arXiv:2607. 11964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving requires long-horizon closedloop decision making in dynamic traffic environments.
By Yongzhi Liu, Yang Xiao, Zhong Cao, Zeng Kang, Sunan Zhang, Zhaozhi Dong, Guojun Yu, Weichao Zhuang
Autonomous driving requires long-horizon closedloop decision making in dynamic traffic environments. Latent world models offer an effective framework for this problem by enabling imagination-based decision making in compact latent spaces.
arXiv:2606. 20104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Perception for action suggests that representations of the world should be shaped not by visual fidelity alone, but by their relevance for actions.
By Petr Ivashkov, Randall Balestriero, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf
arXiv:2604. 03208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models are a promising path to zero-shot embodied control through planning.
By Wancong Zhang, Basile Terver, Artem Zholus, Soham Chitnis, Harsh Sutaria, Mido Assran, Randall Balestriero, Amir Bar, Adrien Bardes, Yann LeCun, Nicolas Ballas
arXiv:2604. 25416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Model-based reinforcement learning distinguishes between dynamics models operating on proprioceptive states and latent dynamics models typically operating on high-dimensional image observations.
By Julia Berger, Bernd Frauenknecht, Sebastian Trimpe, Bastian Leibe
arXiv:2608. 04471v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series in real-world applications are often generated by nonlinear dynamical systems, making accurate forecasting challenging.
By Mengzhou Gao, Huangqian Yu, Pengfei Jiao
arXiv:2607. 27138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models remain constrained by scarce action-labeled robot data, whereas action-free videos offer abundant observations of physical change.
By Zuojin Tang, Feifan Luo, Haoyun Liu, Botai Yuan, Dekang Qi, Ronghan Chen, Yandan Yang, Tong Lin, Xinyuan Chang, Mu Xu, Bin Liu, De Ma, Zhiheng Ma
arXiv:2606. 31232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning visual world models for planning requires compact latent dynamics that remain sensitive to actions, yet reconstruction-free joint-embedding objectives can collapse to action-insensitive representations.
By Zhenghao Zhang, Yuanxiang Wang, Zhenyu Guan, Yujia Yang, Bingkang Shi, Tianyu Zong, Hongzhu Yi, Guoqing Chao, Xingchen Chen, Tiankun Yang, Chenxi Bao, Tao Yu, Jingjing Zhou, Jungang Xu
arXiv:2608. 07746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation requires composing versatile whole-body skills and reliable high-level decision making.
By Cheng Guo, Mingzhe Ni, Angelo Cangelosi, Arash Ajoudani
arXiv:2606. 26217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs), including recent LeWorldModel (LeWM), have become a promising foundation for reconstruction-free visual world models.
By Yuntian Gao, Xiangyu Xu
arXiv:2602. 12643v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Unified Latent Dynamics (ULD), a novel reinforcement learning algorithm that unifies the efficiency of model-free methods with the representational strengths of model-based approaches, without incurring planning overhead.
By Jashaswimalya Acharjee, Balaraman Ravindran
arXiv:2606. 07974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A learned world model provides a powerful physical intuition for evaluating future states.
By Yuhai Wang, Jiawei Xia, Rongxuan Zhou, Xiao Hu, Yongliang Shi, Jing Du, Yang Ye