arXiv:2607. 04927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) provide a promising alternative to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies by using video-based world modeling as dense supervision for robot action learning.
By Jian Zhu, Jianjun Zhang, Taiyi Su, Tianbin Liu, Zhangyuan Wang, Kai Xie, Zitai Huang, Chong Ma, Youzhang He, Tianjian Wang, Hanyang Wang, Weihao Ding, Yi Xu
arXiv:2607. 05468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation by jointly modeling visual future dynamics and executable action sequences.
By Jianjun Zhang, Jian Zhu, Taiyi Su, Chong Ma, Zitai Huang, Yi Xu, Hanli Wang
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.
By Jianjie Fang, Yongyan Xu, Ziyou Wang, Chen Gao, Yuchao Huang, Zhaolu Wang, Rongze Tang, Mingyuan Jia, Baining Zhao, Weichen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Haisheng Su, Yu Shang, Wei Wu, Xinlei Chen, Yong Li
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
arXiv:2606. 05979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose world-language-action (WLA) models as a new class of embodied foundation models.
By Yi Yang, Zhihong Liu, Siqi Kou, Yiyang Chen, Yanzhe Hu, Jianbo Zhou, Boyuan Zhao, Zhijie Wei, Xiao Xia, Xueqi Li, Pengfei Liu, Zhijie Deng
arXiv:2606. 15768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) leverage large-scale vision-language pretraining for semantic robot control, but often lack explicit foresight into how robot actions change the scene.
By Jialei Chen, Kai Wang, Kang Chen, Shuaihang Chen, Feng Gao, Wenhao Tang, Zhiyuan Li, Weilin Liu, Zhuyu Yao, Boxun Li, Yuanbo Xu, Chao Yu
Generalizable robot manipulation requires policies that can anticipate how visual scenes evolve while executing language instructions. While recent Vision-Language-Action models benefit from large-scale pretraining, their predominantly static pretraining objectives provide limited supervision for physical dynamics and temporal causality, leaving control-relevant knowledge to be learned from downstream robot demonstrations.
arXiv:2606. 16533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are transitioning from passive visual generators to foundational, operational infrastructure for Physical AI: they must natively acquire world knowledge from heterogeneous experience, maintain persistent states over long horizons, and execute efficiently within real deployment constraints.
By Kairos Team, Fei Wang, Shan You, Qiming Zhang, Tao Huang, Zuoyi Fu, Zhisheng Zheng, Yunlong Xi, Feng Lv, Xiaoming Wu, Zeyu Liu, Cong Wan, Pu Li, Ruiqing Yang, Xiaoou Li, Wei Wang, Kangkang Zhu, Yuwei Zhang, Shi Fu, Xiaoning Wu, Xuzeng Fan, Dacheng Tao, Xiaogang Wang
arXiv:2608. 03701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action modeling has emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic control, as it empowers models to go beyond reacting to observations and anticipate how a scene will evolve.
By Fan Yang, Yuting Su, Xiaobo Wang, Yuncheng You, Fugui Fan, Yuting Wu, Minghui Wu, Chenxu Zhao, JiaHong Ning, Peiguang Jing
arXiv:2604. 03208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models are a promising path to zero-shot embodied control through planning.
By Wancong Zhang, Basile Terver, Artem Zholus, Soham Chitnis, Harsh Sutaria, Mido Assran, Randall Balestriero, Amir Bar, Adrien Bardes, Yann LeCun, Nicolas Ballas
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:2608. 11204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning reliable surgical manipulation policies is bottlenecked by the scarcity of action-labeled demonstrations: teleoperated surgical robot (e.
By Wenrui Bao, Tianyun Jiang, Zhiben Chen, Ser-Nam Lim, Peter D. Peng, Yuzhang Shang