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Add mlx-smolvla (MLX-native SmolVLA runtime for Apple Silicon) - #8

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Adds mlx-smolvla, my publicly available MLX-native SmolVLA runtime, to Toolkits using the project-link format. Its scope is Apple Silicon checkpoint inference, LeRobot-protocol serving, and preview LoRA training with PyTorch parity checks; training remains a research preview and task-level hardware success is not claimed.

https://github.com/daniiarabdiev/mlx-smolvla

Prior art: tokimoa/smolvla-mlx (Hugging Face, 2026-07-29) is an earlier independent inference-only SmolVLA-to-MLX port; tokimoa also published pi0-mlx and groot-n1.7-mlx. The SmolVLM implementation in mlx-vlm was an architecture reference, with no runtime dependency. mlx-smolvla is not a fork of either.

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Thx, daniiarabdiev,
It's such a cool job.
I’ve had similar ideas before. This is a much-needed tool for large model engineers transitioning into the VLA field.

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wadeKeith merged commit d4e6b28 into wadeKeith:main Sep 6, 2026
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