| title | RoboTTT: Context Scaling for Robot Policies |
|---|---|
| authors | Yunfan Jiang, Yevgen Chebotar, Ruijie Zheng, Fengyuan Hu, Yunhao Ge, Jimmy Wu, Tianyuan Dai, Scott Reed, Li Fei-Fei, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan |
| date | 2026-07-16 |
| venue | arXiv (preprint, not peer reviewed) |
| id | arXiv:2607.15275 |
| affiliation | NVIDIA |
| upvotes | 17 (Hugging Face Daily Papers, 2026-11-01) |
| links | abs pdf hf |
| abstract | Recent robot foundation models operate with single-step or short-history visuomotor context. We introduce Test-Time-Training Robot Policies (RoboTTT), a robot model and training recipe that scale visuomotor context to 8K timesteps, three orders of magnitude beyond state-of-the-art policies, without growing inference latency. At this context length, we unlock new robot capabilities: one-shot in-context imitation from human video demonstrations, on-the-fly policy improvement, robustness to perturbations, and stronger performance on multi-stage, long-horizon tasks. We also observe, for the first time, steady gains in closed-loop performance as pretraining context length scales. At its core, RoboTTT integrates Test-Time Training into robot foundation models such as Vision-Language-Action policies, yielding a sequence model whose recurrent state consists of fast weights, parameters updated by gradient descent during both training and inference, compressing histories into weight space and retrieving contextual information for long-context conditioning. To scale training context length, the recipe combines sequence action forcing with truncated backpropagation through time. On challenging real-robot manipulation tasks, RoboTTT improves overall performance by 87% over the single-step context baseline and fully completes a five-minute, ten-stage assembly task, which no baseline ever does. RoboTTT trained with 8K-timestep context outperforms the same model pretrained with 1K timesteps by 62%, suggesting context length as a new scaling axis for robot foundation models. Videos are available at https://research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/robottt/ |
cite
@misc{jiang2026robottt,
title={RoboTTT: Context Scaling for Robot Policies},
author={Yunfan Jiang and Yevgen Chebotar and Ruijie Zheng and Fengyuan Hu and Yunhao Ge and Jimmy Wu and Tianyuan Dai and Scott Reed and Li Fei-Fei and Yuke Zhu and Linxi "Jim" Fan},
year={2026},
eprint={2607.15275},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15275}
}