DOES SCALING WEB-VIDEO PRE-TRAINING HELP REAL ROBOTS DO REAL WORK?

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Larger video models and increased pre-training compute improve robot task performance, confirmed through Direct Video-Action models. Performance gains arise from better predictions of held-out web videos, with larger models excelling in real-world tasks like complex industrial unpacking. Pre-training quality, measured via DINO FD, predicts downstream robot efficiency, enhancing scalability for real deployments.