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Foresight Without Seeing: Latent Futures for World Action Models

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Jun 2

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

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RoboGaze: Evaluating Robot World Models via Structured Vision-Language Analysis

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Jun 6

World-Language-Action Model for Unified World Modeling, Language Reasoning, and Action Synthesis

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

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LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies

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Jun 17

ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model

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