diff --git a/lerobot/common/datasets/factory.py b/lerobot/common/datasets/factory.py
index 942a36dd..b6b93d89 100644
--- a/lerobot/common/datasets/factory.py
+++ b/lerobot/common/datasets/factory.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def make_offline_buffer(cfg, sampler=None):
             sampler=sampler,
             batch_size=batch_size,
             pin_memory=pin_memory,
-            prefetch=prefetch,
+            prefetch=prefetch if isinstance(prefetch, int) else None,
         )
     elif cfg.env.name == "pusht":
         offline_buffer = PushtExperienceReplay(
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def make_offline_buffer(cfg, sampler=None):
             sampler=sampler,
             batch_size=batch_size,
             pin_memory=pin_memory,
-            prefetch=prefetch,
+            prefetch=prefetch if isinstance(prefetch, int) else None,
         )
     else:
         raise ValueError(cfg.env.name)
diff --git a/lerobot/common/datasets/pusht.py b/lerobot/common/datasets/pusht.py
index b5d4fab3..11569ee2 100644
--- a/lerobot/common/datasets/pusht.py
+++ b/lerobot/common/datasets/pusht.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import logging
+import math
 import os
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Callable
@@ -134,20 +135,32 @@ class PushtExperienceReplay(TensorDictReplayBuffer):
         else:
             storage = TensorStorage(TensorDict.load_memmap(self.root / dataset_id))
 
-        mean_std = self._compute_or_load_mean_std(storage)
-        mean_std["next", "observation", "image"] = mean_std["observation", "image"]
-        mean_std["next", "observation", "state"] = mean_std["observation", "state"]
+        stats = self._compute_or_load_stats(storage)
         transform = NormalizeTransform(
-            mean_std,
+            stats,
             in_keys=[
-                ("observation", "image"),
+                # TODO(rcadene): imagenet normalization is applied inside diffusion policy
+                # We need to automate this for tdmpc and others
+                # ("observation", "image"),
                 ("observation", "state"),
-                ("next", "observation", "image"),
-                ("next", "observation", "state"),
+                # TODO(rcadene): for tdmpc, we might want next image and state
+                # ("next", "observation", "image"),
+                # ("next", "observation", "state"),
                 ("action"),
             ],
+            mode="min_max",
         )
 
+        # TODO(rcadene): make normalization strategy configurable between mean_std, min_max, manual_min_max, min_max_from_spec
+        transform.stats["observation", "state", "min"] = torch.tensor(
+            [13.456424, 32.938293], dtype=torch.float32
+        )
+        transform.stats["observation", "state", "max"] = torch.tensor(
+            [496.14618, 510.9579], dtype=torch.float32
+        )
+        transform.stats["action", "min"] = torch.tensor([12.0, 25.0], dtype=torch.float32)
+        transform.stats["action", "max"] = torch.tensor([511.0, 511.0], dtype=torch.float32)
+
         if writer is None:
             writer = ImmutableDatasetWriter()
         if collate_fn is None:
@@ -282,24 +295,50 @@ class PushtExperienceReplay(TensorDictReplayBuffer):
 
         return TensorStorage(td_data.lock_())
 
-    def _compute_mean_std(self, storage, num_batch=10, batch_size=32):
+    def _compute_stats(self, storage, num_batch=100, batch_size=32):
         rb = TensorDictReplayBuffer(
             storage=storage,
             batch_size=batch_size,
             prefetch=True,
         )
         batch = rb.sample()
-        image_mean = torch.zeros(batch["observation", "image"].shape[1])
-        image_std = torch.zeros(batch["observation", "image"].shape[1])
-        state_mean = torch.zeros(batch["observation", "state"].shape[1])
-        state_std = torch.zeros(batch["observation", "state"].shape[1])
-        action_mean = torch.zeros(batch["action"].shape[1])
-        action_std = torch.zeros(batch["action"].shape[1])
+
+        image_channels = batch["observation", "image"].shape[1]
+        image_mean = torch.zeros(image_channels)
+        image_std = torch.zeros(image_channels)
+        image_max = torch.tensor([-math.inf] * image_channels)
+        image_min = torch.tensor([math.inf] * image_channels)
+
+        state_channels = batch["observation", "state"].shape[1]
+        state_mean = torch.zeros(state_channels)
+        state_std = torch.zeros(state_channels)
+        state_max = torch.tensor([-math.inf] * state_channels)
+        state_min = torch.tensor([math.inf] * state_channels)
+
+        action_channels = batch["action"].shape[1]
+        action_mean = torch.zeros(action_channels)
+        action_std = torch.zeros(action_channels)
+        action_max = torch.tensor([-math.inf] * action_channels)
+        action_min = torch.tensor([math.inf] * action_channels)
 
