Examining the architecture of VLA models like Alpamayo-R1 and their application in autonomous vehicle decision-making.
Alpamayo-R1 is a pioneering open-source VLA designed specifically for self-driving.
A Vision Transformer (ViT) that processes camera feeds into embeddings.
A language model that takes these visual embeddings as "tokens" alongside text prompts.
A specialized output layer that decodes the LLM's internal state into vehicle control parameters.