I am a Data Science Director with a diverse technical and business background. I live in Bangkok and work in Agoda, where I lead multiple DS and ML teams. I was an active Kaggler in TOP-20 of a global competition ranking, Competitions and Notebooks Master
I am presenting Decoder-Only Transformer (DOT) Policy a simple Behavioral Control policy that outperforms SOTA models on two simple benchmark tasks:
✅ PushT (pushing an object to a goal) – 84% success on keypoints, 74% on images (previous best: 75% / 69%) ✅ ALOHA Insert (precise bimanual insertion) – 30% success (previous best: ~21%)
The best part? DOT is much smaller (sometimes 100 times less parameters) than previous SOTA models, trains faster, and avoids complexity: 🚫 No generative models (Diffusion, VAE, GANs) 🚫 No discretization/tokenization of actions 🚫 No reinforcement learning or multi-stage training ✅ Just learns from human demos, plain and simple
This is still early — more complex real-life tasks need testing, and no guarantees it will actually work well there, but I think it's interesting to share. Sometimes, simpler approaches can be just as effective (or even better) than complex ones.