         for _ in tqdm.tqdm(range(num_batch)):
-            image_mean += einops.reduce(batch["observation", "image"], "b c h w -> c", reduction="mean")
-            state_mean += batch["observation", "state"].mean(dim=0)
-            action_mean += batch["action"].mean(dim=0)
+            image_mean += einops.reduce(batch["observation", "image"], "b c h w -> c", "mean")
+            state_mean += einops.reduce(batch["observation", "state"], "b c -> c", "mean")
+            action_mean += einops.reduce(batch["action"], "b c -> c", "mean")
+
+            b_image_max = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "image"], "b c h w -> c", "max")
+            b_image_min = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "image"], "b c h w -> c", "min")
+            b_state_max = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "state"], "b c -> c", "max")
+            b_state_min = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "state"], "b c -> c", "min")
+            b_action_max = einops.reduce(batch["action"], "b c -> c", "max")
+            b_action_min = einops.reduce(batch["action"], "b c -> c", "min")
+            image_max = torch.maximum(image_max, b_image_max)
+            image_min = torch.maximum(image_min, b_image_min)
+            state_max = torch.maximum(state_max, b_state_max)
+            state_min = torch.maximum(state_min, b_state_min)
+            action_max = torch.maximum(action_max, b_action_max)
+            action_min = torch.maximum(action_min, b_action_min)
+
             batch = rb.sample()
 
         image_mean /= num_batch
@@ -307,10 +346,26 @@ class PushtExperienceReplay(TensorDictReplayBuffer):
         action_mean /= num_batch
 
         for i in tqdm.tqdm(range(num_batch)):
-            image_mean_batch = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "image"], "b c h w -> c", reduction="mean")
-            image_std += (image_mean_batch - image_mean) ** 2
-            state_std += (batch["observation", "state"].mean(dim=0) - state_mean) ** 2
-            action_std += (batch["action"].mean(dim=0) - action_mean) ** 2
+            b_image_mean = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "image"], "b c h w -> c", "mean")
+            b_state_mean = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "state"], "b c -> c", "mean")
+            b_action_mean = einops.reduce(batch["action"], "b c -> c", "mean")
+            image_std += (b_image_mean - image_mean) ** 2
+            state_std += (b_state_mean - state_mean) ** 2
+            action_std += (b_action_mean - action_mean) ** 2
+
+            b_image_max = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "image"], "b c h w -> c", "max")
+            b_image_min = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "image"], "b c h w -> c", "min")
+            b_state_max = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "state"], "b c -> c", "max")
+            b_state_min = einops.reduce(batch["observation", "state"], "b c -> c", "min")
+            b_action_max = einops.reduce(batch["action"], "b c -> c", "max")
+            b_action_min = einops.reduce(batch["action"], "b c -> c", "min")
+            image_max = torch.maximum(image_max, b_image_max)
+            image_min = torch.maximum(image_min, b_image_min)
+            state_max = torch.maximum(state_max, b_state_max)
+            state_min = torch.maximum(state_min, b_state_min)
+            action_max = torch.maximum(action_max, b_action_max)
+            action_min = torch.maximum(action_min, b_action_min)
+
             if i < num_batch - 1:
                 batch = rb.sample()
 
@@ -318,25 +373,33 @@ class PushtExperienceReplay(TensorDictReplayBuffer):
         state_std = torch.sqrt(state_std / num_batch)
         action_std = torch.sqrt(action_std / num_batch)
 
-        mean_std = TensorDict(
+        stats = TensorDict(
             {
                 ("observation", "image", "mean"): image_mean[None, :, None, None],
                 ("observation", "image", "std"): image_std[None, :, None, None],
+                ("observation", "image", "max"): image_max[None, :, None, None],
+                ("observation", "image", "min"): image_min[None, :, None, None],
                 ("observation", "state", "mean"): state_mean[None, :],
                 ("observation", "state", "std"): state_std[None, :],
+                ("observation", "state", "max"): state_max[None, :],
+                ("observation", "state", "min"): state_min[None, :],
                 ("action", "mean"): action_mean[None, :],
                 ("action", "std"): action_std[None, :],
+                ("action", "max"): action_max[None, :],
+                ("action", "min"): action_min[None, :],
             },
             batch_size=[],
         )
-        return mean_std
+        stats["next", "observation", "image"] = stats["observation", "image"]
+        stats["next", "observation", "state"] = stats["observation", "state"]
+        return stats
 
