arXiv AI
Oct 9

MAPF-World: Action World Model for Multi-Agent Path Finding

MAPF-World introduces an autoregressive action world model for multi‑agent path finding that predicts short‑horizon local observations and neighboring agents’ action intentions, enabling decisions beyond immediate local views. The model incorporates a spatio‑agent positional encoding within Transformer architectures to enhance spatial awareness and agent semantics, fostering coordinated behaviors. Experiments on diverse maps, including a new automated map generator based on real‑world urban layouts, show that MAPF‑World outperforms existing learned solvers, achieving strong performance, robust zero‑shot generalization, and high success rates even at high agent densities.

By Zhanjiang Yang, Yueming Li, Yang Shen, Meng Li, Lijun Sun
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Reward-Free Continual Adaptation for Resilient Space Robots

The paper presents a reward‑free continual learning framework for space robots that uses latent‑state world models to adapt to severe hardware degradation. By pre‑training a model‑based agent in diverse simulations, the world model learns to predict reward structure in latent space. During deployment, the observation encoder and reward predictor are frozen while only the transition dynamics are updated via unsupervised rollouts, allowing the policy to adapt using imagined trajectories without new rewards.

By Andrej Orsula, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Carol Martinez
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Predicting Consequences and Reinforcing Navigation Policies with Latent World Models

The paper introduces a Latent World Model (LWM) for robot navigation that predicts action‑conditioned latent feature compatibility instead of reconstructing future observations. By exploiting the correlation between spatial proximity and latent feature similarity, the model evaluates action consequences directly in latent space and supports counterfactual training using sampled action sequences. The learned world model can supervise policy learning from unlabeled video and further improve policies via reinforcement learning entirely within the model, eliminating the need for action annotations and additional environment interaction.

By Zengmao Wang, Wei Gao, Shuhan Shen