arXiv:2601. 00969v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide strong action priors for robotic manipulation, but their reactive behavior can fail under distribution shift and long-horizon task structure.
By Ke Ren, Ali Salamatian, Kieran Pattison, Cyrus Neary
arXiv:2608. 12078v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning world models from offline trajectories enables agents to accomplish different tasks through planning.
By Shukrullo Nazirjonov, Sai Prasanna, Anna Manasyan, Georg Martius
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. 15197v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimization modeling is inherently hierarchical, requiring a precise sequence of symbolic commitments.
By Jiajun Li, Yu Ding, Shisi Guan, Ran Hou, Wanyuan Wang
arXiv:2608. 14125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LeWM is a lightweight visual world model that learns latent dynamics end-to-end from pixels and ranks candidate action sequences by the distance between their predicted endpoints and the goal.
By Xiaodi Huang, Ziyi Ding, Jingtian Wan, Yuchen Liu, Yuan Zhang, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Jiayu Chen, Zhang Zhang, Tao Huang
arXiv:2606. 26217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs), including recent LeWorldModel (LeWM), have become a promising foundation for reconstruction-free visual world models.
By Yuntian Gao, Xiangyu Xu