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author Lu, Jinghui
Guan, Jiayi
Huang, Zhijian
Li, Jinlong
Li, Guang
Kong, Lingdong
Li, Yingyan
Wang, Han
Xu, Shaoqing
Luo, Yuechen
Li, Fang
Dang, Chenxu
Wang, Junli
Xu, Tao
Wu, Jing
Wu, Jianhua
Hao, Xiaoshuai
Zhang, Wen
Jiang, Tianyi
Zhang, Lingfeng
Zhou, Lei
Tang, Yingbo
Wang, Jie
Gao, Yinfeng
Bu, Xizhou
Tian, Haochen
Qiu, Yihang
Jia, Feiyang
Liu, Lin
Ge, Yigu
Li, Hanbing
Shen, Yuannan
Cui, Jianwei
Xie, Hongwei
Wang, Bing
Sun, Haiyang
Zhao, Jingwei
Huang, Jiahui
Liu, Pei
Zhu, Zeyu
Jiang, Yuncheng
Guo, Zibin
Gong, Chuhong
Leng, Hanchao
Ma, Kun
Wang, Naiyan
Chen, Guang
Yang, Kuiyuan
Ye, Hangjun
Chen, Long
author_facet Lu, Jinghui
Guan, Jiayi
Huang, Zhijian
Li, Jinlong
Li, Guang
Kong, Lingdong
Li, Yingyan
Wang, Han
Xu, Shaoqing
Luo, Yuechen
Li, Fang
Dang, Chenxu
Wang, Junli
Xu, Tao
Wu, Jing
Wu, Jianhua
Hao, Xiaoshuai
Zhang, Wen
Jiang, Tianyi
Zhang, Lingfeng
Zhou, Lei
Tang, Yingbo
Wang, Jie
Gao, Yinfeng
Bu, Xizhou
Tian, Haochen
Qiu, Yihang
Jia, Feiyang
Liu, Lin
Ge, Yigu
Li, Hanbing
Shen, Yuannan
Cui, Jianwei
Xie, Hongwei
Wang, Bing
Sun, Haiyang
Zhao, Jingwei
Huang, Jiahui
Liu, Pei
Zhu, Zeyu
Jiang, Yuncheng
Guo, Zibin
Gong, Chuhong
Leng, Hanchao
Ma, Kun
Wang, Naiyan
Chen, Guang
Yang, Kuiyuan
Ye, Hangjun
Chen, Long
contents Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has become a powerful driver of trajectory prediction in VLA-based autonomous driving, yet its autoregressive nature imposes a latency cost that is prohibitive for real-time deployment. Latent CoT methods attempt to close this gap by compressing reasoning into continuous hidden states, but consistently fall short of their explicit counterparts. We suggest that this is due to purely linguistic latent representations compressing a symbolic abstraction of the world, rather than the causal dynamics that actually govern driving. Thus, we present OneVL (One-step latent reasoning and planning with Vision-Language explanations), a unified VLA and World Model framework that routes reasoning through compact latent tokens supervised by dual auxiliary decoders. Alongside a language decoder that reconstructs text CoT, we introduce a visual world model decoder that predicts future-frame tokens, forcing the latent space to internalize the causal dynamics of road geometry, agent motion, and environmental change. A three-stage training pipeline progressively aligns these latents with trajectory, language, and visual objectives, ensuring stable joint optimization. In inference, the auxiliary decoders are discarded, and all latent tokens are prefilled in a single parallel pass, matching the speed of answer-only prediction. Across four benchmarks, OneVL becomes the first latent CoT method to surpass explicit CoT, delivering superior accuracy at answer-only latency. These results show that with world model supervision, latent CoT produces more generalizable representations than verbose token-by-token reasoning. Code has been open-sourced to the community. Project Page: https://xiaomi-embodied-intelligence.github.io/OneVL
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spellingShingle Xiaomi OneVL: One-Step Latent Reasoning and Planning with Vision-Language Explanation
Lu, Jinghui
Guan, Jiayi
Huang, Zhijian
Li, Jinlong
Li, Guang
Kong, Lingdong
Li, Yingyan
Wang, Han
Xu, Shaoqing
Luo, Yuechen
Li, Fang
Dang, Chenxu
Wang, Junli
Xu, Tao
Wu, Jing
Wu, Jianhua
Hao, Xiaoshuai
Zhang, Wen
Jiang, Tianyi
Zhang, Lingfeng
Zhou, Lei
Tang, Yingbo
Wang, Jie
Gao, Yinfeng
Bu, Xizhou
Tian, Haochen
Qiu, Yihang
Jia, Feiyang
Liu, Lin
Ge, Yigu
Li, Hanbing
Shen, Yuannan
Cui, Jianwei
Xie, Hongwei
Wang, Bing
Sun, Haiyang
Zhao, Jingwei
Huang, Jiahui
Liu, Pei
Zhu, Zeyu
Jiang, Yuncheng
Guo, Zibin
Gong, Chuhong
Leng, Hanchao
Ma, Kun
Wang, Naiyan
Chen, Guang
Yang, Kuiyuan
Ye, Hangjun
Chen, Long
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Robotics
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has become a powerful driver of trajectory prediction in VLA-based autonomous driving, yet its autoregressive nature imposes a latency cost that is prohibitive for real-time deployment. Latent CoT methods attempt to close this gap by compressing reasoning into continuous hidden states, but consistently fall short of their explicit counterparts. We suggest that this is due to purely linguistic latent representations compressing a symbolic abstraction of the world, rather than the causal dynamics that actually govern driving. Thus, we present OneVL (One-step latent reasoning and planning with Vision-Language explanations), a unified VLA and World Model framework that routes reasoning through compact latent tokens supervised by dual auxiliary decoders. Alongside a language decoder that reconstructs text CoT, we introduce a visual world model decoder that predicts future-frame tokens, forcing the latent space to internalize the causal dynamics of road geometry, agent motion, and environmental change. A three-stage training pipeline progressively aligns these latents with trajectory, language, and visual objectives, ensuring stable joint optimization. In inference, the auxiliary decoders are discarded, and all latent tokens are prefilled in a single parallel pass, matching the speed of answer-only prediction. Across four benchmarks, OneVL becomes the first latent CoT method to surpass explicit CoT, delivering superior accuracy at answer-only latency. These results show that with world model supervision, latent CoT produces more generalizable representations than verbose token-by-token reasoning. Code has been open-sourced to the community. Project Page: https://xiaomi-embodied-intelligence.github.io/OneVL
title Xiaomi OneVL: One-Step Latent Reasoning and Planning with Vision-Language Explanation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18486