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InternVLA-A1.5: Unifying Understanding, Latent Foresight, and Action for Compositional Generalization

Robotics 2026-07-06 v1

Abstract

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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@article{arxiv.2607.04988,
  title  = {InternVLA-A1.5: Unifying Understanding, Latent Foresight, and Action for Compositional Generalization},
  author = {Haoxiang Ma and Junhao Cai and Xiaoxu Xu and Hao Li and Yuyin Yang and Yang Tian and Jiafei Cao and Hongrui Zhu and Zherui Qiu and Zhaxizhuoma and Yuqiang Yang and Jiaqi Peng and Xueyuan Wei and Yangkun Zhu and Jiahao Jiang and Xing Gao and Hanqing Wang and Feng Yuan and Kailin Li and Xueyue Zhu and Tai Wang and Yan Ding and Jiangmiao Pang and Jia Zeng and Jingjing Zhang and Bowen Zhou and Yao Mu and Chunhua Shen and Weinan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.04988},
  year   = {2026}
}

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