-    def _compute_or_load_mean_std(self, storage) -> TensorDict:
-        mean_std_path = self.root / self.dataset_id / "mean_std.pth"
-        if mean_std_path.exists():
-            mean_std = torch.load(mean_std_path)
+    def _compute_or_load_stats(self, storage) -> TensorDict:
+        stats_path = self.root / self.dataset_id / "stats.pth"
+        if stats_path.exists():
+            stats = torch.load(stats_path)
         else:
-            logging.info(f"compute_mean_std and save to {mean_std_path}")
-            mean_std = self._compute_mean_std(storage)
-            torch.save(mean_std, mean_std_path)
-        return mean_std
+            logging.info(f"compute_stats and save to {stats_path}")
+            stats = self._compute_stats(storage)
+            torch.save(stats, stats_path)
+        return stats
diff --git a/lerobot/common/envs/factory.py b/lerobot/common/envs/factory.py
index 2cd4f73b..acf089f6 100644
--- a/lerobot/common/envs/factory.py
+++ b/lerobot/common/envs/factory.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 from torchrl.envs.transforms import StepCounter, TransformedEnv
 
-from lerobot.common.envs.transforms import Prod
-
 
 def make_env(cfg, transform=None):
     kwargs = {
@@ -9,6 +7,8 @@ def make_env(cfg, transform=None):
         "from_pixels": cfg.env.from_pixels,
         "pixels_only": cfg.env.pixels_only,
         "image_size": cfg.env.image_size,
+        # TODO(rcadene): do we want a specific eval_env_seed?
+        "seed": cfg.seed,
     }
 
     if cfg.env.name == "simxarm":
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ def make_env(cfg, transform=None):
     elif cfg.env.name == "pusht":
         from lerobot.common.envs.pusht import PushtEnv
 
+        # assert kwargs["seed"] > 200, "Seed 0-200 are used for the demonstration dataset, so we don't want to seed the eval env with this range."
+
         clsfunc = PushtEnv
     else:
         raise ValueError(cfg.env.name)
@@ -28,12 +30,8 @@ def make_env(cfg, transform=None):
     # limit rollout to max_steps
     env = TransformedEnv(env, StepCounter(max_steps=cfg.env.episode_length))
 
-    if cfg.env.name == "pusht":
-        # to ensure pusht is in [0,255] like simxarm
-        env.append_transform(Prod(in_keys=[("observation", "image")], prod=255.0))
-
     if transform is not None:
-        # useful to add mean and std normalization
+        # useful to add normalization
         env.append_transform(transform)
 
     return env
diff --git a/lerobot/common/envs/pusht.py b/lerobot/common/envs/pusht.py
index 39bf3bba..62aa8d1b 100644
--- a/lerobot/common/envs/pusht.py
+++ b/lerobot/common/envs/pusht.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import importlib
+from collections import deque
 from typing import Optional
 
 import torch
@@ -27,12 +28,16 @@ class PushtEnv(EnvBase):
         image_size=None,
         seed=1337,
         device="cpu",
+        num_prev_obs=1,
+        num_prev_action=0,
     ):
         super().__init__(device=device, batch_size=[])
         self.frame_skip = frame_skip
         self.from_pixels = from_pixels
         self.pixels_only = pixels_only
         self.image_size = image_size
+        self.num_prev_obs = num_prev_obs
+        self.num_prev_action = num_prev_action
 
         if pixels_only:
             assert from_pixels
@@ -56,6 +61,12 @@ class PushtEnv(EnvBase):
         self._make_spec()
         self._current_seed = self.set_seed(seed)
 
+        if self.num_prev_obs > 0:
+            self._prev_obs_image_queue = deque(maxlen=self.num_prev_obs)
+            self._prev_obs_state_queue = deque(maxlen=self.num_prev_obs)
+        if self.num_prev_action > 0:
+            self._prev_action_queue = deque(maxlen=self.num_prev_action)
+
     def render(self, mode="rgb_array", width=384, height=384):
         if width != height:
             raise NotImplementedError()
@@ -67,7 +78,8 @@ class PushtEnv(EnvBase):
 
     def _format_raw_obs(self, raw_obs):
         if self.from_pixels:
-            obs = {"image": torch.from_numpy(raw_obs["image"])}
+            image = torch.from_numpy(raw_obs["image"])
+            obs = {"image": image}
 
             if not self.pixels_only:
                 obs["state"] = torch.from_numpy(raw_obs["agent_pos"]).type(torch.float32)
@@ -75,7 +87,6 @@ class PushtEnv(EnvBase):
             # TODO:
             obs = {"state": torch.from_numpy(raw_obs["observation"]).type(torch.float32)}
 
-        obs = TensorDict(obs, batch_size=[])
         return obs
 
     def _reset(self, tensordict: Optional[TensorDict] = None):
@@ -87,9 +98,25 @@ class PushtEnv(EnvBase):
             raw_obs = self._env.reset()
             assert self._current_seed == self._env._seed
 
