Unifying Object-Centric World Models and Diffusion Policy: A Hierarchical Framework for Multi-Stage Robotic Tasks
arXiv:2606. 08775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual world models have shown great potential in learning complex system dynamics.
arXiv:2602. 06219v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: World models offer a promising avenue for more faithfully capturing complex dynamics, including contacts and non-rigidity, as well as complex sensory information, such as visual perception, in situations where standard simulators struggle.
arXiv:2606. 08775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual world models have shown great potential in learning complex system dynamics.
arXiv:2607. 04546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models allow robots to predict the future consequences of candidate actions without additional physical interaction, supporting policy evaluation, planning, and data augmentation.
arXiv:2602. 13977v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to unlock capabilities beyond imitation learning for Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, but its requirement for massive real-world interaction prevents direct deployment on physical robots.
arXiv:2607. 02431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) can overcome the demonstration-coverage limitation of imitation learning (IL) by allowing robots to improve through trial-and-error interaction beyond the states observed in demonstrations.
arXiv:2606. 27475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots trained on real world data tend to be imprecise, slow, and brittle to perturbations.
arXiv:2506. 04147v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators.
arXiv:2606. 17386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and real-world deployments.
arXiv:2605. 25477v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ability to efficiently and reliably learn new tasks has been a foundational challenge in robotics.
arXiv:2607. 15065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predictive world models enable robots to plan by imagining the outcomes of their actions, but their value for control hinges on generating many rollouts quickly.
arXiv:2606. 20246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on massive video-robot datasets have revolutionized robotic manipulation, yet their multi-billion parameter architectures impose prohibitive computational burdens during downstream fine-tuning and real-time inference.
arXiv:2606. 28128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied world simulation.
arXiv:2406. 01586v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have been verified to be effective in generating complex distributions from natural images to motion trajectories.