:
+            if self.max_state_dim == 64:
+                self.max_state_dim = 132
+            if self.max_action_dim == 32:
+                self.max_action_dim = 132
+            if self.chunk_size == 50:
+                self.chunk_size = 40
+            if self.n_action_steps == 50:
+                self.n_action_steps = 40
+            if tuple(self.image_size) == (224, 224):
+                self.image_size = (256, 256)
+
+        inferred_version = infer_groot_model_version(self.base_model_path)
+        if inferred_version is not None and inferred_version != self.model_version:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"GR00T model_version '{self.model_version}' does not match base_model_path "
+                f"'{self.base_model_path}', which looks like '{inferred_version}'."
+            )
+
         super().__post_init__()
 
         if self.n_action_steps > self.chunk_size:
@@ -192,7 +513,12 @@ class GrootConfig(PreTrainedConfig):
     @property
     def action_delta_indices(self) -> list[int]:
         """Return indices for delta actions."""
-        return list(range(min(self.chunk_size, 16)))
+        model_action_horizon = 16
+        if self.model_version == GROOT_N1_7:
+            model_action_horizon = (
+                infer_groot_n1_7_action_horizon(self.base_model_path, self.embodiment_tag) or 40
+            )
+        return list(range(min(self.chunk_size, model_action_horizon)))
 
     @property
     def reward_delta_indices(self) -> None:

