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REKI

Kyutai, with Inria and École des Ponts, released REKI, a 2.4B vision-language-action model for robot manipulation with a cheap memory of the last 3 frames.

REKI puts memory inside the action expert using 32 learned register tokens per frame, cached in a rolling window. Reading the cache adds 0.1 ms to a 21.8 ms action chunk on one H100. On RoboTwin, memory cut oscillating episodes from 18.6% to 4.1%.

Date
Saturday 17 October 2026
Lab
Kyutai
Kind
open-weights
Access
open weights (restricted license)

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
LIBERO-Plus success rate90.4%
ahead of Qwen-RobotManip 89.0% and π0.5 85.7% in Kyutai's comparison
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RoboTwin Clean2Rand65.8%
behind only Qwen-RobotManip 68.5%
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RoboCasa36538.4%
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 scores 57.4%
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Latency per action chunk21.8 ms
compiled, 1 H100, 2 cameras at 256x256
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Parameters2.4B
2.2B Qwen3.5-2B VLM plus 0.2B flow-matching action expert
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Weights are under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, so non-commercial. Pretrained only on public data.

Sources

  1. marktechpost.com/2026/10/17/meet-kyutai-reki-the-2-4b-vla-model-bringing-efficient-memory-

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