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Steven Palma 708fa1d189 feat(policies): add Gr00t N1.7 policy (#3922)
* Add GR00T N1.7 support

Add GR00T N1.7 policy configuration, checkpoint compatibility, processor parity, LIBERO documentation, and focused tests.

Co-authored-by: Ryan Halabi <ryhalabi@nvidia.com>

* Move Groot processor compatibility into Groot loader

* Restore GR00T Flash Attention install guidance

* Allow Groot fake RTC chunk prefetch

* Fix GR00T N1.7 RTC action decoding

* Trim GR00T N1.7 RTC chunks to valid horizon

* Ignore padded GR00T N1.7 RTC prefix rows

* removed n1.5 dependency

* removed remaining N1.5 traces

* groot: auto-enable LIBERO gripper action transform for libero_sim

GR00T N1.7 emits gripper in [0,1] but LIBERO expects [-1,1]. The decode
transform existed but was never auto-enabled for embodiment_tag=libero_sim,
so the policy scored 0% on LIBERO eval. Auto-set it in __post_init__ (still
overridable). LIBERO Spatial eval: 0% -> 98%.

* Reconnect GR00T relative action processors

* groot: remove dead N1.5 code (eagle2_hg_model, flow_matching_action_head, action_encoder)

N1.7 backbone is nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-2B via Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration,
not Eagle2 — eagle2_hg_model/ had zero refs outside its own dir.

GR00TN17ActionHead (groot_n1_7.py) re-implements MultiEmbodimentActionEncoder +
CategorySpecificLinear + swish + SinusoidalPositionalEncoding locally, so
flow_matching_action_head.py (N1.5 FlowmatchingActionHead) and its sole
dependency action_encoder.py are dead. Verified: no src/ or tests/ reference.

Removed (~2037 LOC):
- eagle2_hg_model/ (4 files, ~1575 LOC)
- action_head/flow_matching_action_head.py (408 LOC)
- action_head/action_encoder.py (54 LOC)

cross_attention_dit.py KEPT (DiT/AlternateVLDiT/SelfAttentionTransformer live in N1.7).

* groot: reuse lerobot get_device_from_parameters instead of inline lookup

modeling_groot.py duplicated next(self.parameters()).device twice. LeRobot
ships get_device_from_parameters in policies/utils.py (used by diffusion,
vqbet, tdmpc, gaussian_actor). Reuse it for consistency with the framework.

* groot: fix stale Eagle VLM docstring in processor (N1.7 uses Qwen3-VL backbone)

Addresses checker nit: processor_groot.py docstring still described the N1.5
Eagle VLM path with eagle_content/eagle_* keys that no longer exist in the code.

* test(groot): add N1.7 original-vs-LeRobot output parity test

Verifies the LeRobot GR00T N1.7 integration produces equivalent raw
action_pred to NVIDIA Isaac-GR00T for the same checkpoint, inputs, seed,
precision (fp32) and attention kernel (SDPA): max|diff|=8.9e-7 on the
libero_sim embodiment (GR00T-N1.7-LIBERO/libero_10).

The two impls pin incompatible transformers majors (orig 4.57.3 vs
LeRobot 5.x) and cannot share a process, so the original outputs + exact
collated inputs are produced out-of-process and loaded from an .npz. The
test skips on CI / when the checkpoint or artifact are absent.

* test(groot): parametrize N1.7 parity across all checkpoint embodiments

Generalize the original-vs-LeRobot N1.7 output-parity test from a single
libero_sim case to every embodiment tag in the checkpoint (libero_sim, oxe_droid,
real_g1, the real_r1_pro_sharpa family, and the xdof family). Inputs are built
generically from checkpoint metadata; the test discovers per-tag .npz artifacts
and runs one parametrized case each, loading the LeRobot model once via a fixture.

All 9 embodiments match the original to fp32 epsilon (max|diff| < 3e-6), confirming
the integration is correct across the model's full embodiment space and not overfit
to libero_sim.

* test(groot): self-contained parity test + in-repo producer + docs

- Rename test_groot_n1_7_vs_original.py -> test_groot_vs_original.py
- Make the test self-contained: producer script (dump_original_n1_7.py) now lives
  next to the test; default artifact dir is repo-relative
  (tests/policies/groot/artifacts/), overridable via GROOT_N1_7_PARITY_DIR. The
  test only reads artifacts and skips if absent -- it never creates external dirs.
- Heavy .npz artifacts (~6-9MB each) are gitignored and regenerated by the producer;
  never committed.
- Drop the verbose 'MULTIPLE EMBODIMENTS' docstring block (kept a one-line note).
- Document the parity procedure in the groot policy README (docs/source/policy_groot_README.md).
- Rename test fn test_groot_n1_7_get_action_parity -> test_groot_get_action_parity.

9/9 embodiments still pass (max|diff| < 3e-6, fp32 eps).

* docs(groot): drop WHY TWO ENVIRONMENTS block from parity test docstring

* test(groot): move parity producer into utils/ package

Mirror the tests/policies/pi0_pi05/utils convention: move dump_original_n1_7.py into
a tests/policies/groot/utils/ package (with __init__.py) and update all path
references in the test docstring/skip-message and the policy README.