+            obs = self._format_raw_obs(raw_obs)
+
+            if self.num_prev_obs > 0:
+                stacked_obs = {}
+                if "image" in obs:
+                    self._prev_obs_image_queue = deque(
+                        [obs["image"]] * (self.num_prev_obs + 1), maxlen=(self.num_prev_obs + 1)
+                    )
+                    stacked_obs["image"] = torch.stack(list(self._prev_obs_image_queue))
+                if "state" in obs:
+                    self._prev_obs_state_queue = deque(
+                        [obs["state"]] * (self.num_prev_obs + 1), maxlen=(self.num_prev_obs + 1)
+                    )
+                    stacked_obs["state"] = torch.stack(list(self._prev_obs_state_queue))
+                obs = stacked_obs
+
             td = TensorDict(
                 {
-                    "observation": self._format_raw_obs(raw_obs),
+                    "observation": TensorDict(obs, batch_size=[]),
                     "done": torch.tensor([False], dtype=torch.bool),
                 },
                 batch_size=[],
@@ -100,18 +127,37 @@ class PushtEnv(EnvBase):
 
     def _step(self, tensordict: TensorDict):
         td = tensordict
-        # remove batch dim
-        action = td["action"].squeeze(0).numpy()
+        action = td["action"].numpy()
         # step expects shape=(4,) so we pad if necessary
         # TODO(rcadene): add info["is_success"] and info["success"] ?
         sum_reward = 0
-        for _ in range(self.frame_skip):
-            raw_obs, reward, done, info = self._env.step(action)
+
+        if action.ndim == 1:
+            action = action.repeat(self.frame_skip, 1)
+        else:
+            if self.frame_skip > 1:
+                raise NotImplementedError()
+
+        num_action_steps = action.shape[0]
+        for i in range(num_action_steps):
+            raw_obs, reward, done, info = self._env.step(action[i])
             sum_reward += reward
 
+            obs = self._format_raw_obs(raw_obs)
+
+            if self.num_prev_obs > 0:
+                stacked_obs = {}
+                if "image" in obs:
+                    self._prev_obs_image_queue.append(obs["image"])
+                    stacked_obs["image"] = torch.stack(list(self._prev_obs_image_queue))
+                if "state" in obs:
+                    self._prev_obs_state_queue.append(obs["state"])
+                    stacked_obs["state"] = torch.stack(list(self._prev_obs_state_queue))
+                obs = stacked_obs
+
         td = TensorDict(
             {
-                "observation": self._format_raw_obs(raw_obs),
+                "observation": TensorDict(obs, batch_size=[]),
                 "reward": torch.tensor([sum_reward], dtype=torch.float32),
                 # succes and done are true when coverage > self.success_threshold in env
                 "done": torch.tensor([done], dtype=torch.bool),
@@ -124,14 +170,22 @@ class PushtEnv(EnvBase):
     def _make_spec(self):
         obs = {}
         if self.from_pixels:
+            image_shape = (3, self.image_size, self.image_size)
+            if self.num_prev_obs > 0:
+                image_shape = (self.num_prev_obs, *image_shape)
+
             obs["image"] = BoundedTensorSpec(
                 low=0,
                 high=1,
-                shape=(3, self.image_size, self.image_size),
+                shape=image_shape,
                 dtype=torch.float32,
                 device=self.device,
             )
             if not self.pixels_only:
+                state_shape = self._env.observation_space["agent_pos"].shape
+                if self.num_prev_obs > 0:
+                    state_shape = (self.num_prev_obs, *state_shape)
+
                 obs["state"] = BoundedTensorSpec(
                     low=0,
                     high=512,
@@ -141,6 +195,10 @@ class PushtEnv(EnvBase):
                 )
         else:
             # TODO(rcadene): add observation_space achieved_goal and desired_goal?
+            state_shape = self._env.observation_space["observation"].shape
+            if self.num_prev_obs > 0:
+                state_shape = (self.num_prev_obs, *state_shape)
+
             obs["state"] = UnboundedContinuousTensorSpec(
                 # TODO:
                 shape=self._env.observation_space["observation"].shape,
diff --git a/lerobot/common/envs/transforms.py b/lerobot/common/envs/transforms.py
index 67601eac..671c0827 100644
--- a/lerobot/common/envs/transforms.py
+++ b/lerobot/common/envs/transforms.py
@@ -28,11 +28,12 @@ class NormalizeTransform(Transform):
 
     def __init__(
         self,
-        mean_std: TensorDictBase,
+        stats: TensorDictBase,
         in_keys: Sequence[NestedKey] = None,
         out_keys: Sequence[NestedKey] | None = None,
         in_keys_inv: Sequence[NestedKey] | None = None,
         out_keys_inv: Sequence[NestedKey] | None = None,
+        mode="mean_std",
     ):
         if out_keys is None:
             out_keys = in_keys
@@ -43,7 +44,14 @@ class NormalizeTransform(Transform):
         super().__init__(
             in_keys=in_keys, out_keys=out_keys, in_keys_inv=in_keys_inv, out_keys_inv=out_keys_inv
         )
-        self.mean_std = mean_std
+        self.stats = stats
+        assert mode in ["mean_std", "min_max"]
+        self.mode = mode
+
+    def _reset(self, tensordict: TensorDictBase, tensordict_reset: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDictBase:
+        # _reset is called once when the environment reset to normalize the first observation
+        tensordict_reset = self._call(tensordict_reset)
+        return tensordict_reset
 