src/lerobot/policies/groot/groot_n1_7.py

@@ -0,0 +1,962 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import importlib
+import json
+import logging
+from contextlib import suppress
+from copy import deepcopy
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F  # noqa: N812
+from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
+from huggingface_hub.errors import HFValidationError, RepositoryNotFoundError
+from torch import nn
+from torch.distributions import Beta
+
+from lerobot.utils.import_utils import _transformers_available, require_package
+
+from .action_head.cross_attention_dit import AlternateVLDiT, DiT, SelfAttentionTransformer
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING or _transformers_available:
+    from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModel, PretrainedConfig, PreTrainedModel
+    from transformers.feature_extraction_utils import BatchFeature
+else:
+    AutoConfig = None
+    AutoModel = None
+    PretrainedConfig = object
+    PreTrainedModel = object
+    BatchFeature = None
+
+try:
+    import tree
+except ImportError:
+    tree = None
+
+try:
+    from transformers import Qwen3VLConfig, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
+except ImportError:
+    Qwen3VLConfig = None
+    Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration = None
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def _copy_default(value: Any) -> Any:
+    return deepcopy(value)
+
+
+GR00T_N1_7_DEFAULTS: dict[str, Any] = {
+    "model_dtype": "bfloat16",
+    "dtype": "bfloat16",
+    "model_name": "nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-2B",
+    "backbone_model_type": "qwen",
+    "model_revision": None,
+    "tune_top_llm_layers": 0,
+    "backbone_embedding_dim": 2048,
+    "tune_llm": False,
+    "tune_visual": False,
+    "select_layer": 12,
+    "reproject_vision": False,
+    "use_flash_attention": True,
+    "load_bf16": False,
+    "backbone_trainable_params_fp32": True,
+    "image_crop_size": (230, 230),
+    "image_target_size": (256, 256),
+    "shortest_image_edge": None,
+    "crop_fraction": None,
+    "random_rotation_angle": None,
+    "color_jitter_params": None,
+    "use_albumentations_transforms": True,
+    "extra_augmentation_config": None,
+    "formalize_language": True,
+    "apply_sincos_state_encoding": False,
+    "use_percentiles": True,
+    "use_relative_action": False,
+    "max_state_dim": 132,
+    "max_action_dim": 132,
+    "action_horizon": 40,
+    "hidden_size": 1024,
+    "input_embedding_dim": 1536,
+    "state_history_length": 1,
+    "add_pos_embed": True,
+    "attn_dropout": 0.2,
+    "use_vlln": True,
+    "max_seq_len": 1024,
+    "use_alternate_vl_dit": True,
+    "attend_text_every_n_blocks": 2,
+    "diffusion_model_cfg": {
+        "positional_embeddings": None,
+        "num_layers": 32,
+        "num_attention_heads": 32,
+        "attention_head_dim": 48,
+        "norm_type": "ada_norm",
+        "dropout": 0.2,
+        "final_dropout": True,
+        "output_dim": 1024,
+        "interleave_self_attention": True,
+    },
+    "vl_self_attention_cfg": {
+        "positional_embeddings": None,
+        "num_layers": 4,
+        "num_attention_heads": 32,
+        "attention_head_dim": 64,
+        "dropout": 0.2,
+        "final_dropout": True,
+    },
+    "num_inference_timesteps": 4,
+    "noise_beta_alpha": 1.5,
+    "noise_beta_beta": 1.0,
+    "noise_s": 0.999,
+    "num_timestep_buckets": 1000,
+    "tune_projector": True,
+    "tune_diffusion_model": True,
+    "tune_vlln": True,
+    "state_dropout_prob": 0.2,
+    "exclude_state": False,
+    "use_mean_std": False,
+    "max_num_embodiments": 32,
+    "rtc_ramp_rate": 6.0,
+}
+
+
+class GR00TN17Config(PretrainedConfig):
+    """Configuration for NVIDIA GR00T N1.7.
+
+    N1.7 uses the Cosmos-Reason2-2B / Qwen3-VL backbone and a multi-embodiment
+    flow-matching action head. This mirrors the public N1.7 checkpoint config
+    while keeping it local to LeRobot and independent from the external
+    Isaac-GR00T ``gr00t`` Python package.
+    """
+
+    model_type = "Gr00tN1d7"
+
+    _defaults = GR00T_N1_7_DEFAULTS
+
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        for key, value in GR00T_N1_7_DEFAULTS.items():
+            setattr(self, key, _copy_default(kwargs.pop(key, value)))
+        for key, value in kwargs.items():
+            setattr(self, key, value)
+
+    def to_filtered_dict(self, exclude_augment: bool = True) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        cfg = self.to_dict()
+        if not exclude_augment:
+            return cfg
+        exclude_keys = {
+            "random_rotation_angle",
+            "color_jitter_params",
+            "use_albumentations_transforms",
+            "formalize_language",
+            "image_crop_size",
+            "image_target_size",
+            "shortest_image_edge",
+            "crop_fraction",
+        }
+        return {k: v for k, v in cfg.items() if k not in exclude_keys}
+
+    def to_filtered_json(self, exclude_augment: bool = True, **kwargs) -> str:
+        return json.dumps(self.to_filtered_dict(exclude_augment), indent=2, default=str, **kwargs)
+
+
+class CategorySpecificLinear(nn.Module):
+    """Linear layer with category-specific weights for multi-embodiment support."""
+
+    def __init__(self, num_categories: int, input_dim: int, hidden_dim: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.num_categories = num_categories
+        self.W = nn.Parameter(0.02 * torch.randn(num_categories, input_dim, hidden_dim))
+        self.b = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(num_categories, hidden_dim))
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, cat_ids: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        selected_w = self.W[cat_ids]
+        selected_b = self.b[cat_ids]
+        return torch.bmm(x, selected_w) + selected_b.unsqueeze(1)
+
+
+class CategorySpecificMLP(nn.Module):
+    """Two-layer MLP with category-specific weights."""
+
+    def __init__(self, num_categories: int, input_dim: int, hidden_dim: int, output_dim: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.layer1 = CategorySpecificLinear(num_categories, input_dim, hidden_dim)
+        self.layer2 = CategorySpecificLinear(num_categories, hidden_dim, output_dim)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, cat_ids: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        hidden = F.relu(self.layer1(x, cat_ids))
+        return self.layer2(hidden, cat_ids)
+
+
+class SinusoidalPositionalEncoding(nn.Module):
+    """Sinusoidal encoding of shape ``(B, T, D)`` for timestep tensors ``(B, T)``.
+
+    The frequency scalar is intentionally created on CPU and then broadcast with
+    the device-local arange result. That mirrors Isaac-GR00T's N1.7 timestep
+    embedding and avoids tiny dtype/device construction differences in parity
+    tests.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, embedding_dim: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.embedding_dim = embedding_dim
+
+    def forward(self, timesteps: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        timesteps = timesteps.float()
+        half_dim = self.embedding_dim // 2
+        exponent = -torch.arange(half_dim, dtype=torch.float, device=timesteps.device) * (
+            torch.log(torch.tensor(10000.0)) / half_dim
+        )
+        freqs = timesteps.unsqueeze(-1) * exponent.exp()
+        return torch.cat([torch.sin(freqs), torch.cos(freqs)], dim=-1)
+
+
+def swish(x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return x * torch.sigmoid(x)
+
+
+class MultiEmbodimentActionEncoder(nn.Module):
+    """Action encoder with category-specific projections and sinusoidal time encoding."""
+
+    def __init__(self, action_dim: int, hidden_size: int, num_embodiments: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.W1 = CategorySpecificLinear(num_embodiments, action_dim, hidden_size)
+        self.W2 = CategorySpecificLinear(num_embodiments, 2 * hidden_size, hidden_size)