* test(groot): adopt test_groot_lerobot for GR00T N1.7, drop N1.5

The test loaded MODEL_PATH='aractingi/bimanual-handover-groot-10k', an N1.5
checkpoint (config base_model_path=nvidia/GR00T-N1.5-3B, no model_version). On
load, model_version defaults to n1.7 while the base path infers n1.5, so the
version-consistency guard in GrootConfig.__post_init__ raised ValueError and both
test_lerobot_groot_inference and test_lerobot_groot_forward_pass failed. N1.5 is no
longer a supported model_version.

Adopt the test for N1.7:
- MODEL_PATH -> nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B (root-level sharded safetensors; loads via
  GrootPolicy.from_pretrained as a base N1.7 model).
- Embodiment tag 'gr1' (N1.5) -> 'gr1_unified' (valid N1.7 tag from the checkpoint
  embodiment_id.json), via a single EMBODIMENT_TAG constant.
- DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON 16 -> 40 to match N1.7's native action-chunk size.
- Docstrings/labels updated to 'GR00T N1.7'.

Both tests run and pass on CUDA; full tests/policies/groot/ suite is
73 passed / 0 failed / 0 skipped.

* docs(groot): document the N1.5 removal and the N1.7 parity test

- groot.mdx: breaking-change warning and migration path (pin lerobot==0.5.1 to
  keep N1.5, or move to N1.7); the dead `huggingface-cli download` is replaced
  with `hf download`.
- policy_groot_README.md: N1.5 removal note, updated paper / model-card links,
  and the two-comparison (model parity + preprocessor parity) description of
  the original-vs-LeRobot test, including the raw-observation artifacts and
  recorded seed.

* fix(groot): N1.7 backbone loading and DiT parameter-count logging

- select_layer default tracks the N1.7-3B checkpoint value (16); real
  checkpoint loads still override it from config.json.
- get_backbone_cls recognizes Cosmos-Reason2 / Qwen3-VL backbones by name and
  warns (instead of silently assuming) when an unrecognized backbone is loaded
  only on the strength of backbone_model_type='qwen'.
- 'revision' pins the GR00T checkpoint repo only and is no longer forwarded
  into the unrelated backbone repo load; pin the backbone via
  transformers_loading_kwargs instead.
- DiT / SelfAttentionTransformer parameter counts go through logging.debug
  instead of print().

* fix(groot): N1.7 config defaults, N1.5 rejection, and processor/model runtime fixes

Covers the GR00T N1.7 source trio (configuration, processor, model wrapper).

Config:
- GrootConfig defaults are the N1.7 values; explicitly passed legacy N1.5-era
  values (chunk_size=50, max_state_dim=64, ...) are remapped with a warning
  instead of silently.
- action_decode_transform gains an 'auto' sentinel so an explicit 'none'
  opt-out wins over the libero_sim default and survives save/load round-trips.
- action_delta_indices is cached on the inputs that determine it.
- Legacy N1.5 checkpoints/configs (tokenizer_assets_repo, model_type/
  architectures/eagle backbone markers) are rejected with a single clear
  error pointing to lerobot==0.5.1.

Processor:
- GrootN17ActionDecodeStep handles the 2-D (B, D) actions delivered by sync
  select_action (relative eef/non-eef decode in eval/record flows).
- Postprocessor falls back to dataset stats when a raw checkpoint lacks the
  configured embodiment tag; raw-state cache is per-instance, not
  process-global; caller overrides (device, rename_map) are honored on the
  raw-checkpoint branch.
- Camera/modality-key mismatches warn (including the zero-match fallback);
  deprecated Qwen2VLImageProcessorFast replaced with Qwen2VLImageProcessor;
  removed N1.5 processor steps are stubbed to raise the removal guidance and
  the action-unpack step is re-registered as _v2.

Model:
- Flash-attention probe is diagnostic-only; forward raises on a missing loss;
  print() replaced with logging; N1.5 base-path mismatch includes the
  removal guidance.

* fix(groot): skip normalization overrides for training

* fix(groot): GPU/tensor N1.7 image preprocessing + resize to trained resolution

GR00T training was dataloader-bound (0->100->0 GPU-utilization sawtooth).
GrootN17VLMEncodeStep ran the Qwen3-VL image processor per frame on PIL images
on the single CPU main-loop thread, and that cost is timed inside dataloading_s
(preprocessor(batch) runs in the main process, not the dataloader workers), so
adding workers cannot hide it.

- Feed the torchvision-backed Qwen3-VL processor (C,H,W) uint8 tensors instead
  of a per-frame Image.fromarray PIL roundtrip, and run resize/normalize/patchify
  on config.device (GPU) when available. Bit-identical on CPU when no resize is
  configured; with a resize only the PIL->torchvision bicubic backend differs
  (<2/255 per pixel). The use_albumentations path stays PIL/cv2; reload on a box
  without the saved device falls back to CPU.

- Default image_target_size/crop to the N1.7 backbone's training geometry
  (256x256 / 230x230) when a checkpoint ships no image sizing (checkpoint_assets
  is None, e.g. finetuning nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B via repo-id with a new
  embodiment). Previously image_target_size=None disabled the resize, so
  full-resolution frames were patchified into ~4.7x more vision tokens than the
  model was trained on -- inflating dataloading_s (patchify) and update_s (VLM
  sequence) and skewing the input distribution. Checkpoints that pin their own
  sizing are honored; the default constants are shared with GR00T_N1_7_DEFAULTS.

