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Rollback: Experience Backtracking in World Models for Policy Improvement

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The paper introduces Rollback, a method that uses action‑conditioned world models to backtrack to critical decision points, branch into alternative actions, and compare outcomes to attribute success to individual decisions. By turning world models into counterfactual engines, Rollback provides fine‑grained, action‑level supervision without a separate value model and integrates distributed world‑model search with asynchronous real‑robot execution. Experiments on block extraction, ball tossing, and tabletop curling show that Rollback improves success rates by over 10% compared to the strongest baseline and surpasses human performance on two tasks within eight hours of training.

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