     @dispatch(source="in_keys", dest="out_keys")
     def forward(self, tensordict: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDictBase:
@@ -54,9 +62,17 @@ class NormalizeTransform(Transform):
             # TODO(rcadene): don't know how to do `inkey not in td`
             if td.get(inkey, None) is None:
                 continue
-            mean = self.mean_std[inkey]["mean"]
-            std = self.mean_std[inkey]["std"]
-            td[outkey] = (td[inkey] - mean) / (std + 1e-8)
+            if self.mode == "mean_std":
+                mean = self.stats[inkey]["mean"]
+                std = self.stats[inkey]["std"]
+                td[outkey] = (td[inkey] - mean) / (std + 1e-8)
+            else:
+                min = self.stats[inkey]["min"]
+                max = self.stats[inkey]["max"]
+                # normalize to [0,1]
+                td[outkey] = (td[inkey] - min) / (max - min)
+                # normalize to [-1, 1]
+                td[outkey] = td[outkey] * 2 - 1
         return td
 
     def _inv_call(self, td: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDictBase:
@@ -64,7 +80,13 @@ class NormalizeTransform(Transform):
             # TODO(rcadene): don't know how to do `inkey not in td`
             if td.get(inkey, None) is None:
                 continue
-            mean = self.mean_std[inkey]["mean"]
-            std = self.mean_std[inkey]["std"]
-            td[outkey] = td[inkey] * std + mean
+            if self.mode == "mean_std":
+                mean = self.stats[inkey]["mean"]
+                std = self.stats[inkey]["std"]
+                td[outkey] = td[inkey] * std + mean
+            else:
+                min = self.stats[inkey]["min"]
+                max = self.stats[inkey]["max"]
+                td[outkey] = (td[inkey] + 1) / 2
+                td[outkey] = td[outkey] * (max - min) + min
         return td
diff --git a/lerobot/common/logger.py b/lerobot/common/logger.py
index 2b877b2e..54325bd4 100644
--- a/lerobot/common/logger.py
+++ b/lerobot/common/logger.py
@@ -1,51 +1,11 @@
-import contextlib
+import logging
 import os
 from pathlib import Path
 
-import numpy as np
 from omegaconf import OmegaConf
 from termcolor import colored
 
 
-def make_dir(dir_path):
-    """Create directory if it does not already exist."""
-    with contextlib.suppress(OSError):
-        dir_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-    return dir_path
-
-
-def print_run(cfg, reward=None):
-    """Pretty-printing of run information. Call at start of training."""
-    prefix, color, attrs = "  ", "green", ["bold"]
-
-    def limstr(s, maxlen=32):
-        return str(s[:maxlen]) + "..." if len(str(s)) > maxlen else s
-
-    def pprint(k, v):
-        print(
-            prefix + colored(f'{k.capitalize() + ":":<16}', color, attrs=attrs),
-            limstr(v),
-        )
-
-    kvs = [
-        ("task", cfg.env.task),
-        ("offline_steps", f"{cfg.offline_steps}"),
-        ("online_steps", f"{cfg.online_steps}"),
-        ("action_repeat", f"{cfg.env.action_repeat}"),
-        # ('observations', 'x'.join([str(s) for s in cfg.obs_shape])),
-        # ('actions', cfg.action_dim),
-        # ('experiment', cfg.exp_name),
-    ]
-    if reward is not None:
-        kvs.append(("episode reward", colored(str(int(reward)), "white", attrs=["bold"])))
-    w = np.max([len(limstr(str(kv[1]))) for kv in kvs]) + 21
-    div = "-" * w
-    print(div)
-    for k, v in kvs:
-        pprint(k, v)
-    print(div)
-
-
 def cfg_to_group(cfg, return_list=False):
     """Return a wandb-safe group name for logging. Optionally returns group name as list."""
     # lst = [cfg.task, cfg.modality, re.sub("[^0-9a-zA-Z]+", "-", cfg.exp_name)]
@@ -71,13 +31,12 @@ class Logger:
         self._seed = cfg.seed
         self._cfg = cfg
         self._eval = []
-        print_run(cfg)
         project = cfg.get("wandb", {}).get("project")
         entity = cfg.get("wandb", {}).get("entity")
         enable_wandb = cfg.get("wandb", {}).get("enable", False)
         run_offline = not enable_wandb or not project or not entity
         if run_offline:
-            print(colored("Logs will be saved locally.", "yellow", attrs=["bold"]))
+            logging.info(colored("Logs will be saved locally.", "yellow", attrs=["bold"]))
             self._wandb = None
         else:
             os.environ["WANDB_SILENT"] = "true"
@@ -134,7 +93,6 @@ class Logger:
             self.save_buffer(buffer, identifier="buffer")
         if self._wandb:
             self._wandb.finish()
-        print_run(self._cfg, self._eval[-1][-1])
 
