SmolVLA is a compact, efficient Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model designed for affordable robotics, trainable on a single GPU and deployable on consumer hardware, while matching the performance of much larger VLAs through community-driven data. Original paper: (SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics)[https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01844] For full installation details (including optional video dependencies such as ffmpeg for torchcodec), see the official documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/installation If you’re training / fine-tuning, you typically call forward(...) to get a loss and then: - -policy.chunksize=... - -policy.nactionsteps=...…