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.
BRICKS-WM: Building Reusability via Interface Composition Kinetics for Structured World Models
arXiv:2606. 16489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL) has achieved remarkable success in continuous control by leveraging latent world models.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21
Benchmarking World Models for Continual Learning on Compositional Tasks
The paper introduces a compositional continual learning benchmark for world models in robot manipulation, designed to isolate knowledge reuse from learning speed and capacity. Tasks are curated to combine previously seen action and perception components, allowing analysis of how different modalities affect reuse. Experiments show that modular world models better balance reuse and forgetting than conventional methods, yet none fully solve the challenge, highlighting the need for models explicitly built to reuse knowledge without forgetting.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control
arXiv:2607. 03964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models are rapidly becoming a core infrastructure for embodied intelligence and interactive agents: they provide controllable simulators in which agents can perceive, act, forecast, and acquire scalable experience.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7
Learning Task-Sufficient World Models by Synergizing Agentic Exploration and Structured Modeling
arXiv:2607. 04409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning and planning in imagination using world models provides an effective paradigm for training agents for decision-making.
arXiv AI
Jul 22
DWM: Separating World Effects from Actions in Latent World Models
arXiv:2607. 18715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models underpin much of modern model-based control, yet current action-conditioned formulations supervise the next-latent transition with a single, undifferentiated target, forcing a monolithic learning signal to absorb every source of state change.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28
Making Latent Evolution Explicit: Operator-Structured Transitions for World Action Models
The paper introduces the Latent Evolution Operator Network (LEON), a new architecture for modeling latent state transitions in World Action Models (WAMs). LEON uses a learned observable space with context‑modulated operator‑based propagation and additive forcing, grounded in a controlled Koopman generator framework. Experiments on two WAM formulations show that LEON improves closed‑loop performance and robustness, demonstrating that the way transitions are realized is a crucial architectural choice in latent WAMs.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31
Aligning Agentic World Models via Knowledgeable Experience Learning
arXiv:2601.13247v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a critical modal disconnect: they possess vast semantic knowledge but lack the procedural ground...
arXiv AI
Jul 3
Physically Native World Models: A Hamiltonian Perspective on Generative World Modeling
arXiv:2605. 00412v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and model-based reinforcement learning.
arXiv AI
Jul 14
Towards Predictive, Aligned, and Scalable Robot Learning
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.
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.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3
Quo Vadis, World Modeling?
Continually improving agents require dynamic interaction feedback beyond static supervision, yet direct real-environment interaction is costly, slow, unsafe, and hard to parallelize. World modeling offers a natural intermediate proxy that allows agents to query lower-cost, more controllable feedback before committing to real actions.
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.