MiVLA: Towards Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model with Human-Robot Mutual Imitation Pre-training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15411v2
• Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:10:06 GMT
• Title: MiVLA: Towards Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model with Human-Robot Mutual Imitation Pre-training
• Authors: Zhenhan Yin, Xuanhan Wang, Jiahao Jiang, Kaiyuan Deng, Pengqi Chen, Shuangle Li, Chong Liu, Xing Xu, Jingkuan Song, Lianli Gao, Heng Tao Shen,
• Abstract summary: We propose MiVLA, a vision-language-action model empowered by human-robot mutual imitation pre-training.<n>We show that MiVLA achieves strong improved generalization capability, outperforming state-of-the-art VLAs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: While leveraging abundant human videos and simulated robot data poses a scalable solution to the scarcity of real-world robot data, the generalization capability of existing vision-language-action models (VLAs) remains limited by mismatches in camera views, visual appearance, and embodiment morphologies. To overcome this limitation, we propose MiVLA, a generalizable VLA empowered by human-robot mutual imitation pre-training, which leverages inherent behavioral similarity between human hands and robotic arms to build a foundation of strong behavioral priors for both human actions and robotic control. Specifically, our method utilizes kinematic rules with left/right hand coordinate systems for bidirectional alignment between human and robot action spaces. Given human or simulated robot demonstrations, MiVLA is trained to forecast behavior trajectories for one embodiment, and imitate behaviors for another one unseen in the demonstration. Based on this mutual imitation, it integrates the behavioral fidelity of real-world human data with the manipulative diversity of simulated robot data into a unified model, thereby enhancing the generalization capability for downstream tasks. Extensive experiments conducted on both simulation and real-world platforms with three robots (ARX, PiPer and LocoMan), demonstrate that MiVLA achieves strong improved generalization capability, outperforming state-of-the-art VLAs (e.g., $\boldsymbolπ_{0}$, $\boldsymbolπ_{0.5}$ and H-RDT) by 25% in simulation, and 14% in real-world robot control tasks.

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