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The Rank-One Corner: How Much Value Equivalence Does a Task Need from a World Model?

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arXiv:2607. 06640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A learned world model is usually judged by how faithfully it reconstructs its observations or predicts reward, as though quality were something the model simply has or lacks.

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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

Think Like a World Model, Act Like a VLA: Distilling World-Model Representations into Compact Robot Policies

The paper proposes a method to distill world‑model representations into compact Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) policies. By adding a single feature‑alignment term during VLA training, a frozen world model’s internal features are cached and the student policy learns to match them, eliminating the need for a generative future‑rolling component. The resulting lightweight policy runs in 32 ms on an RTX 5090, achieving high performance on LIBERO and RoboCasa‑GR1, and transfers effectively to real robotic hardware.

By Trung Dao, Sankalp Yamsani, Jaden Park, Joohyung Kim, Yong Jae Lee
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

What Can Latent World Models Know? Physical Parameter Identifiability in Multimodal Predictive Representations

arXiv:2607. 27017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central premise of latent world models is that predicting the future forces a representation to internalize the physics of its environment.

By Kaizhen Tan (New York University, Carnegie Mellon University), Xin Xu (Carnegie Mellon University), Siru Tao (Carnegie Mellon University), Hanzhe Hong (Carnegie Mellon University), Yang Feng (Columbia University), Heqing Du (Columbia University)