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Steven Palma 2d8f5f314e feat(env): config to skip the discarded scene rebuild on reset Libero (#4272)
* perf(libero): skip the discarded scene rebuild on reset

LIBERO's OffScreenRenderEnv defaults to hard_reset=True, so every reset() frees
the MjSim, re-serialises the scene with model.get_xml(), recompiles it with
MjSim.from_xml_string(), constructs a fresh offscreen GL context and re-wires
every observable.

When init states are in use, LiberoEnv.reset() immediately calls
set_init_state(), which overwrites the whole sim state -- so all of that work is
discarded. This passes hard_reset=not init_states instead. Without init states
the randomisation reset() performs is the only thing placing the objects, so the
hard reset is kept.

Measured on an RTX 3060 Ti (EGL, robosuite 1.4.0, mujoco 3.2.7, 256x256 x2
cameras), through LiberoEnv.reset(), fresh env per arm:

  suite            hard      soft     saved
  libero_spatial   1697 ms   233 ms   1464 ms
  libero_object    1394 ms   172 ms   1222 ms
  libero_goal      1177 ms   164 ms   1013 ms
  libero_10        1528 ms   207 ms   1321 ms

Equivalence
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Immediately after set_init_state, qpos, qvel, ctrl and act are bit-identical
between the two paths on every suite tested.

After the 10 settle steps that reset() runs, 9 of 41 qpos entries differ:
robot0_joint1..7 (<= 2.4e-5 rad) and gripper0_finger_joint1/2 (<= 2.1e-4 rad).
No object joint differs on any suite. The drift is driven by the gripper
component of the settle action ([0,0,0,0,0,0,-1]); replacing it with zeros keeps
the two paths bit-identical for 12 further steps, and with num_steps_wait=0 there
is no divergence at all.

Wrist-camera pixels can differ by up to ~87/255, because a sub-millimetre finger
displacement crosses rasterisation boundaries at 256x256. The pixel metric badly
overstates the physical difference here; 2.1e-4 rad is 0.012 degrees.

So this is not bit-identical end to end, and reviewers should decide whether
0.012 degrees of gripper drift is acceptable for the benchmark. It does not
change object placement, which is what the fixed init states exist to control.


* refactor(env): config param libero + docs

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Co-authored-by: Dimitar Dimitrov <dvdimitrov13@gmail.com>
2026-07-31 16:28:12 +02:00
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Generating the documentation

To generate the documentation, you first have to build it. Several packages are necessary to build the doc, you can install them with the following command, at the root of the code repository:

pip install -e . -r docs-requirements.txt

You will also need nodejs. Please refer to their installation page


NOTE

You only need to generate the documentation to inspect it locally (if you're planning changes and want to check how they look before committing for instance). You don't have to git commit the built documentation.


Building the documentation

Once you have setup the doc-builder and additional packages, you can generate the documentation by typing the following command:

doc-builder build lerobot docs/source/ --build_dir ~/tmp/test-build

You can adapt the --build_dir to set any temporary folder that you prefer. This command will create it and generate the MDX files that will be rendered as the documentation on the main website. You can inspect them in your favorite Markdown editor.

Previewing the documentation

To preview the docs, first install the watchdog module with:

pip install watchdog

Then run the following command:

doc-builder preview lerobot docs/source/

The docs will be viewable at http://localhost:3000. You can also preview the docs once you have opened a PR. You will see a bot add a comment to a link where the documentation with your changes lives.


NOTE

The preview command only works with existing doc files. When you add a completely new file, you need to update _toctree.yml & restart preview command (ctrl-c to stop it & call doc-builder preview ... again).


Adding a new element to the navigation bar

Accepted files are Markdown (.md).

Create a file with its extension and put it in the source directory. You can then link it to the toc-tree by putting the filename without the extension in the _toctree.yml file.

Renaming section headers and moving sections

It helps to keep the old links working when renaming the section header and/or moving sections from one document to another. This is because the old links are likely to be used in Issues, Forums, and Social media and it'd make for a much more superior user experience if users reading those months later could still easily navigate to the originally intended information.

Therefore, we simply keep a little map of moved sections at the end of the document where the original section was. The key is to preserve the original anchor.

So if you renamed a section from: "Section A" to "Section B", then you can add at the end of the file:

Sections that were moved:

[ <a href="#section-b">Section A</a><a id="section-a"></a> ]

and of course, if you moved it to another file, then:

Sections that were moved:

[ <a href="../new-file#section-b">Section A</a><a id="section-a"></a> ]

Use the relative style to link to the new file so that the versioned docs continue to work.

For an example of a rich moved sections set please see the very end of the transformers Trainer doc.

Adding a new tutorial

Adding a new tutorial or section is done in two steps:

  • Add a new file under ./source. This file can either be ReStructuredText (.rst) or Markdown (.md).
  • Link that file in ./source/_toctree.yml on the correct toc-tree.

Make sure to put your new file under the proper section. If you have a doubt, feel free to ask in a Github Issue or PR.

Writing source documentation

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Writing a multi-line code block

Multi-line code blocks can be useful for displaying examples. They are done between two lines of three backticks as usual in Markdown:

```
# first line of code
# second line
# etc
```

Adding an image

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