* Add basic support for PEFT adapter methods This changes adds support for training policies with much less parameters by applying adapter methods such as LoRA on specific parts of the policies and therefore possibly higher learning rates / batch sizes. To make this as accessible as possible I thought it useful to provide defaults for `target_modules` and `modules_to_save`. Currently only SmolVLA has such defaults but when we agree that this change is useful I will set out to generate more such defaults. While the user can override these settings, they are expected to only change the peft_method, rank and init_type parameters. * Implement loading of PEFT adapters Loading a PEFT adapter is currently done by initializing a policy with default config and then applying the adapter on the resulting model. This has the obvious drawback that any configurations done during training are not applied in the adapted model. Currently the `use_peft` attribute of `PreTrainedConfig` is only set during loading to signal the following code that it has to deal with a PEFT adapter. However we could imagine a scenario where this is already set at training time and stored alongside the adapter. * Store policy config alongside PEFT checkpoint Before this change the PEFT-wrapped policy did not save the policy's config alongside the adapter config / weights which prevented us from changing the policy config. Now the policy config is saved both in full training and PEFT training. This change makes loading the PEFT policy adapter much easier as well. * Add default config for ACT * Support targets like `all-linear` * Formatting * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci * Fix failing tests * Remove PEFT compatibility changes in config We'll wait for the PEFT release that fixes this for good. * Remove `use_peft` parameter from training script Instead we make the PEFT config optional which has the same effect. * Log adapter config to WandB * Better documentation for CLI arguments * Don't unload & merge the PEFT model This can make things hard when using quantized layers (user expects quantized base layers with unquantized adapters for example, merging defaults to upcast the layers leading to higher memory). * Correct way of identifying when to save config * Add CLI end-to-end tests Currently there don't seem to be any way to test the CLI commands. Since this change mostly happens in those I thought it best to add a way to test these commands end-to-end. More integrated commands like `lerobot-record` need patching but standalone commands like training seem to work fine. * Update default targets Removed ACT since it doesn't make sense to fine-tune ACT without having it pretrained beforehand. SmolVLA and Pi0/0.5 are much more senseful targets. * Clean up loading code - Centralized instantiation of the PEFT wrapper in `make_policy` for inference (e.g. in `lerobot-record`) - Training a PEFT policy also sets `cfg.use_peft` so that all inference code loading the policy can rely on that attribute to identify if PEFT loading is needed - Modified RTC example to also include PEFT policies. Mostly because this is an example I'm currently exploring. * Make sure push_to_hub works Since PEFT only wraps `push_to_hub` and not `push_model_to_hub`, the reference to `self` in `policy.push_model_to_hub` is the unwrapped policy which, of course, doesn't know anything about PEFT. To make the upload process aware of PEFT, we pass the unwrapped policy down to `push_model_to_hub` as a kwarg. This is not ideal but I think it is the best way for now. * formatting * Warn when encountering from-scratch-training * Revamp pretrained model loading There were quite a few factors that convinced me that the status quo is able to load pretrained models from the PEFT adapter config but in fact that didn't work. This commit fixes the following things: - policies wrapped in PEFT will now have a `name_or_path` attribute containing the name or path of the pretrained model we're fine-tuning - we further assume that SmolVLA without `pretrained_path` and `load_vlm_weights==False` must be an user-side error - we assume that using PEFT on from-scratch-policies must be an user-side-error * Make it possible to unset policy features This is necessary to train pre-trained policies on new datasets so that the features are inferred from the new dataset and not from the pretrained policy. * Use correct loading for PEFT in RTC example * Make it possible to use PeftModels in eval * Add test checking that PEFT actually reduces params * Adapt state/action projections instead of full-finetuning There doesn't seem to be a benefit to fully fine-tune these layers over just adapting them, so we do that instead. * Disallow PEFT training on non-pretrained policies At first I thought it would make sense to have this feature in case you want to fine-tune a pre-trained section but in the end it makes more trouble than it's worth. It's still possible to allow this in the future when a concrete need arises. * Add basic documentation * Formatting * Add peft as extra dependency, mark tests Fast tests currently fail because of the missing dependency. * Fix pre-commit issues * Add walx <> peft conflict for uv * Exclude peft from pi install for now --------- Co-authored-by: nemo <git@ningu.net> Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Pepijn <138571049+pkooij@users.noreply.github.com>
LeRobot aims to provide models, datasets, and tools for real-world robotics in PyTorch. The goal is to lower the barrier to entry so that everyone can contribute to and benefit from shared datasets and pretrained models.
🤗 A hardware-agnostic, Python-native interface that standardizes control across diverse platforms, from low-cost arms (SO-100) to humanoids.
