Paper Club # 2 - Hierarchical VLAs

​Welcome to DEVx's second ever AI paper club. Here we have a presenter lead the group through a deep dive of some of the latest cutting edge AI research papers.

​No matter what your current level of understanding is, or level of education, all are welcome to come and learn. Questions and curiosity encouraged!

​Curious about robots? And how we're pushing the envelope of what's possible? Come learn about hierarchical VLAs with Keith Chester (https://hlfshell.ai) as he walks us through modern VLA architectures and training techniques via the following papers:

​"Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.19417

​"Hamster: Hierarchical Action Models for Open-World Robot Manipulation" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05485

​"GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.14734