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Devol-ONE: One Autoregressive Mixture of Transformers to Unify Vision-Language-Action and Latent World Modeling

arXiv 2609.32193 ↗First posted 26 Sep 2026cs.CVcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Vision Language Action (VLA) models condition actions directly on current visual and language context, without an explicit account of how the scene evolves under candidate actions. World Action Models (WAM) attempt to address this limitation by predicting future states, but existing designs keep prediction and policy learning architecturally separate, connecting them only through the predicted output, whether through pixel space video generation or a latent forecasting module trained independently of the policy. We present Devol-ONE, a Mixture of Transformers architecture that unifies vision language understanding, latent world dynamics prediction, and action generation within a single autoregressive framework. Instead of encoding vision language tokens once and feeding them to the action expert, Devol-ONE runs autoregressive prediction jointly across a vision language stream and a V-JEPA pretrained dynamics stream, attending to the vision language key-value cache at every layer to forecast future latent states under language guidance. The action expert is in turn shaped continuously by semantic reasoning and predicted physical dynamics rather than by a fixed representation computed in advance. Extensive experiments are conducted on LIBERO, LIBERO-PLUS, RoboTwin2.0 along with real-world evaluation on Flexiv single-arm and dual-arm setups. Ablation studies show the effectiveness of dynamic stream prediction and layer-wise unified attention to validate our model architectural coherency.

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  1. 2026World Action Models: A Survey18 Jun
  2. 2026AHA-WAM:Asynchronous Horizon-Adaptive World-Action Modeling with Observation-Guided Context Routing8 Jun
  3. 2026Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising29 Apr
  4. 2026StarVLA: A Lego-like Codebase for Vision-Language-Action Model Developing6 Apr
  5. 2026Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?17 Mar
  6. 2026VLA-JEPA: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Model with Latent World Model10 Feb
  7. 2026Learning Latent Action World Models In The Wild8 Jan
  8. 2025Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model15 Dec
  9. 2025RynnVLA-002: A Unified Vision-Language-Action and World Model21 Nov
  10. 2025StaMo: Unsupervised Learning of Generalizable Robot Motion from Compact State Representation6 Oct
  11. 2025VLA-RFT: Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Fine-tuning with Verified Rewards in World Simulators1 Oct
  12. 2025FlowVLA: Visual Chain of Thought-based Motion Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models25 Aug
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  1. 2025V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning11 Jun
  2. 2024IGOR: Image-GOal Representations are the Atomic Control Units for Foundation Models in Embodied AI17 Oct

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  2. 2025X-VLA: Soft-Prompted Transformer as Scalable Cross-Embodiment Vision-Language-Action Modelcited by 285
  3. 2025LIBERO-Plus: In-depth Robustness Analysis of Vision-Language-Action Modelscited by 278
  4. 2025Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Modelcited by 125
  5. 2026ABot-M0: VLA Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation with Action Manifold Learningcited by 94
  6. 2025Evo-0: Vision-Language-Action Model with Implicit Spatial Understandingcited by 55
  7. 2026Xiaomi-Robotics-0: An Open-Sourced Vision-Language-Action Model with Real-Time Executioncited by 42
  8. 2025Evo-1: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model with Preserved Semantic Alignmentcited by 35
  9. 2025What Do Latent Action Models Actually Learn?cited by 30
  10. 2026ACoT-VLA: Action Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Modelscited by 30
  11. 2026EventVLA: Event-Driven Visual Evidence Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Policiescited by 18
  12. 2026G0.5: One Autoregressive Stream for Robot Reasoning and Actioncited by 17
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  1. 2026Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Modelcited by 13
  2. 2025LAOF: Robust Latent Action Learning with Optical Flow Constraintscited by 12
  3. 2026DM0: An Embodied-Native Vision-Language-Action Model towards Physical AIcited by 12
  4. 2026GigaBrain-0.7: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Emergent Capabilities with a Three-System Architecturecited by 6

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