GigaBrain-0.5M*: a VLA That Learns From World Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12099v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:55:19 GMT
• Title: GigaBrain-0.5M*: a VLA That Learns From World Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
• Abstract summary: We present textitGigaBrain-0.5M*, a VLA model trained via world model-based reinforcement learning.<n>textitGigaBrain-0.5M* is built upon textitGigaBrain-0.5, which is pre-trained on over 10,000 hours of robotic manipulation data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models that directly predict multi-step action chunks from current observations face inherent limitations due to constrained scene understanding and weak future anticipation capabilities. In contrast, video world models pre-trained on web-scale video corpora exhibit robust spatiotemporal reasoning and accurate future prediction, making them a natural foundation for enhancing VLA learning. Therefore, we propose \textit{GigaBrain-0.5M*}, a VLA model trained via world model-based reinforcement learning. Built upon \textit{GigaBrain-0.5}, which is pre-trained on over 10,000 hours of robotic manipulation data, whose intermediate version currently ranks first on the international RoboChallenge benchmark. \textit{GigaBrain-0.5M*} further integrates world model-based reinforcement learning via \textit{RAMP} (Reinforcement leArning via world Model-conditioned Policy) to enable robust cross-task adaptation. Empirical results demonstrate that \textit{RAMP} achieves substantial performance gains over the RECAP baseline, yielding improvements of approximately 30\% on challenging tasks including \texttt{Laundry Folding}, \texttt{Box Packing}, and \texttt{Espresso Preparation}. Critically, \textit{GigaBrain-0.5M$^*$} exhibits reliable long-horizon execution, consistently accomplishing complex manipulation tasks without failure as validated by real-world deployment videos on our \href{https://gigabrain05m.github.io}{project page}.

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