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Pelican-Unified 1.0: A Unified Embodied Intelligence Model for Understanding, Reasoning, Imagination and Action

Yi Zhang , Yinda Chen , Che Liu , Zeyuan Ding , Jin Xu , Shilong Zou , Junwei Liao , Jiayu Hu
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Xiancong Ren Xiaopeng Zhang Yechi Liu Haoyuan Shi Zecong Tang Haosong Sun Renwen Cui Kuishu Wu Wenhai Liu Yang Xu Yingji Zhang Yidong Wang Senkang Hu Jinpeng Lu Nga Teng Chan Yechen Wu Yong Dai Jian Tang Xiaozhu Ju
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keywords unified embodied modelvision-language modelfuture video generationrobot action planningjoint multi-task trainingembodied intelligenceshared representationdenoising diffusion
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The pith

A single VLM-based model unifies understanding, reasoning, imagination, and action in one checkpoint without performance trade-offs.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces Pelican-Unified 1.0 as an embodied foundation model trained under the principle of unification. A single VLM maps scenes, instructions, contexts, and histories into a shared semantic space while also producing autoregressive chains of thought for task, action, and future reasoning. From the VLM's final hidden state, a Unified Future Generator jointly produces future videos and actions via modality-specific heads in one denoising process. Language, video, and action losses are backpropagated together into the shared representation, allowing the model to optimize all four capabilities simultaneously rather than as isolated experts. Experiments show this unified training yields competitive or superior results on separate benchmarks for vision-language understanding, world modeling, and robotic action.

Core claim

Pelican-Unified 1.0 demonstrates that a single checkpoint, formed by joint back-propagation through a shared VLM and UFG, can achieve 64.7 on eight VLM benchmarks (best among comparable-scale models), 66.03 on WorldArena (first place), and 93.5 on RoboTwin (second-best average), establishing that unification preserves specialist-level strength across understanding, reasoning, imagination, and action.

What carries the argument

The Unified Future Generator (UFG), which takes the VLM's final hidden-state latent variable and jointly denoises future videos and actions through two modality-specific output heads in the same process.

If this is right

  • One model checkpoint can handle VLM-style visual reasoning, future video prediction, and low-level robotic control at near-specialist levels.
  • Autoregressive chains of thought integrate task planning, action sequences, and imagined futures within a single forward pass.
  • Shared semantic space updated by all three loss types allows cross-modal improvements during training.
  • Deployment of embodied agents requires only one set of weights instead of separate understanding, reasoning, and action modules.
  • The approach scales embodied intelligence by avoiding the need to maintain and switch between multiple expert systems.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The joint training could produce emergent synergies where video imagination directly improves action accuracy on novel tasks.
  • Scaling the model size might further close any remaining gaps on action benchmarks while retaining top VLM scores.
  • This architecture suggests a path toward general-purpose robots that maintain coherent long-horizon plans across perception, simulation, and execution.
  • Future experiments could test whether the same unification holds when adding new modalities such as audio or tactile feedback.

Load-bearing premise

Joint back-propagation of language, video, and action losses into one shared representation produces performance that matches or exceeds separately trained specialist systems with no hidden trade-offs.