Net: preprocessing leaves the CPU critical path and the VLM sees the resolution
it was trained on -- faster training/inference and a correct train/serve
distribution. Affects inference too (shared preprocessor); existing checkpoints
still load (backward compatible) but must be retrained to gain the benefits.

* refactor(groot): N1.7 style cleanup (utils, imports, flash-attn, config)

Mechanical refactor of the GR00T N1.7 policy to match the repo's architecture and
style standards. No change to policy algorithm/numerics; only UX/CLI and packaging
changes. Tests are intentionally left untouched (out of scope) and need updating
for the removed `model_version` field.

Cleanup & consolidation:
- Add `groot/utils.py` holding the pure, side-effect-free helpers (JSON I/O, value
  coercion, stat flattening, rot6d/SE3 math, language/batch prep) shared by the
  config and processor layers.
- Remove dead code: the unused `resolve_groot_n1_7_backbone_model` cache-resolver
  cluster, `GR00TN17Config.to_filtered_dict/json`, and the `_copy_default` wrapper.

Imports & execution guards:
- Hoist nested imports to module top; relative imports within the package, absolute
  for external modules. The version-gated Qwen3-VL classes import under the single
  `_transformers_available` guard (transformers is pinned >=5.4, which ships them).
- No import-time side effects: `_register_with_transformers()` now runs in
  `GR00TN17.__init__` (idempotent via `register(exist_ok=True)`), and the N1.5 step
  stubs register lazily before pipeline deserialization (idempotent via the
  registry, no run-once globals).
- Gate optional deps at the point of use with `require_package(..., extra="groot")`.

Dependencies & docs:
- Drop `flash-attn` (and its build-only dep `ninja`) from the `groot` extra; default
  to SDPA (numerically equivalent) with opt-in via `--policy.use_flash_attention`.
  Un-comment `lerobot[groot]` in the `all` extra and regenerate `uv.lock`.
- Rewrite the `groot.mdx` install section: flash-attn is a purely optional,
  user-managed optimization that LeRobot neither installs nor requires.

Config & CLI:
- Surface previously-frozen knobs on `GrootConfig` (plumbed into `GR00TN17Config`;
  no-ops at their defaults): inference — `num_inference_timesteps`, `rtc_ramp_rate`,
  `use_flash_attention`; fine-tuning — `tune_top_llm_layers` (partial-LLM tuning)
  and `tune_vlln` (previously hardwired to True).
- Convert the single-valued `model_version` and `n1_7_backbone_model` fields to
  internal constants.
- Keep `base_model_path`: it is NOT equivalent to `pretrained_path` (raw NVIDIA
  checkpoints have no LeRobot `type` field and load only via `base_model_path`) and
  is genuinely user-tunable.
- Keep the deprecated Isaac-GR00T/N1.5 fields (and the dead LoRA fields) as a
  back-compat block so a v0.5.1 N1.5 `config.json` still parses under draccus and is
  rejected with the friendly N1.5 removal message instead of an opaque decode error.

* Optimize GR00T N1.7 image preprocessing

* Remove PIL fallback from GR00T preprocessing

* Fix GROOT relative action training stats

* Address GROOT relative action review feedback

* Fix GROOT N1.7 relative action stats

* Fix GROOT relative action training stats

* Fix GROOT relative action padding and RTC leftovers

* Reset rollout state after robot episode end

* Revert "Reset rollout state after robot episode end"

This reverts commit 1322f45aec.

* Move GROOT relative stats out of train script

* Guard GR00T relative action stepwise decode

* Match GR00T N1.7 OSS preprocessing and relative actions

* Apply LIBERO action decode override after loading

* Format GR00T OSS parity changes

* chore(policies): add guards, warnings and comments + recover tests n1.5 check

* fix(style): pre-commit

* fix(ci): guard dependecy checks

* chore(groot): move cv2 to the top as its in the default install tag

* chore(policies): add explicit dataset dependecy to gr00t implementation

* fix(test): add guard

* fix(groot): make N1.7 letterbox opt-in

* feat(groot): activate checkpoint-configured N1.7 raw-state dropout during training

Isaac-GR00T applies dual state regularization during fine-tuning: raw-state
zeroing driven by the processor sidecar's state_dropout_prob (0.2 for the
inspected N1.7 checkpoint) plus encoded-feature dropout. Baseline LeRobot kept
the processor in deterministic mode, so the raw-state dropout never activated
(RCA Tier-2 contributor to the LeRobot-trained SO-101 failures).

- GrootN17PackInputsStep: runtime-only 'training' flag + state_dropout_prob;
  whole-sample state zeroing gated on torch.is_grad_enabled() so eval and
  no_grad validation paths are unaffected
- sidecar loader reads state_dropout_prob from processor_config.json
- state_dropout_prob serializes with the step; the training flag intentionally
  does not (reloaded pipelines default to eval, re-enabled only when processors
  are rebuilt with dataset_meta)
- _set_groot_preprocessor_training toggles any dataclass step exposing a
  'training' field on serialized-pipeline reloads

Verification: tests/policies/groot/test_groot_state_dropout.py (4 passed) on
RTX PRO 6000 / CUDA 13.3.

* fix(groot): align N1.7 fine-tuning optimizer/scheduler/precision with Isaac-GR00T

Evidence from the LeRobot-vs-OSS checkpoint comparison: the LeRobot/HF 8k
checkpoint's DiT moved only ~19% as far from base as the OSS-trained one
(0.0547 vs 0.285 relative L2) - undertrained because the scheduler decayed over
a hardcoded 10k steps regardless of --steps, on top of beta1/clip mismatches.