+        self.W3 = CategorySpecificLinear(num_embodiments, hidden_size, hidden_size)
+        self.pos_encoding = SinusoidalPositionalEncoding(hidden_size)
+
+    def forward(self, actions: torch.Tensor, timesteps: torch.Tensor, cat_ids: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        batch_size, horizon, _ = actions.shape
+        if timesteps.dim() != 1 or timesteps.shape[0] != batch_size:
+            raise ValueError("Expected `timesteps` to have shape (B,).")
+        timesteps = timesteps.unsqueeze(1).expand(-1, horizon)
+        action_emb = self.W1(actions, cat_ids)
+        time_emb = self.pos_encoding(timesteps).to(dtype=action_emb.dtype)
+        x = swish(self.W2(torch.cat([action_emb, time_emb], dim=-1), cat_ids))
+        return self.W3(x, cat_ids)
+
+
+class Qwen3Backbone(nn.Module):
+    """Cosmos-Reason2/Qwen3-VL backbone used by GR00T N1.7.
+
+    The public checkpoint stores the action head in the GR00T checkpoint but
+    uses a Hugging Face Qwen3-VL-compatible backbone interface. This wrapper
+    keeps the nested HF module layout compatible across transformer versions
+    and exposes the hidden states consumed by the action head.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        model_name: str = "nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-2B",
+        tune_llm: bool = False,
+        tune_visual: bool = False,
+        select_layer: int = -1,
+        reproject_vision: bool = False,
+        use_flash_attention: bool = False,
+        load_bf16: bool = False,
+        tune_top_llm_layers: int = 0,
+        trainable_params_fp32: bool = False,
+        transformers_loading_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+        load_pretrained_weights: bool = True,
+    ):
+        if Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration is None:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration is required for GR00T N1.7. "
+                "Install the GR00T optional dependencies with `pip install 'lerobot[groot]'` "
+                "or use a transformers version that provides Qwen3-VL support."
+            )
+
+        super().__init__()
+        transformers_loading_kwargs = transformers_loading_kwargs or {"trust_remote_code": True}
+
+        extra_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
+        if use_flash_attention:
+            try:
+                import flash_attn  # noqa: F401
+
+                extra_kwargs["attn_implementation"] = "flash_attention_2"
+            except ImportError:
+                logger.warning("flash_attn is not installed. Falling back to SDPA attention.")
+                extra_kwargs["attn_implementation"] = "sdpa"
+        if load_bf16:
+            extra_kwargs["torch_dtype"] = torch.bfloat16
+
+        if load_pretrained_weights:
+            self.model = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
+                model_name,
+                **extra_kwargs,
+                **transformers_loading_kwargs,
+            ).eval()
+        else:
+            self.model = self._from_backbone_config(
+                model_name=model_name,
+                model_kwargs=extra_kwargs,
+                config_kwargs=transformers_loading_kwargs,
+            ).eval()
+
+        while len(self.language_model.layers) > select_layer:
+            self.language_model.layers.pop(-1)
+
+        self.select_layer = select_layer
+        self.set_trainable_parameters(tune_llm, tune_visual, tune_top_llm_layers)
+        if load_bf16 and trainable_params_fp32:
+            for parameter in self.parameters():
+                if parameter.requires_grad:
+                    parameter.data = parameter.data.to(torch.float32)
+
+    def set_trainable_parameters(
+        self, tune_llm: bool, tune_visual: bool, tune_top_llm_layers: int = 0
+    ) -> None:
+        self.tune_llm = tune_llm
+        self.tune_visual = tune_visual
+        for parameter in self.parameters():
+            parameter.requires_grad = True
+        if not tune_llm:
+            self.language_model.requires_grad_(False)
+        if not tune_visual:
+            self.visual.requires_grad_(False)
+        if tune_top_llm_layers > 0:
+            for layer in self.language_model.layers[-tune_top_llm_layers:]:
+                for parameter in layer.parameters():
+                    parameter.requires_grad = True
+
+    def set_frozen_modules_to_eval_mode(self) -> None:
+        if self.training:
+            if self.language_model and not self.tune_llm:
+                self.language_model.eval()
+            if self.visual and not self.tune_visual:
+                self.visual.eval()
+
+    @property
+    def language_model(self) -> nn.Module:
+        return getattr(self.model, "model", self.model).language_model
+
+    @property
+    def visual(self) -> nn.Module:
+        return getattr(self.model, "model", self.model).visual
+
+    def _from_backbone_config(
+        self,
+        *,
+        model_name: str,
+        model_kwargs: dict[str, Any],
+        config_kwargs: dict[str, Any],
+    ) -> nn.Module:
+        if _is_cosmos_reason2_backbone(model_name):
+            backbone_config = _cosmos_reason2_qwen3_vl_config()
+        else:
+            if AutoConfig is None:
+                raise ImportError(
+                    "AutoConfig is required to initialize a GR00T N1.7 backbone from config. "
+                    "Install the GR00T optional dependencies with `pip install 'lerobot[groot]'`."
+                )
+            backbone_config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_name, **config_kwargs)
+        return Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration._from_config(backbone_config, **model_kwargs)
+
+    def prepare_input(self, batch: dict[str, Any]) -> BatchFeature:
+        return BatchFeature(data=batch)
+
+    def _ensure_mm_token_type_ids(self, model_input: dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> None:
+        if "mm_token_type_ids" in model_input:
+            return
+        if "image_grid_thw" not in model_input and "video_grid_thw" not in model_input:
+            return
+
+        input_ids = model_input.get("input_ids")
+        if input_ids is None:
+            return
+
+        mm_token_type_ids = torch.zeros(input_ids.shape, dtype=torch.int32, device=input_ids.device)
+        image_token_id = getattr(self.model.config, "image_token_id", None)
+        video_token_id = getattr(self.model.config, "video_token_id", None)
+        if image_token_id is not None:
+            mm_token_type_ids[input_ids == image_token_id] = 1
+        if video_token_id is not None:
+            mm_token_type_ids[input_ids == video_token_id] = 2
+
+        model_input["mm_token_type_ids"] = mm_token_type_ids
+
+    def _ensure_legacy_qwen3_position_ids(self, model_input: dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> None:
+        """Restore the Qwen3-VL text position ids used by older Transformers releases.
+
+        Transformers 5.x computes 3-row multimodal RoPE ids for Qwen3-VL and then
+        drops text position ids before calling text-layer flash attention. GR00T
+        N1.7 was aligned against the older Transformers path, where a fourth text
+        position row is forwarded alongside the temporal/height/width rows. Adding
+        the row here preserves the newer multimodal position computation while
+        keeping flash attention on the legacy code path.
+        """
+
+        if "position_ids" in model_input:
+            return
+
+        qwen3_model = getattr(self.model, "model", self.model)
+        compute_3d_position_ids = getattr(qwen3_model, "compute_3d_position_ids", None)
+        if compute_3d_position_ids is None:
+            return
+
+        position_ids = compute_3d_position_ids(
+            input_ids=model_input.get("input_ids"),
+            image_grid_thw=model_input.get("image_grid_thw"),
+            video_grid_thw=model_input.get("video_grid_thw"),
+            inputs_embeds=None,
+            attention_mask=model_input.get("attention_mask"),
+            past_key_values=None,
