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Qualia Docs

Introduction

What is Qualia?

Section titled “What is Qualia?”

Qualia is a cloud platform for fine-tuning Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. VLAs enable you to build spatial agents that can reason about their surroundings, plan, and execute skill-based tasks.

Upload ROS 2 MCAP, LeRobot 2.1, or LeRobot v3 sources, curate episodes into immutable dataset versions, and fine-tune models such as SmolVLA, Pi0, and ACT on cloud GPUs.

The VLA Workflow

Section titled “The VLA Workflow”

These docs cover the complete workflow for training and deploying VLA models:

  1. Data Collection - Record demonstrations using LeRobot and prepare your dataset
  2. Dataset versioning - Freeze an exact, reproducible episode selection
  3. Fine-tuning - Train on an immutable dataset version using the dashboard or SDK
  4. Inference - Deploy your fine-tuned model locally on your robot

Getting Started

Section titled “Getting Started”
  1. Sign up at app.qualiastudios.dev
  2. Create a project and start a fine-tuning job from the dashboard
  3. To use the SDK or API, create an API key in Settings in the dashboard

Resources

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