trajs/parrot_60Hz: stamp sim_dt + decimation so the 60 Hz demos replay at 60 Hz

#35
by Everloom - opened
SomaStacks Inc org

Metadata-only. Every episode payload is byte-identical to what is on main (verified per
episode: md5 of pickle.dumps(ep, protocol=4), the same fingerprint upload_hf.py dedups on,
before and after the rewrite). The only change is the top-level metadata of each bundle.

What was wrong

Each of these bundles carried control_freq_hz: 60.0 and not sim_dt / decimation.
The replayer (RoboVerse/scripts/advanced/collect_demo.py) needs the pair β€” it applies
sim_params.dt = sim_dt and decimation to the scenario before the handler is built β€” and
without it silently falls back to the task-authored dt=0.002, decimation=5 (100 Hz).
So every 60 Hz demo here replayed 1.67x too fast: each recorded PD target was held for
10 ms instead of 16.667 ms.

Measured through the real replayer on trajs/parrot_60Hz/grasp_apple episode 0
(202 recorded frames = 3.35 s of recorded sim time):

bundle metadata dt / decimation used per control step steps sim time
as published here 0.002 / 5 10.000 ms (100 Hz) 167 1.67 s
with this PR's stamp 1/480 / 8 16.667 ms (60 Hz) 177 2.95 s

The values, and where they come from

Every bundle gets sim_dt = 0.0020833333333333333 (1/480) and decimation = 8, so
sim_dt x decimation = 1/60 s exactly. Three independent lines of evidence, no guessing:

  1. Raw-take provenance. Every one of the 591 episodes across all 13 published 60 Hz
    bundles was matched back to its raw parrot_sim take by actions-sequence hash (not
    pickle md5 β€” the two trees serialize the same demo differently), and every matched take's
    own metadata carries exactly control_freq_hz: 60.0, sim_dt: 1/480, decimation: 8.
  2. In-band measurement. Each recorded frame's _mujoco_state.buffer[0] is the MuJoCo
    clock. Across all 13 bundles the frame-to-frame spacing is 1/60 s to within 5e-13, and the
    absolute timestamps lie on a 1/480 grid and not on the 0.002 grid a 100 Hz recording
    would have produced.
  3. The recorders' formula. parrot_sim/teleop.py::_cadence_for_hz (mirrored in
    netsim/server.py) is the only producer of non-100 Hz takes:
    decimation = round(480/hz), dt = 1/(hz*decimation) -> 60 Hz gives (1/480, 8), and
    100 Hz reproduces the authored (0.002, 5).

Scope

12 bundles, 543 episodes:

bundle episodes control_freq_hz sim_dt decimation
bimanual_lift_box 81 60.0 1/480 8
close_cabinet_12 51 60.0 1/480 8
collect_fruit_bowl 50 60.0 1/480 8
fruit_tray 51 60.0 1/480 8
grasp_adjustable_wrench 49 60.0 1/480 8
grasp_apple 47 60.0 1/480 8
grasp_banana 48 60.0 1/480 8
hammer_insert_nail 5 60.0 1/480 8
hammer_insert_nail_wall 2 60.0 1/480 8
open_microwave_2 59 60.0 1/480 8
pour_kettle_cup 50 60.0 1/480 8
trash_bin 50 60.0 1/480 8
total 543

Deliberately not included: trajs/parrot_60Hz/feast/tianji_wuji/ (48 episodes) β€” that is
the pour_bottle_cup data, which is being republished right now as the consolidated
trajs/parrot_60Hz/pour_bottle_cup/tianji_wuji/ bundle in its own PR, with the same cadence
stamp (sim_dt = 1/480, decimation = 8 β€” derived independently from the same recorder
formula and confirmed against the same 48 raw takes). Two PRs writing one path would
conflict, so that bundle is left entirely to the consolidation PR. Note for the reviewer: if
that PR does not also retire the legacy trajs/parrot_60Hz/feast/ path, that path stays
under-stamped and wants the same one-line fix.

The 100 Hz bundles under trajs/parrot/ are untouched β€” their cadence matches the
task-authored sim params, so they replay correctly with or without the stamp.

Companion code PR

SomaStacks/WUJI_SimBench#118 fixes the packers (pack_for_hf.py / upload_hf.py) so newly
packed bundles carry the whole triple, and makes the replayer warn loudly instead of silently
defaulting when it meets an under-stamped bundle like these.

Everloom changed pull request status to merged

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