- AdamW betas (0.95, 0.999) -> (0.9, 0.999) and grad_clip_norm 10.0 -> 1.0
  (Isaac defaults)
- scheduler: hardcoded CosineDecayWithWarmup(10k decay, floor 10% peak) ->
  DiffuserSchedulerConfig HF cosine with ceil(max_steps * warmup_ratio) warmup,
  deriving num_training_steps from the outer --steps at runtime
- model_params_fp32 (default true): keep master weights in FP32 and compute
  under BF16 autocast like the native N1.7 recipe (fixes optimizer-update
  numerics vs pure-BF16 params)
- weight-decay grouping via transformers get_parameter_names: biases and norm
  parameters excluded from decay
- restore the TF4 lm_head/embedding weight tie so the unused Qwen LM head stays
  frozen and deduplicated in checkpoints
- action_mask kept in native dtype for the masked flow-matching loss
- drop_n_last_frames: exclude episode tails that cannot supply a complete
  action chunk (Isaac sampler behavior)

Verification: tests/policies/groot/test_groot_training_optim_contract.py
(7 passed) + remaining groot suite 11 passed/5 skipped on RTX PRO 6000 /
CUDA 13.3. Note: tests/policies/groot/test_groot_n1_7.py does not collect on
the base branch (pre-existing ImportError, fixed in PR #37).

* feat(groot): train-time random crop for N1.7 (eval keeps center crop)

Isaac-GR00T crops a random crop_fraction window during training and the
deterministic center window at eval, replaying the sampled window across all
camera views of a sample. This contract is unchanged since the N1.5 release
(gr00t/data/transform/video.py: "If mode is 'train', return a random crop
transform. If mode is 'eval', return a center crop transform.") and mirrors
LeRobot's own Diffusion/VQBeT crop_is_random pattern. The LeRobot N1.7 port
used the eval center crop for training too, so the fine-tuned projector/DiT
never sees frame borders and trains on a single fixed appearance point.

Scope: crop geometry ONLY - no color jitter, no new dependencies. The random
window is plain numpy slicing inside the existing cv2 eval transform:

- _transform_n1_7_image_for_vlm_albumentations gains crop_position=(y, x)
  fractions; None keeps the center crop byte-identical to before (verified
  by test)
- GrootN17VLMEncodeStep gains a runtime-only 'training' flag (never
  serialized; reloaded pipelines default to eval); training samples ONE
  window per sample and reuses it across (timestep, view) frames - Isaac's
  cross-view consistency
- gated on torch.is_grad_enabled() so no_grad validation and frozen-eval
  paths are unaffected
- wired via dataset_meta is not None in make_groot_pre_post_processors and
  the existing _set_groot_preprocessor_training on serialized reloads

Verification: tests/policies/groot/test_groot_train_random_crop.py (8 passed:
center-crop bit-exactness with crop_position=None, corner/center windows,
cross-view replay, train!=eval, no_grad gating, seed reproducibility,
serialization contract) + groot suite 23 passed / 5 skipped on RTX PRO 6000 /
CUDA 13.3.

* docs(groot): update Training & hardware Evaluation commands

Replace the multi-GPU accelerate-launch Training snippet with the current
single-command 'uv run lerobot-train' N1.7 recipe (relative actions excluding
gripper, bf16, flash attention, chunk/n_action_steps=16, bs64/20k steps).

Replace the bimanual 'Evaluate in your hardware setup' rollout example with the
SO-101 follower RTC 'uv run lerobot-rollout' command (strategy.type=base,
inference.type=rtc, wrist+front cameras, place-the-vial task).

Docs-only; no source/test changes.

* docs(groot): parameterize commands with env vars + fill LIBERO results

- Introduce BASE_MODEL / DATASET_ID / REPO_ID / JOB_NAME / OUTPUT_DIR env vars
  in the training command and reuse OUTPUT_DIR + BASE_MODEL in the rollout cmd.
- Fill the LIBERO benchmark table with GR00T-LeRobot success rates
  (Spatial 94%, Object 98%, Goal 93%, LIBERO 10/Long 90%; avg 93.75%),
  drop the OSS column and XX placeholders. LeRobot-focused.

* docs(groot): drop export block, reference env vars directly

Use $DATASET_ID / $BASE_MODEL / $REPO_ID / $OUTPUT_DIR / $JOB_NAME as
bare placeholders in the commands without concrete export assignments.

* docs(groot): keep BASE_MODEL export in training command

* docs(groot): use literal HF repo IDs for dataset/policy repo_id

Public-facing Hub references (--dataset.repo_id, --policy.repo_id) shown as
concrete IDs; local-only values ($OUTPUT_DIR, $JOB_NAME) stay as placeholders.

