arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18
Hierarchical Planning with Latent World Models
arXiv:2604. 03208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models are a promising path to zero-shot embodied control through planning.
Fast LeWorldModel
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.
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Traj-LeWM: Path-Aware World-Model Planning via Latent Trajectory Cost
arXiv:2608. 14125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LeWM is a lightweight visual world model that learns latent dynamics end-to-end from pixels and ranks candidate action sequences by the distance between their predicted endpoints and the goal.
arXiv AI
Jul 1
Delta-JEPA: Learning Action-Sensitive World Models via Latent Difference Decoding
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.
arXiv AI
Jul 21
SAGE: Subgoal-Conditioned Action Generation for Latent World Model Planning
arXiv:2607. 17973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models have emerged as a powerful planning paradigm by learning action-conditioned predictive dynamics and using them as internal simulators to imagine and evaluate candidate action sequences.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies
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.
arXiv AI
6d ago
Foresight Without Seeing: Latent Futures for World Action Models
arXiv:2608. 11605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) couple future visual prediction with robot action generation, enabling policies to model how the physical world evolves during interaction.
arXiv AI
Jul 15
Mind the Gap: Promises and Pitfalls of Hierarchical Planning in LeWorldModel
arXiv:2607. 12547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether temporal hierarchy can improve LeWorldModel on long-horizon goal-conditioned control.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15
Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning
arXiv:2603. 12231v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning good representations is essential for latent planning with world models.
arXiv AI
Jun 17
PearlVLA: Progressive Embodied Action-Plan Refinement in Latent Space
arXiv:2606. 17924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models face a trade-off between efficient action generation and explicit deliberation.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
Decoupling Intention from Trajectory: A Representational Deduction Framework for World Action Models
arXiv:2608. 06994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) aim to construct a unified architecture capable of understanding world state evolution and guiding to generative motion planning.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
FF-JEPA: Long-Horizon Planning in World Models with Latent Planners
arXiv:2606. 09311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have shown promising world modeling capabilities, enabling planning in latent space by optimizing action trajectories using methods like the Cross-Entropy Method (CEM).
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5
LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
arXiv:2603. 19312v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) offer a compelling framework for learning world models in compact latent spaces, yet existing methods remain fragile, relying on complex multi-term losses, exponential moving averages, pre-trained encoders, or auxiliary supervision to avoid representation collapse.