     def log_dict(self, d, step, mode="train"):
         assert mode in {"train", "eval"}
@@ -144,5 +102,5 @@ class Logger:
 
     def log_video(self, video, step, mode="train"):
         assert mode in {"train", "eval"}
-        wandb_video = self._wandb.Video(video, fps=self.cfg.fps, format="mp4")
+        wandb_video = self._wandb.Video(video, fps=self._cfg.fps, format="mp4")
         self._wandb.log({f"{mode}/video": wandb_video}, step=step)
diff --git a/lerobot/common/policies/diffusion/policy.py b/lerobot/common/policies/diffusion/policy.py
index a484c65a..7ae0a529 100644
--- a/lerobot/common/policies/diffusion/policy.py
+++ b/lerobot/common/policies/diffusion/policy.py
@@ -1,20 +1,15 @@
 import copy
 import time
 
-import einops
 import hydra
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
-from diffusers.schedulers.scheduling_ddpm import DDPMScheduler
 
 from diffusion_policy.model.common.lr_scheduler import get_scheduler
-from diffusion_policy.model.vision.model_getter import get_resnet
 
 from .diffusion_unet_image_policy import DiffusionUnetImagePolicy
 from .multi_image_obs_encoder import MultiImageObsEncoder
 
-FIRST_ACTION = 0
-
 
 class DiffusionPolicy(nn.Module):
     def __init__(
@@ -42,8 +37,8 @@ class DiffusionPolicy(nn.Module):
         super().__init__()
         self.cfg = cfg
 
-        noise_scheduler = DDPMScheduler(**cfg_noise_scheduler)
-        rgb_model = get_resnet(**cfg_rgb_model)
+        noise_scheduler = hydra.utils.instantiate(cfg_noise_scheduler)
+        rgb_model = hydra.utils.instantiate(cfg_rgb_model)
         obs_encoder = MultiImageObsEncoder(
             rgb_model=rgb_model,
             **cfg_obs_encoder,
@@ -101,20 +96,17 @@ class DiffusionPolicy(nn.Module):
         # TODO(rcadene): remove unused step_count
         del step_count
 
-        # TODO(rcadene): remove unsqueeze hack...
-        if observation["image"].ndim == 3:
-            observation["image"] = observation["image"].unsqueeze(0)
-            observation["state"] = observation["state"].unsqueeze(0)
+        # TODO(rcadene): remove unsqueeze hack to add bsize=1
+        observation["image"] = observation["image"].unsqueeze(0)
+        observation["state"] = observation["state"].unsqueeze(0)
 
         obs_dict = {
-            # TODO(rcadene): hack to add temporal dim
-            "image": einops.rearrange(observation["image"], "b c h w -> b 1 c h w"),
-            "agent_pos": einops.rearrange(observation["state"], "b c -> b 1 c"),
+            "image": observation["image"],
+            "agent_pos": observation["state"],
         }
         out = self.diffusion.predict_action(obs_dict)
 
-        # TODO(rcadene): add possibility to return >1 timestemps
-        action = out["action"].squeeze(0)[FIRST_ACTION]
+        action = out["action"].squeeze(0)
         return action
 
     def update(self, replay_buffer, step):
@@ -133,16 +125,36 @@ class DiffusionPolicy(nn.Module):
             # (t h) ... -> t h ...
             batch = batch.reshape(num_slices, horizon)  # .transpose(1, 0).contiguous()
 
+            # |-1|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14| timestamps: 16
+            #  |o|o|                                  observations: 2
+            #  | |a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|                    actions executed: 8
+            #  |p|p|p|p|p|p|p|p|p|p|p| p| p| p| p| p| actions predicted: 16
+            # note: we predict the action needed to go from t=-1 to t=0 similarly to an inverse kinematic model
+
+            image = batch["observation", "image"]
+            state = batch["observation", "state"]
+            action = batch["action"]
+            assert image.shape[1] == horizon
+            assert state.shape[1] == horizon
+            assert action.shape[1] == horizon
+
+            if not (horizon == 16 and self.cfg.n_obs_steps == 2):
+                raise NotImplementedError()
+
+            # keep first 2 observations of the slice corresponding to t=[-1,0]
+            image = image[:, : self.cfg.n_obs_steps]
+            state = state[:, : self.cfg.n_obs_steps]
+
             out = {
                 "obs": {
-                    "image": batch["observation", "image"].to(self.device, non_blocking=True),
-                    "agent_pos": batch["observation", "state"].to(self.device, non_blocking=True),
+                    "image": image.to(self.device, non_blocking=True),
+                    "agent_pos": state.to(self.device, non_blocking=True),
                 },
-                "action": batch["action"].to(self.device, non_blocking=True),
+                "action": action.to(self.device, non_blocking=True),
             }
             return out
 
