Seed1.5-VL Technical Report

We present Seed1.5-VL, a vision-language foundation model designed to advance general-purpose multimodal understanding and reasoning. Seed1.5-VL is composed with a 532M-parameter vision encoder and a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLM of 20B active parameters. Despite its relatively compact architecture, it delivers strong performance across a wide spectrum of public VLM benchmarks and internal evaluation suites, achieving the state-of-the-art performance on 38 out of 60 public benchmarks. Moreover, in agent-centric tasks such as GUI control and gameplay, Seed1.5-VL outperforms leading multimodal systems, including OpenAI CUA and Claude 3.7. Beyond visual and video understanding, it also demonstrates strong reasoning abilities, making it particularly effective for multimodal reasoning challenges such as visual puzzles. We believe these capabilities will empower broader applications across diverse tasks. In this report, we mainly provide a comprehensive review of our experiences in building Seed1.5-VL across model design, data construction, and training at various stages, hoping that this report can inspire further research. Seed1.5-VL is now accessible at https://www.volcengine.com/ (Volcano Engine Model ID: doubao-1-5-thinking-vision-pro-250428)

Intersection-free Robot Manipulation with Soft-Rigid Coupled Incremental Potential Contact

This paper presents a novel simulation platform, ZeMa, designed for robotic manipulation tasks concerning soft objects. Such simulation ideally requires three properties: two-way soft-rigid coupling, intersection-free guarantees, and frictional contact modeling, with acceptable runtime suitable for deep and reinforcement learning tasks. Current simulators often satisfy only a subset of these needs, primarily focusing on distinct rigid-rigid or soft-soft interactions. The proposed ZeMa prioritizes physical accuracy and integrates the incremental potential contact method, offering unified dynamics simulation for both soft and rigid objects. It efficiently manages soft-rigid contact, operating 75x faster than baseline tools with similar methodologies like IPC-GraspSim. To demonstrate its applicability, we employ it for parallel grasp generation, penetrated grasp repair, and reinforcement learning for grasping, successfully transferring the trained RL policy to real-world scenarios.