feat: language annotation pipeline (#3471)

Steerable annotation pipeline (lerobot-annotate) that populates the language_persistent and language_events columns introduced in PR 1 (#3467) directly into data/chunk-*/file-*.parquet.

This is PR 2 of the three-PR plan:

PR 1 (Add extensive language support #3467): schema + DSL + rendering, base of this PR
PR 2 (this PR): annotation pipeline writing into PR 1's columns
PR 3: model with language prediction and runtime
A VLM (Qwen-VL family, served on vLLM) watches each episode's video and emits grounded language annotations: subtasks, plans, memory, task rephrasings, interjections + speech, and per-camera VQA. The pipeline is built for production annotation at scale — single-camera grounding, embedded-frame inputs, a describe-then-segment grounding flow, and a deterministic full-episode coverage guarantee — informed by Scale's dense-captioning findings (representation > sampling, rules > reasoning, model capacity is the biggest lever, two-pass systems compound errors)
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@@ -229,6 +229,21 @@ vla_jepa = ["lerobot[transformers-dep]", "lerobot[diffusers-dep]", "lerobot[qwen
async = ["lerobot[grpcio-dep]", "lerobot[matplotlib-dep]"]
peft = ["lerobot[transformers-dep]", "lerobot[peft-dep]"]
# Annotation pipeline (lerobot-annotate). The only backend is ``openai``,
# which talks to any OpenAI-compatible server (``vllm serve`` /
# ``transformers serve`` / hosted). Distributed runs use Hugging Face Jobs
# (see examples/annotations/run_hf_job.py).
annotations = [
"lerobot[dataset]",
"lerobot[transformers-dep]",
"openai>=1.40,<2.0",
# ``vllm`` is intentionally NOT a hard dep: it pins an older torch, and
# uv's single unified lock would then cap ``torch`` for every extra
# (e.g. forcing 2.8 while ``torchcodec`` in [dataset] needs 2.11 -> ABI
# break in CI). The HF Jobs image (``vllm/vllm-openai``) provides vLLM;
# install it locally only if you run your own ``vllm serve``.
]
# Development
dev = ["pre-commit>=3.7.0,<5.0.0", "debugpy>=1.8.1,<1.9.0", "lerobot[grpcio-dep]", "grpcio-tools>=1.73.1,<2.0.0", "mypy>=1.19.1", "ruff>=0.14.1", "lerobot[notebook]"]
notebook = ["jupyter>=1.0.0,<2.0.0", "ipykernel>=6.0.0,<7.0.0"]
@@ -323,6 +338,7 @@ lerobot-find-joint-limits="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_find_joint_limits:main"
lerobot-imgtransform-viz="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_imgtransform_viz:main"
lerobot-edit-dataset="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_edit_dataset:main"
lerobot-setup-can="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_setup_can:main"
lerobot-annotate="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_annotate:main"
lerobot-rollout="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_rollout:main"
# ---------------- Tool Configurations ----------------
@@ -341,7 +357,7 @@ torch = [{ index = "pytorch-cu128", marker = "sys_platform == 'linux'" }]
torchvision = [{ index = "pytorch-cu128", marker = "sys_platform == 'linux'" }]
[tool.setuptools.package-data]
lerobot = ["envs/*.json"]
lerobot = ["envs/*.json", "annotations/steerable_pipeline/prompts/*.txt"]
[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
where = ["src"]