arXiv AI

Learning from World Feedback: Why Model Uncertainty Fails as a Risk Signal in Model-Based RL

arXiv:2607. 16591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The RLxF programme argues that learning signals should come from world feedback rather than from internal model proxies.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

Agentic World Modeling for 6G: Near-Real-Time Generative State-Space Reasoning

arXiv:2511. 02748v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We argue that sixth-generation (6G) intelligence is not fluent token prediction but the capacity to imagine and choose -- to simulate future scenarios, weigh trade-offs, and act with calibrated uncertainty.

By Farhad Rezazadeh, Amir Ashtari Gargari, Hatim Chergui, Sandra Lagen, Merouane Debbah, Houbing Song, Lingjia Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Uncertainty-Aware Predictive Safety Filters for Probabilistic Neural Network Dynamics

arXiv:2604. 26836v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predictive safety filters (PSFs) leverage model predictive control to enforce constraint satisfaction during deep reinforcement learning (RL) exploration, yet their reliance on first-principles models or Gaussian processes limits scalability and broader applicability.

By Bernd Frauenknecht, Lukas Kesper, Daniel Mayfrank, Henrik Hose, Sebastian Trimpe
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Dual-Frontier: When Can an Agent Trust Its World Model?

The paper introduces Dual-Frontier, a learning principle that determines when an agent should trust its world model for decision-making. It formalizes the failure-attribution problem as a counterfactual decomposition of return loss and shows that its components cannot be identified from passive interaction, even for finite-horizon planners. Dual-Frontier allows a model‑guided decision only when the predicted advantage exceeds a certified bound on decision‑relevant world‑model error; otherwise, the agent focuses on verifying the model. The authors provide theoretical guarantees, adaptive evidence reuse, and experimental validation on controlled and realistic benchmarks, demonstrating improved decision quality and reliability.

By Huatai Zhu, Qiang Chen, Ziqian Kou, Wenhao Li, Fei Wang, Yichao Cao, Xiu Su, Yi Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Rethinking World Models for Safety-Critical Embodied Systems

The article discusses how current world models, while achieving high predictive likelihood and visual fidelity, often fail to preserve the evidence needed for safe decision-making in embodied systems. It identifies three structural mismatches—likelihood versus risk, prediction versus intervention, and finite-horizon prediction versus accumulated consequences—and proposes the Risk‑Informed World Model (RIWM) as a decision‑centric framework. RIWM emphasizes consequences, intervention, epistemic uncertainty, and recoverability, integrating decision‑relevant representation, counterfactual reasoning, safety‑critical episodic memory, and runtime safety assurance to better support safety‑critical embodied systems.

By Kailang Ma, Heye Huang, Inhi Kim, Kitae Jang
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Risk-Aware World Modeling with Flow-Guided Occupancy Evolution for Selective Trajectory Planning in Automated Driving

RiskWorld is a risk‑aware world modeling framework that forecasts shared occupancy and selectively replaces planned trajectories in automated driving. It fuses spatial risk fields, temporal actor context, and visual bird’s‑eye‑view features, using flow‑guided evolution to transport occupancy and signed residuals to correct it. In open‑loop planning on nuScenes, RiskWorld achieves the lowest collision rate over a 3‑second horizon and the second‑best average L2 error, running at 11.5 FPS on a single NVIDIA RTX 4090.

By Rongxiang Zeng, Linsen Cai, Jiafu Zhang, Yijie Zhong, Yide Tao, Shuai Wang, Nan Zheng, Hai L. Vu, Alvaro Garcia Hernandez, Yongqi Dong
arXiv AI
Jul 3

DriveVLM-RL: Neuroscience-Inspired Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language Models for Safe and Deployable Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2603. 18315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely on manually engineered rewards or sparse collision signals, which fail to capture the rich contextual understanding required for safe driving and make unsafe exploration unavoidable in real-world settings.

By Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Zhengyang Wan, Yansong Qu, Junwei You, Sicong Jiang, Sikai Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

A Control Theory of Predictability in Latent World Models

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.

By Hanzhe You, Yonggang Zhang, Maohao Ran, Zhiqin Yang, Zhenyuan Zhang, Wei Xue, Jun Song, Xinmei Tian, Yike Guo
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Threat-guided Policy-aware Scene Perturbation for Safe Autonomous Driving with Online Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608. 10403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance in autonomous driving, yet ensuring the safety of online RL policies remains challenging due to insufficient exposure to safety-critical driving scenes.

By Xincong Hu (Nanjing University), Lei Ou (Nanjing University), Maosen Li (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Jingtao Zhang (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Liguo Hou (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Zongzhang Zhang (Nanjing University)