🤗 A standardized, scalable LeRobotDataset format (Parquet + MP4 or images) hosted on the Hugging Face Hub, enabling efficient storage, streaming and visualization of massive robotic datasets.
🤗 State-of-the-art policies that have been shown to transfer to the real-world ready for training and deployment.
🤗 Comprehensive support for the open-source ecosystem to democratize physical AI.
Quick Start
LeRobot can be installed directly from PyPI.
pip install lerobot
lerobot-info
Important
For detailed installation guide, please see the Installation Documentation.
Robots & Control
LeRobot provides a unified Robot class interface that decouples control logic from hardware specifics. It supports a wide range of robots and teleoperation devices.
from lerobot.robots.myrobot import MyRobot
# Connect to a robot
robot = MyRobot(config=...)
robot.connect()
# Read observation and send action
obs = robot.get_observation()
action = model.select_action(obs)
robot.send_action(action)
Supported Hardware: SO100, LeKiwi, Koch, HopeJR, OMX, EarthRover, Reachy2, Gamepads, Keyboards, Phones, OpenARM, Unitree G1.
While these devices are natively integrated into the LeRobot codebase, the library is designed to be extensible. You can easily implement the Robot interface to utilize LeRobot's data collection, training, and visualization tools for your own custom robot.
For detailed hardware setup guides, see the Hardware Documentation.
LeRobot Dataset
To solve the data fragmentation problem in robotics, we utilize the LeRobotDataset format.
- Structure: Synchronized MP4 videos (or images) for vision and Parquet files for state/action data.
- HF Hub Integration: Explore thousands of robotics datasets on the Hugging Face Hub.
- Tools: Seamlessly delete episodes, split by indices/fractions, add/remove features, and merge multiple datasets.
from lerobot.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset
# Load a dataset from the Hub
dataset = LeRobotDataset("lerobot/aloha_mobile_cabinet")
# Access data (automatically handles video decoding)
episode_index=0
print(f"{dataset[episode_index]['action'].shape=}\n")
Learn more about it in the LeRobotDataset Documentation
SoTA Models
LeRobot implements state-of-the-art policies in pure PyTorch, covering Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, with more coming soon. It also provides you with the tools to instrument and inspect your training process.
Training a policy is as simple as running a script configuration:
lerobot-train \
--policy=act \
--dataset.repo_id=lerobot/aloha_mobile_cabinet
| Category | Models |
|---|---|
| Imitation Learning | ACT, Diffusion, VQ-BeT |
| Reinforcement Learning | HIL-SERL, TDMPC & QC-FQL (coming soon) |
| VLAs Models | Pi0.5, GR00T N1.5, SmolVLA, XVLA |
Similarly to the hardware, you can easily implement your own policy & leverage LeRobot's data collection, training, and visualization tools, and share your model to the HF Hub
For detailed policy setup guides, see the Policy Documentation.
Inference & Evaluation
Evaluate your policies in simulation or on real hardware using the unified evaluation script. LeRobot supports standard benchmarks like LIBERO, MetaWorld and more to come.
# Evaluate a policy on the LIBERO benchmark
lerobot-eval \
--policy.path=lerobot/pi0_libero_finetuned \
--env.type=libero \
--env.task=libero_object \
--eval.n_episodes=10
Learn how to implement your own simulation environment or benchmark and distribute it from the HF Hub by following the EnvHub Documentation
Resources
- Documentation: The complete guide to tutorials & API.
- Discord: Join the
LeRobotserver to discuss with the community. - X: Follow us on X to stay up-to-date with the latest developments.
- Robot Learning Tutorial: A free, hands-on course to learn robot learning using LeRobot.
Citation
If you use LeRobot in your research, please cite:
@misc{cadene2024lerobot,
author = {Cadene, Remi and Alibert, Simon and Soare, Alexander and Gallouedec, Quentin and Zouitine, Adil and Palma, Steven and Kooijmans, Pepijn and Aractingi, Michel and Shukor, Mustafa and Aubakirova, Dana and Russi, Martino and Capuano, Francesco and Pascal, Caroline and Choghari, Jade and Moss, Jess and Wolf, Thomas},
title = {LeRobot: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Real-World Robotics in Pytorch},
howpublished = "\url{https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot}",
year = {2024}
}
Contribute
We welcome contributions from everyone in the community! To get started, please read our CONTRIBUTING.md guide. Whether you're adding a new feature, improving documentation, or fixing a bug, your help and feedback are invaluable. We're incredibly excited about the future of open-source robotics and can't wait to work with you on what's next—thank you for your support!


