"""Make a fine-tune keep a checkpoint's normalization. When `lerobot-train` fine-tunes from a checkpoint it replaces the checkpoint's saved state/action normalization with the training dataset's statistics (lerobot_train.py passes them as processor overrides, and those take precedence). Merging correction data into a dataset changes those statistics, which by itself shifts the policy's commands by millimetres at the grasp (sim/reports/pipeline_check). This writes the checkpoint's saved statistics for `observation.state` and `action` into the dataset's meta/stats.json (the original is kept as meta/stats_original.json), so the override hands the checkpoint its own normalization back. Image statistics are left alone (SmolVLA does not normalize images). Run: .venv/bin/python sim/set_norm_stats.py data/merged_v2 models/baseline """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import json import os import shutil from pathlib import Path def saved_stats(checkpoint: Path) -> dict: from safetensors.torch import load_file f = next(checkpoint.glob("policy_preprocessor_step_*_normalizer_processor.safetensors")) out: dict = {} for key, tensor in load_file(str(f)).items(): feature, stat = key.rsplit(".", 1) out.setdefault(feature, {})[stat] = tensor.float().numpy().tolist() return out def main(): ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) ap.add_argument("dataset") ap.add_argument("checkpoint") args = ap.parse_args() meta = Path(args.dataset) / "meta" stats_path = meta / "stats.json" backup = meta / "stats_original.json" if not backup.exists(): shutil.copyfile(stats_path, backup) stats = json.loads(backup.read_text()) saved = saved_stats(Path(args.checkpoint)) for feature in ("observation.state", "action"): for stat, value in saved[feature].items(): if stat in stats[feature]: stats[feature][stat] = value tmp = meta / "stats.json.tmp" # a new file, not an in-place edit: hard-linked copies stay intact tmp.write_text(json.dumps(stats, indent=2)) os.replace(tmp, stats_path) for feature in ("observation.state", "action"): print(feature, {s: [round(x, 3) for x in stats[feature][s]] for s in ("mean", "std")}) if __name__ == "__main__": main()