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Steven Palma 1add460678 fix(policy): loss normalization for padded actions in ACT, Diffusion, and MultiTaskDiT (#3442)
* Fix loss normalization for padded actions in ACT, Diffusion, and MultiTaskDiT

When action_is_pad masks out padded timesteps, the subsequent .mean()
still divides by the total element count (including zeroed-out padding),
underestimating the loss. With 60-70% padding this can cut the effective
gradient signal by 2-3x.

Replace mask-then-mean with mask-then-sum / valid-count for all three
affected policies. TDMPC is not affected because it sums over time
before averaging over batch.

Fixes #3353

* linting

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Signed-off-by: Maxime Ellerbach <maxime@ellerbach.net>

* Update src/lerobot/policies/diffusion/modeling_diffusion.py

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* Update src/lerobot/policies/multi_task_dit/modeling_multi_task_dit.py

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* Update src/lerobot/policies/multi_task_dit/modeling_multi_task_dit.py

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* apply ACT loss normalization suggestion from review

Divide by num_valid (timesteps * action_dim) instead of just timesteps,
matching the diffusion/multi_task_dit fix. Addresses review from
@whats2000 (https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/pull/3377#discussion_r3106845791).

* fix(test): update safetensor act

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Signed-off-by: Maxime Ellerbach <maxime@ellerbach.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Palma <imstevenpmwork@ieee.org>
Co-authored-by: Yufeng He <40085740+he-yufeng@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Maxime Ellerbach <maxime@ellerbach.net>
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