+            mm_token_type_ids=model_input.get("mm_token_type_ids"),
+        )
+        if position_ids.ndim == 3 and position_ids.shape[0] == 3:
+            position_ids = torch.cat([position_ids[:1], position_ids], dim=0)
+
+        model_input["position_ids"] = position_ids
+
+    def _last_decoder_layer_output(self, model_input: dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Return the pre-final-norm decoder output consumed by the N1.7 action head.
+
+        Older Transformers releases exposed this tensor as ``hidden_states[-1]``.
+        Newer releases expose the post-final-norm tensor there instead. Capturing
+        the last decoder layer output directly keeps the N1.7 action head input
+        stable across Transformers versions.
+        """
+
+        captured: dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
+
+        def capture_output(_module: nn.Module, _inputs: tuple[Any, ...], output: Any) -> None:
+            if isinstance(output, torch.Tensor):
+                captured["features"] = output
+            elif isinstance(output, (tuple, list)) and output:
+                captured["features"] = output[0]
+            elif hasattr(output, "last_hidden_state"):
+                captured["features"] = output.last_hidden_state
+
+        hook = self.language_model.layers[-1].register_forward_hook(capture_output)
+        try:
+            outputs = self.model(**model_input, output_hidden_states=True)
+        finally:
+            hook.remove()
+
+        return captured.get("features", outputs.hidden_states[-1])
+
+    def forward(self, vl_input: BatchFeature) -> BatchFeature:
+        self.set_frozen_modules_to_eval_mode()
+        keys_to_use = ["input_ids", "attention_mask", "pixel_values", "image_grid_thw"]
+        optional_keys = ["mm_token_type_ids", "pixel_values_videos", "video_grid_thw"]
+        model_input = {key: vl_input[key] for key in keys_to_use}
+        model_input.update({key: vl_input[key] for key in optional_keys if key in vl_input})
+        self._ensure_mm_token_type_ids(model_input)
+        self._ensure_legacy_qwen3_position_ids(model_input)
+        features = self._last_decoder_layer_output(model_input)
+        image_mask = model_input["input_ids"] == self.model.config.image_token_id
+        attention_mask = model_input["attention_mask"] == 1
+        return BatchFeature(
+            data={
+                "backbone_features": features,
+                "backbone_attention_mask": attention_mask,
+                "image_mask": image_mask,
+            }
+        )
+
+
+class GR00TN17ActionHead(nn.Module):
+    supports_gradient_checkpointing = True
+
+    def __init__(self, config: GR00TN17Config):
+        require_package("diffusers", extra="groot")
+        super().__init__()
+        self.config = config
+        self.hidden_size = config.hidden_size
+        self.input_embedding_dim = config.input_embedding_dim
+
+        if config.use_alternate_vl_dit:
+            self.model = AlternateVLDiT(
+                **config.diffusion_model_cfg,
+                cross_attention_dim=config.backbone_embedding_dim,
+                attend_text_every_n_blocks=config.attend_text_every_n_blocks,
+            )
+        else:
+            self.model = DiT(
+                **config.diffusion_model_cfg,
+                cross_attention_dim=config.backbone_embedding_dim,
+            )
+
+        self.action_dim = config.max_action_dim
+        self.action_horizon = config.action_horizon
+        self.num_inference_timesteps = config.num_inference_timesteps
+        self.state_encoder = CategorySpecificMLP(
+            num_categories=config.max_num_embodiments,
+            input_dim=config.max_state_dim * config.state_history_length,
+            hidden_dim=self.hidden_size,
+            output_dim=self.input_embedding_dim,
+        )
+        self.action_encoder = MultiEmbodimentActionEncoder(
+            action_dim=self.action_dim,
+            hidden_size=self.input_embedding_dim,
+            num_embodiments=config.max_num_embodiments,
+        )
+        self.action_decoder = CategorySpecificMLP(
+            num_categories=config.max_num_embodiments,
+            input_dim=self.hidden_size,
+            hidden_dim=self.hidden_size,
+            output_dim=self.action_dim,
+        )
+        self.vlln = nn.LayerNorm(config.backbone_embedding_dim) if config.use_vlln else nn.Identity()
+        vl_self_attention_cfg = getattr(config, "vl_self_attention_cfg", None)
+        if vl_self_attention_cfg and vl_self_attention_cfg.get("num_layers", 0) > 0:
+            self.vl_self_attention = SelfAttentionTransformer(**vl_self_attention_cfg)
+        else:
+            self.vl_self_attention = nn.Identity()
+        if config.add_pos_embed:
+            self.position_embedding = nn.Embedding(config.max_seq_len, self.input_embedding_dim)
+            nn.init.normal_(self.position_embedding.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02)
+        self.state_dropout_prob = config.state_dropout_prob
+        self._noise_beta_alpha = config.noise_beta_alpha
+        self._noise_beta_beta = config.noise_beta_beta
+        self._beta_dist = None
+        self.num_timestep_buckets = config.num_timestep_buckets
+        self.set_trainable_parameters(config.tune_projector, config.tune_diffusion_model, config.tune_vlln)
+
+    def set_trainable_parameters(
+        self, tune_projector: bool, tune_diffusion_model: bool, tune_vlln: bool
+    ) -> None:
+        self.tune_projector = tune_projector
+        self.tune_diffusion_model = tune_diffusion_model
+        self.tune_vlln = tune_vlln
+        for parameter in self.parameters():
+            parameter.requires_grad = True
+        if not tune_projector:
+            self.state_encoder.requires_grad_(False)
+            self.action_encoder.requires_grad_(False)
+            self.action_decoder.requires_grad_(False)
+            if self.config.add_pos_embed:
+                self.position_embedding.requires_grad_(False)
+        if not tune_diffusion_model:
+            self.model.requires_grad_(False)
+        if not tune_vlln:
+            self.vlln.requires_grad_(False)
+            self.vl_self_attention.requires_grad_(False)
+
+    def set_frozen_modules_to_eval_mode(self) -> None:
+        if self.training:
+            if not self.tune_projector:
+                self.state_encoder.eval()
+                self.action_encoder.eval()
+                self.action_decoder.eval()
+                if self.config.add_pos_embed:
+                    self.position_embedding.eval()
+            if not self.tune_diffusion_model:
+                self.model.eval()
+            if not self.tune_vlln:
+                self.vlln.eval()
+                self.vl_self_attention.eval()
+
+    def sample_time(self, batch_size: int, device: torch.device, dtype: torch.dtype) -> torch.Tensor:
+        if self._beta_dist is None:
+            beta_alpha = torch.tensor(self._noise_beta_alpha, device="cpu", dtype=torch.float32)
+            beta_beta = torch.tensor(self._noise_beta_beta, device="cpu", dtype=torch.float32)
+            self._beta_dist = Beta(beta_alpha, beta_beta, validate_args=False)
+        sample = self._beta_dist.sample([batch_size]).to(device, dtype=dtype)
+        return (1 - sample) * self.config.noise_s
+
+    def process_backbone_output(self, backbone_output: BatchFeature) -> BatchFeature:
+        backbone_features = self.vlln(backbone_output["backbone_features"])
+        backbone_output["backbone_features"] = self.vl_self_attention(backbone_features)
+        return backbone_output
+
+    def forward(self, backbone_output: BatchFeature, action_input: BatchFeature) -> BatchFeature:
+        self.set_frozen_modules_to_eval_mode()
+        backbone_output = self.process_backbone_output(backbone_output)
+        vl_embeds = backbone_output.backbone_features
+        device = vl_embeds.device
+        embodiment_id = action_input.embodiment_id
+
+        if action_input.state.shape[1] != self.config.state_history_length:
