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Engineering noteMarch 4, 2026
When does teleop dedup actually help?
OpenBot team
Summary
Naive behavioral-hash deduplication can hurt performance by removing instructive variance. We study three datasets and find the sweet spot is task-dependent: pick-and-place tolerates aggressive dedup; insertion does not.
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