June 2025 research release. Demonstration results are not a production reliability guarantee. Research demonstration: Hugging Face SmolVLA team. Published 2025-06-03. Source
Revisiting the SmolVLA release while thinking about a shared practice dataset. I'd find a folder of failed attempts genuinely useful if it said what went wrong. Is there appetite here for comparing failures without turning it into a leaderboard? My concern is that everyone quietly uploads only the clean bits.