+            raise ValueError("state history length does not match GR00T N1.7 config.")
+        state = action_input.state.view(action_input.state.shape[0], 1, -1)
+        state_features = self.state_encoder(state, embodiment_id)
+
+        if self.training and self.state_dropout_prob > 0:
+            do_dropout = (
+                torch.rand(state_features.shape[0], device=state_features.device) < self.state_dropout_prob
+            )
+            state_features = state_features * (1 - do_dropout[:, None, None].to(dtype=state_features.dtype))
+
+        actions = action_input.action
+        noise = torch.randn(actions.shape, device=actions.device, dtype=actions.dtype)
+        t = self.sample_time(actions.shape[0], device=actions.device, dtype=actions.dtype)
+        t = t[:, None, None]
+        noisy_trajectory = (1 - t) * noise + t * actions
+        velocity = actions - noise
+        t_discretized = (t[:, 0, 0] * self.num_timestep_buckets).long()
+        action_features = self.action_encoder(noisy_trajectory, t_discretized, embodiment_id)
+
+        if self.config.add_pos_embed:
+            pos_ids = torch.arange(action_features.shape[1], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+            action_features = action_features + self.position_embedding(pos_ids).unsqueeze(0)
+
+        sa_embs = torch.cat((state_features, action_features), dim=1)
+        if self.config.use_alternate_vl_dit:
+            model_output, _ = self.model(
+                hidden_states=sa_embs,
+                encoder_hidden_states=vl_embeds,
+                encoder_attention_mask=backbone_output.backbone_attention_mask,
+                timestep=t_discretized,
+                return_all_hidden_states=True,
+                image_mask=backbone_output.image_mask,
+                backbone_attention_mask=backbone_output.backbone_attention_mask,
+            )
+        else:
+            model_output, _ = self.model(
+                hidden_states=sa_embs,
+                encoder_hidden_states=vl_embeds,
+                encoder_attention_mask=backbone_output.backbone_attention_mask,
+                timestep=t_discretized,
+                return_all_hidden_states=True,
+            )
+
+        pred = self.action_decoder(model_output, embodiment_id)
+        pred_actions = pred[:, -actions.shape[1] :]
+        action_mask = action_input.action_mask.to(dtype=pred_actions.dtype)
+        action_loss = F.mse_loss(pred_actions, velocity, reduction="none") * action_mask
+        loss = action_loss.sum() / (action_mask.sum() + 1e-6)
+        return BatchFeature(
+            data={
+                "loss": loss,
+                "action_loss": action_loss,
+                "action_mask": action_mask,
+                "backbone_features": vl_embeds,
+                "state_features": state_features,
+            }
+        )
+
+    def _encode_features(self, backbone_output: BatchFeature, action_input: BatchFeature) -> BatchFeature:
+        backbone_output = self.process_backbone_output(backbone_output)
+        state = action_input.state
+        if state.shape[1] != self.config.state_history_length:
+            raise ValueError("state history length does not match GR00T N1.7 config.")
+        state = state.view(state.shape[0], 1, -1)
+        state_features = self.state_encoder(state, action_input.embodiment_id)
+        return BatchFeature(
+            data={"backbone_features": backbone_output.backbone_features, "state_features": state_features}
+        )
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def get_action_with_features(
+        self,
+        backbone_features: torch.Tensor,
+        state_features: torch.Tensor,
+        embodiment_id: torch.Tensor,
+        backbone_output: BatchFeature,
+        action_input: BatchFeature,
+        options: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+    ) -> BatchFeature:
+        vl_embeds = backbone_features
+        batch_size = vl_embeds.shape[0]
+        device = vl_embeds.device
+        actions = torch.randn(
+            size=(batch_size, self.config.action_horizon, self.action_dim),
+            dtype=vl_embeds.dtype,
+            device=device,
+        )
+        dt = 1.0 / self.num_inference_timesteps
+        vel_strength = torch.ones_like(actions)
+
+        if "action" in action_input:
+            if options is None:
+                raise ValueError("RTC options are required when action is provided to get_action.")
+            action_horizon_before_padding = options["action_horizon"]
+            actions[:, : options["rtc_overlap_steps"], :] = action_input["action"][
+                :,
+                action_horizon_before_padding - options["rtc_overlap_steps"] : action_horizon_before_padding,
+                :,
+            ]
+            vel_strength[:, : options["rtc_frozen_steps"], :] = 0.0
+            intermediate_steps = options["rtc_overlap_steps"] - options["rtc_frozen_steps"]
+            t = torch.linspace(0.0, 1.0, intermediate_steps + 2, device=device)
+            ramp = 1 - torch.exp(-options["rtc_ramp_rate"] * t)
+            ramp = ramp / ramp[-1].clamp_min(1e-8)
+            vel_strength[:, options["rtc_frozen_steps"] : options["rtc_overlap_steps"], :] = ramp[1:-1][
+                None, :, None
+            ].to(device)
+
+        for t_step in range(self.num_inference_timesteps):
+            t_cont = t_step / float(self.num_inference_timesteps)
+            t_discretized = int(t_cont * self.num_timestep_buckets)
+            timesteps_tensor = torch.full(size=(batch_size,), fill_value=t_discretized, device=device)
+            action_features = self.action_encoder(actions, timesteps_tensor, embodiment_id)
+            if self.config.add_pos_embed:
+                pos_ids = torch.arange(action_features.shape[1], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+                action_features = action_features + self.position_embedding(pos_ids).unsqueeze(0)
+            sa_embs = torch.cat((state_features, action_features), dim=1)
+
+            if self.config.use_alternate_vl_dit:
+                model_output = self.model(
+                    hidden_states=sa_embs,
+                    encoder_hidden_states=vl_embeds,
+                    timestep=timesteps_tensor,
+                    image_mask=backbone_output.image_mask,
+                    backbone_attention_mask=backbone_output.backbone_attention_mask,
+                )
+            else:
+                model_output = self.model(
+                    hidden_states=sa_embs,
+                    encoder_hidden_states=vl_embeds,
+                    timestep=timesteps_tensor,
+                )
+            pred = self.action_decoder(model_output, embodiment_id)
+            actions = actions + dt * pred[:, -self.action_horizon :] * vel_strength
+
+        return BatchFeature(
+            data={
+                "action_pred": actions,
+                "backbone_features": vl_embeds,
+                "state_features": state_features,
+            }
+        )
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def get_action(
+        self,
+        backbone_output: BatchFeature,
+        action_input: BatchFeature,
+        options: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+    ) -> BatchFeature:
+        features = self._encode_features(backbone_output, action_input)
+        return self.get_action_with_features(
+            backbone_features=features.backbone_features,
+            state_features=features.state_features,
+            embodiment_id=action_input.embodiment_id,
+            backbone_output=backbone_output,
+            action_input=action_input,
+            options=options,
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def device(self) -> torch.device:
+        return next(iter(self.parameters())).device
+
+    @property
+    def dtype(self) -> torch.dtype:
+        return next(iter(self.parameters())).dtype
+
+    def prepare_input(self, batch: dict[str, Any]) -> BatchFeature:
+        return BatchFeature(data=batch)
+
+
+def _is_cosmos_reason2_backbone(model_name: str) -> bool:
