# fine-tuning-openvla-oft

Guides fine-tuning and evaluation of OpenVLA-OFT robot action policies. Use it for LIBERO or ALOHA workflows with continuous action heads.

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- Author: Orchestra Research
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs/tree/HEAD/18-multimodal/openvla-oft/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-11
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## What it does

This skill covers environment setup, fine-tuning, and evaluation for OpenVLA-OFT and OpenVLA-OFT+. It replaces discretized action bins with L1 regression or diffusion heads, while adapting the VLA backbone through LoRA. OFT+ adds FiLM conditioning and 3 camera streams; OFT uses 2 image inputs.

The instructions include installing `openvla-oft` and FlashAttention2, evaluating LIBERO checkpoints, and parsing evaluation logs. Paper reproduction is tied to Python 3.10.14, PyTorch 2.2.0, NVIDIA A100, and a custom Transformers fork. Upgrading `torch` is a reason to re-check LoRA adapter merging and action-head outputs, because version 2.2.0 was used for validation.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs --skill fine-tuning-openvla-oft -a claude-code
```
```bash
npx skills add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs --skill openvla-oft -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/openvla-oft/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/openvla-oft/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs --skill openvla-oft -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/openvla-oft/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs --skill openvla-oft -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/openvla-oft/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs openvla-oft
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/openvla-oft/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs --skill openvla-oft -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs --path 18-multimodal/openvla-oft
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/openvla-oft/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs --skill openvla-oft -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs/tree/HEAD/18-multimodal/openvla-oft/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- fine-tune OpenVLA for continuous robot actions
- evaluate a pretrained checkpoint on LIBERO
- choose an L1 regression or diffusion action head
- check LoRA adapter merging after a `torch` upgrade
- configure camera inputs for OFT or OFT+

## Example prompts
- “Set up the OpenVLA-OFT environment for LIBERO fine-tuning.”
- “Evaluate `moojink/openvla-7b-oft-finetuned-libero-spatial` on `libero_spatial`.”
- “Check the LoRA merge and continuous action-head outputs.”

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: fine-tuning-openvla-oft
description: Fine-tunes and evaluates OpenVLA-OFT and OpenVLA-OFT+ policies for robot action generation with continuous action heads, LoRA adaptation, and FiLM conditioning on LIBERO simulation and ALOHA real-world setups. Use when reproducing OpenVLA-OFT paper results, training custom VLA action heads (L1 or diffusion), deploying server-client inference for ALOHA, or debugging normalization, LoRA merge, and cross-GPU issues.
version: 1.0.0
author: Orchestra Research
license: MIT
tags: [OpenVLA, OpenVLA-OFT, VLA, Robotics, Fine-Tuning, LIBERO, ALOHA, LoRA, FiLM, Action Chunking, Deployment, Continuous Actions]
dependencies: [torch==2.2.0, transformers>=4.40.0, peft==0.11.1, draccus==0.8.0, accelerate>=0.25.0, wandb>=0.16.0, fastapi>=0.100.0, uvicorn>=0.24.0, tensorflow==2.15.0, robosuite==1.4.0]  # Exact pins: OpenVLA-OFT paper results were validated on torch==2.2.0, peft==0.11.1, tensorflow==2.15.0; upgrading torch may require re-tuning the LoRA adapter merge step and re-validating action head outputs
---

# OpenVLA-OFT

Fine-tuning and evaluation workflows for OpenVLA-OFT and OpenVLA-OFT+ from the official `openvla-oft` codebase. Covers blank-machine setup plus LoRA-based adaptation of OpenVLA for robot action generation with continuous action prediction heads.

## Quick start

Clone the public repo, follow the official setup, then evaluate a pretrained LIBERO checkpoint:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/moojink/openvla-oft.git
cd openvla-oft
python experiments/robot/libero/run_libero_eval.py \
  --pretrained_checkpoint moojink/openvla-7b-oft-finetuned-libero-spatial \
  --task_suite_name libero_spatial \
  --center_crop True \
  --num_trials_per_task 50 \
  --seed 7
```

## Core concepts

**What OpenVLA-OFT changes**: Standard OpenVLA tokenizes continuous actions into discrete bins, losing precision. OFT replaces this with dedicated continuous action heads (L1 regression or diffusion) while keeping the VLA backbone frozen and adapting via LoRA.

**OFT vs OFT+ variants**:

| Variant | FiLM | Images | Typical use |
|---------|------|--------|-------------|
| OFT | Off | 2 (front + wrist) | LIBERO simulation |
| OFT+ | On | 3 (high + left + right wrist) | ALOHA real-world |

**Key architecture choices**:
- **LoRA adaptation**: Rank-32 LoRA on VLA backbone (no full fine-tuning needed)
- **Continuous actions**: L1 regression head (default) or diffusion head
- **FiLM conditioning**: Feature-wise Linear Modulation for stronger language grounding in OFT+
- **Multi-image input**: Configurable 2 or 3 camera streams via `num_images_in_input`

## Compute requirements

| Task | GPU | VRAM | Notes |
|------|-----|------|-------|
| LIBERO evaluation | 1x A100/A40 | ~16 GB | Single GPU |
| ALOHA evaluation | 1x A100/A40 | ~18 GB | Single GPU |
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