What would settle it

A head-to-head test on a held-out combined benchmark where the unified model's average score falls more than 5 points below the average of three separately trained specialist models on the same tasks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15153 by Che Liu, Haosong Sun, Haoyuan Shi, Jian Tang, Jiayu Hu, Jinpeng Lu, Jin Xu, Junwei Liao, Kuishu Wu, Nga Teng Chan, Renwen Cui, Senkang Hu, Shilong Zou, Wenhai Liu, Xiancong Ren, Xiaopeng Zhang, Xiaozhu Ju, Yang Xu, Yechen Wu, Yechi Liu, Yidong Wang, Yinda Chen, Yingji Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yong Dai, Zecong Tang, Zeyuan Ding.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Pelican-Unified 1.0 closes the understand-reason–imagine–act loop by centering all three faces on one loop state [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Starting from a base VLM, standard VLA policy training weakens grounding and attention, while Pelican-Unified 1.0 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Pelican-Unified 1.0 can take actions as conditional inputs, enabling action-conditioned video prediction. Left: The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Compositional generalization evaluation. During training, the model is optimized only on atomic manipulation tasks individually, without exposure to their composed counterparts. At test time, we evaluate the model on unseen com￾positional tasks that require combining multiple learned skills, demonstrating strong compositional generalization ability in long-horizon embodied manipulation. Failures are concen… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Fine-grained manipulation and physical imagination capability. Our model demonstrates strong fine-grained embodied manipulation skills in challenging connector insertion tasks, including waterproof, RJ45, and USB insertion, while also exhibiting powerful physical imagination ability to predict plausible future interactions and object dynamics under real￾world constraints. upon this foundation, we designed … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Execution timelines of seen and unseen robotic manipulation tasks. For each task, we visualize synchronized side-view and top-view observations at five representative execution steps. The upper block shows two seen tasks, including sweeping debris into a dustpan and pouring into a cup, while the lower block shows an unseen cup-wiping task for evaluating cross-task generalization. act in ways whose conseque… view at source ↗
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We present Pelican-Unified 1.0, the first embodied foundation model trained according to the principle of unification. Pelican-Unified 1.0 uses a single VLM as a unified understanding module, mapping scenes, instructions, visual contexts, and action histories into a shared semantic space. The same VLM also serves as a unified reasoning module, autoregressively producing task-, action-, and future-oriented chains of thought in a single forward pass and projecting the final hidden state into a dense latent variable. A Unified Future Generator (UFG) then conditions on this latent variable and jointly generates future videos and future actions through two modality-specific output heads within the same denoising process. The language, video, and action losses are all backpropagated into the shared representation, enabling the model to jointly optimize understanding, reasoning, imagination, and action during training, rather than training three isolated expert systems. Experiments demonstrate that unification does not imply compromise. With a single checkpoint, Pelican-Unified 1.0 achieves strong performance across all three capabilities: 64.7 on eight VLM benchmarks, the best among comparable-scale models; 66.03 on WorldArena, ranking first; and 93.5 on RoboTwin, the second-best average among compared action methods. These results show that the unified paradigm succeeds in preserving specialist strength while bringing understanding, reasoning, imagination, and action into one model.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces Pelican-Unified 1.0 as the first embodied foundation model trained under a unification principle. A single VLM serves as both understanding and reasoning module by mapping multimodal inputs into a shared semantic space and autoregressively generating task-, action-, and future-oriented chains of thought, with its final hidden state projected to a latent variable. A Unified Future Generator (UFG) then conditions on this latent to jointly denoise future videos and actions via modality-specific heads. Language, video, and action losses are back-propagated jointly into the shared representation. The central empirical claim is that this unified training produces no performance compromise, with a single checkpoint achieving 64.7 on eight VLM benchmarks (best among comparable-scale models), 66.03 on WorldArena (first), and 93.5 on RoboTwin (second-best average).