+    return str(model_name).rstrip("/") == "nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-2B"
+
+
+def _cosmos_reason2_qwen3_vl_config() -> PretrainedConfig:
+    if Qwen3VLConfig is None:
+        raise ImportError(
+            "Qwen3VLConfig is required for GR00T N1.7. "
+            "Install the GR00T optional dependencies with `pip install 'lerobot[groot]'`."
+        )
+    return Qwen3VLConfig(
+        image_token_id=151655,
+        video_token_id=151656,
+        vision_start_token_id=151652,
+        vision_end_token_id=151653,
+        tie_word_embeddings=True,
+        text_config={
+            "attention_bias": False,
+            "attention_dropout": 0.0,
+            "bos_token_id": 151643,
+            "dtype": "bfloat16",
+            "eos_token_id": 151645,
+            "head_dim": 128,
+            "hidden_act": "silu",
+            "hidden_size": 2048,
+            "initializer_range": 0.02,
+            "intermediate_size": 6144,
+            "max_position_embeddings": 262144,
+            "model_type": "qwen3_vl_text",
+            "num_attention_heads": 16,
+            "num_hidden_layers": 28,
+            "num_key_value_heads": 8,
+            "rms_norm_eps": 1e-6,
+            "rope_scaling": {
+                "mrope_interleaved": True,
+                "mrope_section": [24, 20, 20],
+                "rope_type": "default",
+            },
+            "rope_theta": 5000000,
+            "tie_word_embeddings": True,
+            "use_cache": True,
+            "vocab_size": 151936,
+        },
+        vision_config={
+            "deepstack_visual_indexes": [5, 11, 17],
+            "depth": 24,
+            "hidden_act": "gelu_pytorch_tanh",
+            "hidden_size": 1024,
+            "in_channels": 3,
+            "initializer_range": 0.02,
+            "intermediate_size": 4096,
+            "model_type": "qwen3_vl",
+            "num_heads": 16,
+            "num_position_embeddings": 2304,
+            "out_hidden_size": 2048,
+            "patch_size": 16,
+            "spatial_merge_size": 2,
+            "temporal_patch_size": 2,
+        },
+    )
+
+
+def get_backbone_cls(config: GR00TN17Config):
+    if (
+        config.backbone_model_type == "qwen"
+        or "nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2" in config.model_name
+        or "Qwen/Qwen3-VL" in config.model_name
+    ):
+        return Qwen3Backbone
+    raise ValueError(f"Unsupported GR00T N1.7 backbone model: {config.model_name}")
+
+
+class GR00TN17(PreTrainedModel):
+    """GR00T N1.7 model with a Cosmos-Reason2/Qwen3-VL backbone."""
+
+    config_class = GR00TN17Config
+    supports_gradient_checkpointing = True
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        config: GR00TN17Config,
+        transformers_loading_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+        load_backbone_weights: bool = True,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(config)
+        transformers_loading_kwargs = transformers_loading_kwargs or {"trust_remote_code": True}
+        self.config = config
+        backbone_cls = get_backbone_cls(config)
+        self.backbone = backbone_cls(
+            model_name=config.model_name,
+            tune_llm=config.tune_llm,
+            tune_visual=config.tune_visual,
+            select_layer=config.select_layer,
+            reproject_vision=config.reproject_vision,
+            use_flash_attention=config.use_flash_attention,
+            load_bf16=config.load_bf16,
+            tune_top_llm_layers=config.tune_top_llm_layers,
+            trainable_params_fp32=config.backbone_trainable_params_fp32,
+            transformers_loading_kwargs=transformers_loading_kwargs,
+            load_pretrained_weights=load_backbone_weights,
+        )
+        self.action_head = GR00TN17ActionHead(config)
+        self.post_init()
+
+    def prepare_input(self, inputs: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[BatchFeature, BatchFeature]:
+        global tree
+        if tree is None:
+            require_package("dm-tree", extra="groot", import_name="tree")
+            tree = importlib.import_module("tree")
+        backbone_inputs = self.backbone.prepare_input(inputs)
+        action_inputs = self.action_head.prepare_input(inputs)
+
+        def to_device_with_dtype(x):
+            if not isinstance(x, torch.Tensor):
+                return x
+            if torch.is_floating_point(x):
+                return x.to(self.device, dtype=self.dtype)
+            return x.to(self.device)
+
+        return (
+            tree.map_structure(to_device_with_dtype, backbone_inputs),
+            tree.map_structure(to_device_with_dtype, action_inputs),
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, inputs: dict[str, Any]) -> BatchFeature:
+        backbone_inputs, action_inputs = self.prepare_input(inputs)
+        backbone_outputs = self.backbone(backbone_inputs)
+        return self.action_head(backbone_outputs, action_inputs)
+
+    def get_action(self, inputs: dict[str, Any], options: dict[str, Any] | None = None) -> BatchFeature:
+        backbone_inputs, action_inputs = self.prepare_input(inputs)
+        backbone_outputs = self.backbone(backbone_inputs)
+        return self.action_head.get_action(backbone_outputs, action_inputs, options)
+
+    @property
+    def device(self) -> torch.device:
+        return next(iter(self.parameters())).device
+
+    @property
+    def dtype(self) -> torch.dtype:
+        return next(iter(self.parameters())).dtype
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, **kwargs):
+        tune_visual = kwargs.pop("tune_visual", True)
+        tune_llm = kwargs.pop("tune_llm", False)
+        tune_projector = kwargs.pop("tune_projector", True)
+        tune_diffusion_model = kwargs.pop("tune_diffusion_model", True)
+        tune_vlln = kwargs.pop("tune_vlln", True)
+        transformers_loading_kwargs = kwargs.pop("transformers_loading_kwargs", None) or {
+            "trust_remote_code": True
+        }
+        load_backbone_weights = kwargs.pop("load_backbone_weights", False)
+        for key in ("revision", "cache_dir", "local_files_only", "token"):
+            if key in kwargs:
+                transformers_loading_kwargs.setdefault(key, kwargs[key])
+
+        try:
+            local_model_path = snapshot_download(
+                pretrained_model_name_or_path,
+                repo_type="model",
+                revision=kwargs.get("revision"),
+                cache_dir=kwargs.get("cache_dir"),
+                local_files_only=kwargs.get("local_files_only", False),
+                token=kwargs.get("token"),
+            )
+        except (HFValidationError, RepositoryNotFoundError):
+            local_model_path = pretrained_model_name_or_path
+
+        pretrained_model = super().from_pretrained(
+            local_model_path,
+            transformers_loading_kwargs=transformers_loading_kwargs,
+            load_backbone_weights=load_backbone_weights,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
+        pretrained_model.backbone.set_trainable_parameters(
+            tune_visual=tune_visual,
+            tune_llm=tune_llm,
+            tune_top_llm_layers=pretrained_model.config.tune_top_llm_layers,
+        )
+        pretrained_model.action_head.set_trainable_parameters(
+            tune_projector=tune_projector,
+            tune_diffusion_model=tune_diffusion_model,
+            tune_vlln=tune_vlln,
+        )
+        return pretrained_model
+
+
+def _register_with_transformers() -> None:
+    if AutoConfig is None or AutoModel is None:
+        return
+    try:
+        AutoConfig.register(GR00TN17Config.model_type, GR00TN17Config, exist_ok=True)
+    except TypeError:
+        with suppress(ValueError):
+            AutoConfig.register(GR00TN17Config.model_type, GR00TN17Config)
+    try:
+        AutoModel.register(GR00TN17Config, GR00TN17, exist_ok=True)
+    except TypeError:
+        with suppress(ValueError):
+            AutoModel.register(GR00TN17Config, GR00TN17)
+
+
+_register_with_transformers()

