THEIA: DISTILLING DIVERSE VISION FOUNDATION MODELS FOR ROBOT LEARNING

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This paper introduces Theia, a vision foundation model for robot learning that integrates multiple existing vision models. Theia offers rich visual representations, enhancing robot learning with less training data and smaller model sizes. Experiments show that Theia outperforms its predecessors, and the authors suggest that higher entropy in feature norms improves performance. The code and models are available for public use.