arXiv AI

Latent Video Prediction for World Modeling: An Evaluation Uncovering Intriguing Favorable Evidence

arXiv AI
Aug 24

WA-JEPA: Rethinking the Video JEPA Paradigm for World-Action Modeling in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.20974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (V-JEPA) learns powerful spatiotemporal representations from video through self-supervised latent featu...

By Xinlin Wang, Yujiao Xiang, Yuheng Zhou, Jingqi Wang, Minqing Huang, Jiajie Huang, Dongxu Wei, Tingguang Zhou, Xiyang Wang, Gong Chen, Zhi Xu, Feiyang Tan, Hangning Zhou, Mu Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

From Human Videos to Robot Manipulation: A Survey on Scalable Vision-Language-Action Learning with Human-Centric Data

arXiv:2606. 00054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in generalizable embodied control has been driven by large-scale pretraining of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

By Zhiyuan Feng, Qixiu Li, Huizhi Liang, Rushuai Yang, Yichao Shen, Zhiying Du, Zhaowei Zhang, Yu Deng, Li Zhao, Hao Zhao, Zongqing Lu, Oier Mees, Marc Pollefeys, Jiaolong Yang, Baining Guo
arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

StarWM: Self-Supervised Trained Attention Routing for Robust World Models

StarWM introduces a self‑supervised attention routing mechanism that selectively applies reconstruction only to dynamically relevant regions of visual input. By combining a cross‑attention module with a dual‑stream decoder and stop‑gradient barriers, it balances faithful environmental dynamics capture with abstraction of irrelevant content. Experiments on DeepMind Control show that StarWM outperforms both reconstruction‑based and reconstruction‑free baselines, especially under distractor conditions, and preserves state attributes over long‑horizon imagination.

By Zeqiang Zhang, Fabian Wurzberger, Maximilian Otte, Daniel Schmid, Sebastian Gottwald, Arne Peter Raulf, Daniel Alexander Braun
arXiv AI
4d ago

Action Forcing: Training World Models on Unsupervised Video by Recovering Underlying Egomotion Bases

The paper introduces Action Forcing, a method that transforms ordinary unlabeled video into action‑supervised training data by extracting egomotion bases through principal component analysis of pixel displacements. This approach yields grounded throttle–yaw control signals without requiring instrumented platforms or manual annotation, and it trains a high‑capacity video model while preventing pixel‑level overfitting via an online latent critic. The authors also critique standard video generation metrics and propose a reference‑free evaluation that measures controllability, plausibility, conjuring, and geometric integrity, showing that their model can reverse, scale, and compose actions despite limited reverse‑action data.

By Ashish Sundar, Tiankuo Hou, Zhong Fan, Chunbo Luo, Xiaoyang Wang