-        batch = replay_buffer.sample(batch_size) if self.cfg.balanced_sampling else replay_buffer.sample()
+        batch = replay_buffer.sample(batch_size)
         batch = process_batch(batch, self.cfg.horizon, num_slices)
 
         data_s = time.time() - start_time
diff --git a/lerobot/configs/default.yaml b/lerobot/configs/default.yaml
index 0001a49e..153f7aa1 100644
--- a/lerobot/configs/default.yaml
+++ b/lerobot/configs/default.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 defaults:
   - _self_
-  - env: simxarm
-  - policy: tdmpc
+  - env: pusht
+  - policy: diffusion
 
 hydra:
   run:
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ save_buffer: false
 train_steps: ???
 fps: ???
 
+n_action_steps: ???
 env: ???
 
 policy: ???
diff --git a/lerobot/configs/policy/diffusion.yaml b/lerobot/configs/policy/diffusion.yaml
index 6f18816a..0ea8f638 100644
--- a/lerobot/configs/policy/diffusion.yaml
+++ b/lerobot/configs/policy/diffusion.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ shape_meta:
     shape: [2]
 
 horizon: 16
-n_obs_steps: 1 # TODO(rcadene): before 2
+n_obs_steps: 2
 n_action_steps: 8
 n_latency_steps: 0
 dataset_obs_steps: ${n_obs_steps}
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ past_action_visible: False
 keypoint_visible_rate: 1.0
 obs_as_global_cond: True
 
-eval_episodes: 50
+eval_episodes: 1
 eval_freq: 10000
 save_freq: 100000
 log_freq: 250
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ policy:
   num_inference_steps: 100
   obs_as_global_cond: ${obs_as_global_cond}
   # crop_shape: null
-  diffusion_step_embed_dim: 128
-  down_dims: [512, 1024, 2048]
+  diffusion_step_embed_dim: 256  # before 128
+  down_dims: [256, 512, 1024]  # before [512, 1024, 2048]
   kernel_size: 5
   n_groups: 8
   cond_predict_scale: True
@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ policy:
   use_ema: true
   lr_scheduler: cosine
   lr_warmup_steps: 500
-  grad_clip_norm: 0
+  grad_clip_norm: 10
 
 noise_scheduler:
-  # _target_: diffusers.schedulers.scheduling_ddpm.DDPMScheduler
+  _target_: diffusers.schedulers.scheduling_ddpm.DDPMScheduler
   num_train_timesteps: 100
   beta_start: 0.0001
   beta_end: 0.02
@@ -74,16 +74,16 @@ noise_scheduler:
 obs_encoder:
   # _target_: diffusion_policy.model.vision.multi_image_obs_encoder.MultiImageObsEncoder
   shape_meta: ${shape_meta}
-  resize_shape: null
-  crop_shape: [76, 76]
+  # resize_shape: null
+  # crop_shape: [76, 76]
   # constant center crop
-  random_crop: True
+  # random_crop: True
   use_group_norm: True
   share_rgb_model: False
-  imagenet_norm: False  # TODO(rcadene): was set to True
+  imagenet_norm: True
 
 rgb_model:
-  #_target_: diffusion_policy.model.vision.model_getter.get_resnet
+  _target_: diffusion_policy.model.vision.model_getter.get_resnet
   name: resnet18
   weights: null
 
diff --git a/lerobot/configs/policy/tdmpc.yaml b/lerobot/configs/policy/tdmpc.yaml
index 26dc4e51..16b7018e 100644
--- a/lerobot/configs/policy/tdmpc.yaml
+++ b/lerobot/configs/policy/tdmpc.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # @package _global_
 
+n_action_steps: 1
+
 policy:
   name: tdmpc
 
diff --git a/lerobot/scripts/eval.py b/lerobot/scripts/eval.py
index 6391903e..abe4645a 100644
--- a/lerobot/scripts/eval.py
+++ b/lerobot/scripts/eval.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ def eval(cfg: dict, out_dir=None):
     offline_buffer = make_offline_buffer(cfg)
 
     logging.info("make_env")
-    env = make_env(cfg, transform=offline_buffer.transform)
+    env = make_env(cfg, transform=offline_buffer._transform)
 
     if cfg.policy.pretrained_model_path:
         policy = make_policy(cfg)
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def eval(cfg: dict, out_dir=None):
         save_video=True,
         video_dir=Path(out_dir) / "eval",
         fps=cfg.env.fps,
-        max_steps=cfg.env.episode_length,
+        max_steps=cfg.env.episode_length // cfg.n_action_steps,
         num_episodes=cfg.eval_episodes,
     )
     print(metrics)
diff --git a/lerobot/scripts/train.py b/lerobot/scripts/train.py
index 3e0b2a9a..e162a0f4 100644
--- a/lerobot/scripts/train.py
+++ b/lerobot/scripts/train.py
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ def train(cfg: dict, out_dir=None, job_name=None):
     torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = True
     torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True
     set_seed(cfg.seed)
-    logging.info(colored("Work dir:", "yellow", attrs=["bold"]) + f" {out_dir}")
 
     logging.info("make_offline_buffer")
     offline_buffer = make_offline_buffer(cfg)
@@ -153,6 +152,9 @@ def train(cfg: dict, out_dir=None, job_name=None):
     logging.info("make_policy")
     policy = make_policy(cfg)
 