* docs(groot): add LIBERO training command example

* docs(groot): remove LIBERO checkpoints subdirectory section

* docs(groot): use $BASE_MODEL for base_model_path in LIBERO eval

* docs(groot): drop hf download step from LIBERO eval, fix intro

* docs(groot): restore suite checkpoint download intro sentence

* docs(groot): remove checkpoint download note above LIBERO eval

* docs(groot): update training and rollout commands with new parameters and dependencies

* Add sample so101 training command

* Remove sample so101 training command

* docs(groot): remove optional Flash Attention setup instructions and update base model path for evaluation

* docs(groot): update training command with  image transformation parameters

* docs(groot): add note on inference.queue_threshold value for stable inference

* chore(style): pre-commit gr00t

* docs(groot): update

* chore(policies): minor details

* fix(groot): license headers + test guards

* chore(policies): fix tests

* docs(groot): relative actions param doc

* chore(policy): address some of the AI review items

---------

Co-authored-by: Andrew Wrenn <awrenn@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryan Halabi <ryhalabi@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: nv-sachdevkartik <ksachdev@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: groot-validation <groot-validation@localhost>
Co-authored-by: johnnynunez <johnnynuca14@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: lbenhorin <lbenhorin@nvidia.com>
2026-07-03 21:15:09 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# Copyright 2024 NVIDIA Corporation and The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
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# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
import logging
import math
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from pathlib import Path
from lerobot.configs import FeatureType, NormalizationMode, PolicyFeature, PreTrainedConfig
from lerobot.optim import AdamWConfig, DiffuserSchedulerConfig
from lerobot.utils.constants import ACTION, OBS_STATE
from .utils import read_json
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
GROOT_N1_7 = "n1.7"
# Legacy GR00T N1.5 identifier. N1.5 is NOT a supported model_version (it is
# intentionally absent from _GROOT_MODEL_VERSION_ALIASES so normalize_groot_model_version
# still rejects it). It is retained only so that infer_groot_model_version can recognise
# an N1.5 base path/checkpoint and the N1.7 config/loader can reject the mismatch.
GROOT_N1_5 = "n1.5"
# Canonical guidance appended to every error raised when an N1.5 checkpoint, config,
# or processor pipeline is detected. Keep this message in sync with docs/source/groot.mdx.
GROOT_N1_5_REMOVAL_GUIDANCE = (
"GR00T N1.5 support was removed from LeRobot. "
"To keep using an N1.5 checkpoint, pin the last release that supports it: "
"`pip install 'lerobot==0.5.1'`. To use the current release, migrate to GR00T N1.7 "
"(model_version='n1.7', base model nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B)."
)
GROOT_N1_7_BASE_MODEL = "nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B"
GROOT_N1_7_BACKBONE_MODEL = "nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-2B"
# Default GR00T N1.7 training resolution. Fallback if processor_config lacks sizing. Prevents mismatched
# full-res patchification by forcing a resize. Mirrored by GR00T_N1_7_DEFAULTS in groot_n1_7.py.
N1_7_DEFAULT_IMAGE_TARGET_SIZE = (256, 256)
N1_7_DEFAULT_IMAGE_CROP_SIZE = (230, 230)
GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_LIBERO = "libero"
# Sentinel meaning "the user did not pick an action decode transform": __post_init__ resolves it
# to the embodiment default ('libero' for 'libero_sim', otherwise None). It is distinct from an
# explicit 'none' (resolved to None) so an opt-out survives a draccus save/load round-trip.
GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_AUTO = "auto"
_GROOT_MODEL_VERSION_ALIASES = {
"n1.7": GROOT_N1_7,
"n1_7": GROOT_N1_7,
"n1d7": GROOT_N1_7,
"n17": GROOT_N1_7,
"1.7": GROOT_N1_7,
}
# Legacy N1.5 spellings, kept ONLY so they can be detected and rejected with
# GROOT_N1_5_REMOVAL_GUIDANCE (see GROOT_N1_5 above). Never map these to a supported version.
_GROOT_N1_5_VERSION_ALIASES = {"n1.5", "n1_5", "n1d5", "n15", "1.5"}
_GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_ALIASES = {
GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_AUTO: GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_AUTO,
"none": None,
"": None,
GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_LIBERO: GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_LIBERO,
}
def normalize_groot_model_version(model_version: str) -> str:
normalized = _GROOT_MODEL_VERSION_ALIASES.get(model_version.lower())
if normalized is None:
supported = GROOT_N1_7
message = f"Unsupported GR00T model_version '{model_version}'. Supported versions: {supported}."
if model_version.lower() in _GROOT_N1_5_VERSION_ALIASES:
message = f"{message} {GROOT_N1_5_REMOVAL_GUIDANCE}"
raise ValueError(message)
return normalized
def normalize_groot_action_decode_transform(transform: str | None) -> str | None:
if transform is None:
return None
normalized = _GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_ALIASES.get(transform.lower())
if normalized is None and transform.lower() not in _GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_ALIASES:
