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.
arXiv:2607. 19719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models improve sample efficiency in continuous control by optimizing policies over imagined latent trajectories, but common neural transitions offer limited direct control over modal persistence and error accumulation in long rollouts.
arXiv:2609.37156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models enable agents to learn and plan in imagination, but predictions beyond their experience can become unreliable and mislead decisions. Exi...
arXiv:2507. 06722v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding how large language models (LLMs) internally represent and process their predictions is central to detecting uncertainty and preventing hallucinations.
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.
The paper introduces an adaptive rollout truncation method for offline world model training that uses epistemic uncertainty to decide when to stop autoregressive rollouts. By calibrating a threshold during a warm‑up phase, the approach replaces fixed‑horizon rollouts with uncertainty‑driven truncation, evaluated with ensemble and Monte Carlo dropout estimators. Experiments on ANYmal‑D and ANT demonstrate that this strategy matches or surpasses fixed‑horizon training while reducing cumulative rollout steps by about 72%.
arXiv:2607. 14180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models are widely used in offline reinforcement learning (RL) to improve sample efficiency and generate experience beyond a fixed dataset.
arXiv:2609.05834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models promise a general route to embodied intelligence: learn predictive dynamics once, then reason, plan, and act with them. Increasingly, the...
arXiv:2607. 19518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sophisticated Inference is a variant of active inference often associated with recursive belief modeling and tree search.
Contrastive World Models propose a new method for learning latent dynamics without pixel reconstruction. By replacing observation reconstruction with a Deep InfoMax-like objective that maximizes mutual information between state-action sequences and local patch features of future observations, the approach encourages state representations to retain predictive information while ignoring visually irrelevant details. Experiments show that this method matches existing baselines in simple settings and significantly outperforms them when distractors or natural video backgrounds are present, while also training more efficiently by eliminating the pixel decoder.
arXiv:2608.23526v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models can predict video without learning dynamics that they reliably preserve. We test whether a frozen DreamerV3 trained only on pendulum video...
The paper investigates how small action errors evolve when using action chunking in behavioural cloning. By injecting errors at each state and observing their growth under open‑loop (no replanning) and closed‑loop (replanning) regimes, the authors classify states as contracting, expanding, or unresolved. Across twelve manipulation tasks, they find that stable states are rare, error amplification is common, and that short‑horizon fitting can overestimate long‑horizon propagation. Predictors trained on camera and proprioceptive data can recover open‑loop stability but only partially capture closed‑loop dynamics, indicating that standard imitation learning does not reliably produce policies that contract errors when perturbed.
arXiv:2607. 10362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models are trained to predict future states in a learned representation and are then deployed inside a planner that selects actions by simulating them forward.