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High entropy leads to symmetry-equivariant policies in Dec-POMDPs
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Burnham pledges business rate cuts for pubs, cafes and other small businesses
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Wall-OSS-0.5 Technical Report
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Wall-OSS-0.5 Technical Report
Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) pretraining is increasingly adopted as the foundation for robot policies, yet the evidence for pretrained VLAs is almost invariably reported after task-specific fine-tuning. This leaves a foundational question unanswered: does VLA pretraining itself yield executable robot behavior, or does it merely furnish a better initialization for downstream policy learning? We present Wall-OSS-0.5, an open-source 4B VLA built upon a...