supported = ", ".join(
sorted(key for key, value in _GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_ALIASES.items() if value is not None)
)
raise ValueError(
f"Unsupported GR00T N1.7 action decode transform '{transform}'. "
f"Supported transforms: none, {supported}."
)
return normalized
def infer_groot_model_version(model_path: str | None) -> str | None:
if not model_path:
return None
model_path_lower = model_path.lower()
if "gr00t-n1.7" in model_path_lower or "gr00t_n1.7" in model_path_lower:
return GROOT_N1_7
# Detect legacy N1.5 paths so the N1.7 config/loader can reject the mismatch.
# N1.5 is unsupported, but it must still be recognised here to fail loudly
# rather than silently treating an N1.5 checkpoint as N1.7.
if "gr00t-n1.5" in model_path_lower or "gr00t_n1.5" in model_path_lower:
return GROOT_N1_5
config_version = _infer_groot_model_version_from_local_config(model_path)
if config_version is not None:
return config_version
return None
def is_raw_groot_n1_7_checkpoint(model_path: str | Path | None) -> bool:
if model_path is None:
return False
path = Path(model_path).expanduser()
if path.is_dir():
config_path = path / "config.json"
elif path.name == "config.json":
config_path = path
else:
return False
config = read_json(config_path)
return "type" not in config and _infer_groot_model_version_from_config(config) == GROOT_N1_7
def infer_groot_n1_7_embodiment_tag(model_path: str | Path | None) -> str | None:
if model_path is None:
return None
processor_config_path = Path(model_path).expanduser() / "processor_config.json"
processor_config = read_json(processor_config_path)
modality_configs = processor_config.get("processor_kwargs", {}).get("modality_configs", {})
if not isinstance(modality_configs, dict):
return None
if "libero_sim" in modality_configs:
return "libero_sim"
if len(modality_configs) == 1:
return next(iter(modality_configs))
return None
def infer_groot_n1_7_action_horizon(
model_path: str | Path | None, embodiment_tag: str | None = None
) -> int | None:
if model_path is None:
return None
processor_config_path = Path(model_path).expanduser() / "processor_config.json"
processor_config = read_json(processor_config_path)
processor_kwargs = processor_config.get("processor_kwargs", {})
if not isinstance(processor_kwargs, dict):
return None
modality_configs = processor_kwargs.get("modality_configs", {})
if not isinstance(modality_configs, dict):
return None
if embodiment_tag is None:
embodiment_tag = infer_groot_n1_7_embodiment_tag(model_path)
if embodiment_tag is None:
return None
embodiment_config = modality_configs.get(embodiment_tag, {})
if not isinstance(embodiment_config, dict):
return None
action_config = embodiment_config.get("action", {})
if not isinstance(action_config, dict):
return None
delta_indices = action_config.get("delta_indices", [])
if not isinstance(delta_indices, list):
return None
return len(delta_indices) or None
def infer_groot_n1_7_action_execution_horizon(
model_path: str | Path | None, embodiment_tag: str | None = None
) -> int | None:
action_horizon = infer_groot_n1_7_action_horizon(model_path, embodiment_tag)
if action_horizon is None:
return None
if embodiment_tag is None:
embodiment_tag = infer_groot_n1_7_embodiment_tag(model_path)
if embodiment_tag == "libero_sim":
# NVIDIA's N1.7 LIBERO rollout wrapper replans after 8 of the 16 decoded
# actions. Keeping that execution cadence avoids stale open-loop chunks.
return min(action_horizon, 8)
return action_horizon
def _infer_groot_model_version_from_local_config(model_path: str) -> str | None:
path = Path(model_path).expanduser()
if path.is_dir():
config_path = path / "config.json"
elif path.name == "config.json":
config_path = path
else:
return None
return _infer_groot_model_version_from_config(read_json(config_path))
def _infer_groot_model_version_from_config(config: dict) -> str | None:
model_version = config.get("model_version")
if isinstance(model_version, str):
if model_version.lower() in _GROOT_N1_5_VERSION_ALIASES:
return GROOT_N1_5
try:
return normalize_groot_model_version(model_version)
except ValueError:
return None
candidates = [config.get("model_type"), *(config.get("architectures") or [])]
for candidate in candidates:
if not isinstance(candidate, str):
continue
normalized = candidate.lower().replace("-", "_")
if normalized in {"gr00tn1d7", "gr00t_n1d7", "gr00t_n1_7"}:
return GROOT_N1_7
if normalized in {"gr00t_n1_5", "gr00tn1_5", "gr00t_n15", "gr00t_n1d5", "gr00tn1d5"}:
return GROOT_N1_5
if config.get("model_name") == GROOT_N1_7_BACKBONE_MODEL:
return GROOT_N1_7
# The Eagle VLM backbone is specific to pre-N1.7 GR00T checkpoints (N1.7 uses Cosmos/Qwen3-VL).
backbone_cfg = config.get("backbone_cfg")
if isinstance(backbone_cfg, dict) and "eagle_path" in backbone_cfg:
return GROOT_N1_5
return None
@PreTrainedConfig.register_subclass("groot")
@dataclass
class GrootConfig(PreTrainedConfig):
"""Configuration for Groot policy wrapper."""
# Basic policy settings
n_obs_steps: int = 1
chunk_size: int = 40
n_action_steps: int = 40
# Dimension settings (must match pretrained GR00T model expectations)
# Maximum state dimension. Shorter states will be zero-padded.
max_state_dim: int = 132
# Maximum action dimension. Shorter actions will be zero-padded.
max_action_dim: int = 132
