arXiv AI
Jun 9

AHA-WAM:Asynchronous Horizon-Adaptive World-Action Modeling with Observation-Guided Context Routing

arXiv:2606. 09811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation, jointly modeling visual scene dynamics and actions to inject physical priors into policy learning.

By Jisong Cai, Long Ling, Shiwei Chu, Zhongshan Liu, Jiayue Kang, Zhixuan Liang, Wenjie Xu, Yinan Mao, Weinan Zhang, Xiaokang Yang, Ru Ying, Ran Zheng, Yao Mu
arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

OpenWAM: An Open Framework for Composable World-Action Models

arXiv:2610.07922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) couple future prediction with robot control, yet existing systems often vary the video backbone, interaction structure, su...

By Heng Yu, David D. Yuan, Juze Zhang, Changan Chen, Yao Feng, Michelle Baldonado, Steve Cousins, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu, Ehsan Adeli
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30

EVO-WAM: Evolving World Action Models through Video-Action Verification

arXiv:2609.38057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving robot policies on new tasks without collecting additional expert demonstrations remains a central challenge in robot learning. World action m...

By Shiyang Zhou, Xionghao Wu, Wenbo Li, Shenghe Zheng, Jiyao Zhang, Songsong Yu, Yijun Yang, Jianhui Liu, Haoze Sun, Senqiao Yang, Li Jiang, Jingyong Su, Haoyang Huang, Zhuotao Tian
arXiv AI
Aug 24

ForeTime-VLA: Causal Future-Token Distillation from a World Action Model for Conveyor-Belt Manipulation

ForeTime‑VLA is a causal vision‑language‑action policy that distills future‑aware representations from a frozen Fast‑WAM teacher, enabling it to anticipate contact events during conveyor‑belt manipulation. The method compresses current and future video latents into a 64‑dimensional target, uses an eight‑frame history encoder to predict this target along with manipulation phase and time‑to‑transition, and conditions a VLM prefix on future tokens and phase. On a deduplicated conveyor‑belt dataset, ForeTime‑VLA reduces test MAE by 2.63% and L2 by 3.02%, while real‑robot experiments show significantly higher grasp success rates compared to the next‑best reference. whyItMatters":"The approach demonstrates that distilling future‑token knowledge from a world‑action model can improve dynamic manipulation performance without the computational cost of running the teacher at inference time."

By Siyuan Ma, Yutian Zhang, Boshi Zhang, Qinglian Wu, Jiaqi Zhai, Dong Wei, Xiaojin Huang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training

ZimaBlue is a scalable framework that learns generalizable World Action Models (WAMs) from large-scale egocentric videos. It follows a three-stage curriculum: causal video pre‑training, video‑action mid‑training with a unified action representation, and final specialization to a target robot. The system employs an asynchronous Slow‑Fast architecture to enable real‑time 30 Hz action prediction, achieving a jump in real‑robot zero‑shot success from 36.1% to 77.8% when leveraging over 120,000 hours of embodied video.

By Xionghao Wu, Yijun Yang, Shiyang Zhou, Haoze Sun, Jianhui Liu, Songsong Yu, Jiyao Zhang, Wenbo Li, Bo Wang, Guoqing Ma, Lin Song, Renjie Liao, Shenghe Zheng, Wei Tang, Xiaojuan Qi, Yanwei Li, Yuan Zhang, Zhuotao Tian, Haoyang Huang, Nan Duan