arXiv Computer Vision

Player-1: Learning to Play from Synthetic Experience

arXiv AI
Aug 28

GameWAM: A World Action Model for Video Games

GameWAM is the first World-Action Model designed for native closed-loop gameplay and GUI control in modern video games. It jointly generates future visual observations and executable keyboard-mouse trajectories using parallel visual and action generative processes, block-causal conditioning, and flow matching. The model predicts gameplay/GUI mode at each step, handles heterogeneous native controls, and employs block-cycle control for long-horizon interaction, achieving competitive task success with fewer native actions than prior agents.

By Yuncheng Guo, Zhanqiu Zhang, Yiwen Guo, Weijia Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

PAVXploreRL: Physical-Action-Visual World Model Reinforcement Learning with Action Exploration

PAVXploreRL introduces a reinforcement learning framework that builds on a pretrained latent world model to explicitly optimize Physical Plausibility, Action Adherence, and Visual Fidelity (PAV) objectives. By combining in‑distribution expert trajectories with noise‑driven out‑of‑distribution action exploration, the method avoids reliance on paired video supervision and improves generalization. Experiments demonstrate a 5.6% average performance gain over pretrained baselines and more reliable policy evaluation with reduced overestimation bias.

By Han Wang, Zijun Wang, Shuoshuo Xue, Rui Cao, Fengjiao Chen, Xiaodan Liang, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

AgentGarten: Code Worlds for Evolving Agents

AgentGarten is a framework that links simulators and game engines with a shared neural renderer to create real‑time interactive virtual worlds. It uses a pretrained video model adapted to geometry conditions, refined with Adversarial Forcing, to produce realistic visual observations while maintaining consistent state and rules. The system enables agents to learn efficiently—achieving comparable performance in only four training rounds versus millions in traditional reinforcement learning—by distilling experience into playbooks that successive agents can inherit and improve upon.

By Jiawei Chi, Shangchen Miao, Zhiyuan Shi, Kailu Wu, Hanyang Wang, Weiliang Chen, Qiyu Dai, Jinshan Ren, Jun Gao, Mingsheng Long, Yueqi Duan, Jiangran Lyu, Jialong Wu, Fangfu Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

WorldSimProbe: Diagnosing Simulator Faithfulness in Action-Conditioned World Models for Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 09298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) promise to provide embodied AI with scalable predictive simulators for planning, policy evaluation, and data generation.

By Peterson Co, Sicheng Hu, Chunxuan Jiao, Hongyang Cheng, Yulin Luo, Yijie Xu, Sixiang Chen, Zhongxia Zhao, Zihao Wang, DaFeng Chi, Peidong Liu, YuTong Chen, Henghua Liu, Zhihao Yuan, Huizhu Jia, Yuzheng Zhuang, Tianle Zhang, Liang Lin, Huajie Tan, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

Dex-One2Many: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from a Single Human Demonstration

Dex-One2Many introduces a real-to-sim-to-real framework that learns a generalizable dexterous manipulation policy from a single human video. By abstracting the video into sequential scene graphs, the method guides reinforcement learning with dense rewards and diverse reset states, enabling efficient exploration while preserving broad generalizability. Trained entirely in simulation, Dex-One2Many achieves zero‑shot transfer to a real multi‑fingered hand and outperforms baselines by 6.5% on seen configurations and 71% on unseen scenarios across five tool‑use and manipulation tasks.

By Jusuk Lee, Sungha Kim, Yeonsoo Park, Jonguk Cheon, Yoonkyo Jung, Yongjun You, H. Jin Kim, Jia-Bin Huang, Furong Huang, Youngseok Jang, Seungjae Lee
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

DexPIE: Stable Dexterous Policy Improvement from Real-World Experience

DexPIE is a post‑training framework that improves dexterous manipulation policies using real‑world experience. It introduces a dexterous‑hand‑adapted intervention system and multi‑stage DAgger‑style data collection to enhance exploration, aligns training and inference to reduce distribution shift, and conditions the policy on a continuous optimality indicator for fine‑grained data quality use. In three real‑world tasks, DexPIE boosts success rates by 37.3% over a demonstration‑based baseline, outperforming all other methods and showing stronger robustness.

By Ruizhe Liao, Wenrui Chen, Liangji Zeng, Haoran Lin, Fan Yang, Kailun Yang, Yaonan Wang