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Ψ-0.6: Adaptive Streams of Thought in a Unified Vision-Language World Model

Stanford University · *Equal contribution

1 Unification

One model, any task

Vision·Language·World Modeling

Images, text, camera, depth and flow share one token interface, so a task is just a choice of what to give and what to predict. There are endlessly many; here is a selection. Click one, or build your own prompt.

Give
Predict

2 Adaptivity

Adaptive streams of thought

Ψ-0.6 chooses the representations it reasons through. For each question it decides which streams to think with (depth, motion, camera, an imagined scene), generates them itself, and answers with them in context. Reinforcement learning on task feedback teaches it which streams help.

One checkpoint plays three roles: it writes a notation naming the streams it wants, generates each of them from the video, then answers. Each video pauses at every stream Ψ-0.6 chose and fades in its prediction.

AgiBot World · robot“What is the robot doing with the toast?” → Putting it into the toaster ✓ · video alone: wrong
+5.6%
relative accuracy over video-only answering, held-out data
+9.0%
on four unseen benchmarks

Relative accuracy gain over answering from the video alone

  • random notations
  • Ψ-0.6 policy
Held-out data from the training sources
EgoDex+12.5%EgoDexvideo only 47.5% · random notations 50.2% · Ψ-0.6 policy 53.5%
SSv2+6.4%SSv2video only 82.3% · random notations 86.2% · Ψ-0.6 policy 87.5%
OpenVid+1.9%OpenVidvideo only 92.2% · random notations 94.7% · Ψ-0.6 policy 94.0%
PE+1.5%PEvideo only 84.2% · random notations 84.0% · Ψ-0.6 policy 85.4%
Unseen benchmarks
HanDyVQA+10.0%HanDyVQAvideo only 23.9% · random notations 25.6% · Ψ-0.6 policy 26.3%
STAR+11.5%STARvideo only 29.4% · random notations 30.5% · Ψ-0.6 policy 32.8%
EgoPlan-Bench2+10.1%EgoPlan-Bench2video only 25.9% · random notations 26.8% · Ψ-0.6 policy 28.6%
TGIF-QA+4.0%TGIF-QAvideo only 31.4% · random notations 31.9% · Ψ-0.6 policy 32.6%
Show as table
BenchmarkSetVideo onlyRandomPolicyRandom gainPolicy gain
EgoDexHeld-out47.550.253.5+5.5%+12.5%
SSv2Held-out82.386.287.5+4.8%+6.4%
OpenVidHeld-out92.294.794.0+2.7%+1.9%
PEHeld-out84.284.085.4-0.2%+1.5%
HanDyVQAUnseen23.925.626.3+7.1%+10.0%
STARUnseen29.430.532.8+3.6%+11.5%
EgoPlan-Bench2Unseen25.926.828.6+3.4%+10.1%
TGIF-QAUnseen31.431.932.6+1.8%+4.0%
Multiple-choice accuracy (%), one sampled notation per question. Gains are relative to the same model answering from the video alone.

Benchmark numbers use precomputed streams scored by a frozen copy of the model; the examples above run the whole loop in one checkpoint. Examples are selected.

Citation

BibTeX
@article{psi06_2026,
  title   = {$\Psi$-0.6: Adaptive Streams of Thought in a Unified Vision-Language
             World Model},
  author  = {Aw, Khai Loong and Kotar, Klemen and Zhang, Baihan and Liu, Yifan and
             Chen, Lilian and Kazemian, Atlas and Venkatesh, Rahul and Yamins, Daniel},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.32177},
  year    = {2026}
}