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Cortex: Compact Behavior Cloning for Quake with Frozen Visual Features

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arXiv:2607. 22739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study how far a deliberately simple behavioral-cloning policy can progress in a visually rich first-person game before adding reinforcement learning or explicit memory.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

WAM-Cache: Staleness-Bounded KV Reuse for Efficient World Action Models

WAM-Cache is a training‑free framework that reuses layerwise key‑value (KV) representations from a pretrained video Diffusion Transformer (DiT) across control chunks, recomputing only a sparse set of refreshed tokens. By selecting refresh tokens based on the action expert’s cross‑attention, visual latent surprise, and a strict age bound, it reduces DiT prefill FLOPs by 32‑42% on datasets such as RoboTwin 2.0 and LIBERO while maintaining action accuracy within 0.7‑1.8 percentage points of the dense baseline in simulation and 2.5 points on a real robot.

By Kai Ding, Yang He, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 26

GlanceWAM: Sparse Test-Time Imagination for World-Action Models

GlanceWAM introduces a sparse test‑time imagination approach for world‑action models that decouples visual imagination from control. By asynchronously generating a single lookahead frame on a slow clock and decoding action chunks at a 48 ms control rate purely in latent space, it avoids latency while maintaining high success. The method achieves 72.2 % on the RoboCasa kitchen benchmark and 99.0 % on LIBERO, running 24× faster than synchronous baselines.

By Linhan Wang, Zijian An, Mingyuan Zhang, Chen Dai, Yi Xu, Can Cui, Zichong Yang, Yinlin Chen, Lifeng Zhou, Chang-Tien Lu
arXiv AI
Aug 5

ValueFormer: A Causal Transformer Value Function with Stage-Aware Labels for Semi-Autonomous Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2608. 02958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies trained by behavior cloning fail silently: from the action stream alone, a collapsing rollout looks much like one making clean progress, because imitation supplies no notion of progress.

By Inkyu Sa, Konstantin Stulov, Rajat Bhageria