DM05-vla-arena is the VLA-Arena fine-tuned checkpoint of DM0.5, Dexmal's open-world Vision-Language-Action foundation model for embodied intelligence. DM0.5 uses a Gemma3 4B vision-language backbone with a 680M Action Expert to generate continuous robot actions, and is designed for natural-language manipulation, zero-shot generalization, efficient downstream fine-tuning, long-horizon historical context, robust policy behavior, and transfer across robot embodiments.
VLA-Arena Results
Method
Metric
L0
L1
L2
DM0.5
SR
89.0%
53.6%
44.1%
CC
1.9
18.75
22.52
Quick Start
We recommend using Docker to set up the runtime environment first, which helps avoid version mismatches across CUDA, PyTorch, flash-attn, and other dependencies on the host machine.
Requirements
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1System requirements:
2Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04
3NVIDIA GPU
4NVIDIA Driver
5Docker
6NVIDIA Container Toolkit
7Conda (optional, only required for local pip installation)
89Recommended GPUs:
10RTX 4090, A100, H100, H20
118 GPUs are recommended for training, and 1 GPU is sufficient for deployment inference.
Docker Installation
bash
1git clone https://github.com/dexmal/opendm.git
2cd opendm
34docker run -it --rm --gpus all --network host\5 --name opendm \6 --shm-size=16g \7 -v "$PWD":/app/opendm \8 -w /app/opendm \9 dexmal/opendm:latest /bin/bash
1011# Run from the OpenDM repository root inside the container.12conda activate opendm
13pip install -e .
Use the VLA-Arena-specific experiment configuration when evaluating this
checkpoint. The inference service and evaluation client run separately and
communicate over HTTP.
Evaluation artifacts are written under <output-dir>/seed_<N>/, including
results_<timestamp>.json, tasks_<timestamp>.csv, and rollout videos under
videos/.
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1@misc{dm05,
2 title = {{DM0.5}: An Open-World Foundation Model for General-Purpose Embodied Intelligence},
3 author = {{Dexmal Team}},
4 month = {July},
5 year = {2026},
6 url = {https://www.dexmal.com/blog/dm0.5/index_en.html}
7}
89@misc{zhang2025vlaarena,
10 title = {VLA-Arena: An Open-Source Framework for Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models},
11 author = {Borong Zhang and Jiahao Li and Jiachen Shen and Yishuai Cai and Yuhao Zhang and Yuanpei Chen and Juntao Dai and Jiaming Ji and Yaodong Yang},
12 year = {2025},
13 eprint = {2512.22539},
14 archivePrefix = {arXiv},
15 primaryClass = {cs.RO},
16 url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22539},
17}