# GR00T normalizes state/action internally in its processor steps (min/max with
# q01/q99 percentiles, per embodiment), and the Qwen3-VL backbone's image processor
# handles image normalization. The policy therefore does NOT use LeRobot's
# NormalizerProcessorStep/UnnormalizerProcessorStep, so this mapping is intentionally
# IDENTITY for every feature and is not consulted by make_groot_pre_post_processors.
normalization_mapping: dict[str, NormalizationMode] = field(
default_factory=lambda: {
"VISUAL": NormalizationMode.IDENTITY,
"STATE": NormalizationMode.IDENTITY,
"ACTION": NormalizationMode.IDENTITY,
}
)
# Groot-specific model parameters
# Path or HuggingFace model ID for the base GR00T N1.7 model whose backbone weights and
# checkpoint sidecars (statistics.json, processor_config.json, ...) are loaded. This is the
# model *source*, and is intentionally distinct from the inherited `pretrained_path`:
# `pretrained_path` (`--policy.path`) points at a saved LeRobot checkpoint directory whose
# `config.json` carries a `type` field, whereas a raw NVIDIA GR00T checkpoint has no such
# field and so can only be loaded through `base_model_path` (`--policy.base_model_path`).
# Defaults to GROOT_N1_7_BASE_MODEL when unset (resolved in __post_init__).
base_model_path: str | None = None
# Optional named action transform applied after raw N1.7 checkpoint decoding and before env.step().
# 'auto' (default) resolves to the embodiment default ('libero' for 'libero_sim', otherwise no
# transform). Pass 'none' to explicitly disable the transform, including for 'libero_sim'.
action_decode_transform: str | None = GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_AUTO
# Embodiment tag to use for training (e.g. 'new_embodiment', 'gr1')
embodiment_tag: str = "new_embodiment"
# Fine-tuning control arguments
# Whether to fine-tune the llm backbone
tune_llm: bool = False
# Whether to fine-tune the vision tower
tune_visual: bool = False
# Whether to fine-tune the projector
tune_projector: bool = True
# Whether to fine-tune the diffusion model
tune_diffusion_model: bool = True
# Whether to fine-tune the VL LayerNorm + VL self-attention projector in the action head.
tune_vlln: bool = True
# Number of top LLM backbone layers to fine-tune (0 = none). Lets you adapt just the final
# language layers without unfreezing the whole backbone; independent of `tune_llm`, which tunes
# the entire LLM.
tune_top_llm_layers: int = 0
# Inference-time knob: Number of flow-matching denoising steps used to decode an action chunk.
# Trades inference latency for action quality.
# None keeps the checkpoint value (GR00T N1.7 default: 4).
num_inference_timesteps: int | None = None
# Inference-time knob: Real-Time Chunking (RTC) overlap-blend ramp rate, used when the RTC engine
# supplies a previous-chunk prefix. Higher values blend the overlapping prefix more aggressively.
# None keeps the checkpoint value (GR00T N1.7 default: 6.0).
rtc_ramp_rate: float | None = None
# Inference-time knob: Whether to request the flash-attention-2 kernel for the Qwen3-VL backbone.
# flash-attn is an optional, user-managed optimization; when it is absent (the default),
# the backbone transparently falls back to SDPA, which is numerically equivalent.
# Set to True only after installing a flash-attn build matching your torch/CUDA env.
use_flash_attention: bool = False
# Enable GR00T-style state-relative action chunks (action chunk expressed relative to the current
# observation state).
use_relative_actions: bool = False
# relative_exclude_joints names the action dimensions that stay absolute; the
# match is substring/case-insensitive against the dataset action feature names. With the empty
# default every dimension is treated as relative, including the gripper -- set e.g. ["gripper"] to
# keep the gripper absolute, matching the Isaac-GR00T single-arm + absolute-gripper convention.
relative_exclude_joints: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
# Training parameters
optimizer_lr: float = 1e-4
# Isaac-GR00T N1.7 fine-tunes with AdamW betas (0.9, 0.999).
optimizer_betas: tuple[float, float] = (0.9, 0.999)
optimizer_eps: float = 1e-8
optimizer_weight_decay: float = 1e-5
warmup_ratio: float = 0.05
use_bf16: bool = True
# The native N1.7 fine-tuning recipe keeps model parameters in FP32 and computes under BF16 autocast.
model_params_fp32: bool = True
# TODO(Steven): Remove these deprecated fields in a future release.
# Deprecated Isaac-GR00T runner / GR00T N1.5 fields, plus the (never-wired) LoRA fields — all
# unused by the LeRobot N1.7 implementation except the `tokenizer_assets_repo` N1.5 tripwire and
# the `image_size` legacy remap in __post_init__. They are kept ONLY so a config.json saved by an
# earlier lerobot release (notably a GR00T N1.5 checkpoint) still parses under draccus — which
# rejects unknown fields — and is then rejected with a clear N1.5 removal message rather than an
# opaque draccus decoding error.
image_size: tuple[int, int] = (256, 256) # image sizing is handled by the backbone's image processor.
tokenizer_assets_repo: str | None = None
lora_rank: int = 0
lora_alpha: int = 16
lora_dropout: float = 0.1
lora_full_model: bool = False
video_backend: str = "decord"
balance_dataset_weights: bool = True
balance_trajectory_weights: bool = True
dataset_paths: list[str] | None = None
output_dir: str = "./tmp/gr00t"
save_steps: int = 1000
max_steps: int = 10000
batch_size: int = 32
dataloader_num_workers: int = 8
report_to: str = "wandb"
resume: bool = False
def __post_init__(self):
if self.tokenizer_assets_repo is not None:
raise ValueError(
