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Week 7: Capstone
Week 7 -
Capstone
Choose a track, train a baseline, run an extension, evaluate, ablate, and publish.
Pick a track + scaffold
The four tracks Track A — VLA fine tune (most general, recommended for first capstone) Goal: Fine tune π0.7 on a custom 30 episode dataset....
Train baseline
The point of today: get your "non extension" version running end to end with at least one seed before you sleep. A working baseline at 5pm i...
Train extension
The "extension" is the thing that makes your capstone yours . It's rubric category 5 (the double weighted one). What's the extension for eac...
Eval + ablation + plots
Hour 1 — Confirm all seeds done (30 min) By morning of Day 46: Baseline: 3 seeds ✓ Extension: ≥ 2 seeds ✓ (if seed 3 still running, fine) If...
Writeup, demo, share, fresh-clone test
Hour 1 — 2 page writeup (45 min) docs/writeup.md : Hour 2 — 8 slide deck + 2 min demo video (75 min) Slide deck 1. Title + 1 line hypothesis...
What you will know by end of Week 7
- Read the week's source papers without drowning in undefined terms.
- Run the week's core software stack from a fresh clone.
- Explain the week's systems in terms of data, control, and learning loops.