InternVLA-A1.5: Unifying Understanding, Latent Foresight, and Action for Compositional Generalization
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Unified models for robot manipulation aim to equip one policy with both the semantic priors of pretrained VLMs and the physical dynamics learned through future prediction. In practice, existing designs tend to erode the semantics of the pretrained backbone, suffer interference among heterogeneous objectives, and learn future prediction from scratch in pixel space, leaving the dynamics priors of pretrained video generators unexploited. We present InternVLA-A1.5, which builds the policy on a native VLM backbone that keeps training on VQA and subtask prediction, and attaches a lightweight unified expert for continuous action generation. Future prediction is recast as a latent-querying problem, where a small set of learnable foresight tokens condenses the task-relevant future into a compact latent code under the supervision of a frozen pretrained video generation model, so the policy inherits world-model dynamics priors without ever learning pixel-level generation. The video branch is discarded at inference, keeping real-time control. Pretrained on 1.2M robot episodes and 3M multimodal samples, InternVLA-A1.5 achieves the best overall results on all six simulation benchmarks. In the real world, the preserved semantics deliver the strongest compositional generalization on held-out instruction bindings, and the two designs together sustain long-horizon execution.
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- 2026Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation: A Surveycited by 6
- 2026Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Modelscited by 6
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- 2026Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imaginationcited by 1
- 2026InternW0-Δ: A World Action Model Bridging Predictive Dynamics and Actions with 20K+ Hours of Open Datacited by 1
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- 2026Vela: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with Adaptive Action Curve Parametrizationcited by 0
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- 2026RoboAware: Learning to Coordinate Embodied Skills from Counterfactual Outcomes8 Oct 2026
- 2026Rewiring Semantics, Dynamics, and Control: A Simple yet Effective Action-Centric Tri-Stream Transformer8 Oct 2026
- 2026Juno: Taming Predictive Latents for Vision-Language-Action Models7 Oct 2026
- 2026Vela: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with Adaptive Action Curve Parametrization4 Oct 2026
- 2026CogWAM: Aligning Semantic Cognition with World Action Modeling via Event-Driven Interfaces29 Sep 2026
- 2026Staircase Policy: Streaming Inference for World-Action Models with Large Action Chunks29 Sep 2026
- 2026Quantile Head for Vision-Language-Action Models28 Sep 2026
- 2026InternW0-Δ: A World Action Model Bridging Predictive Dynamics and Actions with 20K+ Hours of Open Data25 Sep 2026
- 2026Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imagination24 Sep 2026
- 2026An Action Is Worth One Patch: Unified World-Action Modeling with PatchWAM22 Sep 2026
8 more
- 2026ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training31 Aug 2026
- 2026PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies31 Aug 2026
- 2026Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models27 Aug 2026
- 2026LIBERO-VIFO: Benchmarking the Capability and Safety of Visual Cue Following in Vision-Language-Action Models18 Aug 2026
- 2026DynamicWAM: Dual-Path Motion Conditioning for World-Action Models in Dynamic Manipulation1 Aug 2026
- 2026Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation: A Survey27 Jul 2026
- 2026N0-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation26 Jul 2026
- 2026RoboInter1.5: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite for Embodied World Modeling and Robotic Manipulation21 Jul 2026
- 2026DynamicWAM: Dual-Path Motion Conditioning for World-Action Models in Dynamic Manipulationcited by 4
- 2026ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-trainingcited by 4
- 2026N0-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulationcited by 2
- 2026Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imaginationcited by 1
- 2026InternW0-Δ: A World Action Model Bridging Predictive Dynamics and Actions with 20K+ Hours of Open Datacited by 1
- 2026RoboInter1.5: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite for Embodied World Modeling and Robotic Manipulationcited by 0
- 2026An Action Is Worth One Patch: Unified World-Action Modeling with PatchWAMcited by 0
- 2026Staircase Policy: Streaming Inference for World-Action Models with Large Action Chunkscited by 0
- 2026CogWAM: Aligning Semantic Cognition with World Action Modeling via Event-Driven Interfacescited by 0
- 2026What Matters for World Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models?cited by 0
- 2026What Matters for World Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models?14 Oct 2026
- 2026CogWAM: Aligning Semantic Cognition with World Action Modeling via Event-Driven Interfaces29 Sep 2026
- 2026Staircase Policy: Streaming Inference for World-Action Models with Large Action Chunks29 Sep 2026
- 2026InternW0-Δ: A World Action Model Bridging Predictive Dynamics and Actions with 20K+ Hours of Open Data25 Sep 2026
- 2026Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imagination24 Sep 2026
- 2026An Action Is Worth One Patch: Unified World-Action Modeling with PatchWAM22 Sep 2026
- 2026ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training31 Aug 2026
- 2026DynamicWAM: Dual-Path Motion Conditioning for World-Action Models in Dynamic Manipulation1 Aug 2026
- 2026N0-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation26 Jul 2026
- 2026RoboInter1.5: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite for Embodied World Modeling and Robotic Manipulation21 Jul 2026
- 2026Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Modelscited by 6
- 2026LIBERO-VIFO: Benchmarking the Capability and Safety of Visual Cue Following in Vision-Language-Action Modelscited by 0
- 2026PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policiescited by 0
- 2026Vela: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with Adaptive Action Curve Parametrizationcited by 0
- 2026Juno: Taming Predictive Latents for Vision-Language-Action Modelscited by 0
- 2026Juno: Taming Predictive Latents for Vision-Language-Action Models7 Oct 2026
- 2026Vela: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with Adaptive Action Curve Parametrization4 Oct 2026
- 2026PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies31 Aug 2026
- 2026Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models27 Aug 2026
- 2026LIBERO-VIFO: Benchmarking the Capability and Safety of Visual Cue Following in Vision-Language-Action Models18 Aug 2026
- 2026Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation: A Surveycited by 6
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