"Config sets 'tokenizer_assets_repo', which only existed for GR00T N1.5; this looks "
f"like a legacy GR00T N1.5 checkpoint or config. {GROOT_N1_5_REMOVAL_GUIDANCE}"
)
self.action_decode_transform = normalize_groot_action_decode_transform(self.action_decode_transform)
if self.base_model_path is None:
self.base_model_path = GROOT_N1_7_BASE_MODEL
# The N1.7 LIBERO checkpoints emit a [0, 1] gripper action, but the LIBERO
# simulator expects the OpenVLA/[-1, 1] sign convention. NVIDIA's rollout
# wrapper applies this conversion; mirror it here so eval on the
# 'libero_sim' embodiment grasps correctly instead of scoring 0% success.
# This matches the embodiment-specific handling already done for the
# action execution horizon (see infer_groot_n1_7_action_execution_horizon).
# Only the 'auto' sentinel resolves to the embodiment default; an explicit
# 'none' (normalized to None above) keeps the transform disabled.
if self.action_decode_transform == GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_AUTO:
self.action_decode_transform = (
GROOT_ACTION_DECODE_TRANSFORM_LIBERO if self.embodiment_tag == "libero_sim" else None
)
# GR00T N1.5-era default values (e.g. --policy.chunk_size=50 from old commands or
# stale configs) are migrated to the values the N1.7 checkpoints expect, with a
# warning. The dataclass defaults are already the N1.7 values, so a plain
# GrootConfig() never triggers this.
legacy_default_remaps = (
("max_state_dim", 64, 132),
("max_action_dim", 32, 132),
("chunk_size", 50, 40),
("n_action_steps", 50, 40),
("image_size", (224, 224), (256, 256)),
)
for field_name, legacy_value, n1_7_value in legacy_default_remaps:
current_value = getattr(self, field_name)
if isinstance(legacy_value, tuple):
current_value = tuple(current_value)
if current_value == legacy_value:
logger.warning(
"GrootConfig.%s=%s matches a legacy GR00T N1.5-era default; remapping it to %s, "
"the value expected by GR00T N1.7 checkpoints. Set a different value explicitly "
"if this is not what you want.",
field_name,
legacy_value,
n1_7_value,
)
setattr(self, field_name, n1_7_value)
inferred_version = infer_groot_model_version(self.base_model_path)
if inferred_version is not None and inferred_version != GROOT_N1_7:
message = (
f"GR00T model_version '{GROOT_N1_7}' does not match base_model_path "
f"'{self.base_model_path}', which looks like '{inferred_version}'."
)
if inferred_version == GROOT_N1_5:
message = f"{message} {GROOT_N1_5_REMOVAL_GUIDANCE}"
raise ValueError(message)
super().__post_init__()
if self.n_action_steps > self.chunk_size:
raise ValueError(
f"n_action_steps ({self.n_action_steps}) cannot exceed chunk_size ({self.chunk_size})"
)
def validate_features(self) -> None:
"""Validate and set up input/output features for Groot."""
image_features = [key for key, feat in self.input_features.items() if feat.type == FeatureType.VISUAL]
if not image_features:
raise ValueError(
"Groot policy requires at least one visual input feature. "
"No features of type FeatureType.VISUAL found in input_features."
)
if OBS_STATE not in self.input_features:
state_feature = PolicyFeature(
type=FeatureType.STATE,
shape=(self.max_state_dim,),
)
self.input_features[OBS_STATE] = state_feature
else:
state_shape = self.input_features[OBS_STATE].shape
state_dim = state_shape[0] if state_shape else 0
if state_dim > self.max_state_dim:
raise ValueError(
f"State dimension {state_dim} exceeds max_state_dim {self.max_state_dim}. "
f"Either reduce state dimension or increase max_state_dim in config."
)
if ACTION not in self.output_features:
action_feature = PolicyFeature(
type=FeatureType.ACTION,
shape=(self.max_action_dim,),
)
self.output_features[ACTION] = action_feature
else:
action_shape = self.output_features[ACTION].shape
action_dim = action_shape[0] if action_shape else 0
if action_dim > self.max_action_dim:
raise ValueError(
f"Action dimension {action_dim} exceeds max_action_dim {self.max_action_dim}. "
f"Either reduce action dimension or increase max_action_dim in config."
)
def get_optimizer_preset(self) -> AdamWConfig:
"""Return optimizer configuration."""
return AdamWConfig(
lr=self.optimizer_lr,
betas=self.optimizer_betas,
eps=self.optimizer_eps,
weight_decay=self.optimizer_weight_decay,
grad_clip_norm=1.0,
)
def get_scheduler_preset(self) -> DiffuserSchedulerConfig:
"""Return scheduler configuration.
Isaac-GR00T uses the HF Trainer cosine schedule with ~5% warmup over the
actual training update count; DiffuserSchedulerConfig wraps the same
diffusers/transformers `get_scheduler("cosine")` implementation and
derives num_training_steps from the outer --steps value at runtime.
"""
return DiffuserSchedulerConfig(
name="cosine",
num_warmup_steps=math.ceil(self.max_steps * self.warmup_ratio),
)
@property
def observation_delta_indices(self) -> None:
"""Return indices for delta observations (None for Groot)."""
return None
@property
def action_delta_indices(self) -> list[int]:
"""Return indices for delta actions."""
model_action_horizon = (
infer_groot_n1_7_action_horizon(self.base_model_path, self.embodiment_tag) or 40
)
return list(range(min(self.chunk_size, model_action_horizon)))
@property
def drop_n_last_frames(self) -> int:
"""Exclude episode tails that cannot supply a complete N1.7 action chunk."""
return max(0, len(self.action_delta_indices) - 1)
@property
def reward_delta_indices(self) -> None:
"""Return indices for delta rewards (None for Groot)."""
return None