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
The paper introduces the Dual-Latent World Model (Dual-WM), which separates local execution and long-range planning into distinct latent spaces and dynamics models. A new learning method, Long-Horizon Representation Learning with Weighted Rollout (LoRe), supervises predictions at both levels using exponential horizon weights. Experiments on five goal-conditioned visual control tasks show that Dual-WM improves success rates over strong baselines, especially at longer horizons.
By Delin Zhao, Zhengrong Yue, Shaobin Zhuang, Junlin He, Xiaoyu Chen, Zikang Wang, Yuxin Liu, Limin Wang, Yali Wang
arXiv:2603. 16689v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Next-token predictors often appear to develop internal representations of the latent world and its rules.
By Sasha Brenner, Thomas R. Kn\"osche, Nico Scherf
arXiv:2606.27504v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) unify future environment prediction with action generation for autonomous driving, yet existing approaches optimize only...
By Tianze Xia, Lijun Zhou, Kaixin Xiong, Jingfeng Yao, Zhenxin Zhu, Haiyang Sun, Bing Wang, Guang Chen, Wenyu Liu, Hangjun Ye, Xinggang Wang
arXiv:2607. 22430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning world models that infer environment dynamics from high-dimensional observations and predict outcomes under candidate actions is central to planning and control.
By Xiangteng Zhang, Yang Guan, Bo Zhang, Ya-Qin Zhang, Shengbo Eben Li
DA‑WAM is a framework that integrates predictive representation learning, action‑conditioned future modeling, and trajectory scoring into a single decision‑making objective for autonomous driving. It uses an online encoder with a stable momentum target to keep future representations aligned with the driving task, generating a distinct future latent for each trajectory candidate. A future‑latent‑conditioned scorer evaluates these latents, with expert‑matched trajectories supervised by observed futures and safety‑critical hard negatives providing additional guidance, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on NAVSIM‑v1 and NAVSIM‑v2.
By Ruiguo Zhong, Benshan Ma, Xiaolong Chen, Lang Zhang, Mingyue Feng, Yaonong Wang, Pei Liu, Jun Ma
The paper presents an end‑to‑end JEPA world model that enhances latent prediction with inverse dynamics and state alignment to improve goal‑conditioned robotic planning. By preventing latent collapse and grounding representations in physical configuration, the model achieves top success rates on tasks such as TwoRoom, PushT, and OGBench‑Cube, outperforming the baseline LeWorldModel. Ablation studies confirm that state alignment consistently boosts planning success over inverse dynamics alone across all four benchmark tasks.
By Muyuan Liu (GENISOM AI, Beijing, China), Yue Huang (GENISOM AI, Beijing, China), Zheng Liang (GENISOM AI, Beijing, China), Xiang Gao (GENISOM AI, Beijing, China)
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.
By Jiakai Huang, Zhongbo Wu, Zheng Zhang, Zihan Wang, Shan You, Tao Huang
Autonomous driving requires planning under both semantic constraints and predictive dynamics. Existing end-to-end driving approaches, however, typically emphasize only one side of this requirement: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models exploit VLM priors for semantic reasoning, while World Action Models (WAMs) provide future-aware prediction through generative world modeling.
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).
By Sergi Masip, Jonathan Swinnen, Yutong Hu, Renaud Detry, Tinne Tuytelaars
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...
By Todd Y. Zhou, Daniel Zhang
arXiv:2607. 11270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning, at its core, extends beyond memorization to the ability to reason and solve novel problems by navigating a space of possibilities.
By Peijun Tang, Shangjin Xie, Baifu Huang, Binyan Sun, Haotian Yang, Kuncheng Luo, Weiqi Jin, Shilin Fang, Jianan Wang