src/lerobot/policies/groot/modeling_groot.py

@@ -46,7 +46,15 @@ from lerobot.utils.constants import ACTION, OBS_IMAGES
 from lerobot.utils.import_utils import require_package
 
 from ..pretrained import PreTrainedPolicy
-from .configuration_groot import GrootConfig
+from .configuration_groot import (
+    GROOT_N1_5,
+    GROOT_N1_7,
+    GrootConfig,
+    infer_groot_model_version,
+    infer_groot_n1_7_action_execution_horizon,
+    infer_groot_n1_7_action_horizon,
+    normalize_groot_model_version,
+)
 from .groot_n1 import GR00TN15
 
 T = TypeVar("T", bound="GrootPolicy")
@@ -67,6 +75,7 @@ class GrootPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
 
         # Initialize GR00T model using ported components
         self._groot_model = self._create_groot_model()
+        self._action_queue_steps = self._resolve_action_queue_steps()
 
         self.reset()
 
@@ -82,13 +91,23 @@ class GrootPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
         # Handle Flash Attention compatibility issues
         self._handle_flash_attention_compatibility()
 
-        model = GR00TN15.from_pretrained(
-            pretrained_model_name_or_path=self.config.base_model_path,
-            tune_llm=self.config.tune_llm,
-            tune_visual=self.config.tune_visual,
-            tune_projector=self.config.tune_projector,
-            tune_diffusion_model=self.config.tune_diffusion_model,
-        )
+        model_kwargs = {
+            "pretrained_model_name_or_path": self.config.base_model_path,
+            "tune_llm": self.config.tune_llm,
+            "tune_visual": self.config.tune_visual,
+            "tune_projector": self.config.tune_projector,
+            "tune_diffusion_model": self.config.tune_diffusion_model,
+        }
+        if self.config.model_version == GROOT_N1_7:
+            from .groot_n1_7 import GR00TN17
+
+            model = GR00TN17.from_pretrained(
+                **model_kwargs,
+                tune_vlln=True,
+                transformers_loading_kwargs={"trust_remote_code": True},
+            )
+        else:
+            model = GR00TN15.from_pretrained(**model_kwargs)
 
         model.compute_dtype = "bfloat16" if self.config.use_bf16 else model.compute_dtype
         model.config.compute_dtype = model.compute_dtype
@@ -97,7 +116,7 @@ class GrootPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
 
     def reset(self):
         """Reset policy state when environment resets."""
-        self._action_queue = deque([], maxlen=self.config.n_action_steps)
+        self._action_queue = deque([], maxlen=self._action_queue_steps)
 
     @classmethod
     def from_pretrained(
@@ -141,8 +160,13 @@ class GrootPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
         from huggingface_hub.constants import SAFETENSORS_SINGLE_FILE
         from huggingface_hub.errors import HfHubHTTPError
 
