arXiv:2607. 17973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models have emerged as a powerful planning paradigm by learning action-conditioned predictive dynamics and using them as internal simulators to imagine and evaluate candidate action sequences.
By Letian Cheng, Qi Zhang, Yisen Wang
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. 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
arXiv:2606. 31232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning visual world models for planning requires compact latent dynamics that remain sensitive to actions, yet reconstruction-free joint-embedding objectives can collapse to action-insensitive representations.
By Zhenghao Zhang, Yuanxiang Wang, Zhenyu Guan, Yujia Yang, Bingkang Shi, Tianyu Zong, Hongzhu Yi, Guoqing Chao, Xingchen Chen, Tiankun Yang, Chenxi Bao, Tao Yu, Jingjing Zhou, Jungang Xu
arXiv:2605. 08732v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern vision-based world models can represent observations as compact yet expressive latent manifolds, but fast goal-oriented planning in these spaces remains challenging.
By Hoang Nguyen, Xiaohao Xu, Xiaonan Huang
arXiv:2606. 06014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models (LWMs) have strengthened end-to-end autonomous driving by forecasting compact scene dynamics for downstream planning.
By Xiaoyun Qiu, Jingtao He, Yijie Chen, Yusong Huang, Haotian Wang, Yixuan Wang, Xinhu Zheng