+    num_learnable_params = sum(p.numel() for p in policy.parameters() if p.requires_grad)
+    num_total_params = sum(p.numel() for p in policy.parameters())
+
     td_policy = TensorDictModule(
         policy,
         in_keys=["observation", "step_count"],
@@ -162,6 +164,16 @@ def train(cfg: dict, out_dir=None, job_name=None):
     # log metrics to terminal and wandb
     logger = Logger(out_dir, job_name, cfg)
 
+    logging.info(colored("Work dir:", "yellow", attrs=["bold"]) + f" {out_dir}")
+    logging.info(f"{cfg.env.task=}")
+    logging.info(f"{cfg.offline_steps=} ({format_big_number(cfg.offline_steps)})")
+    logging.info(f"{cfg.online_steps=}")
+    logging.info(f"{cfg.env.action_repeat=}")
+    logging.info(f"{offline_buffer.num_samples=} ({format_big_number(offline_buffer.num_samples)})")
+    logging.info(f"{offline_buffer.num_episodes=}")
+    logging.info(f"{num_learnable_params=} ({format_big_number(num_learnable_params)})")
+    logging.info(f"{num_total_params=} ({format_big_number(num_total_params)})")
+
     step = 0  # number of policy update
 
     is_offline = True
@@ -174,19 +186,23 @@ def train(cfg: dict, out_dir=None, job_name=None):
             log_train_info(logger, train_info, step, cfg, offline_buffer, is_offline)
 
         if step > 0 and step % cfg.eval_freq == 0:
+            logging.info(f"Eval policy at step {step}")
             eval_info, first_video = eval_policy(
                 env,
                 td_policy,
                 num_episodes=cfg.eval_episodes,
+                max_steps=cfg.env.episode_length // cfg.n_action_steps,
                 return_first_video=True,
             )
             log_eval_info(logger, eval_info, step, cfg, offline_buffer, is_offline)
             if cfg.wandb.enable:
                 logger.log_video(first_video, step, mode="eval")
+            logging.info("Resume training")
 
         if step > 0 and cfg.save_model and step % cfg.save_freq == 0:
-            logging.info(f"Checkpoint model at step {step}")
+            logging.info(f"Checkpoint policy at step {step}")
             logger.save_model(policy, identifier=step)
+            logging.info("Resume training")
 
         step += 1
 
@@ -200,11 +216,11 @@ def train(cfg: dict, out_dir=None, job_name=None):
         # TODO: add configurable number of rollout? (default=1)
         with torch.no_grad():
             rollout = env.rollout(
-                max_steps=cfg.env.episode_length,
+                max_steps=cfg.env.episode_length // cfg.n_action_steps,
                 policy=td_policy,
                 auto_cast_to_device=True,
             )
-        assert len(rollout) <= cfg.env.episode_length
+        assert len(rollout) <= cfg.env.episode_length // cfg.n_action_steps
         # set same episode index for all time steps contained in this rollout
         rollout["episode"] = torch.tensor([env_step] * len(rollout), dtype=torch.int)
         online_buffer.extend(rollout)
@@ -231,19 +247,23 @@ def train(cfg: dict, out_dir=None, job_name=None):
                 log_train_info(logger, train_info, step, cfg, offline_buffer, is_offline)
 
             if step > 0 and step % cfg.eval_freq == 0:
+                logging.info(f"Eval policy at step {step}")
                 eval_info, first_video = eval_policy(
                     env,
                     td_policy,
                     num_episodes=cfg.eval_episodes,
+                    max_steps=cfg.env.episode_length // cfg.n_action_steps,
                     return_first_video=True,
                 )
                 log_eval_info(logger, eval_info, step, cfg, offline_buffer, is_offline)
                 if cfg.wandb.enable:
                     logger.log_video(first_video, step, mode="eval")
+                logging.info("Resume training")
 
             if step > 0 and cfg.save_model and step % cfg.save_freq == 0:
-                logging.info(f"Checkpoint model at step {step}")
+                logging.info(f"Checkpoint policy at step {step}")
                 logger.save_model(policy, identifier=step)
+                logging.info("Resume training")
 
             step += 1
             online_step += 1