arXiv AI
Aug 19

Towards Zero-Shot Task Transfer with Neurosymbolic World Models

The paper introduces a neurosymbolic world model that separates observation reconstruction from reward prediction, enabling the model to adapt zero‑shot to new reward functions defined over a shared symbolic state space. This approach addresses the task‑dependency of traditional neural world models, which learn latent representations tied to specific training tasks. Experiments show that the neurosymbolic formulation generalises more strongly than purely neural methods.

By Isidoro Tamassia, Lennert De Smet, Giuseppe Marra
arXiv AI
Oct 23

Steering Black-Box Large Language Model Agents with Pitfall Anticipation World Model

The paper introduces the Pitfall Anticipation World Model (PAWM), a selective guidance system for black-box large language model agents. PAWM predicts imminent failures in a bounded multi-step future and intervenes only when a potential pitfall is detected, reducing costly and often uninformative step-by-step predictions. Trained first with supervised fine-tuning on synthetic pitfall-labeled data and then co-trained with a black-box LLM, PAWM boosts Claude Sonnet 4.5’s performance by 24.3% on ScienceWorld and 7.7% on WebArena-Lite, outperforming several baselines.

By Jiongxiao Wang, Han Ding, Youzhi Luo, Yawei Wang, Yun Zhou, Linbo Liu, Panpan Xu