TinyAstral: distilling a 180B teacher into 0.8-4B agents for edge robotics
ResearchSource:Hugging Face (paper)
The paper evolves the harness of a ~180B robot teacher — from 33.4% to 63.6% on RoboTwin — and distills the result into 0.8-4B students running at a fifth of the compute, including closed loop on a real arm. Code, weights and data released.
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