+        requested_version = (
+            normalize_groot_model_version(config.model_version)
+            if config is not None
+            else infer_groot_model_version(str(pretrained_name_or_path)) or GROOT_N1_5
+        )
         print(
-            "The Groot policy is a wrapper around Nvidia's GR00T N1.5 model.\n"
+            f"The Groot policy is a wrapper around Nvidia's GR00T {requested_version} model.\n"
             f"Loading pretrained model from: {pretrained_name_or_path}"
         )
 
@@ -193,8 +217,12 @@ class GrootPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
         print("Detected base GR00T model, loading from HuggingFace...")
 
         if config is None:
+            model_version = infer_groot_model_version(str(pretrained_name_or_path)) or GROOT_N1_5
             # Create default config with the pretrained path
-            config = GrootConfig(base_model_path=str(pretrained_name_or_path))
+            config = GrootConfig(
+                model_version=model_version,
+                base_model_path=str(pretrained_name_or_path),
+            )
 
             # Add minimal visual feature required for validation
             # validate_features() will automatically add state and action features
@@ -215,6 +243,25 @@ class GrootPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
             if hasattr(config, key):
                 setattr(config, key, value)
 
+        config.model_version = normalize_groot_model_version(config.model_version)
+        inferred_version = infer_groot_model_version(config.base_model_path)
+        if inferred_version is not None and inferred_version != config.model_version:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"GR00T model_version '{config.model_version}' does not match base_model_path "
+                f"'{config.base_model_path}', which looks like '{inferred_version}'."
+            )
+        if config.model_version == GROOT_N1_7:
+            if config.max_state_dim == 64:
+                config.max_state_dim = 132
+            if config.max_action_dim == 32:
+                config.max_action_dim = 132
+            if config.chunk_size == 50:
+                config.chunk_size = 40
+            if config.n_action_steps == 50:
+                config.n_action_steps = 40
+            if tuple(config.image_size) == (224, 224):
+                config.image_size = (256, 256)
+
         # Create a fresh policy instance - this will automatically load the GR00T model
         # in __init__ via _create_groot_model()
         policy = cls(config)
@@ -225,18 +272,59 @@ class GrootPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
     def get_optim_params(self) -> dict:
         return self.parameters()
 
+    def _resolve_action_queue_steps(self) -> int:
+        n_action_steps = int(self.config.n_action_steps)
+        if self.config.model_version != GROOT_N1_7:
+            return n_action_steps
+
+        checkpoint_action_horizon = infer_groot_n1_7_action_horizon(
+            self.config.base_model_path,
+            self.config.embodiment_tag,
+        )
+        execution_horizon = infer_groot_n1_7_action_execution_horizon(
+            self.config.base_model_path,
+            self.config.embodiment_tag,
+        )
+        horizons = [n_action_steps]
+        if checkpoint_action_horizon is not None:
+            horizons.append(checkpoint_action_horizon)
+        if execution_horizon is not None:
+            horizons.append(execution_horizon)
+        return min(horizons)
+
+    def _filter_groot_inputs(self, batch: dict[str, Tensor], *, include_action: bool) -> dict[str, Tensor]:
+        allowed_base = {"state", "state_mask", "embodiment_id"}
+        if include_action:
+            allowed_base.update({"action", "action_mask"})
+
+        if self.config.model_version == GROOT_N1_7:
+            allowed_base.update(
+                {
+                    "input_ids",
+                    "attention_mask",
+                    "pixel_values",
+                    "image_grid_thw",
+                    "mm_token_type_ids",
+                    "pixel_values_videos",
+                    "video_grid_thw",
+                }
+            )
+            allowed_base.add("action_mask")
+        else:
+            allowed_base.update({"action_mask"} if include_action else set())
+
+        return {
+            k: v
+            for k, v in batch.items()
+            if (k in allowed_base or k.startswith("eagle_")) and not (k.startswith("next.") or k == "info")
+        }
+
     def forward(self, batch: dict[str, Tensor]) -> tuple[Tensor, dict]:
         """Training forward pass.
 
         Delegates to Isaac-GR00T model.forward when inputs are compatible.
         """
-        # Build a clean input dict for GR00T: keep only tensors GR00T consumes
-        allowed_base = {"state", "state_mask", "action", "action_mask", "embodiment_id"}
-        groot_inputs = {
-            k: v
-            for k, v in batch.items()
-            if (k in allowed_base or k.startswith("eagle_")) and not (k.startswith("next.") or k == "info")
-        }
+        groot_inputs = self._filter_groot_inputs(batch, include_action=True)
 
         # Get device from model parameters
         device = next(self.parameters()).device
@@ -261,15 +349,10 @@ class GrootPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
         """
         self.eval()
 
-        # Build a clean input dict for GR00T: keep only tensors GR00T consumes
-        # Preprocessing is handled by the processor pipeline, so we just filter the batch
-        # NOTE: During inference, we should NOT pass action/action_mask (that's what we're predicting)
-        allowed_base = {"state", "state_mask", "embodiment_id"}
-        groot_inputs = {
-            k: v
-            for k, v in batch.items()
-            if (k in allowed_base or k.startswith("eagle_")) and not (k.startswith("next.") or k == "info")
-        }
+        # Preprocessing is handled by the processor pipeline, so we just filter the batch.
+        # During inference, we do not pass action because it is predicted.
+        # N1.7 still carries a 2-D action horizon mask from its checkpoint processor.
+        groot_inputs = self._filter_groot_inputs(batch, include_action=False)
 
         # Get device from model parameters
         device = next(self.parameters()).device
@@ -292,7 +375,7 @@ class GrootPolicy(PreTrainedPolicy):
 
         if len(self._action_queue) == 0:
             actions = self.predict_action_chunk(batch)
-            self._action_queue.extend(actions.transpose(0, 1))
+            self._action_queue.extend(actions[:, : self._action_queue_steps].transpose(0, 1))
         return self._action_queue.popleft()
 
     # -------------------------