arXiv:2610.27851v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: This paper shows that JEPA-style latent world models (LWMs) can learn across diverse domains and data sources by adopting the language-conditioned in...
By Junha Song, Geonmo Gu, Jeongeun Park, Heejeong Nam, Lucas Maes, Byeongho Heo, Dongyoon Han, Sangdoo Yun
arXiv:2606. 15768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) leverage large-scale vision-language pretraining for semantic robot control, but often lack explicit foresight into how robot actions change the scene.
By Jialei Chen, Kai Wang, Kang Chen, Shuaihang Chen, Feng Gao, Wenhao Tang, Zhiyuan Li, Weilin Liu, Zhuyu Yao, Boxun Li, Yuanbo Xu, Chao Yu
JEPA-WAM enhances World Action Models (WAMs) by pairing text instructions with stochastically generated visual cues, using a text-to-image generator and a frozen V‑JEPA encoder to create dense goal representations. These representations are compressed into goal tokens that condition both video and action experts via cross‑attention, enabling the model to better ground instructions. On a new real‑robot benchmark, JEPA‑WAM attains 87.3%, 74.5%, and 80.9% success rates across in‑distribution, out‑of‑distribution scenes, and out‑of‑distribution instructions, outperforming prior methods by significant margins.
By Tianbin Liu, Jian Zhu, Taiyi Su, Jianjun Zhang, Chong Ma, Zitai Huang, Yi Xu
arXiv:2607. 18236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning.
By Gaoyue Zhou, Zichen Jeff Cui, Ada Langford, Bowen Tan, Yann LeCun, Lerrel Pinto
arXiv:2609.37250v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) couple future visual-state prediction with action generation. By adapting video generators or image-editing models pretrai...
By Yang Zhang, Jiangyuan Zhao, Chenyou Fan, Jiayu Hu, Xiu Yuan, Chenjia Bai, Xiu Li
Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning. Modern robot policies either compress each observation into a single global token, or rely on visual backbones trained from scratch, sacrificing both fine-grained spatial detail and the benefits of large-scale visual pre-training.
SaiVLA-JEPA is a family of vision‑language‑action policies that condition on frozen V‑JEPA features and use lightweight auxiliary heads to predict future latent representations during training. Experiments on 10,030 LIBERO‑Plus episodes show that JEPA conditioning improves success rates to about 82.5% versus 71.6% without JEPA, but adding future supervision does not yield a detectable aggregate gain. Variants that adapt latent context or selected parameters provide mixed results, suggesting that latent‑prediction objectives should be evaluated via closed‑loop rollouts rather than latent loss alone.
By Rufeng Xiao (VLA Research Team, Synthoid.ai), Ruihao Xiao (VLA Research Team, Synthoid.ai), Wei Chen (VLA Research Team, Synthoid.ai), Xinhai Sun (VLA Research Team, Synthoid.ai)
EmbodiedSkills is a skill-based agent framework that enhances frozen vision‑language‑action (VLA) policies with world action models for consequence‑aware action selection. It defines reusable skills for observation, context encoding, candidate generation, consequence prediction, outcome evaluation, candidate comparison, and action execution, organized into five stages that support both continuous action chunks and pick‑and‑place primitives. The framework improves success rates on MetaWorld MT50, CLIPort, and CALVIN benchmarks by incorporating outcome predictions and lightweight comparators while keeping the core policy and observation encoders frozen.
By Wei Wang, Wenqiao Zhang, Yutong Lin, Yuqian Yuan, Tianwei Lin, Jinhao Mao, Zhenxuan Fan, Mingjian Gao, Yang Dai, Wentong Li, Zheqi Lv, Zheng Dong, Yingjie Niu, Jiaqi Zhu, Jun Xiao, Chao Li, Yueting Zhuang
arXiv:2609.39235v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: World models offer a promising way to help robots understand how the physical world evolves and plan complex behaviours through imagination. Yet exis...
By Ali Alrasheed, Basim Azam, Naveed Akhtar
Vision‑Language‑Action models (VLAs) often fail to follow language instructions because they rely on vision shortcuts learned from biased datasets. The authors introduce LIBERO‑CF, a counterfactual benchmark that tests language following by providing alternative task instructions for the same scene layouts, revealing widespread counterfactual failures. They propose Counterfactual Action Guidance (CAG), a dual‑branch inference scheme that amplifies language conditioning, which consistently improves language grounding and task success across diverse VLAs without requiring extra data or architectural changes.
By Yu Fang, Yuchun Feng, Dong Jing, Jiaqi Liu, Yue Yang, Zhenyu Wei, Daniel Szafir, Mingyu Ding
arXiv:2610.09940v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) predict masked or future observations in representation space, offering a natural source of predicti...
By Yuchen Zhu, Chenyi Xu, Yulin Zhang, Gang Xu, Wentao Zhu
InternW0-Δ is a unified World Action Model that integrates pretrained visual dynamics, scene semantics, 4D geometry, and motion priors within a Mixture-of-Transformers framework to generate robot actions. It leverages a frozen VLM for semantic guidance, a 4D foundation model for geometric priors, and introduces Causal Imprint to learn future-relevant scene changes without future-video rollout. The model is pretrained on a newly curated 20K‑hour heterogeneous corpus of robot and human demonstrations, achieving superior performance on simulation benchmarks and real‑robot platforms.
By Xingyu Miao, Zizun Li, Baole Fang, Kaiwen Song, Tenghui Wang, Hanxue Zhang, Yating Wang, Xudong Li, Yuping He, Xueyuan Wei, Chao Gao, Xijie Yang, Yingxiang Xu, Kerui Ren, Wenqi Guo, Jianjun Zhou, Xinzhe Wang, Weiguang Zhao, Ni Yang, Zetao Cai, Yufei Xue, Hengjie Li, Zeyu He, Yuanzhen Zhou, Rong Fu, Jianyang Zhang, Siwei Cui, Fuxian Huang, Yunsong Zhou, Xing Gao, Yifei Yao, Qiaojun Yu, Kailin Li, Ming Zhou, Mu Huang, Xinyue Li, Wenze Cui, Bingqi Jiang, Xueyue Zhu, Junting Dong, Haoyu Guo, Tao Lu, Mulin Yu, Bowen Zhou, Bin Zhao, Tianfan Xue, Weinan Zhang, Chunhua Shen