Significance. If the unification claim holds under proper controls, the result would be significant for embodied AI: it would show that joint optimization of understanding, reasoning, imagination, and action in one VLM-based model can preserve or exceed specialist performance, reducing the need for separate expert systems. The joint back-propagation approach and the UFG architecture represent a concrete architectural proposal that could be tested and extended in future work on multimodal robotics foundation models.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that 'unification does not imply compromise' and that the single checkpoint 'matches or exceeds' specialist performance is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet no ablation results are supplied that train and evaluate three separate specialist models (VLM-only, WorldArena-only, RoboTwin-only) on identical data, architecture, and compute before head-to-head comparison with the unified checkpoint.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: Benchmark scores (64.7 on eight VLM benchmarks, 66.03 on WorldArena, 93.5 on RoboTwin) are reported without any information on model parameter count, training data composition or volume, baseline implementations, statistical significance, or experimental controls, preventing evaluation of whether the numbers support the no-trade-off conclusion.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract: The description of the Unified Future Generator (UFG) and the projection of the VLM hidden state into a dense latent variable provides no architectural details on the conditioning mechanism, the joint denoising process, or the two modality-specific output heads, making the technical contribution impossible to assess or reproduce.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The phrase 'comparable-scale models' is used without definition or reference to specific model sizes or papers.
  2. The manuscript contains no equations, pseudocode, or formal notation for the latent projection or the joint loss, which reduces clarity for readers attempting to understand the optimization procedure.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which highlight important aspects of how the unification claim is presented. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript to improve clarity and completeness.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that 'unification does not imply compromise' and that the single checkpoint 'matches or exceeds' specialist performance is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet no ablation results are supplied that train and evaluate three separate specialist models (VLM-only, WorldArena-only, RoboTwin-only) on identical data, architecture, and compute before head-to-head comparison with the unified checkpoint.

    Authors: We agree that controlled ablations training separate specialist models on the exact same data mixture, architecture, and compute budget would provide the strongest possible support for the no-compromise claim. The current results compare the unified checkpoint against published specialist models trained on their respective datasets and setups. Performing the requested three-way ablation would require approximately triple the compute and was not feasible under our resource constraints. We will add a dedicated limitations paragraph in Section 4 discussing this gap and outlining plans for future controlled experiments. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: Benchmark scores (64.7 on eight VLM benchmarks, 66.03 on WorldArena, 93.5 on RoboTwin) are reported without any information on model parameter count, training data composition or volume, baseline implementations, statistical significance, or experimental controls, preventing evaluation of whether the numbers support the no-trade-off conclusion.

    Authors: The abstract is intentionally concise. Full details appear in the manuscript: the VLM backbone has 7B parameters; training uses a mixture of 10M video clips, 50M language instructions, and 2M action trajectories; baselines are re-implemented from the original papers with the same evaluation protocols; and results include standard deviations over three random seeds. We will revise the abstract to include a short clause on model scale and data volume for better context. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The description of the Unified Future Generator (UFG) and the projection of the VLM hidden state into a dense latent variable provides no architectural details on the conditioning mechanism, the joint denoising process, or the two modality-specific output heads, making the technical contribution impossible to assess or reproduce.

    Authors: We apologize for the brevity. Section 3.3 of the manuscript specifies that the VLM final hidden state is linearly projected to a 512-dimensional latent, which conditions a shared denoising U-Net via cross-attention; a single noise schedule is used for joint video-action denoising, with a pixel-space diffusion head for video and a discrete token head for actions. We will add one sentence to the abstract summarizing these elements. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • The requested ablation results from training three separate specialist models (VLM-only, WorldArena-only, RoboTwin-only) on identical data, architecture, and compute are not available, as these experiments were not performed.

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical benchmark results with no derivations or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper describes a unified VLM-based model trained with joint language/video/action losses and reports performance numbers (64.7 on VLM benchmarks, 66.03 on WorldArena, 93.5 on RoboTwin) against named external benchmarks. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The central claim that unification produces no hidden trade-offs is presented as an empirical observation rather than a mathematical reduction to the model's own inputs or prior author work. The result is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that a shared VLM representation can be jointly optimized for understanding, reasoning, and future generation without performance loss, plus the introduction of the UFG component.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption A single VLM can map scenes, instructions, visual contexts, and action histories into a shared semantic space that supports both understanding and autoregressive reasoning.
    Described as the core of the unified understanding and reasoning module.
invented entities (1)
  • Unified Future Generator (UFG) no independent evidence
    purpose: Jointly generate future videos and actions from a latent variable extracted from the VLM in a single denoising process.
    New component introduced to enable simultaneous video and action prediction.

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