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PDRVLA predicts physical change without generating videos at runtime

PDRVLA adds a Physical Dynamics Module to a Qwen3.5-4B vision-language-action policy, targeting a specific weakness: recognizing a scene does not tell a robot how objects will move during manipulation. The module extracts 50 physical tokens from intermediate VLM features and supplies them to an action expert alongside final-layer features, without generating future video during control.

The module learns future appearance, geometry, and motion by predicting RGB, depth, and optical-flow latent features.…